It's official - Minutemen gonna patrol Canadian border

[HEyHEY]

WASHINGTON (Hanna Gutmann, BN) 35s. The U-S citizens group known as the MinuteMen that is patrolling the U-S southern border to prevent illegal immigration is going to do the same along the Canada-U-S border. (SOURCE:BN) (645p)

And they are going to be FUCKING bored.

Truly...how long till the Fenians come back.... Canadians should patrol the border and make sure if they cross, we shoot.

[Zuni]

1. what a bunch of dicks

they are just going to divert illegal Canadians to other sectors

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. Thats right you beer and hockey loving Canucks...

stay on your side of the border or else...

[dolo amber]

3. It *is* all your fault, y'know...

[AlCzervik]

4. Like Canadians are actually sneaking over the border!

Are they going there to make sure Americans don't go to Canada?

[FreedomAngel82]

41. I think

probably to make sure Americans don't go over to stay. I don't think a Canadian would want to be here now.

[AlCzervik]

42. yes, it's probably the new U.S. containment policy

[slackmaster]

103. Actually I have met several Canadians staying in the US illegally

Mostly students that stayed after they dropped out of college and their visas expired, but also a few genuine illegal aliens who snuck across the border. One of them was my girlfriend for a summer.

[TheFarseer]

5. Let me be the first to ask

WHY!?!?!?!

[mcscajun]

14. No doubt to "prove" that they're not racist in their approach.

That it's not just about Mexicans.

Pah. They accomplished nothing at our southern border besides rabble-rousing; they'll accomplish nothing at our northern border but the the same.

[DeaconBlues]

20. They "accomplished nothing" (if you mean stopping the flow of illegals)

because they patrolled only 23 miles of the border. The rest of the border is still as open as can be and the illegals simply shifted over to another spot along the border.

If they accomplished nothing but rabble-rousing, good for them. At least they have brought attention to a problem that desperately needs work.

[Misunderestimator]

110. Yeah, like Bush "bringing attention to a problem" in the middle-east?

Pleeeeeeease.

[smirkymonkey]

88. Because we can't let those warmongering terrorists into our fine

country! Oh....wait....never mind.

:evilgrin:

[JordanTO]

6. What a bunch of freaks!

:eyes:

[Mojambo]

7. If this impacts my ability to score quality weed

I'm going to be a cranky little Mojambo.

[bridgit]

8. step off you minutemen hosers, eh?

[Cleita]

9. Haha, now that 'll be funny.

It might entertain the bears out west here.

[HEyHEY]

12. I can't wait for January

[rurallib]

10. Pretty soon they'll be out in the oceans

stopping Japanese subs and German Luftwaffe.
Think they'll patrol that Minnesota or Montana border come winter?

[HereSince1628]

11. I suppose some seaport is going to get the treatment soon

It would appear the men whose brains are minute are trying to give all the borders equal treatment.

I am guess they will choose the Florida Keys, and they will probably do their surveillance next January.

[Worst Username Ever]

13. I want to see them patrolling the MN-Canadian border in January.

Ever been to International Falls during a cold snap, boys?

[sandnsea]

15. It got hot in Arizona

They think they're going someplace cool. hehe. How come they didn't want to guard the borders in the middle of winter??? Pansy asses.

[HEyHEY]

16. It'll be fun looking at the murder scene after they

Attempt to "arrest" some heavily armed drug runner in the Hell's Angels.

[DeaconBlues]

23. First, the Minutemen don't try to arrest anyone, they report suspicious

activities just like any neighborhood watch.

Second, if you would enjoy looking at a murder scene, you have issues that go far beyond the xenophobia that some of the Minutemen are supposed to have.

[Dave Reynolds]

25. Anybody who wants to observe and report

drug traffickers will most likely be given a quick, harsh lesson in "survival of the most heavily armed."

And there is some educational and entertainment value to that.

[DeaconBlues]

53. So, you think that people being murdered by drug traffickers is

entertaining. There's really nothing that can be said about that, except that I hope that someday some whacko doesn't come to the same conclusion, and decide that killing your family or others you love would be funny.

[Dave Reynolds]

57. All things

are part of this wonderful, horrible tragicomedy of our universe.

Indignation is part of it as well, albeit a boring and tiresome one.

[DeaconBlues]

63. Sorry, but your attempt at philosophical objectivity cannot cover up some

seriously infantile callousness.

[Dave Reynolds]

95. I never attempt to cover up

my infantile callousness.

Repression is baaaad.

Let it out, I say.

[HEyHEY]

36. Why all the pics of them holding weapons?

[DeaconBlues]

51. Why do they have weapons?

Because of what you indirectly pointed out in your previous post - drug smugglers and human smugglers who themselves are often armed and not restrained by the law are active at the borders (mostly the southern border). The Minutemen have even been threatened by M-13, one of the most dangerous gangs out there. They have the right to defend themselves if they are threatened.

But there have been no incidents of armed Minutemen threatening or detaining any illegals, despite the naysaying by many here.

[Bridget Burke]

87. It's a phallic thing....

Or maybe they're scared of those hockey playing polar bears.

[Singleterri]

70. Why would you be happy for a murder?

Besides, the Minutemen are armed as well.

[seabeyond]

17. lol lol , make sure we stay in? lol lol n/t

[Initech]

18. I am very very confused

I could understand Mexicans coming into this country, but Canadians fleeing?

Didnt a lot of Americans (mainly Dems) say that they want to move into Canada? Is that why there's Minutemen going to the Canadian border?

[HEyHEY]

19. They're looking for terrorists and Drug Dealers.

Cause you know...everyone wants to haul explosives and drugs in -40 weather in the middle of the night.

[Initech]

21. I dont think they're going to find much of that in Canada

Boy these people are stupid.

[achtung_circus]

97. I know a man

who makes a very good living packing bud on horseback from an unnamed part of BC to an unnamed part of the USA. He runs about 6 pack horses per trip,max, probably about 1000 lbs.

[DeaconBlues]

22. I don't understand

When the Minutemen were simply patrolling in Arizona everyone here at DU called them racists who simply wanted to molest Mexicans. Now that they are shifting resources to the northern border and to companies that hire illegals they are called idiots and worse. Looks like they can never be right, in some peoples eyes.

I guess people who want to increase the security of the nation will never get a fair shake from many of the people here.

[HEyHEY]

26. Bullshit, the Canadian border shows no threat

I consider this to be aggresion against my nation... And I'm not fucking kidding here. SOme lying SOB minute man today said the Canadian border is just as bad as mexico and there's people crossing... horseshit. Flat out lie. If ONE of these mother fuckers crosses into my nation accidentally when I'm around.. I'll see to it he goes back to the US to PAY for the medical care he's gonna need.

This is just how the fenians began.

[DeaconBlues]

54. Why so excited about a bunch of Americans who will be patrolling on

American territory? I wouldn't give a rat's ass if Canadians started patrolling thier border with the U.S. In fact, it would be a nice change of pace if Canadians for once did start taking care of some of their own security.

[CHIMO]

55. Well

Just say that we are lucky to have such good neighbours that our security requirement has not been a pressing issue. However, I can understand your concern regarding your side of the border.

[HEyHEY]

59. Typical American response

Your the nation that needs security, not us... we don't have enemies the way you do. Some would say because we don't do things like let vigilanties patrol borders in an insulting manner.

By the way, what took you so long to fight Hitler? We need to take care of our security my ass. Everytime a just defensive war has occured, Canada has been the first ones in the trench.

[enigmatic]

61. Hey hey, HEyHEY!

We're all not like that; I'm not, though the Timbits has made me into warm fuzzball...

[DeaconBlues]

64. Its been a long, long, long time since World War II

and the only reason that Canada was part of that fight first was because it was dragged along as part of the British Empire. And since then there have been security matters (such as NORAD) in which Americans have had to pay an unfair amount of sweat, blood, and treasure. But I guess you think that Canada would have been immune from Soviet missles, because Canadians are just so much less goshdarn arrogant than Americans are.

You still haven't told me why having a few hundred citizens observing from their side of the border is so intimidating. Almost every other nation in the world patrols its borders with other nations with actual military, and 99.9% of the time this is not considered a threat. I personally think that patrolling the northern border will be mostly a waste of time, but I still don't understand your outrage at having American citizens patrolling on American soil.

[HEyHEY]

65. The only reason we had to worry about Russia was

Our association with the US.

Why is it intimidating? Because at any time they can get out of control, that's why.

[catastrophicsuccess]

68. uhhh yea...

Paul Wellsone, Canada Basher :eyes:

[BiggJawn]

73. You noticed that too, eh?

Maybe he should crawl out from behind Paul and head North to defend all us stupid people from the "Brown Peril" hisself?

[yvr girl]

93. Canada did not get dragged into WWII as part of the British Empire

WWI yes, but not WWII. We don't need to be personally attacked before we get off our arses.

Canada is a 10th of the size of the States, and we have less enemies. We also have a tradition of peacekeeping not aggression.

[HEyHEY]

94. Ever heard of the Boer war?

We didn't go into that and that was when we were still techically part of the empire.

ou have no clue what you're speaking about

[achtung_circus]

98. Um, yes we did

"In the Boer War of 1899-1902, 7,400 Canadians were sent to South Africa. 224 were killed in action or by accidents and disease. Another 252 were wounded."

<http://www.members.shaw.ca/kcic3/veterans.html>

on edit: quotation marks

[HEyHEY]

100. Volunteers Achtung

Canada didn't send drafted troops because Britain screwed us on the Panhandle

[achtung_circus]

101. Most of our wars have been fought with volunteers.

It was only in the latter stages of WW I & WWII that conscription became necessary, in each case causing crises, primarily, although not entirely, in the Province of Quebec.

[Singleterri]

72. What does this have to do with Hitler?

With friends like you, we sure don't need any enemies.

[HEyHEY]

78. We say the same about you - MR. Patrol the border

It has to do with Hilter because EVERY fucking time some right wing fuck accuses us of having no security or not joining the war... I laugh and think it took you three extra years to anti-up against the NAzis, of course "We all knew he HAD weapons"

[tyedyeto]

58. On another post a week or so ago, they said ...

Hannity went across the Mexico border (in the 'Minutemen patrol' area, and back to the US without checking in with immigration. Is he here illegally then? Just asking...I think he might be.

And why does a southern border pose any more of a threat than the northern border, or vice versa? Personally, I don't think either one does.

[captain crunch]

77. wow, you are one scary dude.

I wouldn't want to piss you off, no way brother, not me.

[MsTryska]

114. dude.....we're just trying to stop

crazy canucks from crossing the border and being a burden on our social services.

/sarcasm

[earth mom]

75. You said it.

The Minutemen are spotlighting something * & Co are ignoring solely for the sake of business interests. EVERYONE-Americans and Mexicans-are totally exploited by how * & Co are turning a blind eye to the problem. Get it? NO ONE WINS but BUSINESSES-period. Mexicans aren't living high on the wages they are paid and-agree with it or not-these wide open borders have substantially driven down wages for Americans. But if you're living a cushy life with no financial worries that doesn't matter does it?! :eyes:

For the Minutemen to go to Canada is just them simply making a point-that the borders are NOT secure. People can come and go at will-whatever nationality they may be. I really don't get why people turn this into a racial issue-it's absolutely positively not!!! To say that people who are coming and going like this is okay and that their rights come before the people who are actually legally here is so very very wrong. :grr:

[HEyHEY]

79. Yeah, the original minutemen group (Native Americans) thought that too

And look what happened there.

[earth mom]

81. What happened to the American Indians was horrific and very wrong...

:cry:

so yes, we should ALL be run out of country if the truth be told.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

91. Baloney...they are only going to Canada to quell the racist image

[B Calm]

24. Are they going to be doing a mosquito repellant commercial??

[all.of.me]

27. jesus! what canadian in their right mind is trying to come here?!?!

illegally, no less!!!

[HEyHEY]

28. According to them, they're after mexicans coming here

then jumping down there.

[all.of.me]

34. for real?! i am SO sorry we think like this!

another embarrassing moment for the US!

[SammyWinstonJack]

74. From Mexico to the US by way of Canada?

:crazy:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

84. So that's it, they're still only looking for threats to the white race

[KamaAina]

30. Hurry, Minutemen! This is evidence of a full-scale Canuck exodus

into the Land of the Free (Except for Health Care). :sarcasm:



Today Detroit, tomorrow who knows? Toledo? They must be stopped NOW!

[all.of.me]

35. free? are we free?

[slackmaster]

104. I used to date an illegal alien from Canada

She liked to surf.

[all.of.me]

105. why illegal?!

[slackmaster]

106. Not sure I understand your question

Do you mean why was her presence illegal, or what was her motivation for entering and staying in the USA illegally as opposed to doing so legally?

She snuck across an unpatrolled area of the border in Washington State, hitchiked to Southern California, and took up residence here without doing the paperwork.

[all.of.me]

108. that answers it!

i was wondering why she chose to be illegal.

[slackmaster]

109. It's always been a mystery to me

She may have been hiding from someone or something.

[all.of.me]

111. who knows? maybe it was an adventure

i always think of illegal aliens as mexicans coming here for a better life. an illegal from canada just didn't fit that lame ass stereotype! lol

[slackmaster]

112. I also knew an illegal alien from Wales

He was a fugitive from justice.

an illegal from canada just didn't fit that lame ass stereotype!

A lot of illegal aliens from Mexico don't fit the lame ass stereotype either.

[all.of.me]

113. hmmmm....

i guess i'll have to change my thinking...

or my vocabulary. isn't that weird the way we get stuck in a frame of mind? you know one thing that is universal, but you can't apply it to anything else. broadening my perspective here.....

[sweetheart]

29. yea, put 'em on the alaska/canda border

A winter up thar'll show 'em what cold and dark is. Arizona is just
a tad warmer. Perhaps if they're wusses, and can only handle the summer
they should be invited up to experience the north canadian mosquito.

:-) ha! Those mosquitos would eat a man a minute.... and then they'll
earn their names.

[IndianaGreen]

45. There you go, Alaska-Canada border is about right for them!

Got to watch for them Mexicans crossing into Alaska!

[stevedeshazer]

31. Now that everyone and their dog has replied,

Is there a FREAKING LINK?

:)

[HEyHEY]

32. Sorry man, not yet

That's a flash from a broadcast news service.

[stevedeshazer]

38. Broadcast news service? 'kay, I forgot

We don't have those anymore!

Sincerely,

South of the 49th Parallel

:)

[mcscajun]

33. Here's one.

there are others.

http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html?id=18198dc5-7e85-43b7-a083-633c642579f2

[HEyHEY]

37. Ha!

"The Minuteman organizers estimated it would take $4 billion and two years to secure the Mexico border and $8 billion and three years on the Canada border. They suggested the U.S. government supplement border patrol agents with military or National Guard troops"

You can tell they didn't even do research "Border is twice as long... so we'll need twice as much money."

[stevedeshazer]

43. Warning to Yukon DUers

Don't even think about it!!

[Generic Other]

39. One question: Is this to keep US citizens from escaping?

Just wondering...can't think why any Canadians would bother to sneak into the good old USA.

[HEyHEY]

44. A Canadian Critic says

If they do their homework they'd see it's Americans trying to sneak into Canada.

[Generic Other]

49. They must want to escape the harsh Canadian laws

I mean they won't let drivers take free right hand turns in the country. For crying out loud, who wouldn't want to escape such oppression?

[Zorra]

40. Well, there have been rumors of huge herds of Canadian elk sneaking down

from BC and eating grass that belongs to US elk.

Other than that, why? Maybe to prove that they are not specifically targeting Mexicans.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

46. Good! That'll stop all you war mongers from coming over here trying

to join our military and take advantage of our overpriced drugs and medical care!

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

67. Yeah! And obviously we want them to harrass any Canadians who

might have the nerve to be coming over here to spend their tourist dollars.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

99. Those sneaky commie bastards!

[CHIMO]

47. And They Shouldn't

Expect to get free medicare in Canada when they get bit by them snow snakes.

[HEyHEY]

48. Or Frostbite

[CHIMO]

50. Ya

Although I don't think that cold blooded animals can get frost bite. Could be wrong about that.

[Deja Q]

52. that's "minute" as in small, yes?

:D:D:D:bounce::D:D:D:D:D:D:bounce::D:D:D:D:D:D:bounce::D:D:D

:D:D:D:bounce::D:D:D:D:D:D:bounce::D:D:D:D:D:D:bounce::D:D:D

:D:D:D:bounce::D:D:D:D:D:D:bounce::D:D:D:D:D:D:bounce::D:D:D

[Bridget Burke]

69. Perhaps. But a "minute" is also a unit of time.

[Name removed]

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[enigmatic]

60. I say we send Tie Domi to kick their asses...

He'd do it by himself..

[Telly Savalas]

66. Well, it's not like he has much else to do...

other than make Quiznos ads.

[tom_paine]

62. They are without doubt the precursors of future Right-Wing Death Squads

Hope I'll be dead before the Bush Transformation is finished.

Good luck to you poor bastards who are alive then, althugh in truth they could start the Roundups and Detentions any time they pleased, from a legal point of view.

Just a few more Free Americans have to grow old and die off. By and large the nation has forgotten what the Ols United States of America stood for anyway and are Blank Slates for Party and Fuehrer.

A great darkness is falling.

Like 1939.

Or 48 BC.

[tjwash]

71. They are actually trying to make sure...

...we don't cross over into THERE.

[BiggJawn]

76. Just like in "It Can't Happen HERE!"

Buzz Windrip didn't need the Minute Men on the Mexican border, because we INVADED Mexico.

The MM were everywhere in the north. You couldn't even try going down a deer-path into Canada without getting nabbed by one of those thugs.

Who they trying to kid? Just trying to "prove" that "it ain't th' Messicans, it's ALL illegals!"

Or they're laying ground work to keep US in.

Them wood's is dangerous, ain't they? ;-)

[Capn Sunshine]

80. 'bout time

We're sick and tired of Candadian aliens stealing all the good jobs.

If I have to put up with one more English-challenged Canuck waiter in a Canadian restaurant, I'm going to scream! Peter Jennings? That job should be MINE! The guy says "aboot" fer chrissakes!

[Cooley Hurd]

82. Christ... is there REALLY a problem on the Canadian border???

:shrug:

For about a year and a half, the US Border Patrol has had a checkpoint set up about 100 miles SOUTH of the Canadian border on I-87 in upstate NY. I've passed through it several times (and bypassed it via US Rt 9 many more times) and they always ask, in the rudest manner possible, if I have people in the back of my van (panelled service van I use for work). It leads me to two questions:

1) Is there an immigration issue between Canada and the US?

2) If it's important enough to block I-87, then why do they leave US Rt 9 (which runs parallel to I-87) wide open??:crazy:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

83. Yeah right...they're not going to devote much energy to this.

It's way more fun to harass brown people. This is their pathetic attempt to appear mainstream.

So now they're at the Canadian border. I would like to see what happens if people start immitating them like they did at the Mexican border. Do you think if some asshole takes 7 Canadians hostage and makes them lay face down in the dirt at gunpoint that he'll be acquitted of all charges like the other guy?

[Cuban_Liberal]

85. It'll just force the price of herb up....

:P

[Village Idiot]

86. I really HOPE that I am just being paranoid...

...but the repeal of the Assault weapons ban, the re-selection of the most militant president since Teddy Roosevelt or James Madison, the recent need for passports to enter the USA from Canada, and now armed USAsians patrolling a border that had hitherto been "open???"

I live 10 minutes from the border...I have a couple of hunting rifles, but what use is a 303 or 12-gauge going to be against those armed with semi-automatic handguns, fully automatic Uzis or AK-47s???

Frickin' 1812 all over again...

I'm gonna cry now...Actually, I think I will load my guns first, then cry some...

[slackmaster]

102. The AW ban had nothing to do with fully automatic weapons

And it was not repealed. It expired as it was designed to do.

[LiveWire]

89. HAHA Polar bears playing hockey?!!?!?

What will those crazy cannucks think of next

[bobthedrummer]

90. I apologize for these fools, Canada.

People from their ranks did OKC, they are the potential terrorists, they're a bunch of American assholes.

[Initech]

92. The Minutemen are full of crap

Say we shut down our borders... there's still other ways that illegal immigrants can sneak into this country.

[Lisa]

96. well, patrolling anywhere else would be "hard work"!

Isn't it so much easier to check out peace groups in Fresno, say, instead of doing investigations that are arduous, delicate, time-consuming, and even dangerous?

[Sabriel]

107. Isn't the border, like, 4000 miles or something?

How many volunteers they GOT?

[daleo]

115. 4000 miles and 40 trillion mosquitoes/blackflies

They will have lots of company.