Letters to the Editor
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An Old Joke
Those of you wanting a closer North American Union should be warned by Canadian history. Essentially, Canada was a merger of British, French, and American culture. The idea was that we would get American efficiency, French culture, and British political stability.
Instead we got British efficiency, French political stability, and American culture.
I can see a future with American political common sense, Mexican social justice, and Canadian entrepreneurialism.
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Clueless
Re: "Glad you like living near a corrupt, failed narco state that encourages it's citizens to scam their way into the US, in defiance of US laws."
Our government allows "illegal" immigrants to work here when the economy is good and decides to "crackdown" on illegal immigration when the economy is bad. This isn't anything new. It's been happening for 100 years, but now on a much larger scale because of NAFTA. The immigrants themselves are pawns for the elites in both countries. Our government will never deport all of them because they are the perfect scapegoat for everything from the economy to national security.
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PASSPORT PLEASE, MEIN HERR!!!!!
THE GOOSE-STEPPING NAZI-FASCISTS OF "AMERIKA" UNDER Adolf SHITLER-Bush
LOOK EVERYWHERE FOR SO-CALLED "TERRORISTS," INCLUDING DEEP INTO YER TUSH!!!!!
THE WITHERED REVENANT "NOSFERATU' Chertoff
IS A PITIFUL, MEANINGLESS, HOPELESS JERK-OFF!!!!!
BOTH Chertoff & Bush I'D LIKE INTO A LIVE VOLCANO TO PUSH!!!!!
NOT ONLY HAS Bush ALIENATED AMERICA'S ALLIES
THROUGH HIS JINGOISTIC BULLYING & DEMAGOGIC POLICE-STATE LIES,
CANADA Bush HAS ROYALLY TAKEN FOR GRANTED, NOW MIS-TREATED
IN A PITIFULLY SUPERFICIAL SHOW OF "TERRORISM DEFEATED"
THE ONLY THINGS WALKING TURDS Bush, Cheney & Bushland ATTRACT ARE THE FLIES!!!!!
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As above so Below
As a Canadian citizen, living and working in Texas I am getting this from both sides of the issue... it's a bad idea. It won't stop real terrorists from getting in somehow and it is currently fouling up trade and tourism on both sides of the border.
DHS is running roughshod over land owners here in Texas to build their precious 'Border Fence' and it sounds like their attitude and behavior is no different up North either.
My elderly parents live in Canada so I am forced to deal with this nonsense every time I want or need to visit my Mom and Dad.
As Canadians we railed against becoming the 51st state, how ironic that now we would most likely entertain the idea as being the most effective way to deal with the trans-border traffic.
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Umm. You know, if you don't want to deal with our rules, don't come here.
I, for one, can get by without some fucking smug art student telling me how much I'll miss them when their gone. Sorry bitch, we can't miss you till you leave.
Let your buddies know how much you hated it here too.
The problem we've been having is too many people want to live here, not the other way around.
Go to France and see how much they love you.
Fuck. You.
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@spike66
"If Texas could be booted out of the Union, along with it's failed president, America would be much improved."
That Salon readers stoop to such (ungrammatical) lows in discussion forums reflects poorly on the magazine's readership. Yet another reason I'm no longer paying for a premium subscription.
Many people are working very, very, very hard to make Texas a better place and for you to mindlessly air such rhetoric is a slap in the face. Have you ever visited Texas? Are you familiar with its demographics? Its history? Probably not, as you're trucking in stereotypes. That's right, we're all a bunch of cowboy buffoons with oil wells in the backyard. Whatever your state is, I'm sure it's not perfect. I'm not going to argue that it should be booted out of the union.
Bush was never president of Texas. He was governor. Besides, we're getting rid of him--there's an election on, remember? It's not Texas's fault he became president. Bush was not born in Texas. He was born in Connecticut and his family carpetbagged their way here to make easy money. Texas, for Bush, is an affectation and a persona. And not a very good one.
Like it or not, Texas is a state. In the *United States.* A big, influential, fascinating one. And it's not going away.
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@donut44
I am seriously pissed at what you said – it is things like:
“Tourism isn’t down” – what makes you think that .. do you think the US is not deterring tourists when the London Sunday Times runs articles listing the reasons why tourists should not go to the US because of the behaviour of the INS.
“playing a loud, whinny, weepy song too!” – people are not whining, they are furious. Do you have any idea how much business this has cost the United States – nah – its just whining – tell that to the unemployed in PA – and this is contributing to that problem
“INS doesn't treat people anymore like criminals than they always have.” Really, the throwing of journalists in US jails, strip searching, manacles, deportation started in 2003 – until then the jounalist visa issue was ignored. Run a search.
It is the sort of stupid shit you wrote that underlines how bad the problem is. Dumbasses saying dumb things, and ignoring real problems.
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Really a sad situation with little prospect for seeing it change anytime soon owing to the "Fear-Mongering" that has been raised past all manner of reason
One positive thing is maybe everyone will save a bit of money by not buying the gas from the oil companies to travel back and forth.
My wife and I have taken our children on vacation to the United States years (Actually Decades) ago with a border crossing that was a friendly wave and brief chat with border agents on both sides and we hoped one day to travel the eastern seaboard of the United States in our retirement to visit many beautiful and historic sites we have read about and have seen in photographs .... Now we see such a venture as likely just too much of a hassle with all the 'Security' crossing delays etc. (We travel to Europe and Asia with less fuss than it seems one will eventually have going 'South')
I have to admit our ardour for seeing much of the rest of America has been dampened considerably since the rise of the forces of irrationalism and international lawlessness as exemplified by 'The Current Occupant' .... in short we likely wont want to visit America soon as it now stands ...
Truthfully ... we would not mind seeing a very tall/big border fence put up on our side to help keep out Americans who equate 'Freedom' with the right of everyone to carry fire arms .... and those people who support the ideas of waterboarding/torture ... the canceling of habeas corpus and casually discarding the key elements of your well worded Constitution that used to inspire people rather than as it is now - being a 'Sometimes adhered to document' ....
Your current crop of leaders and the pant-suited aspirant of what was a one time progressive political party who would 'Obliterate' a whole nation of women and children frighten the **** out of any thinking person .... Why it reminds some of us who are of enough years of the times half a century ago when many in other countries talked about 'The Ugly American' and phrases like "Yankee Go Home" were rather commonplace (and are now being heard anew) ... Anyways my two cents ... "Nuff Said"