Don, Did you know that a truck full of 'radioactive something' came across the border from Canada to Michigan back in late May?
It wasn't noticed until June because the detectors weren't read until then... There are BIG problems out there... on both sides of the border... It has to do with 'lazy' people working for both governments... Simple ehhh???? 73 Vince ka1iic -.--. p.s. Maine is where two of the terrorists stayed the night before 9-11... Saudi Arabian men... Me thinks we attacked the wrong country... On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Donald Chester wrote: > > > > >From: "Ed Sieb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: <[email protected]> > >Subject: RE: [AMRadio] Illegal 27 MHz Linear Amplifiers > >Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 09:32:23 -0400 > > > ...If the Canadian government (pttooooie!) could care less about > >terrorists here, you can imagine where illegal CB'ers rank. > > I am curious why you say that. One would think the Canadian gov't would > have the same concern about terrorism as the US. I don't see why the > US-Canadian border should now be policed any heavier than it ever was > before, if both countries were equally aware of the problem and cooperated > with a determination to realistically and effectively deal with the problem. > > My opinion has been that this is just an excuse to stop and interrogate more > people, when otherwise it wouldn't happen to travellers between let us say > Tennessee and Kentucky or Quebec and Ontario. > > >From what you say, do you think the US is justified in fortifying border > controls? > > I talked to a Canadian ham a couple of weeks ago, and his opinion was that > the Canadian gov't has all but abandoned any concern about ham radio much > like the FCC has all but given up on CB in the US. He told me that the ham > licence was issued for lifetime now, with no expiration and that the annual > renewal fee has been cancelled. > > I can see how that could be a double edged sword. There wouldn't be the > never-ending concern about the micky mouse gov't micromanagement of ham > radio like the bandwidth proposal and subband debate going on in the US, but > on the other hand, we don't want ham radio to become so deregulated that it > becomes little more than a "respectable" version of CB. > > Don K4KYV > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > _______________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Don't resolve with words that which can be taken care of with a flame thrower...
