[Milsurplus] FW - Homeland Security & Whining Foreign Nationals

[mikea]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 04:55:00AM -0700, Mark Foltarz wrote:
> 1. This country is at war weather we want to be or not.
> 
> 2. Border guards and Dept of Customs agents are trained and paid to be
> suspicious and have never been known for courtesy - its not in the job
> description.
> 
> 3. Aforementioned guards however are trained to act on suspicious cicumstances
> - even a vintage military vehicle decked out to the T's.
> 
> 4. Our Canadian visitor in the original post experienced only a minor delay,
> paid no fine, was not incarcerated and was allowed to continue on his way.
> 
> In conclusion, if our Canadian visitor does not like how we do things here he /
> she should stay home or perhaps go visit France.
> 
> de KA4JVY
> Mark

The border guards in the incident related by our Canadian friend acted
like ignorant horses' asses, and I for one am ashamed to have anything
at all to do with paying tax money that goes to their salary and
maintenance.

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin