Homeland Security Comes to Vermont

[K. Darien Freeheart]

You know my answer would be "none of the above". I was raised to believe that nobody offers you free money, and if they do, it's probably stolen.

That said, your logic makes sense as a bureaucrat who seeks to look good and advance. I mean more the armchair people who get their jollies off of "strengthing the border" and actually gain nothing.

[KBCraig]

That said, your logic makes sense as a bureaucrat who seeks to look good and advance. I mean more the armchair people who get their jollies off of "strengthing the border" and actually gain nothing.

The government is full of fiefdom-builders who have waited years for an opportunity like that provided by 9/11 and the PATRIOT Act.

[John Edward Mercier]

Strange you didn't ask why the government requires a passport for return travel from some foreign nations but not others?
The feds have always had complex and unreasonable regulations... nothing new.

[KBCraig]

Interesting view:

http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/lotl/v29/m.html

[John Edward Mercier]

Caused by the Treaty of Paris. Canada prior to the French-Indian War came much farther south.

[Lloyd Danforth]

I've gone into Canada several times thru Derby Line, although not recently. I always saw it as a sleepy street a little wider than the one I grew up on that just happened to be one country on one side and a different one on the other.  If I had to sneak from one country to the other that's where I would have gone.