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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-01-05 08:01 PM
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Vigilantes On Northern Border Sometimes Lose Bearings
November 1, 2005
By DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD, Washington Post

DERBY LINE, Vt. -- Somewhere near this spot - where five men with lawn chairs and binoculars were watching the woods - runs the long and mostly invisible border between the United States and Canada.

The New England Minutemen were here to guard this border. <snip>

Among their other problems, including bad cellphone reception and angry protesters, perhaps the most vexing has been the difficulty of finding the border itself. <snip>

http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-vermont1101.artnov01,0,4760314.story?coll=hc-headlines-nationworld


I suppose we can hope that armed patriots are waiting, on the other side of the border, to arrest these privateers should they happen to invade Canadian "accidently" ...
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