Liquidating the Mud People

[Freematt357 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/20/03 10:36:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, timcmay at got.net 
writes:

> Me, I don't fly on Jet CIA Blue or Delta Delta Operations, or any other 
> of the Big Brother-controlled airlines. (And now they are financially 
> suffering and want citizen-unit taxes to bail them out...

Any prediction when the police state fascism of the air will be exported to 
the interstate highway system?  Personally I won't fly either, as I want to be 
treated as a customer and I refuse to be treated as a suspect.   As a suspect 
the airlines can eat my seat.

However, I refuse to be hog-tied so I travel around the US on the ground-  
I've encountered two travel concerns- One on I-10 outside of El Paso at a border 
patrol checkpoint- The Border Patrolman wanted to know where I had been and 
where I was going and what I had been doing...In short, intrusive none of their 
business questions.  That time I was traveling from Phoenix to the French 
Quarter of New Orleans- The Fed wanted to know why I was using the southern 
route, so I said why not? At the time they were searching some hapless teenage 
boy's pickup so they waved me through.  Interestingly I visited Mexico that trip 
and when I reentered the US I didn't even have to show ID.  The guys at Customs 
and Immigration just waved me through after asking me where I'm from, albeit 
I look American.

The other was at a Canadian border crossing on my way to Montreal.  The Maple 
leafers have a database of American gun owners, as the customs guy asked me 
"You have a pistol?" to which I replied no. He asked again not believing me 
"You don't have a pistol???" Upon which I replied that is correct I don't have a 
pistol, I have pistols plural.  My buddy traveling with me announced in a loud 
voice so the entire station could hear, of course we have pistols, and rifles 
too-  That's what free people have and that's one of the reason's I'd never 
move to Canada.  Naturally my car got searched with a fine toothed comb, but I 
added I wouldn't be stupid enough to bring my pistol. I spent considerable 
effort cleaning my car of any stray ammo, thinking what sort of post 9/11 hell 
I'd me in if they found a .308 or errant 9 mm. Speaking with Canadian customs 
however I discovered that I could have legally imported 5,000 rounds of ammo.  
Apparently people do so for hunting trips.  Noteworthy is the unguarded St. 
Lawrence River with unguarded boats moored alongside the shore.  We traveled 
alongside it on both sides of the border and thought how trivially easy it would 
be to cross undetected.  It's not like the government efforts have to make 
sense.

Regards,  Matt Gaylor-