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Jun. 1st, 2009 09:48 amOh, this one's rich... empahsis added par moi:
Border closed in eastern Ontario over handgun dispute
By David Gonczol, Ottawa CitizenJune 1, 2009
OTTAWA — A border crossing in an eastern Ontario native reserve remained closed in both directions Monday morning due to a protest by local Mohawks who were angered by a new policy that would have armed Canadian border agents as of June 1.
Shortly before midnight, Canadian Border Services Agency guards left their posts on the Akwesasne reserve, which straddles the Ontario, Quebec, and New York borders, for “their own safety,” Mohawk leaders said early Monday morning.
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I mean, setting aside the nonsense and unnecessary expense of arming our border guards in the first place
(http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/121055.html, http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/127844.html,
http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/161265.html)
we have the situation of an unofficial, apparently-disavowed-by-the-community ("well, we did ask them not to be violent"), and well-armed (perhaps not as well armed as the police, but certainly better than the border guards) vigilante group warning off an agency of the Federal government from doing its job because their agents might be carrying guns too. Is this perhaps verging on "apprehended insurrection"? (possibly, if anyone knew what precisely the term meant...)
Anyway, it's common knowledge what the situation is really about: it's not about sovereignty, it's that the Warriors want to preserve the status quo in these reserves that are adjacent to or straddle the border, to preserve the flow of contraband. And having more than one gang of people with guns around at a time leads to shootouts, and if anyone gets shot, especially a border guard (and, I repeat from earlier posts, having this happen would be a first in the 200+ year history of the Customs Service), this will bring down large amounts of Federal heat.
Best for the Warriors just to threaten, bribe, or otherwise coerce these community college summer hire kids while they are unarmed, and therefore unable to do much about it.
Border closed in eastern Ontario over handgun dispute
By David Gonczol, Ottawa CitizenJune 1, 2009
OTTAWA — A border crossing in an eastern Ontario native reserve remained closed in both directions Monday morning due to a protest by local Mohawks who were angered by a new policy that would have armed Canadian border agents as of June 1.
Shortly before midnight, Canadian Border Services Agency guards left their posts on the Akwesasne reserve, which straddles the Ontario, Quebec, and New York borders, for “their own safety,” Mohawk leaders said early Monday morning.
( Read more... )
I mean, setting aside the nonsense and unnecessary expense of arming our border guards in the first place
(http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/121055.html, http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/127844.html,
http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/161265.html)
we have the situation of an unofficial, apparently-disavowed-by-the-community ("well, we did ask them not to be violent"), and well-armed (perhaps not as well armed as the police, but certainly better than the border guards) vigilante group warning off an agency of the Federal government from doing its job because their agents might be carrying guns too. Is this perhaps verging on "apprehended insurrection"? (possibly, if anyone knew what precisely the term meant...)
Anyway, it's common knowledge what the situation is really about: it's not about sovereignty, it's that the Warriors want to preserve the status quo in these reserves that are adjacent to or straddle the border, to preserve the flow of contraband. And having more than one gang of people with guns around at a time leads to shootouts, and if anyone gets shot, especially a border guard (and, I repeat from earlier posts, having this happen would be a first in the 200+ year history of the Customs Service), this will bring down large amounts of Federal heat.
Best for the Warriors just to threaten, bribe, or otherwise coerce these community college summer hire kids while they are unarmed, and therefore unable to do much about it.
