U.S. senators complaint about Canada as the worst haven for terrorists in the world is outrageous

WASHINGTON D.C - American senators demanded security upgrades at the Canadian border and complained about a terrorist threat from the north on Thursday 27 September 2007, citing an "alarming" report suggesting it would be easy to slip radioactive material into the United States. This is outrageous. There are plenty of opportunities to produce radioactive material within the United States, and to transport that material between completely unguarded state borders against U.S. targets, without having to risk being detected by current U.S. or Canadian border patrols.

The 13-page congressional report, the third to look at the border with Canada since Sept. 11, 2001, also gave legislators an excuse to accuse their neighbours of harbouring an inordinate number of terrorists.

According to Colorado Senator Ken Salazar, "there are more international terrorist groups active in Canada than anywhere else in the world."

I guess that why Canada is such a peaceful country, with such a relatively low rate of terrorism and crime, huh?

What Mr. Salazar apparently meant was that Canada is a "harbour for Muslims and other non-whites", rather than "terrorists" as such.

It is apparent that accusations by a cabal of U.S. Senators, led in part, by Mr. Salazar, are motivated both by a colonial perception of Canada that these Senators are harbouring, and by institutionalized racism. These U.S. Senators, don't apparently like the fact that Canada has not adopted the persecutory racist and fascistic mentality against all people of Muslim ancestries, and other non-whites, that U.S. Homeland Security has apparently adopted. However, rather than openly admitting to that, these U.S. senators use "terrorists" as a euphemism for disguising their attack on Canada's multicultural policy.

These U.S. Senators along with the U.S. Congress have a right to waste as much money from U.S. taxpayers to pay for hiring more U.S. border patrols on the U.S. side of the border. However, these U.S. Senators have no constitutional authority under international law to be trying to harass the Government of Canada into spending Canadian taxpayers' money, to stop any alleged illegal migration from Canada into the U.S.

The U.S. border patrol is to protect the U.S. borders, and Canada's own border patrol is to protect against any illegal migration from the U.S. and into Canada. Canada's border patrol is not developed to be an extension of U.S. Homeland Security operations.

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day acknowledged there are challenges in securing the border, but said most people who try to make it through illegally are stopped.

"You will read from time to time about someone who has been able to get, when they thought nobody was looking, across the thousands and thousands of kilometres of border," Stockwell Day also said in Edmonton.

"What you didn't read about are the 21,000 people last year who didn't make it, who tried at various points, either at official border points or unofficial border points."

In the last 19 months, Ottawa has invested $430 million in security updates and hired 400 officers, he further indicated.

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