Terror threat greater at US / Canada Border?

[MinuteMan47]

"Forgotten border" now making headlines

A recent government report states the terrorist threat from Canada is greater than from Mexico, and that only 32 miles of the border is adequately patrolled.

The 4,000 mile border (5,525 if you include Alaska) is the longest undefended border in the world.

 

[6birds]

All those tax-paying Americans, escaping into the northern wilderness, it's so sad to see. They ought to put up a fence of some kind, to keep them in.

 

[ATOMonkey]

What is it that a terrorist would need to smuggle into the country that he can't already buy here?

 

[6birds]

What is it that a terrorist would need to smuggle into the country that he can't already buy here?

You can stop paying the Canuck tax on Molson.

 

[ArmedProgrammer]

And you can actually GET firearms here...

 

[MinuteMan47]

Canada ? United States border - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Residents of both nations who own property adjacent to the border are required to report construction of any physical border crossing on their land to their respective governments, and this is enforced by the International Boundary Commission. Where required, fences or vehicle blockades are used. All persons crossing the border are required to report to the respective customs and immigration agencies in each country. In remote areas where staffed border crossings are not available, there are hidden sensors on roads and also scattered in wooded areas near crossing points and on many trails and railways, but there are not enough border personnel on either side to verify and stop coordinated incursions.

IBC - International Boundary Commission


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[MinuteMan47]

What is it that a terrorist would need to smuggle into the country that he can't already buy here?

There is A LOT of marijuana coming from Canada.


It's not just Cali.

Several lives have been lost by civilians as a result of police chasing smugglers; this on top of the hundreds of millions of dollars lost in uncollected government tax, and millions of dollars spent on law enforcement that has had a negligible effect on smuggling.

From the NDIC (National Drug Intelligence Center)...

Marijuana - National Drug Threat Assessment 2005 Summary Report

The increase in the size of marijuana shipments smuggled from Canada is due largely to the increasingly commercial nature of marijuana production in Canada, which the RCMP reports is now dominated by organized crime, most notably Hells Angels OMG and Vietnamese criminal groups. Typical cultivation operations in British Columbia and Ontario involve residential homes of 2,000-plus square feet that are totally converted for grow operations, and the RCMP reports that multithousand-plant operations are no longer uncommon.

 

[ATOMonkey]

Yeah, that's a huge terroist threat...pot... Just imagine all those people out there chill and mellow sitting around and laughing.

 

[MinuteMan47]

Yeah, that's a huge terroist threat...pot... Just imagine all those people out there chill and mellow sitting around and laughing.

I guess they refer to the Hells Angels now as terrorists.

 

[Kase]

The only threat I see coming from Canada are those darned Canadian Geese. I hate those things

 

[level.eleven]

Yeah, that's a huge terroist threat...pot... Just imagine all those people out there chill and mellow sitting around and laughing.

Do you remember the "if you smoke pot you support terror" PSA ads on TV in the months following 9/11? They were laughed off the air pretty quickly and the government pretty much dropped the topic. They certainly tried though...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFLFihL6JNk&feature=related]YouTube - America's Drug Habit Funds Terrorism & Terrorists PSA Video[/ame]

 

[singlesix]

Stop the importing terrorists. Too many home grown terrorists out of work already.