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We live in a police state where the police are allowed to legally rob and even kill people. The sad part is that hiring "Sparkles the clown" actually makes peop

by joesmo 12y ago

We live in a police state where the police are allowed to legally rob and even kill people. The sad part is that hiring "Sparkles the clown" actually makes people forget this and trust the police. Stupidity of the people is on par with the vileness of the police. You should consider yourself lucky that that is the only thing that happened to you, which BTW is standard procedure. I would say that's SOP only at the border, but it is becoming more common everywhere within the US, regardless of alleged constitutional rights that are no longer considered by the police or courts.

dghughes 12y ago
I don't think it was SOP, as you say, since I was about to go through when I casually mentioned to the guard at the booth a woman I know invited me to Thanksgiving dinner. It was the last question of a series of questions the guard asked me. The guard at the border said "I think you're going to stay with her and not come back but there is nothing I can find that will prevent me from holding you." I can't see what going through my entire car would accomplish I had one suitcase, which they took into the main building, and nothing else was in the car yet it took them an hour to search it. Anyway a big FU to the St. Stephen border guards at the crossing in Maine. I honked to them as I drove back into Canada.
- joesmo 12y ago
  It's very possible they just didn't like you and wanted to make your trip miserable. Or they were just hoping to find contraband, mainly drugs. Or they were bored. Or there was no reason. Who knows? From my experience and research, that is SOP for law enforcement in the US. If they can harass (or worse) you, they will.
  - dghughes 12y ago
    I'd agree, I got the guys working the Thanksgiving weekend and they were pissed, took it our on me. I don't even fit into any often searched groups I'm a pasty white Canadian who speaks nothing but English. I'm so common and dull I could be a spy and blend in anywhere.

by joesmo 12y ago

dghughes 12y ago

I don't think it was SOP, as you say, since I was about to go through when I casually mentioned to the guard at the booth a woman I know invited me to Thanksgiving dinner. It was the last question of a series of questions the guard asked me. The guard at the border said "I think you're going to stay with her and not come back but there is nothing I can find that will prevent me from holding you." I can't see what going through my entire car would accomplish I had one suitcase, which they took into the main building, and nothing else was in the car yet it took them an hour to search it. Anyway a big FU to the St. Stephen border guards at the crossing in Maine. I honked to them as I drove back into Canada.

joesmo 12y ago
It's very possible they just didn't like you and wanted to make your trip miserable. Or they were just hoping to find contraband, mainly drugs. Or they were bored. Or there was no reason. Who knows? From my experience and research, that is SOP for law enforcement in the US. If they can harass (or worse) you, they will.
- dghughes 12y ago
  I'd agree, I got the guys working the Thanksgiving weekend and they were pissed, took it our on me. I don't even fit into any often searched groups I'm a pasty white Canadian who speaks nothing but English. I'm so common and dull I could be a spy and blend in anywhere.