We Stand On Guard for Fees

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Coffer Security Trumps Border Security in Canada!

The Headline: A Canadian Senate committee said: “Canada must add guards along the 3,145- mile border with the U.S. and arm them with guns because local and federal police response to emergencies is too slow.” The committee further commented that the ‘guards’ should be focusing more on security than on tax collection.

The Party Line: Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan said: "I don't think it makes a lot of sense, in terms of the expenditure of resources, to have every inch of that undefended border patrolled by Canadian, RCMP, or whoever it might be, 24/7," she said. "I don't believe that is a rational use of our resources." Further comment from McLellan was that the ‘guards have pepper spray and batons and that should be sufficient.’

Canadian Border Guard Special Training Memo

If confronted with a firearm in the hands of a fleeing criminal, terrorist or drug dealer, guards are hereby directed to employ the following procedure:

1) Immediately pepper spray the individual, and

2) While the individual is rubbing his or her eyes bonk him or her on the head with your baton.

[Important Note] If the individual objects to this treatment, apologize right away and allow entry to Canada after assessing and collecting the duty and GST for the value of the firearm and bullets the person was pointing at you. Be sure to add a further 10% to cover the new 'Unlawful Firearms Importation Tax' we are currently implementing to discourage the importation and/or smuggling of black market weapons.

Best of Luck
Anne McLellan
Minister of Public Safety

PS. If anything goes wrong and this procedure backfires, immediately destroy all copies of this memo.

Anne McLellan, the woman in charge of Canada’s Public Safety, has probably never faced any greater personal danger than a spider in her bathtub, yet she seems quite comfortable informing front-line people in the public service, who could very well find themselves in mortal danger, as to what they should consider sufficient to defend themselves …let alone secure our borders in any effective way!

Next thing we know, Ms. McLellan will be suggesting we disarm our police services and instead issue them with big rubber fingers they can wag at people committing crimes!

This may come as a surprise to a lot of people, but under Liberal governance (primarily) Canada’s military has been decimated to a humiliating level, our police forces have been under-funded and depleted, and the best response they could come up with to secure our borders more effectively after 9/11 was to charge a new fee …very little of which has turned into actual security improvements!

Whether its criminals or terrorists, you have to wonder if Liberals even remotely understand the realities of the world. The way I see it there are only three options 1) they don’t understand what’s going on, 2) they can’t understand what’s going on, or 3) they’re involved in what’s going on! Somehow they [the government] seem to think that controlling and restricting those who are not a threat will somehow effectively deal with those who are!

The gun registry being a prime example of that backward logic …how many criminals or terrorists do you think went and registered the weapons they plan to use in the commission of their various crimes? Does the number ‘ZERO’ come to mind? The registry simply created another bureaucracy and provided another avenue to collect yet more money …it does nothing for public safety, but it did mangage to dispense with a couple billion dollars that were unneeded for anything else ...just a bit of 'laundry' change to Ottawa!

The sex offender registry …another ‘winner’ …not being retroactive, it only starts to work as new victims are created ...how lovely and utterley socially responsible of those Liberal Party sages ...I'm sure all those future victims will appreciate how serioulsy Coach Chretien and his band of looters took their safety! Of course, there’s a logical reason the registry is not retroactive …Jean Chretien’s step son would have been on that retroactive list!

The airport security fee may be a great revenue source for the feds, but so far its done nada for actual security unless the political rhetoric (hot air) about it is supposed to convince the bad guys that Canada isn’t worth bothering with …I guess bin Laden just stroked us right off his list when he heard about that fee! Afterall, I'm sure bin Laden watches the Al Quida budget carefully, and the money those fees would cost his terrorists could be put to much better use buying Semtex or C4 to make bombs. To quote McLellan "I don't believe that is a rational use of our resources."

All levity aside, the threat of terrorism and the presence of terrorism in Canada is more real than most Canadians realize, and you won't find Ottawa issuing any press releases about it because they hate having fingers pointed at them.

That being so I’m going to recommend you read the book below …to get your copy visit Amazon using the link on the sidebar to the left (and yes, the price is good ...I paid $35 for my copy when it first came out and don't regret a single penny of that price).

Cold Terror:
How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism to the World
By Stewart Bell

From the Armenian, Irish and Sikh militants of the 1980s, to the Tamil Tigers and Hezbollah, this book explores the terrorism that occurs around the world, with Canada as its hub. While Canadian political leaders deny the country has a terror problem, and therefore make little effort to counter it, the author unlocks Canada’s secret intelligence files to reveal how agents of the world’s most violent terrorist organizations have covertly operated in the country for more than two decades.

This book is the first detailed account of the rise of international terrorism in Canada. It profiles the top-ranking Canadian terrorists and shows how, aided by official neglect, they have transformed the country into an important base from which terror is exported to the world.

Stewart Bell (Toronto, Ontario) is Chief Reporter of The National Post, where he covers the national security beat. A veteran investigative reporter and foreign correspondent, he has been writing about terrorism for 12 years and has traveled on assignment through the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Asia and West Africa. He has won many journalism awards, including the Amnesty International Human Rights Media Award and the B'nai Brith Canada Award.

If you’re someone who prefers not to know, doesn’t want to look, could care less, or a die-hard Liberal voter under the [mistaken] impression that the Canadian government is either effective or benevolent ... don’t read this book, it will mess with your comfy little headspace.

However, if you’re someone who wants to have a close look at the dirty underbelly of what government in Canada has become, read the book, and then read it again because there is so much information in it you won't absorb it all on the first read …you'll see Anne McLellan and her "noble" friends on the hill in exactly the light they deserve to be in.

Enjoy reading the book ...it will disgust and anger you to see how pathetic our highly paid, sanctimonious politicians have made Canadians look internationally, and why Canada is rapidly becoming regarded as a 'Sponsor State' of terrorism!

Till Next Time
The Serf