To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They need to tell us what's going on when they do that sort of thing.
3 posted on
09/22/2005 2:45:48 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: cripplecreek
They need to tell us what's going on when they do that sort of thing. The hell they do. Ask anyone who has been boarded. You are held at gunpoint. Literally.
10 posted on
09/22/2005 2:50:31 PM PDT by
konaice
To: cripplecreek
The USCG AUXILIARY are the people who do the "friendly safety inspections", they are civilians and posses no authority.
The USCG are military AND federal law enforcement officers. They can search any boat for any reason at any time that is in US navigable waters.
My brother is active duty USCG and a boatswains mate, he's done hundreds of small boat boardings. His favorite story is getting to arrest (by force) an off duty Mass state trooper for BUI. Guy was a belligerent &^%*^ and was convinced the USCG had no authority over him, he learned the hard way. The trooper had gotten drunk with his family on his boat and got lost, and used foul language for hours over CH16 till the Coast Guard "found" him.
65 posted on
09/22/2005 3:18:22 PM PDT by
IYAAYAS
(Live free or die trying)
To: cripplecreek
They need to tell us what's going on when they do that sort of thing.Agreed this was no "safety inspection", either the CG was checking out some (faulty) intel or some idiot CG officer was just trying to have a little fun.
576 posted on
09/26/2005 8:09:09 AM PDT by
jpsb
(wILL)
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