as though on our Canadian border there were terrorists who were coming across the border and we let them have Washington and then we let them have Montana and then we said, well, you know, not very many people live in the Dakotas, they’re not near Chicago or New York . . .
While I was wondering whether to be offended by this, I read this article on Rakesh Saxena, a wheeler-dealer whom Canada finally managed to extradite to Thailand yesterday:
He also managed to embarrass us internationally by plotting a military coup in Sierra Leone while in custody at the police lock-up at 222 Main Street. After news of the planned coup leaked to the media, which forced him to cancel his plan, he cheekily told reporters there was nothing in the terms of his detention preventing him from plotting coups in foreign countries. The embarrassing part was that he was right.
Okay, so maybe it's not Canadians Madam Secretary is worried about so much as all the other people in Canada, who are let in with relative ease and sometimes hang around for years. I know, I was one of them.
Still. She could have picked a less stable country bordering the U.S. I really don't think there are many people here, no matter how fanatical, who want to conquer the Dakotas.
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