Subject: Re: Canadian Arrested at US Border - Why?
Date: Nov 03, 2002 @ 03:46
Author: L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@c...> wrote:
> >
> > This makes no sense
>
> thats perfectly ok
> & thanx for the heads up
>
> > - one can export from the USA practically whatever
> > one wants. What law in the US says one must tell customs
> one is
> > exporting a tankfull of gas?
>
> right exactly
> this nonevent was definitely not about exports
>
> good try tho
> since it had to be about something
>
> however maybe it was really about what it was actually about
> namely
> unheeded advance warnings of policy change
> repeated border transgressions anyway
> plus
> a high powered weapons violation in time of highest paranoia
> gallic insouciance meeting yanko officiousness
> etc etc
>
> > Was he really arrested for the
> > ancillary charges mentioned and is using the gas as a reason,
> when it
> > really isn't?
>
> what ancillary charges were mentioned
> & who is using the gas as a reason for what
>
> i dont know where you got all this
> or did you catch that tv movie i missed
>
> > Maybe he was really just arrested for entering the US
> > and not having gone to immigration (as opposed to customs).
>
> good thinking here
> since customs doesnt monitor exports
> aha
> just as immigration doesnt monitor emigration
>
> & you check in to both customs & immigration simultaneously
> whenever you enter these countries by car
> & are usually interviewed & cleared by a single officer
> but naturally no checkout is required when you leave
>
> > Is this little area of the US between the border and the customs
> house
> > a "tax free zone" within which no tax on gas is charged, and
> perhaps
> > there is a tax issue?
>
> nope
> full tax is charged except on indian reservations
> but it is still way cheaper than canadian gas
> so no issue there
>
> > I cannot believe US customs would so negatively impinge on
> an American
> > entrepreneur's market by scaring customers away. Customs
> is in
> > business to protect American commerce, not to strangle sales
> at a gas
> > station of an unrationed, uncontrolled product.
>
> believe it
> customs is in business to enforce certain laws
> but the laws are what protect the commerce
>
> customs itself has no interest in commerce
> since that would be a conflict of interest
>
> > If gas tax was
> > charged in this little zone, scaring Canadians away from
> tanking up
> > only hurts the State's tax income - and if I were a state official,
> > I'd ask in Washington about what in the world a federal official
> was
> > doing damaging a sovereign states' interest like that (if it's
> true).
>
> gas tax is charged
> but that doesnt scare anybody
>
> nor was there any damage
> except in your imagination
>
> but i agree the article is tilted
>
> > I have a sneaking suspicion that there's something more to
> this than
> > the article reveals, or the article is tilted.
> >
> > Regards
> > Len Nadybal
> >
> > Len Nadybal
>
> & thanx also to asher for his rant
> & you know i am always on one anyway
>
> yours in solidarity
> m