Subject: Re: CAUS -- Estcourt Station, ME & Pohenegamook, PQ -- News Story<br/>
Date: Nov 14, 2002 @ 20:01<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1938094028">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., J Di Battista &lt;meridien24@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Should a Border Patrol agent stand there to catch offenders, <br/>
 </span></blockquote>even those who don&#39;t venture across the cliff?<br/>
<br/>
depends on the meaning of should<br/>
<br/>
of course the agent should if directed to hold that line<br/>
for whatever reason <br/>
or to bushwhack a particularly desired undesirable<br/>
also for whatever reason<br/>
etc etc<br/>
<br/>
but part of the border patrol job is not to be too predictable<br/>
& such shoulds especially may be subjective <br/>
as well as ad hoc &or ad diem &or ad hominem decisions <br/>
<br/>
given that the whole border reality is already so weird anyway<br/>
it boils down to a question of what is merely exceedingly weird<br/>
as distinct from excessively weird<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; But looking ahead to beyond this &quot;anecdote&quot;, how do you solve <br/>
 </span></blockquote>this situation?  You need to formalize this situation, rather than <br/>
let individual Border Patrol officers decide on a whim what they&#39;ll <br/>
tolerate & what they won&#39;t.  They&#39;re supposed to enforce laws, not <br/>
to &quot;be the law&quot;.<br/>
<br/>
myself i am not sure any solution is needed or to be expected<br/>
<br/>
individual border patrol officers make such decisions all the time<br/>
all within the parameters of the intrinsic absurdity of the situation<br/>
<br/>
if their whim is to focus legal enforcement in a particular way or <br/>
place or time<br/>
that isnt illegal at all<br/>
but is even deemed to be meritorious if successful<br/>
<br/>
their job cant be uniformly done<br/>
& i dont know why everyone seems to expect fairness equality & <br/>
justice at the border anyway<br/>
since these qualities really arent required by the situation at all<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; So - do you give Escourt Station a status like Büsingen, since <br/>
 </span></blockquote>it&#39;s a geographic &quot;enclave&quot; split from the rest of the US, <br/>
dependent on Canada for everyday needs?  <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Or do you go the other way and erect a wall along the road -- <br/>
 </span></blockquote>which appears to be fully in Canada -- in case, um, a terrorist <br/>
wanted to attack the 4 Americans who live there?<br/>
<br/>
neither alternative seems very likely along caus at this time<br/>
compared to the status quo <br/>
which does seem likely to continue<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Not that a gun-carrying guy with a record crossing any <br/>
 </span></blockquote>international boundary is 100% guilt-free, but isn&#39;t there&#39;s a line <br/>
between doing something dumb and something criminal?<br/>
<br/>
under present circumstances there is no line between anything <br/>
other than the border itself</div>