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Smile! The US Sees You Coming
High in the sky, down on the ground, agents with high-tech tools guard the border
DETROIT – About 15 meters before a car from Canada reaches the border inspection booth, the screenings begin.
An inscription inside the Peace Arch Monument. Surrey, BC, Canada/Blaine, Washington, USA. (photo by Wikimedia Commons user Buchanan-Hermit) A camera snaps your license plate.
An electronic card reader mounted on a yellow post scans your car for the presence of any radio-frequency ID cards inside. If there is an enhanced driver's license embedded with biometric information, its unique PIN number is read without you offering it.
The Customs and Border Protection computer connects with your province's database and in less than a second – .56 to be exact – your personal information is uploaded to a screen in the booth. A second camera snaps the driver's face.
Welcome to the United States of America.
If Canadians were under the impression that the Canada-loving U.S. President Barack Obama would heed pleas to loosen border controls to ease trade and traffic, there should no longer be any confusion. He has not.
Beginning June 1, you'd better have that passport ready. Or if you have an enhanced driver's license from British Columbia, Manitoba or Quebec, make sure it's in your wallet, ready to show. (Ontario is now processing applications for the cards.)
Some Canadian MPs, border state lawmakers and Detroit-Windsor area businesses expect the worst when the new controls kick in.
"Either it's going to cause a massive backup, or it's going to cause a dramatic decrease in travelers across the border, or it's going to cause both," says Melissa Roy of the Detroit Regional Chamber, the largest Chamber of Commerce organization in the U.S. "It's an absolute nightmare."
Obama's top officials – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – signed off long ago on the June 1 deadline for the infamous Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. That's the George W. Bush-era policy that Congress pushed through under the 9/11 intelligence reform bill, which requires every person entering the United States by air, sea or land to carry a passport or U.S. government-approved secure identity document.
Napolitano says Canadians had better get used to it. "The future is that there will be a real border," she told a trade group last month.
This is what that border already looks like:
A post-mounted scanner screens your vehicle for radioactive material that could be used to build a "dirty bomb" – a probe so sensitive it will detect if you've recently had a medical test that used isotopes.
As you pull up to the booth, a computer monitor may be filling with information about you, even before the guard asks, "Where are you coming from? What's your citizenship? Where are you headed? Why?"
If a border lookout, arrest warrant or criminal record pops up on the guard's screen, or if something doesn't quite add up – maybe you're sweating bullets on a cold day – expect to get hauled over for a secondary inspection.
The port of entry at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit – the busiest commercial land crossing in North America, through which a quarter of all Canada-U.S. trade passes – has strict controls, as does the Detroit-Windsor tunnel.
Border agents, packing pepper spray, collapsible batons and 9-mm automatic pistols, are the first point of contact for people and cargo alike. Sometimes their supervisors order vehicle sweeps at random. Then for 30 minutes, agents will pop every trunk, just for a look-see.
Down below the 80-year-old bridge, dozens of long-haul transport trailers are queued up to go through the same checks, and possibly pass through a giant gamma-ray screening facility that peers inside suspicious 18-wheelers.
Between the legal crossing points, all along the Canada-U.S. border, there's a new reality.
While the U.S. is not constructing an 1,100-kilometer fence between itself and Canada, as it is doing along its southern border with Mexico, the makings of a virtual fence are in place along what was once known as the world's longest undefended border.
High in the sky over North Dakota, an unmanned Predator drone is on patrol, equipped with an infrared security camera that looks forward 24 kilometers.
The drone is not authorized to fly in Canadian airspace, but it can peer across into Manitoba. Another one is to be stationed near Detroit next year to scan the Michigan- Ontario boundary.
More daytime and nighttime infrared camera, radar surveillance towers and remote motion sensors are being erected across the northern U.S. border with Canada.
And there are more boots on the ground than ever. Before 9/11, the U.S. had 340 Border Patrol agents along its Canadian border. By next year, there will be more than 2,000.
The Detroit—Port Huron—Sault Ste. Marie regional border patrol operation boasts a fleet of prop planes, small helicopters, a bigger Black Hawk helicopter, speedboats, Coast Guard vessels, even a small Cessna Citation jet.
In Windsor, it makes MPs like the NDP's Brian Masse nervous about "the militarization of the border."
He points to the helicopters and drones, and Canada's willingness to accept U.S. Coast Guard training exercises on the Great Lakes, where boats are equipped with machine guns that fire more than 600 bullets a minute.
It's all "really changed the nature of the border itself," Masse says.
Edward Alden, a Canadian journalist and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, wrote The Closing of the American Border, which documented the toll of overzealous border policies on the U.S. economy.
He argues "the biggest mistake of the post-9/11 period" was the decision to blur the lines between the fight against terrorism and the fight against illegal immigration.
Alden does not see any evidence of change under Obama. Democrats don't want to be seen as soft on homeland security, and have been "hawkish since Day One." But they also are under pressure by a strong Hispanic voting bloc to treat the southern and northern border with what Napolitano calls "parity."
Chief Ron Smith, public affairs liaison for Customs and Border Protection in Detroit, concedes that when it comes to the northern border, "A lot of people overstate the security threat. If somebody's trying to sneak into the United States along the northern border, it doesn't mean they are a terrorist. We get people trying to sneak across the northern border for the same reasons people try to sneak across the southern border."
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Show AllI've not visited the states since before bush was elected, I can't say I'm eager to return. The border controls are going to have a huge impact on the flow of trade between the usa and canada. I wonder who's industry will be hurt more???
In Arizona and New Mexico people are sighting the surveillance Blimps Jim Hightower informed us were about to be deployed.
How nice,
The laser zapping Hindenberg has arrived to scan your body crevices for contraband or passport chip itinerary. Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin was nothing compared to this.
TJ
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson
Sad ...I was born in Quebec and I remember a time when crossing the Canada/US border was as if I were casually visiting a neighbor in my home town of Montreal....Remember when it was with pride that we (United States and Canada) pointed out to others the existence of the longest undefended border in the world.. Both Americans and Canadians shared the same bragging rights with regards to a border that symbolized a special relationship between the two countries!!! Now gone forever.
Now everybody is a potential enemy. (At least as far as the political narrative goes) Guilty until proven innocent....We must keep the "Homeland" safe they say. (That word "homeland" gives me the creeps every time I hear it uttered)
With that said...The United States has every right to act in what it considers its best interests with regard to this matter. Still...Sad......Very sad..
(That word "homeland" gives me the creeps every time I hear it uttered)
rest easy - 0 is changing it to Hopeland.
You are right, the term "Homeland" gives me the creeps too. How about if we start saying "Fatherland" instead?
Bystander,
No!!! Still creepy....lol
don't you mean "Fodderland"?
VDB
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VDB...I am supporter of the President but I really like that...B-U-S-H
Sioux Rose
Are others being locked out, or are we (USA) being locked in?The world's leading designer of prisons, weapon systems, and a roster of more paid uniformed guards answering to 10 different "law enforcement agencies" than witnessed anywhere else. Hmm, land of the free, what a PR scam!
"Vere are your papers, frauline?"
Your political views are not in alignment mit ze Party, fraulein Rose. As you are living in a free democracy you vill be allowed input on ze design of ze armband you vill vear at all times.
Don't forget the ubiquitous 'fusion centers' which are a composite of the FBI, local and state police cooperating with corporate reps like, the UPS delivery man, FEDEX delivery man, the US Postal Service, the local electric, water, trash cable t.v. etc ad nauseum. Not to mention neighborhood watch, the fire department, unknown helicopters, your neighbors who belong to the klu klux klan...
Sweet ain't it. Oh, and don't forget your bank and CC company.
Here in Seattle we live close enough to the water to be stopped by border guards.
Now I always carry my papers (passport) where ever I go -
to school, market, library, doctor's office...whether walking or riding or driving.
Out in the far-away Islands I haven't been stopped by a cop but thrice in 14 years (only one ticket, which my wife threw out the window to my horror; no consequence.) You seldom even see cops except directing traffic, but when you do they are friendly and courteous. Like the US was in 1950 I suppose. The fine for drinking and driving here is $20 US. The fine for driving using someone else's license is $10 US. But those things rarely happen as the people are responsible and would rarely take two jobs or work on holidays or the weekends. They want time to be with their families and to sing together. They don't really care if they are poor; they are happy.
Lazy?
No.
Freemen.
TJ
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson
We are in lockdown. This may explain why MSNBC has had such success with their "Lockup" series on life in prison.
Just what I was thinking and have been thinking... are we being walled in or are "they" being walled out?
I grew up in a town between Port Huron and Detroit... while I was growing up in the 60s and early seventies travel in and out of Canada was frequent, friendly and welcoming, aside from a border guard or two who might lean in the window and finger through an ashtray in the door looking for roaches. We were taught that our "freedom" provided this kind of ease, while in other countries crossing borders was fraught with difficulties and dangers. Since the mid nineties I have traveled extensively through Europe, in and out of a variety of European cities from the US and have never had nearly as much difficulty as I have since 2001 returning to the US after a visit to Canada. The lines on the bridges are long and the feeling is hostile.
And what are we afraid of? Someone bringing in the makings of a 'dirty bomb'? Interesting that people are most often most terrified of the things that they freely, unthinkingly, visit upon others and justify with their god, or their need for safety, or their superiority.
We have been terrified of nuclear weapons being dropped on us since Hiroshima, and so we have an arsenal that could fry the last vestiges of human civility and incivility off the face of the planet in an instant. And why do we insist on keeping this bizarrely inflated number of doomsday weapons at our wise-like-Cheney leaders' fingertips? Because some region of the world might want autonomy from our grandiose growth orthodoxy that threatens every living and breathing sentient being with a slow and protracted decline and death and so they are desperate enough to develop their own ridiculous dictators who specialize in threatening us with their own half assed bombs or two.
It'd be funny if it wasn't.
JFK. Assassinated November 22, 1963. By the CIA.
THE DAY FREEDOM WAS STOLEN IN AMERICA, THE DAY THE CON JOB WENT INTO EFFECT--FULL IMPLEMENTATION. THE DAY OF INFAMY.
Wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then...
I wonder if the likely crimp in trade and tourism will prompt conservative opposition to this, under the "it hurts business" tent.
"If Canadians were under the impression that the Canada-loving U.S. President Barack Obama would heed pleas to loosen border controls to ease trade and traffic, there should no longer be any confusion."
Why do Canadians have that impression and Mexicans dont ?!
Canadians were under no such impression. The "pleas" come from the business sector. Many Canadians are opting to avoid the United States if possible. Canada is a big beautiful country and domestic travel is now in vogue according to my friends in Canada.
The border has become politicized and it would be political suicide for any incumbent President to "soften the border." It is not (Although many perhaps would like it to be) about Obama. It is about a population who all to often fall for this national security B.S. (A problem of living in isolation for so long) Idiots like Lou Dobbs and the right wing talking heads (Not to mention the so called MSM) would be calling the President negligent in his duties of protecting the "Homeland." (That word gives me the creeps)
I'm Canadian. I used to love travelling in the US. I did it every summer, for 8 weeks at a time.
I won't be back.
Same here.
I also have family in the States. It's a shame that I won't be seeing them anytime soon.
It will take a lot more than HOPE to bring me back.
And in ten years...your car will have to pass through a sterilization checkpoint and in 15 some "unintrusive" biomedical scanner will test you for swine flu and SARS. Maybe it'll have an added bonus of correlating all your biometric properties to determine your most probable genetic set...and link up with the internet to discern trends in search patterns and global warming as determined by consumption patterns and population movements.
And it won't at all be because some lobbyists shook some hands with some dudes who pushed the bill through to make us all safer, ratcheting up paranoia for the purpose of securing billions in government contracts and expanding the military services until they suck up the entire economy and turn us all into wingnut religious extremists shooting our guns at the moon because it's coming to get us.
Am I right or am I right?
Worse than that - not a single aspect of your life will belong to you - your health records, your credit card balance, your child support, your education, religion, your tax history - and your shopping habits - bought any controversial literature lately? It wasn't controversial 5 years ago, when you bought it, but now the authorities take a dim view of your choice in reading material. Did you attend a lecture by a controversial person? And they don't approve of your choice of sports...or hobby...or movie...or websites...or friends.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Read it while you can; pay cash.
Seems reasonable to believe that the Northern and Southern borders cannot be defended. Any well planned and executed operation to cross these borders will be successful.
Evidence: the illegal drug trade supplies the entire US with illegal drugs so well the price has remained stable and low.
It is mostly a show for the populations so that they will feel like the government is protecting them.
Well, the illegal drug trade finances the CIA, so don't worry about that.
Why would any bad guy cross at the border?
When someone could pick them up anywhere else but!
Are we going to build a wall for this too?
Oh my god, we've completely lost our minds. Drones? At the Canadian border? Yeah, totally gone.
This is just the beginning...
We NEED those drones patrolling the border. There are verifiable unconfirmed reports of wedding parties operating near Montreal...
I guess freedom now means "the freedom to not be free." The age of stupid.
Absolutely the clearest representation yet of how everybody thinks americans are sheeple.
Too bad 101 hit it on the rusty nail of cliche.
The article closes with the following.
Quote: "Chief Ron Smith, public affairs liaison for Customs and Border Protection in Detroit, concedes that when it comes to the northern border, "A lot of people overstate the security threat. If somebody's trying to sneak into the United States along the northern border, it doesn't mean they are a terrorist. We get people trying to sneak across the northern border for the same reasons people try to sneak across the southern border.""
YES, people trying to sneak into the US to try to find work and therefore income, and how many terrorists or even suspected terrorists have been purportedly caught trying to sneak into the US? NONE that I'm aware of.
Several years ago, perhaps even sometime between 9-11 and the launch of the war on Iraq, there were articles about some purported suspects, terrorism suspects, driving down into Washinston state from I believe British Columbia. They purportedly had materials in the trunk or interior of the car that could be used for making explosives. I think the articles said for making explosives, anyway. Whatever is true and false in most of that story, though, the suspects were driving into the US and I believe it was by going through a border with customs agents, so they weren't trying to sneak in by trying to avoid speaking with or encountering customs agents. (It's suspect that people would try to drive into the US going through a customs checkpoint with explosives materials in their car though.)
Chief Ron Smith could have spoken a little more firmly than he did, but his point is still valid. This heightening of border security is "fruit" of insanity, wickedness, plans to deceive us, ... and so on. It's all part of the fraud that the GWoT really is.
So we have heightened border security, including military-style. It takes hellbent [traitors] and lunatics, liars, etcetera, in the U.S. Administration to allow f*cking Coast Guard gunboats on the Great Lakes, with f*cking machine guns that can fire over 6 bullets a [second]; over 600 bullets a minute, or over 60 per 10 seconds, or ... over 6 per second. Takes a little more than a second for us to count to six, unless you skip 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and simply start with 0 with the next number you state being 6, say.
There should be [no] f*cking policing using machine guns in North America!
Welcome to Neo-Nazi brown-shirt U.S. and Canadian governments' ideas of reforming our societies and interrelatability.
People in Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby, Vermont, I wonder how they'll take this kind of news. I spoke with a woman who lives in Stanstead of Friday, and her brother is a former police chief of a local town in southeastern Quebec. Asked her how the situation is in Stanstead and Derby, and it seems that the heightened border security is still in place and that the people there really aren't happy with this bs, but have now had some years to begin to get used to this.
She told me of someone who lives literally ... no, not at, but on the border, with basically half of one side of the house in Canada and the other half in the U.S., and there's a blue line on the floor, going through the house, to demark the border. I jokingly asked her what'd happen if a pregnant woman happened to give birth at home there and was lying on the blue line, if the child would have automatic dual citizenship.
Anyway, I wonder if the border security will be heightened there, too, and if it is, then I additionally wonder about people who live in houses like this aforementioned one.
Okay, brownshirt, neo-nazi, ... Obama administration, this so-called "lesser of two evils", may the people who made such a claim explain what the f*ck is the difference between him, his administration as well as him, and Bush and his administration?
Oh, okay, Bush said, "You're either with us or you're with the enemy", and I guess Obama has not yet said this. Wow; what a major difference, especially when it's evidently how Obama treats us anyway.
The technology cies selling all of this security hi-tech to the U.S. government, which pays for all of this hellbent shit using U.S. taxpayers' dollars, must certainly be very gleeful about this.
And beware; there's also NORTHCOM! That's another thing the Bush admin. began and the Obama admin. has shown no sign in ceasing. And this is only concerning the USA and Canada, proper. Obama's doing a lot more like the Cheney-Bush admin. than we would know when not reading about matters that the following two articles, f.e., relate to readers.
"The Long War: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and more ahead",
by Tom Hayden, Tikkun (originally May 7th, there), May 22 2009
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13708
"Extended AfPak War under Obama: Slouching towards Balkanization",
by Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, May 23 2009
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13712
EXCERPT:
Happy Days are here again. It's as if the George W Bush years in Afghanistan had never left, with Washington still wallowing in an intelligence-free environment. A surge is coming to town - just like the one General David Petraeus engineered in Iraq. A Bush proconsul (Zalmay Khalilzad) wants to run the show - again. A hardliner (General Stanley McChrystal) is getting ready to terrorize any Pashtun in sight. A new mega-base is sprouting in the "desert of death" in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. And as in Bush time, no one's talking pipeline, or the (invisible) greatest regional prize: Pakistani Balochistan.
Bush's "global war on terror" (GWOT) may have been rebranded, under new management, "overseas contingency operation" (OCO). But history in Afghanistan continues to repeat itself as farce - or as an opium bad trip.
END EXCERPT
The Balochistan matter, that and the whole matter about Pakistan, covered in Pepe Excobar's article is a [must read].
Both of these above articles are rather important.
Correction:
I have been writing comments since 2001 anywhere and every where that both Iraq and Afghanistan are about oil and gas pipelines respective to each. That is gas pipelines through Afghanistan, Pakistan down to the major port of Karachi or into India at Jamnagar or Mumbai. And I found the info from speakers at the Claremont Colleges, my alumnus. The ACLU since 01 has known and fought against this bs. This is just more commenting with no substance.
Perhaps this article should have been entitled:
What Are We, Afghanistan?
It is precisely the intent of our government to deny travel, or discourage, without an RFID chip in either your newly acquired "passport" or your common State driver's license. And it won't be too long before your genetic material will align with that technology to prevent your leaving since there may be a shortage of O neg blood, all genetic material between D1 and D7 are under travel restriction until authorities have caught a perpetrator of 'free speech' or 'traveling without a license.'
Aaaggghhh. Life is sweet under such a regime. You never have to worry about those gun totin' illegal immigrants. Nor the water you drink.
"hoytdouglas May 23rd, 2009 1:59 pm
Seems reasonable to believe that the Northern and Southern borders cannot be defended. Any well planned and executed operation to cross these borders will be successful."
At serious risk, given the heightened "security" measures put in place (and who knows what more they'll add?).
hoytdouglas:
"Evidence: the illegal drug trade supplies the entire US with illegal drugs so well the price has remained stable and low."
Via the northern border? And the phony drug war is ... phony, full of hypocrisy, lies, deceit, ... anyway.
hoytdouglas:
"It is mostly a show for the populations so that they will feel like the government is protecting them."
Protecting? How about terrifying; like causing people to think they or we now live under neo-nazi fascist police and militarised state (NORTHCOM), f.e.?
Siouxrose May 23rd, 2009 12:01 pm,
That's very fitting questioning, SiouxRose.
The locking in of Americans is being done nationally, as you describe, but perhaps also internationally, because of the criminal GWoT wars continually being "sold" as legitimate, justified, to Americans, of whom too many citizens accept to serve, risking their lives and mental health, only to serve the interest, greed of the rich rulers of the U.S. government. It's not quite the same kind of "locking in", but I somehow perceive it as a locking of sorts applied upon Americans who, minimally, are locked out of their Constitution being [respected] by the presidential administration, the Congress, the Senate, and the highest ranking officers of the U.S. military, those who are criminally complicit, that is.
ThomasJefferson,
What far-away islands might the ones you speak of be? Is it a secret?
As for the small fines you give examples of, perhaps it's because there's very little for population there, or that the population is sparse, instead of being in a dense, congested area. The USA, from what I read in the 1990's, has around 75% of the population located on the eastern and western coasts, surely most of these people being in urban areas that are densely, enough, populated. This difference makes a real difference on the roads; the more sparse a population is, the more sparse are vehicles on roads. That reduces chances of accidents. The higher the risk of accidents, the higher fines actually should be for acts that could potentially cause accidents. People driving with someone else's driver's licence might be someone who is poorly experienced, or not experienced at all, for driving and that would obviously increase chances of causing or having accidents. If inusrance cies cover automobile collision costs, for repairs, or for total losses, in the far-away island you speak of, then fines would be adjusted upward to try to get drivers to be more careful when driving; if there was enough population and it was densely enough settled.
Assuming that reasoning is fair, then I guess what your situation is is "lucky", fortunate, only.
However, one example that comes to mind is from an article I read over the past few years. It was about a demonstration, perhaps based on economic issues, maybe against the IMF or World Bank or ..., and this was happening in Portugal. A reporter went up to a police officer to inquire into the reason that they weren't stopping people who were smoking marijuana and the police officer replied that sure, it's officially illegal there, but it's really not a problem substance, the consumers weren't causing problems, and, so, the police monitored for drunks, instead. This was not a remote, small, little- and sparsely-populated island and there were many enough people at the demonstration or event.
Maybe that's a slightly better example for comparing to the USA.
"Dante May 23rd, 2009 9:31 pm
Canadians were under no such impression. The "pleas" come from the business sector. "
Impression; what impression? I'll quote from riddimboy's post to try to highlight what the odd discussion's about.
"riddimboy May 23rd, 2009 12:35 pm
"If Canadians were under the impression that the Canada-loving U.S. President Barack Obama would heed pleas to loosen border controls to ease trade and traffic, there should no longer be any confusion."
Why do Canadians have that impression and Mexicans dont ?!"
I LIVE IN southeastern Quebec and I don't personally know of anyone here who would think that Canada asking Obama to ease up on border security would be successful. Perhaps some people here might think otherwise, but any who are informed well enough probably or surely wouldn't expect that Obama would ease up security on the border just because the Canadian government asked him "pretty please ...".
Dante:
"Many Canadians are opting to avoid the United States if possible. Canada is a big beautiful country and domestic travel is now in vogue according to my friends in Canada."
Well, perhaps especially now that winter's over. The heightened security over and at the border will most surely drive more Canadians to avoid vacationing in or traveling to the USA this year; traveling there as little as they can manage, perhaps only going to visit family and for business.
Dante:
"The border has become politicized and it would be political suicide for any incumbent President to "soften the border.""
That should be BUNK! I don't see why it'd be political suicide, given that I doubt that most Americans are for this very seriously heightened border security.
Dante:
"It is not (Although you perhaps would like it to be) about Obama. It is about a population who all to often fall for this border security B.S."
Where the hell do you get such information from, what do you base such an opinion upon? Provide links to polls, f.e. If it's only your concocted imaginery notion, then that's all it is, because I doubt that the population of the U.S. falls for this heightened security. And what do you mean by falling for it? Do you mean supporting it because they believe their government's claims that such heightened security is necessary? The majority of voters in the U.S. voted for Obama for [change]; not for continuation of the bs of the Bush-Cheney administration.
Gee..you are a nice guy....
My comment was my own opinion based on conversations with friends and business associates in Canada... (That should have been obvious) With regard to your obsession with polls... I have none to offer...
"The majority of voters in the U.S. voted for Obama for [change]; not for continuation of the bs of the Bush-Cheney administration."
National security is a very, very, serious political issue in the United States..My home is in Georgia I do know something about politics in this country...
Yes, national security is a very serious political issue in this country, but the debate around it often reminds me of playground arguments from 2nd grade.
Zmann,
"the debate around it often reminds me of playground arguments from 2nd grade.'
You give the debate more points than I..(lol)
Paranoia, big destroyer!
"Paranoia, big destroyer!"
Sincerious,
Right on!
The advantage amerikkka had for years was its diversity. now Americans are going to turn into an exclusive club and look at the big fat rural ape prison guards and military rapists that carry US citizenship. We dont prosecute them, but we keep the brightest of the world out. Dont worry, they got the message.
America's final decline in underway. China's building the electric car. We're building psycopaths and gunnuts. Amerikkka will produce nothing but turds soon...Obama's sold us all down the river, with his generation X shuck and jive. Who's left? The only possible hope is if a replace ALL incumbents campaign starts in 10 and continues with a one-term sayonara for uncle obama, hopefully in the primary.
As I've said many times before, "Watch out Canada!" One of these days the powers that be are going to look at your natural resources and decide that you are just a buffer between Alaska and the lower forty-eight.
Look up the word Anschluss.
1938 - Austria
Between NAFTA, the SPP, the NAU, NORCOM, and the mutual assistance agreement, the de facto Anschluss has been consumated step by step over the past years. Folks just haven't been told.