[DoughtyOne]

Greg, what you’re saying is a credible logical comment.

Let me ask you this. Do you think 2,000 armed troops going door to door in our cities would be a problem?

Let’s look at it another way. If Canadian troops are approved to come over our border, why not Mexican troops? Why not U.N. troops?

I look at this in terms of incrementalism.

Do I care if we help out Canada? No I don’t. I also don’t see why this had to be a reciprocal agreement if that’s all we wanted to accomplish.

Canada should have said, “You know, we’d love to have your help if something catastrophic were to happen.” We would have said, “You know we’ll always have your back.” That could have been the end of it.

Instead we have an agreement for each nation’s troops to enter the other nation. I don’t like it one bit.

It could serve as an end run around posse comitatus (sp?).

[oldfart]

"It could serve as an end run around posse comitatus?"

Didn't Posse Comitatus bite the bullet last year under he guise of a military appropriations bill?

[TexasGreg]

I understand the fear, and particularly that of incrementalism ... I just don't see it as really being possible in the case of Canada. Just because we have such an agreement with Canada doesn't mean that we have to have such an agreement with other countries (like Mexico). Could it happen ... yes, and if it does that needs to be stopped. But Canada is a special case, with a people who are closely related to us and who speak English.

2000 armed Canadian troops going door-to-door throughout the USA ... ? 40 per-state? 5 cities per-each-troop? I don't know abotut you, but I wouldn't want to be that lone troop assigned to going door-to-door in Dallas, Houston, Austin, Fort Worth, and San Antonio (much less in all the suburbs and towns and the small cities and villages in the rural areas in-between). This fear is just hysteria.

The real fear I have is that, when Canada breaks up, Quebec (backed by France) is going to try and cease control the natural resources of the rest of Canada to keep us from getting them ... and THAT makes me very nervous.

[wolfcreek]

“It could serve as an end run around posse comitatus”

This was my very first thought on this subject but, I’m not the first.

This has been a fear for many in the pro-sovereignty, pro-2nd amend. crowd for years although, it involved mainly the threat of bluehat UN troops from whatever number of countries.

This could be the beginning of such a threat. When we send our troops to other countries for disaster relief, there’s always this thought in the back of their minds.(natives)