On 10/14/2014 7:04 PM, wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:40:38 -0500, Michel Boucher
> > wrote:
>
>> Dave Smith > wrote in
>> news >>
>>> You don't think that he was found on the basis of the stealth
>>> and cunning of a US customs agent, or is it not obvious that
>>> someone had dropped a dime on him from this side of the
>>> border?
>>
>> Unlikely.
>>
>> Customs officer Diana Deans said he was acting "hinky". But where
>> I have been nervous at the border, he was nervous and of swarthy
>> complexion. She claims there was no racial profiling but racists
>> always say that. They also deny being racists.
>>
>> http://seattletimes.com/news/nation-
>> world/terroristwithin/chapter12.html
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/l5g5j8g
>>
>> She asked him to open the trunk, but it seems she had no idea what
>> she would find there.
>>
>> So, unlikely.
>
> When you're there, you are at their mercy. My daughter, my grandson
> and I went through a rather isolated crossing from Manitoba to the US.
> When hauled to one side I gave the letter to the female that was
> permission from my daughter to cross an international border with my
> grandson. She got on her high horse, accused one or more of us of
> lying because as she said I didn't need that since if he was my
> grandson, this was my daughter ergo no need for permission. The
> grandson was my elder daughters child, the daughter was my younger
> daughter, his aunt.
>
> She was so angry she upended my purse over a stainless steel table and
> everything went skittering about and onto the floor. I was trying to
> work out in my mind how many extra miles it was if we crossed back and
> went over the lakes instead of under. It was so rude and needless -
> when we got home I really intended to write to the State Department
> and tell them about the impression created but it was two days before
> Xmas so I never did in the end.
>

Maybe you'll have better luck with the state department than I had with
the Ministry in Ottawa that I corresponded with for two years.

We were terrorized at the border in Quebec. Threatened, held hostage,
not allowed to pee, separated for over an hour. The guy in charge was
acting under the old law and disregarding the new law that was passed a
month earlier. Also, according to the US consulate, he was too lazy to
inspect our truck and trailer and assumed that just because we had Texas
license plates we were hiding guns, so he pulled up our NCIC (FBI)
reports to see if we had gun permits. We didn't so he found some trivial
misdemeanor on DH's record (which had been dismissed by our courts) and
branded him a criminal.

When he found (over two hours later) that our reason for wanting to
enter Canada was to go to the Yankees vs. Blue Jay baseball games and we
produced the tickets that had been purchased in advance, then we became
fit to enter Canada.

We had spent the entire month of July in Canada, came out for a few
weeks to do some stuff in Maine then made the mistake of reentering via
Quebec. Further, we had been in various provinces each summer for over
15 years without so much as a citation for spitting on the sidewalk.

I deserved an apology from the Ministry. I'm still waiting for it. I
hope you get one from our state department. The border people should not
have mistreated you.

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From somewhere very deep in the heart of Texas