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InkAddict Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-30-07 11:11 AM
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Outdated sensors hamper Border Patrol
Source: DAVE KOLPACK - The Associated Press

PEMBINA, N.D. (AP) — Along the expansive Canadian border, a lack of agents and antiquated motion sensors can make it difficult to distinguish between a would-be terrorist and a wayward moose, officials say.

Law enforcement officials and lawmakers argue more funding is needed to put more agents and reliable technology along the 4,000-mile border. Without both, it's impossible to hunt down everything that trips the sensors or know who — and what — is trying to get in.

"It's pretty much a joke," said Towner County Sheriff Vaughn Klier, whose territory stretches to the border.


Read more: http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/base/national-88/1183213152299060.xml&storylist=national
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-30-07 11:16 AM
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1. I am so very, very sick and tried of listening to people fret about 'terrorists'
...land of the enslaved and home of the terrified. :-(
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nealmhughes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-30-07 01:23 PM
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2. Those blasted Canadian/canadien terroists at that!
What next without a secure border? Will our precious white chidren have to learn to spell color with a superflous "u"? Will we be getting CBC communist propoganda over our free airwaves?

Les canadiens sont une grande piece de merde!

They must fortify their border with US! 54-40 or fight and all that!
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-30-07 02:00 PM
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3. Well, there is a simple solution to that....
Edited on Sat Jun-30-07 02:01 PM by Spazito
bush must simply demand that Canada kill all living beings, except humans (unless they are deemed insurgents or enemy combatants of course) so that the current technology will be more than sufficient and no money needs to be taken from the Iraq budget to upgrade!!

:sarcasm: just in case it's needed.
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