[Gay State Conservative]

Yes,I understand all that.At any international border...including our northern border...you basically have no rights.And as for cooperating...of all the times I've crossed an international border (perhaps 100 times) I've been less that cooperative only once.That was when I flew to South Africa to see my girlfriend...during apartheid...and encountered an Afrikaner immigration official that copped an attitude with me and I copped one back. He let me in...but only after I did a quick attitude adjustment fearing that he was about to deny me entry.

The only reason that my encounter at the Canadian border sticks in my mind is why they even *wanted* to tear my car apart and why they even *wanted* to ask me dozens of questions about guns and why they even *wanted* to demand the password to my laptop.I fully understood that I was subject to Canadian law and I had no reason to believe that they were violating Canadian law.

Yes,I might have been stopped randomly...every 50th car,perhaps...or someone with my name might have been on a watch list.

[marktwain]

I had that happen to me, once.

I was in a small American town you could only drive to from Canada.

I was taking a lot of pictures, because I was thinking about purchasing some real estate.

I think some town resident did not like me taking pictures and dropped a dime on me as some sort of American spy. I had a DOD sticker on the truck.

After they searched everything, and my laptop, and my combination gun (the officer did not know what a "combination gun" was), it was all just fine.