Posted on 07/28/2014 3:57:31 AM PDT by markomalley
This sounds more like a TSA story than a Border Patrol story.
Cross linking some other threads on the topic if anyone is interested in the comments thereon:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3185646/posts
Iowan Boy Scouts Allegedly Harassed by Border Patrol at the Canadian Border into Alaska
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3185297/posts
Troop leader: Customs and Border agent held Boy Scout at gunpoint ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3184004/posts
Border official points gun at Boy Scout ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3183576/posts
Border official points gun at Boy Scout ^
They tell us that you have nothing to fear of their total surveillance state if you have nothing to hide.
They must have a lot to hide.
Wow. We appear to be closer to a national meltdown than I dared believe. The police-state attitudes are something straight out of the Soviet Union. “Pictures are forbidden, Comrade!”
The police state is here.
30 years ago, I remember laughing at the tyranny of Banana Republics where it was illegal to photograph the guards or buildings. And now it is here.
Tyranny and oppression are here.
"Badges? We don't need no steenkin' Merit Badges".
I was surprised to hear this since initially I thought it was the Canadian customs agents that had done this but then it wasn’t too long ago they were unarmed (I don’t even know if they are armed now) so then having it turn out to be the US Customs gang made more sense if any sense about this incident can be found.
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