Posted on 07/23/2014 8:41:32 AM PDT by Gunpowder green
DES MOINES, Iowa —A central Iowa Boy Scout troop just returned from a three-week trip they will likely never forget.
About 10 days into the trip, an innocent action by one of the nearly two dozen Scouts at the Canadian border into Alaska set off a chain of events that lead to a U.S. border official pointing a gun at a scout’s head.
Boy Scout Troop 111 Leader Jim Fox spelled out what happened to him and the Mid-Iowa Boy Scout Troop 111 as four van-loads of Scouts and adult volunteers tried to drive from Canada into Alaska.
Fox said one of the Scouts took a picture of a border official, which spurred agents to detain everyone in that van and search them and their belongings.
“The agent immediately confiscated his camera, informed him he would be arrested, fined possibly $10,000 and 10 years in prison,” Fox said.
Fox said he was told it is a federal offense to take a picture of a federal agent.
Not wanting things to escalate, Fox said he did not complain.
Another of the Scouts was taking luggage from the top of a van to be searched when something startling happened.
“He hears a snap of a holster, turns around, and here’s this agent, both hands on a loaded pistol, pointing at the young man’s head,” Fox explained.
Fox said that had them all in fear.
Ultimately no one was hurt or arrested, and after about four hours they were allowed to continue their trip into Alaska.
When he thinks about what happened to them and the fact there are people streaming across the southern border, Fox is outraged.
Charles Vonderheid with the Mid-Iowa Council Boy Scouts of America said Troop 11 learned a valuable lesson.
Read more at: http://www.kcci.com/news/boy-scout-from-iowa-is-subject-of-alaska-border-dispute/27102496#!bkxdWU
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The border patrol can't secure the southern border, but they go all apesh*t over Boy Scouts taking pictures?
Was he recently transferred from BLM?
Another incident but really the SOS.
Anyone who travels between Washington state and British Columbia knows how polite and professional the Canadian Customs officers are, and how thuggish and fascistic the American agents are.
Some of us refuse to subject ourselves to it as a consequence.
Damned shame.
A couple agents need to lose their jobs.
Since when? There are pictures of Federal agents all over the Internet. This sounds like Communist China where we were forbidden to take pictures of anyone in uniform in 1983.
That would be the right thing, but it’ll never happen... the union wouldn’t allow it!
The civics lesson the Boy Scouts got is that they are no longer free in their own country.
It is so easy to pick on those who obey the law, and won’t cut your head off for an insult.
Do you mean 1984?
My buddy learned his lesson about taking pictures at the border.
Were the boy scouts in uniform?
Pretty bad when the northern border is very heavily patrolled and secured, but yet the southern border is left wide open, because we have to keep out the hoards of Canadians from overrunning the border dontchya know.
Seriously, if our border with mexico was as secure as our border with Canada, illegal mexicans would be a nonexistent. Crazy, isn’t it?
The border between Canada and the US used to be one of the most free crossings in North America. Thanks to el jorge bush and juan mc cain, you can sneek an ICBM across the mexican border, but you can’t even squeak a mouse fart across the border with Canada without the border patrol coming down on you like a ton of bricks.
***how polite and professional the Canadian Customs officers are, and how thuggish and fascistic the American agents are.***
Absolutely true. A friend of mine found this out forty years ago on a fishing trip to Canada. Upon return they met with the most churlish American border patrol agents they had ever seen.
My friend said to his traveling companion, after leaving the friendly Canadian officials and being insulted by the American officials said...”Well, we are back in the States again!”
The border patrol is useless! They should fire them all and start from scratch.
I would post Army units on the southern border, and make the northern one fairly lax.
Do the Boy Scouts have a fire arms safety badge?
As a Canadian I understand the officer's point of view when I am entering the US. Do I have a legitimate reason for entry? Do I qualify for entry? Does the length of my stay match my reason for entry? Am I bringing something in that should be taxed or confiscated? Their questioning is based on these factors. I have found them, on the whole, to be polite, open and friendly, like most Americans. The best policy is "yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir".
As a Canadian coming back to Canada it is a different story. They have to let me back in so the questioning is limited to should they be collecting taxes from me or am I trying to bring in some contraband. Once my citizenship has been established I find the Canadian officers to be dismissive and disinterested.
It looks like the scouts were not in uniform. And our elite media are saying the "child" just took a picture.
IIRC, there were several cases of “terrorist” stuff getting through the US/Canadian border.
It’s almost as if they’re trying to facillitate the movement of drugs across the border.
You mean, like.....Mexico does?
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