Note to terrorists: wait till Sunday, then go

Leslie

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MONTREAL (Reuters) - [size=-1]Crossing the U.S.-Canada border to go to church on a Sunday cost a U.S. citizen $10,000 for breaching Washington's tough new security rules. [/size][size=-1]The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Albert, a resident of rural Maine who lives so close to the Canadian border the U.S. customs office is right next door to his house. Like the other half-dozen residents of Township 15 Range 15, crossing the border is a daily ritual for Albert. The nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile is where they shop, eat and pray. There are many such situations in rural areas along the largely unguarded 8,900-km (5,530-mile) border between Canada and the United States -- which in some cases actually runs down the middle of streets or through buildings. As a result, Albert says did not expect any problems three weeks ago when he returned home to the United States after attending mass in Canada, as usual. The local U.S. customs station is closed on Sundays, so he just drove around the locked gate, as he had done every weekend since the gate appeared last May, following a tightening of border security. Two days later, Albert was summoned to the customs office, where an officer told him he had been caught on camera crossing the border illegally. Ottawa has granted special passes to some 300 U.S. citizens in that region so they can enter the country when Canadian customs posts are closed, but the United States canceled a similar program last May. That forces local residents to make a 200-mile detour along treacherous logging roads to get home via the nearest staffed border checkpoint. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection would not comment specifically on Albert's case because of privacy laws. "Since 9/11, we've enhanced our security and, yes, some of the situations require inconvenience to people, so we have to go along with what the regulations are," said Janet Rapaport, a public affairs officer with the bureau. She added that local residents had been told about the stricter controls. Albert has appealed the fine, but he has not attended a Sunday mass since. "I feel like I'm living in a jail," he said. [/size]
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someone's droppin some balls here :retard: all the bruhaha and rules and posturing and USAUSAUSA...and there are gates one can just drive around :alienhuh:

*edit - forgot the linkie
 
A farce, wrapped in a riddle, devoid of common sense, wrapped with a bright bow of red tape.

(heavy sarcastic slant) If this rickety gate wont stop the terrorists, then we will need to spend a coupla trillion for a moat with a glass shard encrusted wall with a guard posted every 100 yards shouting patriotic slogans to ward off the pesky casual tourist.
 
Since 9/11, we've enhanced our security and, yes, some of the situations require inconvenience to people, so we have to go along with what the regulations are,"
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the enhanced bit is laughable in this case...and it's only inconvenient to the law abiding ones who don't pose a risk...the rest will just drive on through. asinine.

bajillions of dollars on blahblahblah and what? paying a guard for an extra shift will break the bank somehow?
 
I'm picturing a wall, a stone wall, with the border guards dresed in dark age armour.


Terrorist #1: We have come on a holy quest..to start a jihad, let us enter

Guard #1: I'll ask the boss, but I don't think he'll be to keen.

Terrorist #1: why is that good sir?

Guard #1: uhmm...we already have one!

Terrorist #2: what did he say?

Terrorist #1 He says he has one

Guard #1: *whispers* cherche la vas.

Guard #2: quoi?

Guard #1: cerche le vas


MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
 
unclehobart said:
(heavy sarcastic slant) If this rickety gate wont stop the terrorists, then we will need to spend a coupla trillion for a moat with a glass shard encrusted wall with a guard posted every 100 yards shouting patriotic slogans to ward off the pesky casual tourist.
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don't let bush hear about that...he might find it a splendid idea ;)
 
Everybody settle down. This is easily fixable. He can just move his driveway.
 
But if the goverment fines him for going back and forth to church, does that mean they are infinging on his relegious freedoms?
 
paul_valaru said:
But if the goverment fines him for going back and forth to church, does that mean they are infinging on his relegious freedoms?
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If anything, it might be a NAFTA issue... which apparently has become more powerful than soverign nation constitutions.
 
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