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2008-08-06 Great White North
Border patrol agent held at gunpoint
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Posted by Deacon Blues 2008-08-06 12:16|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Seems like a good place to re-deploy some of those troops coming back from Iraq.

There's nothing in Posse Commitatus that prevents the Army from guarding our borders.
Posted by AlanC 2008-08-06 13:25||   2008-08-06 13:25|| Front Page Top

#2 The header should have been:

Invading Mexican Army holds US BP Agent at gunpoint.

This is going to blow at some point.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-06 18:06||   2008-08-06 18:06|| Front Page Top

#3 State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson said Tuesday that the department had no information on the incident, and referred further questions to the Border Patrol. "It is not an incident that we are aware of," she said.

The standard US State Dept. line of denial.
Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-06 19:01||   2008-08-06 19:01|| Front Page Top

#4 LALALALALALALA I can't hear you.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-06 19:10||   2008-08-06 19:10|| Front Page Top

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