Cdns, You are the Target, Border Guards: Wear a Bulletproof Vest & Use Pepper Spray, Video

You are the target -- On a quiet street, a man is plotting to kill you.

This is so explosive an article in the world of Canadians reluctant to grasp the enormity of the problem, Canadians lulled into being trusting to a careless--even clueless--extreme. With a few notable exceptions, journalists have been remiss in investigating and reporting on the actual state of our security--riding the rising tide of political correctness--perhaps for simple survival in the world of pleasing one's political masters bosses who must never forget government advertising $$$ for their and their media's survival.

You are the target -- On a quiet street, a man is plotting to kill you. Jeremy Loome, Ottawa Sun, Sept. 11, 05

If we can't get rid of terrorism, we can at least be prepared for it, and on that front Canada has taken many steps. But a two-month Sun Media analysis indicates they have been ineffective and may even be making us more susceptible to terrorism.

Several factors have hampered our progress, including:

- A decade of intelligence community funding cuts that left it scrambling to catch up to the use of the Internet and left it short of essential overseas intelligence agents.

- Immigration policies that make Canada a haven for both real and phony refugees, but affords them poor standards of living, making them susceptible to extremist propaganda.

- An identity system and an electoral system that are rife with fraud and the potential for abuse.

How can any security agency operate effectively in extraordinary circumstances with the funding and manpower decreases over the last several years?

CSIS: $170 million less, staff decreased 40%

RCMP: $175 million less, lost 2200 men -- Furthermore, the mandate of the RCMP has changed--which suits Quebec since it does not want a federal policing presence (Palango's book on the RCMP), though the other provinces would benefit from and probably be happy to get more federal law enforcement, undoubtedly. As it is, the RCMP emphasizes local policing and carries out a much smaller percentage of its work time on federal law enforcement than in the past--some of it privatized which allowed the government to save money. As well, the feds make money from selling RCMP policing services to provinces and municipalities such as Moncton (a big marijuana bust near there--30,000 plants).

Nevertheless, there is federal work to do in security and protection of Canadians . . . and more.

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Note mention of bureaucrats and unspent money? What do you suppose that is for? Hint: think electioneering and the need for pork.




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Border guards abandon posts -- "It started with the shooting Friday night of a New York State trooper near Plattsburgh." Irwin Block, Sept. 11, 05, Gazette, via Newsbeat1,

When an alert was sent to Canadian customs agents in Quebec warning of an "armed and dangerous" suspect, some 50 employees walked off the job for four hours at about 15 of 44 border crossings just before 9 a.m. yesterday.

The result was long lines for Canada-bound traffic of up to 90 minutes at St. Bernard de Lacolle, the busiest crossing in the province, officials reported. [. . . . ]

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The RCMP have found an outdoor grow-op near Moncton, NB with 30,000 marijuana plants. At $1,000 per plant as income [so I've read], with deductions for equipment, that is still $ 30,000,000 -- $ 30-million if everything goes according to plan. Reduce it by half if I have the figure too high; it is sitll a hefty sum.

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