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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians
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To: Crocodile who wrote (795)11/26/2002 12:05:46 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (2) of 1293
 
The most porous border is the Canadian Arctic. A Russian "scientific" team lived on one of the Islands doing observations for two years before the CDNs knew they were there. (Or so they say). Also the Antarctic is fairly easy to penetrate. Up there for ease of sneak are Afghanistan-Pakistan, England-France (planes and boats landall the time..) and US-Mexico. It is possible to get across the CDN-US border without being seen or at the crossings without too much interrogation but a lot more get caught than is generally thought. That is because the country is deuced difficult to get to with any sort of vehicle where you cannot be observed. Lots are caught 10 or 20 miles from checkpoints on snowmobiles. In the really wild places, it is hard to get to the border and harder to get to any sort of civilization after you cross. And when you do get to the outskirts of some place, you are going to stand out like a sore thumb. So the idea that the CDN-US border is easy to jump or not being checked at crossings is largely imaginary. You hear it from some draconian-authoritarian law enforcement officials in favour of having everyone in ankle bracelets but other than that, it's a non-issue. At official crossings they check everyone in every vehicle fairly assiduously and they have done so for 40 years that I know about. And except for standard phony-waybill smuggling nothing much escapes them! The old open-border drivel that gets tossed around is due to the fact that visas and passports are not necessary. Other than that, it is more difficult and time consuming to cross than say Germany-France.

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