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n4zhg Apr 4, 2009 4:48 pm
Originally Posted by ajnz (Post 11526892)
From my perspective, people definitely do avoid the US due to the combination of TSA and CBP. It's just not a pleasant experience, and I have several friends and coworkers who go to almost comical extremes to avoid traveling to or through the US these days.
And over a year after a hotel burned to the ground in New York while firefighters from Canada dispatched via mutual aid agreements were held at the border by CBP, they are still being idiots. I heard Ontario paid for all the volunteers on the Canadian side to get enhanced driver's licenses in the hopes that delays at the border would be eliminated. No such luck. How many terrorists are going to go to the trouble of stealing a firetruck, for God's sake?

Time to find out where CBP officers live and adopt a "let it burn, protect the exposures" policy on those homes. It may be the only way these morons get a wake-up call.

L-1011 Apr 4, 2009 5:08 pm
Originally Posted by ajnz (Post 11526892)
From my perspective, people definitely do avoid the US due to the combination of TSA and CBP. It's just not a pleasant experience, and I have several friends and coworkers who go to almost comical extremes to avoid traveling to or through the US these days.
I agree. One of the lasts things I did before retirement was to help arrange an internal conference in my company for 250 persons for one week. The only restriction we had from HQ was to avoid traveling through USA at all cost. Nobody of the 250 delegates wanted the hassle of dealing with TSA and CBP.

IslandBased Apr 4, 2009 6:24 pm
Originally Posted by doober (Post 11518470)
I don't believe that thegeneral has ever been known to answer a direct question.
Perhaps the "general" likes evasive maneuvers, when he doesn't have the high ground...:rolleyes:


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