rssNorthern Command Fears Terrorism from … Canada
Friday, February 20, 2009 at 1:12 pm
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On the heels of President Obama’s first meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, InsideDefense’s Sebastian Sprenger finds that the U.S. military command responsible for North America views Harper’s country as an entry point for terrorists. The piece is behind a lamentable now outside a subscriber firewall, but:
Military officials believe Canadian immigration policies are creating a “favorable” environment for what the U.S. government deems to be potential terrorists seeking entry into the United States from the north, according to an internal briefing crafted by a U.S. Northern Command joint task force.
Officials at the Joint Task Force-North believe a “large population” of so-called special-interest aliens, or SIAs, in Eastern Canada presents the “greatest potential for foreign terrorists’ access to the homeland,” according to a Jan. 15 briefing available on the organization’s Web site until recently.
Basically, the task force fears that Canada is letting in too many immigrants from “Pakistan, Afghanistan and Egypt” who might exfiltrate to the United States. Embarrassed Northcom officials took the briefing offline, possibly due to its extreme and embarrassing hysteria. It’s a thin line in counterterrorism planning between vigilance and lunacy, and the threshold is excessive focus on conceivable hypotheticals. And you know what also contributes to terrorism? Xenophobia directed at Muslim immigrants. Just saying.
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Comment posted February 20, 2009 @ 1:09 pm
.html version still in Google cache here (for now, anyway):
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[...] "It’s a thin line in counterterrorism planning between vigilance and lunacy," Spencer Ackerman notes. "And you know what also contributes to terrorism? Xenophobia directed at Muslim immigrants. Just saying." [...]
Comment posted February 21, 2009 @ 11:27 am
What is the opposite of xenophobia? Xenomania! Or excessive and pathological love of foreigners. . . .preferring foreigners to one's own people!
Canada's immigration policies are xenomaniaical.
Comment posted February 21, 2009 @ 9:21 pm
In my chapter of the 2005 book “War Footing” I warned about the many terror groups that had active operations in Canada, and what a threat this was to the US. Canadian asylum laws are a terrible joke, and invite massive levels of abuse. Canadian officials know that fraudulent asylum seekers often head south to America.
Jim Staudenraus – New York
Comment posted February 22, 2009 @ 3:05 pm
Give me a break. Canadians are stricter on immigration than we are. We leave the Southern border wide open and prosecute our own border agents(Ramos, Compaeon and others), and citizens(Roger Barnett and others) when illegal aliens from Mexico shoot at agents, and trash American citizens land. Give me a break. Canada. Idiots. We have nothing but traitors for “representatives.” Millions of Americans are aware of what it going on and for corrupt politicians to argue otherwise is a joke.
Comment posted February 22, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
Xenophobia directed at muslim immigrants????????……….tell me ONE THING that muslims have done to protect OUR Constitution?……….In what way are they assets to this country??????? What has even one muslim done that is favorable to their community??????
Answer is the same for them as for the usurper………NOTHING!!!!!!
Comment posted February 23, 2009 @ 11:31 am
@ Carol Tate
I love your post. It is so inciteful. :)
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=xenoph…
*cough*
Comment posted March 2, 2009 @ 3:43 pm
Speaking of terrorism:
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
______________________
I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memory so it never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off of the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
Comment posted March 2, 2009 @ 11:43 pm
Speaking of terrorism:
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
______________________
I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memory so it never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off of the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
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Comment posted July 6, 2010 @ 9:44 am
Give me a break. Canadians are stricter on immigration than we are. We leave the Southern border wide open and prosecute our own border agents(Ramos, Compaeon and others), and citizens(Roger Barnett and others) when illegal aliens from Mexico shoot at agents, and trash American citizens land. Give me a break. Canada. Idiots.
Comment posted July 6, 2010 @ 9:44 am
In my chapter of the 2005 book “War Footing” I warned about the many terror groups that had active operations in Canada, and what a threat this was to the US. Canadian asylum laws are a terrible joke, and invite massive levels of abuse.
Comment posted July 25, 2010 @ 8:31 am
Give me a break. Canadians are stricter on immigration than we are. We leave the Southern border wide open and prosecute our own border agents(Ramos, Compaeon and others), and citizens(Roger Barnett and others) when illegal aliens from Mexico shoot at agents, and trash American citizens land. Give me a break. Canada. Idiots.
Comment posted August 4, 2010 @ 6:20 am
Terrorist from Canada? this sounds funny, but it's also so real and scary!
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