Re: Canadian Border Guards - Who Don't

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 2/19/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:01:15 PST, Gary Funck said:
>
> > Roughly a dozen times in the last four months, Canadian border guards, who
> > unlike their U.S. counterparts are unarmed, have left their posts in
> > response to reports of dangerous suspects heading north.
>
> So  the Canadian border guards are unarmed, and basically toll collectors
> with an upgraded job description.  And on almost a weekly basis, we send
> then dangerous hardened criminals, who are heavily armed and likely on enough
> pharmeceuticals so they wouldn't notice getting shot anyhow.
>
> And is *anybody* surprised when they do the sane thing in that situation,
> which is to run and hide and let the RCMP go after them? ;)

Agreed. Still, one wonders why they havent just installed a spring
loaded steel wall or (if budgets wont support that) retractable road
spikes. Combine those with a warning system to other drivers in the
road and voila: you can keep all the trash in america, where it
belongs, without the need for handguns and without endangering the
flow of tourists.

-JP

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