-Caveat Lector- These preachy, sanctimonious Canadians love to lecture about how other/s should conduct themselves... while their own country sinks further and further into Fascism. flw CANADA [John McCaslin, columnist for the Washington Times just returned from vacation] U.S. passports are not required for entry into Canada, but as my 13-year-old daughter and I rudely discovered during our northbound journey to climb British Columbia's Mount Serendipity, a letter from "mom" is all but mandatory. Upon our arrival at the Toronto airport, a female immigration officer inquired if we carried a letter from my daughter's mother, giving permission for her to travel with her dad. (I immediately wondered if mothers are similarly expected to carry letters from fathers when traveling with their children. I expect not.) When I replied that no such letter was required under U.S. or Canadian law, my daughter was abruptly asked: "Does your mother know you are on this trip?" Despite our mutual assurances that mom all but packed bologna sandwiches for our much-anticipated mountain trek, we were led to a special holding area where a second woman interrogator soon launched an emotionally draining 15-minute cross-examination that left my daughter in tears. "Is your mother aware that you are on this trip?" my daughter was quizzed again. Yes. "Do you want to be here?" Yes. "Are you sure?" Yes. "Is this your father?" Yes. Objecting, for a second time, to the high degree of personal probing, I was warned that such outbursts could land me in the Canadian gulag. "For all I know you could be from Turkey," the woman said (I'm half Norwegian, half Scotch-Irish). "Fortunately for you, you have an accent. Do you have any criminal record?" At that point, seeing the tears well in my daughter's eyes, I reached into my carry-on pack and retrieved my White House correspondent's credentials, telling the officer to call George W. Bush if she didn't believe me. "You don't have to get rude," she snapped. "For your daughter's sake, you should be thanking me. Now you'll know next time." http://www.washtimes.com/national/inbeltway.htm <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
