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2009/11/13 Darksyde <m_alexander61@yahoo.com>
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Roy <linuxcanuck@...> wrote:
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> > I am sure that our guards are getting testy too. I think that it must be
> a
> > hiring criterion. They were not even armed until recently.
> >
> > We went to a family funeral in DC in September. We stayed with a friend
> in
> > Pittsburgh just before the G20 and then we were searched on the way into
> > Arlington cemetery. We got the full treatment, mirrors under the car,
> hood
> > up, poking through our things. We saw lots of security. We had been in
> > previous years without even being checked.
> > I am not sure where all of this security is headed, but it can't be fun.
> >
> > New York is one of my favourite destinations. My daughter (20) fell in
> love
> > with it and wants to live there. She loves fashion and food, both of
> which
> > you have plenty of. I just love the culture. We went to all of the
> boroughs
> > except the Bronx and Brooklyn. Next time.
> >
> > I would miss my trips to the States. We have friends and family there.
> > Crossing the border is our biggest problem. Not because we are doing
> > anything wrong. It just takes so much time and effort. I pity the folks
> who
> > do it daily because they work or go to school on the other side of the
> > border.
> >
> > Much of the problem comes because the US cannot discriminate and must
> treat
> > both borders the same. But the northern one does not have the same
> problem
> > with people trying to get in illegally. At least not to the same extent
> and
> > for the same reason.
> >
> > The effect of all of this is people stay home more. Passports cost money
> and
> > this adds to the cost of a family vacation. We used to cross just to
> shop.
> > That was good for us and for businesses in Niagara Falls. Many of the
> plates
> > in the parking lot were Ontario. Now you hardly see one. That's gotta
> hurt.
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> > Yeah, I read that a Pakistani IOC member was held for thirty minutes. He
> > described it as a humiliation and ordeal. I am sure that it did not
> impress
> > them. That's got to suck even more, to lose to a violent overcrowded city
> > with poverty and now power failures. ;) Perhaps they will regret that
> > decision.
> >
> > Roy
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> Roy, I think that such security at the Canadian/U.S. border is to prevent
> U.S. citizens from cruising over for cheaper medicine, better beer and Cuban
> cigars.
> Mark
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