Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:52:33 -0800
Reply-To:     t bill <tbil@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         t bill <tbil@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Is it me or is it my Westy?--long
Comments: To: Bill <Bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>, vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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---Bill <Bill@FREEHOLDER.COM> wrote:
>
> At 09:45 PM 11/15/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >I live in Canada and have never been pulled over in my Westy.
However,
> >when crossing the border into the States, we (my wife, two school age
> >kids and a dog and I) have repeatedly asked to leave the van, out
comes
> >the dogs and practically the SWAT team to search the Westy. I mean
> >really.
>
> When I lived in Michigan, it was the same thing -- the Canadian
customs
> were no problem, but if we were going to have a problem, it was with
US
> customs.
>
> Now, I live 50 miles from Mexico, and it's the same thing.  The
problems,
> if any, are always with US customs.
>
Another 2 cents; I've traveled all around Central America and Europe
with never so much as a search, but come back to the US and good
grief!  Home of the paranoid government!

I lived in a dictatorship for a while. The people there had more
personal freedom than we do now.  A lot more.

TBill
83.5 Westy
***It's a free country.  Isn't it?***

> Not long ago, I went south of the border with a college group in a
college
> van.  The van was driven by a college employee, who happens to be a
German
> citizen married to an American serviceman, currently stationed at
the Army
> base in Sierra Vista.
>
> At the border we were asked the usual question -- "Are you all
American
> citizens?"  The driver said no, she was German.  They asked for ID.
She
> had her passport, her ARIZONA driver's license, and her military
> dependent's ID card, but she had left her "green card" at home,
thinking
> she didn't need it.  We all sat at the border for two hours until her
> husband could drive down with it.
>
> Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> You can't do everything, but you can do something.
> You can't help everyone, but you can help someone.
> Even one candle helps to push back the darkness.
>

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