Rick Fochtman wrote:
I went to Edmonton, Alberta in the early 1990s to install some
software at a customer site. Canadian customs found my tape (this was
before CDs & downloads), took me into a back room, and grilled me for
at least an hour about what I was carrying, why I was there, who I
was meeting, etc. They rifled through all of my bags and inspected
*everything* right down to my underwear. They had one of those little
goose-neck desk lamps pointed at me that were so cliche for
interrogations on comedy shows. It was all I could do to keep a
straight face. I think they were upset that I wasn't taking them
seriously enough...
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Like I keep saying: there's a fine line between security and paranoia;
which side are we on?
Stuff like that doesn't bother me. The Canadians, like the USA and other
sovereign countries, have every right to ensure to their satisfaction
that people coming in are who they say they are and aren't doing or
transporting anything illegal.
It wasn't like they jailed me. They just asked some questions (seemed
like the same ones over and over) and searched through my stuff for a
while. I don't have anything to hide. I took it all in-stride and now I
have a story I can tell about the er... um... *thoroughness* of the
Canadian border authorities ...
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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-338-0400 x318
[email protected]
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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