Longest undefended border in the world? Not for long

25/07/2011 8:00:00 AM

by Monica Bugajski

The U.S. is beefing up security along its Canadian border with a fleet of unmanned and unarmed Predator B drone aircrafts, whose highly sophisticated cameras and sensors can see a cigarette from 8km away.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2009/02/16/drones-border.html

Did everyone forget that none of those 911'ers crossed the border from Canada?

Is this not a colossal waste of money?

Are the States getting a little too xenophobic?

link doesn't work

Works for me.

A lot of drugs come from canada to the US. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the extra security though.

wow, nonsensical...

I wonder if the border guys will start taking things seriously.

On my way in I had a whole bag full of food with me in the back seat. The guard looks in the back, right at the bag of food. "Do you have anything with you other than clothes?" "Nope." He looks at the food again. "Go ahead."

Huh, now it works.

Originally posted by inimalist
wow, nonsensical...

Read the article, I guess drugs are a part of it.

this won't catch drug smugglers

Most drug enforcement methods don't work.

I thought homegrown drugs were on the rise in the US for the last decade?

Meaning...what a waste of time.

yes, but this one seems to rest on the idea that people are smuggling drugs in backpacks through unprotected swamps, rather than just driving them through the checkpoints

Originally posted by dadudemon
I thought homegrown drugs were on the rise in the US for the last decade?

Meaning...what a waste of time.

you still get lots of pot from up here

I agree though, total waste of time, expands your survalience state into the province I live in

Originally posted by inimalist
you still get lots of pot from up here

You pointed to you butt when typing that, didn't you? 😐

Originally posted by dadudemon
You pointed to you butt when typing that, didn't you? 😐

lol, no, but I did now

Originally posted by inimalist
you still get lots of pot from up here

I agree though, total waste of time, expands your survalience state into the province I live in

Anyway, I'm all for keeping you dirty canadians out of my great nation.

Unless there's a draft...then I'll become a mountie.

Originally posted by Mindset
And cocaine and meth iirc.

Anyway, I'm all for keeping you dirty canadians out of my great nation.

Unless there's a draft...then I'll become a mountie.

coke? no way, that comes to us through you, and most meth is domestic (now at least, years ago, sure, our bikers probably played a major role)

edit: pfft, we don't even want to go to your crappy country, keep your skynet robots out of ours

A lot of biker gangs still get meth from canada, I forget their names, but they're mainly northeastern, maybe it was ours that have yours coke.

US has been the meth capital for decades, but I guess we can't get enough.

I think they got guns from canada too.

I think their name was the Warlocks.

Do you think skynet will take over before the global economy collapses?

Originally posted by Mindset
A lot of biker gangs still get meth from canada, I forget their names, but they're mainly northeastern, maybe it was ours that have yours coke.

US has been the meth capital for decades, but I guess we can't get enough.

I think they got guns from canada too.

I'd be astonished if criminals in America were getting guns from Canada

probably the Hell's Angels you are referring to