The menace next door: a dumb America – Paul Wells
2014/10/20 1 Comment
Paul Wells takes down Garrett Graff’s supposedly serious piece on the risk of terrorism from Canada:
Well … yeah. Look, one day maybe some terrorists will tire of travelling from Miami to Boston to Dearborn to the suburbs of Minneapolis as easily as anyone else travels in a free country, and they’ll decide to live dangerously by adding an international border to their itinerary. Flying from the Middle East to O’Hare is so boring. I think I’ll fly into Toronto, rent a car with traceable ID, sit on my ass in traffic at the Bluewater Bridge for an hour, then hand my passport to armed guys while my escape routes forward and back are blocked. Allahu akbar! And until that day happens, Homeland Security assets will be far more rationally allocated along the Mexican border than against returning weekenders from Minnesota, because in the real world there are a thousand ways and reasons to die, even if that harshes Garrett M. Graff’s weekend thinkpiece buzz.
Somebody clean up this mess. If you’re interested, here’s Luiza interviewing somebody with something intelligent to say about border security.
Of course, one of the recurring nightmares for the Canadian government and security officials is just that, hence all the measures being taken to reduce the risk.
About Andrew
Multicultural Meanderings 
I know that we have to have some security at the border, but I do feel we in Canada lost a lot of freedoms in what appeared to be post-911 paranoia: of course, this was construed as preventing terrorism. I’m sure it was no coincidence that so many of us lost Canadian citizenship in the next few years, making it difficult or impossible to travel among other necessities.
Hopefully, a balanced approach will be taken in dealing with the present threat to security.