Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Our tax dollars at work!


handsom and wholesome, right?

I love this country! I don't ever want to leave!

After all, look who can come in any time!

Of course, the guardians of the largest unarmed border in the world understand:



AP quoted Bill Anthony, a spokesman for US Customs and Border Protection, as saying the Canadian-born Mr Despres was questioned for about two hours before being allowed to enter the country.

Mr Anthony said Mr Despres could not be detained because he was a naturalised US citizen and was not wanted on any criminal charges on the day in question.

"Nobody asked us to detain him," the spokesman said.

"Being bizarre is not a reason to keep somebody out of this country or lock them up... We are governed by laws and regulations, and he did not violate any regulations".



And the law allows even a naturalized citizen to enter the country with a chainsaw that looked bloodstained? When I came back to the US from Toronto in 1990, I could barely get a case of Fosters in. Times have changed. All Customs did was seize his stuff.

And now it turns out he's wanted for murder:


US custom officials in Calais, Maine, let him cross the border on 25 April.

The next day he became a murder suspect after bodies of his two neighbours were found in his hometown in Canada.

Mr Despres, 22, was arrested on 27 April and is now awaiting extradition.

The bodies of Mr Despres' neighbours were discovered in the town of Minto, New Brunswick.

The decapitated body of Frederick Fulton was found on the kitchen floor in his house. The man's head was under a kitchen table.

His common-law wife was discovered stabbed in a bedroom.

Perfect!