From bobford79 AT yahoo.com Wed Oct 29 17:25:10 2008Return-Path: <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] NAIS, APHIS Over 50% Preemises registerd in 13 states
& Customss / APHIS
To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 2:47 PM
Yes, I think fire ants came in through Mobile or Biloxi. We have Africanized bees too.
The border patrol here just asks if you are a U.S. citizen, you reply yes and you are on your way. Not being Hispanic, I have no idea if they ask Latinos to present ID to determine if they are citizens or not. Maybe it's
more of an invasion for these folks, I don't know. The last time I went through the drug dog was very interested in my car, sniffing the tire that some local dog always pees on. The agent asked me if I lived on a farm, and I said yes, and he let me through.
I have never felt the fact they wear a gun (knowing that they are frequently shot and sometimes killed here) was to my detriment or harrassment. If I knew the chances of getting killed in my job were high I'd probably want a
gun on me too. When I've traveled to Mexico I must carry
and show a visa or passport. I have been detained much longer there.
The agent in the video was rattled because someone refused to give that yes or no. While the guy was making a point, in her head she may have been preparing to get shot and have to defend herself.
My botanical friend is only armed with a microscope and he's at a port of entry, not a checkpoint.
--Sage
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:44:49 -0700 (PDT)
bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Could we really have stopped those (fire ants), with >everything we do, Sage. I heard on the news, recently,
>that 1/3 of 1 % of all shipping containers are
presented >for any kind of search. I thionk fire ants came in
port >on a boat.
> > Africanized bees came to (arizona anyway) from South >America. some of lyndas's ancestors might say that
my >ancestors were a pestilence that arrived by boat . But >they could not stop it anyway.
> > I don't mind your friend stopping me at the border
of >texas and asking me if I have fruits are vegetables (or
>fire ants). I 'do' mind if that same friend is
wearing a >gun, asking my id ,and recording my info. > > I like local, non-centralized. I trust texas, over >D.C., and tex. is far from perfect. By the way,
didn't >fire ants come in at biloxi or asomewhere? .....bobf
> > >
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> > > --- On Wed, 10/29/08, eureka AT hctc.net
<eureka AT hctc.net> >wrote:
> >> From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Homestead] NAIS, APHIS Over 50%
Preemises >>registerd in 13 states & Customss / APHIS
>> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
>> Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 1:36 PM
>> God knows I wish someone had turned away that
shipment >>of >> fire ants. :-/
>> >> I've been involved in a bit of my own homeland
security
>> >> this morning, namely cleaning the stove and its >> netherlands.
>> >> --S
>> >> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:52:50 -0400
>> EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> >> > Top of the 'noon to ya, Sage.
>> > I'm sure there are 'legitimate'
'for
>> your safety' >> >reasons. We have to >> > make sure no fungal infections come into the
country, >> >and god forbid >> > that non-GMO corn/wheat/rice come in. :P
>> > >> > B
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