Canadians respond to the arming of US Coast Guard vessels

[peace13]

I think our friends to the north are finally seeing the light. This is an interesting article about the US Coast Guards plan to practice open firing on the Great Lakes.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060928.wlakes28/BNStory

[bloom]

1. It really does sound

like there may be some paranoid schizophrenics who are writing policy...


"The United States Coast Guard has started to patrol the Great Lakes with machine guns mounted on their vessels and is conducting live-ammunition training drills on the U.S. side to prepare officers to combat terrorists flooding across the border from Canada by boat."

[Matariki]

7. or preparing for US citizens flooding across the border

to escape the draft?

i'm getting fucking paranoid.

[bloom]

8. That would be bad.

Certainly a possibility.

[rockymountaindem]

2. That's been banned since 1819.

If we want to do it, though, all we have to do is give 6 months notice that we're abrogating the Rush-Bagot treaty. We had a similar problem in the '20s when we wanted to send the USS Nashville down the St. Lawrence Seaway to Chicago. The Nashville had to dismount its guns during the passage.

[peace13]

6. Sounds like the Canadians have signed additional

agreements with the US in the recent past. At any rate this is not good for people on boats or on shore. My original thought was that they would be training Coast Guard personnel to be shipped to the ME.

[peace13]

3. Link requires free registration, sorry

[earth mom]

5. Worked for me-no registration required.

:shrug:

It's a MUST READ I might add!

[earth mom]

4. Holy Shit!

Anyone think this has something to do with people wanting to flee the U.S. of A?

:scared: