Wingnuts never think through the consequences of their actions. To wit:
DERBY LINE, Vt. — The changes started coming slowly to this small town where the U.S. border with Canada runs across sleepy streets, through houses and families, and smack down the middle of the shared local library.
First was the white, painted lettering on the pavement on three little side streets — “Canada” on one side, “U.S.A.” on the other. Then came the white pylons denoting which side of the border was which. After that, signboards were erected on some streets, ordering drivers to turn back and use an officially designated entry point.
And along with the signposts came an influx of American Border Patrol agents, cruising through the town in their green-and-white sport-utility vehicles with sirens, chasing down cars and mopeds that ignored the posted warnings.
For longtime residents accustomed to a simpler life that flowed freely across a largely invisible border, the final shock — and what made most people really take notice — was a proposal by the border agents last year to erect fences on the small streets to officially barricade the United States from Canada, and neighbor from neighbor.
All this supposedly so we can stem the flow of Islamofascists and Canadian migrant workers through the sidestreets of Derby Line, Vermont.
The northern border must’ve gotten jealous from its southern counterparts DMZ Makeover.
And more money on homeland security boondoggles. This might come under the heading of ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ category.
stupid is as stupid does..Forrest Gump..while i don’t know what it means I think it covers Northern Border Prob.
the U.S. and into Canada. “No, no don’t throw us into the briar patch,” said Brear Rabbit.
Well then, why not the entire state of Vermont go with it?
First off this is my backyard. I think someone fed Mr. Richburg a press release. It’s doubtful he visited Derby Line Vt in person or he misunderstood. The photo caption in the piece is incorrect. Forty minutes ago, we drove on that street. That’s not Derby Line Vt..that street separates another town close by. All the towns in this area straddle the US/Canada boundary.
There has always been the white lettering and signs directing to report to Customs, be it Canada or U..S.A. “American Border Patrol agents cruising through town in their green and white sport-utility vehicles” have been around forever – at least 35 years.
The residents in Canada and VT ‘border’ towns share more than just the library – joint Commissions for water, streets, electricity and Fire Department services. Vt residents send their kids to schools on the Canadian side paid for by the VT town in which they reside. Vt residents visit their family physicians on the Canadian side. A friend, who resides on the Canadian side, sits on the Board of Directors of the Library-Opera-Theater.
That’s why when Chertoff came to visit the joint Canadian/VT towns..to announce their great plan… they were sent packing. DHS had a brillant idea to build an Israeli wall!!!! VT residents pointed out there’s a treaty with Canada for among other things fire fighting services..the Vt border towns’ nearest fire service is some 25 miles away. Some properties that straddle the border pay property taxes in both countries. And what about the 34 mile lake – 25% in Vt, 75% in Canada, will you build a a 5 mile long wall too?. What Chertoff did not know is that 80% of people living on the Canadian side are American citizens who work on the U.S. side every day in …hospitals, painters, carpenters, offices in their businesses etc…so there’s still ‘free flow’ Both Canadian and U. S. Customs officers know everyone. If a stranger shows up, they get the third degree. Nothing has changed or will, 9/11 did not move our property lines.
Protect us from Binny ask the residents?…he has not been around. The 9/11 guys were U.S.A based – they all entered the country legally! Now, making America safe is an industry worth hundreds of billions. We’d like some of that money for a larger hospital, more schools, school buses and SBA loans.
Exactly. This is more media lies, lies, lies. Another attempt to whip up a furor of fear to make federal spending on cronies seem palatable — just like “defense” spending.
Thanks for exposing the lies.
I suppose kids need a passport to visit a friend two doors down. Incredible.
And an import license to bring a soccer ball.
Down here on the southern border, virtually no one wants anything to do with this fence. They ran this monstrosity right through the campus of Texas Southmost College, one place among many to have parts of their property blocked off. But they did make an exception for a fucking private golf course. They held a public meeting a couple months ago in Brownsville and Sen. Brownback showed up. When he didn’t like the reception he got or the public comments against his pet project, the pissy little piece of bigoted shit said just maybe they’ed move the wall NORTH of Brownsville and give it back to Mexico. Things got real ugly, real fast, and he had to leave much sooner than planned.
If so, that remark deserves a wider audience. Brownbeck is really a brownshirt – a Jesus-nazi in every sense of the word. If people had a clearer idea what the little shit really stood for, he would lose popularity fast.
I think he would, anyway.
Damn but it’d be nice to see a YouTube of that.
Media hype, media blackout. When GE bought NBC, our free country was flushed down the toilet.
First, a big loud Boo!
So, terrorists will come in from the north, and illegal immigrants come in from the south. Got it.
This juxtaposition from different parts of the story is fodder for The Daily Show.
Hmmm…Mayberry…hmm. Stop a kid walking down the street to get a soda…could be devastating if they don’t stop the kid.
Sounds a lot like something Barney Fife would say.
yup. biggest difference is that their bullets are in their guns, not their pockets, like barney’s.
So you see? This is what’s passed off as news! As truth! As Americana!
WASF (we are so f**ked)