Countdown to the American Invasion

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...to see if this blog works okay with the "New Blogger" until I switch all my blogs to WordPress.

posted by Phyl @ 6:43 PM 0 comments

American law imposed on Canadian soil

Pay attention. The Americans are already on Canadian soil, imposing their laws. And the Canadian police are cooperating.

First example:

Cop wins RCMP settlement after highway search

VANCOUVER– A Vancouver man has won an out-of-court settlement from the RCMP after an incident in which he says he was illegally searched.

David Laing says police overstepped the law when they stopped his car, decided he was driving under the influence of marijuana, and searched his vehicle and two-year-old son.

Under Canadian law, that kind of search is illegal.

What upset Laing even more is that some the officers he tangled with were actually American police officers.

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The man was a Texas state trooper. The RCMP brought the Texans up to help them learn how to identify drug traffickers.

Laing refused to let the officers search his car. He knew that under Canadian law, police officers don't have the right to perform that kind of search.

Laing is a Vancouver cop.

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Mollard says Laing's case presents a series of concerns – from using unreliable profiling techniques to a wrongful vehicle search, not to mention using an American police officer to pull over Canadians.

He says his association will be writing the RCMP to complain about the profiling techniques and remind them of the rights Canadians have under the law.

Did you read and understand that? Did you get it? Americans imposing their profiling on Canadian citizens, over whom they have no jurisdiction, at the invitation of the RCMP.

This alone would be an atrocity. But there's much more.

posted by Phyl @ 6:25 PM 2 comments