Run for The Border!!!
Up in Grand Marais, Minnesota, – about 300 miles from civilization – there’s a border patrol station. It’s funded by the federal government. The handful of agents at this outpost on the border of Minnesota and Canada are responsible for hundreds of miles of border protection – ensuring that terrorists and drug smugglers of any nationality don’t find ways to sneak through the Boundary Waters into the U.S. and do our children or residents harm in any way.
So when a few rabble-rousing Grand Marais residents started throwing a hissy fit because the government wants to fund and add 40 officers to this patrol station, my frustration erupted big time!
Using the excuse the additional officers would mean more cars, more ATVs, more snowmobiles and, generally, more nuisance, to a pristine area of the United States, the anti-patrol people are attempting to rally support to oppose the new officers being placed in Grand Marais. They contend that the area is so quiet and beautiful that they’re basically willing to take the risk that terrorists and drug smugglers might cross the border in their region. At one point I thought most Minnesotans were relatively bright. But this opposition proves that assumption completely wrong.
If you look what President Bush just did along the U.S./Mexico border – signing a $1.5 billion bill to fund a 700-mile-long 20-foot-high barb wire fence to keep illegals out, do you think for an instant he’s going to consider that the Boundary Waters are too pretty to deploy a few more border patrol officers to the area who will defend our northern border against druggies and terrorist acts?
Grow up people. Recognize that we’re in the 21st Century. Recognize that certain factions in the world hate the U.S. so much that they’d do anything, even enter Canada and cross into Minnesota, to unleash a terrorist act on the country. Recognize that drug smugglers hoping to make it rich selling crack and meth and pot will abuse the lack of patrolling of that border until someone waves a gun in their toothless face and says stop.
The U.S. has millions of acres of pristine beauty. Protecting a few hundred miles of open border from harm makes perfect sense.
So when a few rabble-rousing Grand Marais residents started throwing a hissy fit because the government wants to fund and add 40 officers to this patrol station, my frustration erupted big time!
Using the excuse the additional officers would mean more cars, more ATVs, more snowmobiles and, generally, more nuisance, to a pristine area of the United States, the anti-patrol people are attempting to rally support to oppose the new officers being placed in Grand Marais. They contend that the area is so quiet and beautiful that they’re basically willing to take the risk that terrorists and drug smugglers might cross the border in their region. At one point I thought most Minnesotans were relatively bright. But this opposition proves that assumption completely wrong.
If you look what President Bush just did along the U.S./Mexico border – signing a $1.5 billion bill to fund a 700-mile-long 20-foot-high barb wire fence to keep illegals out, do you think for an instant he’s going to consider that the Boundary Waters are too pretty to deploy a few more border patrol officers to the area who will defend our northern border against druggies and terrorist acts?
Grow up people. Recognize that we’re in the 21st Century. Recognize that certain factions in the world hate the U.S. so much that they’d do anything, even enter Canada and cross into Minnesota, to unleash a terrorist act on the country. Recognize that drug smugglers hoping to make it rich selling crack and meth and pot will abuse the lack of patrolling of that border until someone waves a gun in their toothless face and says stop.
The U.S. has millions of acres of pristine beauty. Protecting a few hundred miles of open border from harm makes perfect sense.
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