Over the holidays my family had a bit of reminder that the nature of PRIVACY and SECURITY have changed in this nation.
A member of the TKC fam sends Christmas Cards to Mexico, sometimes we get them back in return. This year our family holiday cheer was shared with U.S. Customs and Border enforcement according to a festive green sticker.
Of course there's all kinds of observations I could make her regarding Latino surnames, extra precautions amid the war on drugs and terrorism. But we'll only disagree on this talking points.
The fact is that I didn't know the U.S. Government was in the business of so closely examining mail from its citizens. I've never seen one of these stickers before . . . So I learned something over the holiday season and realized that this nation is quickly losing freedom even when it comes to sharing trite X-mas sentiment.
The used dildos your mom send down there looked like pipe bombs, they had a right to check it, Stupid.
ReplyDeleteThe talking point disagreement would be justified.
ReplyDeleteI do business with two companies and one customer in Canada.
Occasionally I receive promo material from those companies in Canada, usually delivered in a Fed/Ex or UPS envelope.
Twice now the envelopes have arrived at my door with the 'we've been snooping' green tape, like that shown in your photo.
I guess them eebil gub'mint goons have it in for us pasty-white, Mid-Western Christianistas, too.
Fight the injustice, Bro!
Very interesting. It would seem to me they wouldn't do that without probable cause. Are you two troublemakers positive you're not on the 'list' of suspects needing to be watched?
ReplyDeleteOn another matter, it'd be interesting to see people's take of the drug lords and wars kidnapping and killing cops and running citizens out of towns within two miles of the US border?
Why the hell don't we look at this like we look at Pakistan? In all seriousness, why haven't we made an arrangement with the Mexican government to just do some serious satellite intelligence and some surgical striking?
Seems to me the best way to seal the border is to make it very dangerous for the smugglers to be close enough to do business there. And cheaper too than lining up soldiers and border guards across that long border.
Makes sense to me to build yet another fence... about a mile in... make it a no-hombre land. Strip it of trees, electronically mine it. And if we can spot Iranian tunnels, why can't we spot theirs? And drop some agent orange on fields. I think the war on drugs should be against the importers and growers, not the users. A little MJ legalization wouldn't hurt either.
Ya know, if we legalize it, tax it and let US pharamaceutical companies sell it, then suddenly the Republicans might be interested!
I trade cd's all the time with people overseas - scotland, ireland, england, spain, costa rica, etc - At least half the time they arrive in my mailbox with that exact inspection tape. At least there is just cause for packages coming from Mexico and other third-world drug and violence infested sewers. Think before spout off, being a race-baiter may get you free meals and tickets but it helps and empowers no one - Complain about the invasion of privacy that it is.
ReplyDeleteYou trade CDs?
ReplyDeleteAre you fucking retarded? Caught in a 1987 time warp.
Get off the internet dipshit.
but still comes in handy when the hands (aka Ol' Reliable) cramp up.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean they were inspecting mail of citizens...you're a brownie, fuck-tard.
ReplyDeletea brownie! lolz. this place cracks me up.
ReplyDeleteThe age of Big Brother is imminent.
ReplyDeleteRadioman wants the Berlin Wall between us and Mexico.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
So much for the 234 year old experiment on Democracy. Be sure to shut the lights off on your way out.
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