It smells like World War II Nazism but it’s homegrown Fascism – In Amerika’s continuing efforts to eliminate freedom in the homeland, the U.S. border patrol in Anacortes, Washington has begun checking the identification of people coming off domestic ferries from the San Juan Islands!
Can you imagine riding the B.C. Ferry from Swartz Bay in Sidney to Fulford Harbor on Salt Spring Island and being greeted with sweaty, brown shirted, fat white men with German shepherds. The brown shirts snarl orders at the cowering tourists as the dogs bare their teeth and grimace. “Papers please! Have your papers in order!”
Sound far fetched? This reality has come to the scenic San Juan Islands in one of Washington states loveliest regions.
From todays Times-Colonist – The spot checks have some San Juan islanders, U.S. citizens or not, in a flap. “Many Latinos in the community are paranoid about getting on the ferry,” says Kevin Ranker of Friday Harbor. Others fear the spot checks will hurt the islands’ tourism economy, says Ranker, a county council member running for the state senate. Some residents might be happy to see the illegals nabbed, but still resent being ID’d in their own country.
In George Bush’s America this might seem acceptable – but it isn’t and shouldn’t be. Where does it end? How long before there are street-corner check-points in every major city in America? If it is OK in the San Juan Islands, then it has to be OK in Los Angeles and Kansas.
Truth is, the Bush family, now running America are not far removed from their Nazi era relatives. That’s right. Do your homework. George Bush and Co. are directly related to the good people that brought you the Third Reich.
In the early 40’s the American administration did not find Nazism and persecution so offensive that they jumped into the fray early like Canada did. No. They waited for Pearl Harbor to be attacked. Some of us stomach oppression better than others I guess.
Here in the 21st Century, apparently, it does not comes as much of a stretch to whittle away the rights and freedoms of every day Americans.
So. Today in the San Juan Islands in beautiful Washington State… Well, they pick on people of color… Latin Americans… Tomorrow, who knows. Maybe they will be coming for you.
Have your papers ready.
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5 responses to “Welcome aboard. Papers please! San Juan Island edition”
Those quick to forget the past are most likely to repeat it… I get chided by my American friends from time to time: “Hey Colin, we are at War down here ya know!”
Actually… You’re not.
There has been no formal declaration of War – and your invasion of Iraq was just that – an invasion on a country that, however brutal it was to its own people, was no threat to the continental U.S.A.
Please remember this one simple fact. There is no War.
Your president has deceived you as has Fox news. Wake up!
We have had freeway stops for years in Southern California. Immigration checkpoints, whatever you want to call them. We have had a gigantic immigration check point on interstate 5 for many years. Then the border
patrol instituted one on interstate 8. Now we have one just west of the California
border checkpoint, outside of Yuma Az, as well as on all roads leading North from
the border area, and on connecting roads from those roads. The Border Patrol has
recently run recruitment ads, I wonder is this is the reason. How many agents are actually manning checkpoints on the border now?
Sure they find people who are in the country without visas, and they find drugs, but is this the way to tackle these problems, to allow what is essentially a policing agency to have this kind of authority? We are being lulled into a false sense of security and into giving away rights that have been hard won. Just handing them over.
I have been pulled over numerous times at the main interstate checkpoint on
interstate 8 near Pine Valley, California. Once I was pulled over by the german
shepherd dog sniffing out drugs. Did I have drugs or was I hiding people? Nope,
the dog was most likely bored. I get angry every time I have to go through this. Now we have a huge new Border Patrol facility near this checkpoint. More tax money thrown down the rabbit hole.
I think Border Patrol agents belong at the border, to do the real business of customs and immigration. Not at these crazy taxpayer funded roadblocks.
It is like a cancer – I mean, why not have them in every Bus station in America? What is happening to your Fourth Amendment rights? Wake up people and show some backbone before this new American Order completely takes over!
I’ve am starting to really get worried. It does seem that history is just repeating itself and no one seems to care….I’m going to let me clients aware of this if any of them travel in that region. Thanks for the grim by much needed news!
A federal checkpoint was conducted last week near the Hood Canal Bridge.
Free people should not expect to be stopped and questioned as they go about their business far from the nearest international border.