Insanity On Demand
Under no circumstances do I berate our border patrol or customs agents; they have a thankless job that isn’t easy. And that is most evident when the government shows that it could care less whether they do the job correctly at all. But I caught this story this morning, and Mike Gallagher brought this up. And in the course of a few minutes, he ran through all the questions that I had in my head in the thirty seconds I read this story.
On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States.The following day, a gruesome scene was discovered in Despres' hometown of Minto, New Brunswick: The decapitated body of a 74-year-old country musician named Frederick Fulton was found on Fulton's kitchen floor.
His head was in a pillowcase under a kitchen table. His common-law wife was discovered stabbed to death in a bedroom.Despres, 22, immediately became a suspect because of a history of violence between him and his neighbors, and he was arrested April 27 after police in Massachusetts saw him wandering down a highway in a sweat shirt with red and brown stains. He is now in jail in Massachusetts on murder charges, awaiting an extradition hearing next month.At a time when the United States is tightening its borders, how could a man toting what appeared to be a bloody chain saw be allowed into the country?
Bill Anthony, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the Canada-born Despres could not be detained because he is a naturalized U.S. citizen and was not wanted on any criminal charges on the day in question.
Anthony said Despres was questioned for two hours before he was released. During that time, he said, customs agents employed "every conceivable method" to check for warrants or see if Despres had broken any laws in trying to re-enter the country.
"Nobody asked us to detain him," Anthony 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."
This guy goes a bit beyond "bizarre", don't you think Mr. Anthony?
Anthony conceded it "sounds stupid" that a man wielding what appeared to be a bloody chain saw could not be detained. But he added: "Our people don't have a crime lab up there. They can't look at a chain saw and decide if it's blood or rust or red paint."
I don't need a crime lab. Suspicion is enough. This guy was bizarre, came into this country over the border with weapons, and one of them appeared to have blood on it. The police have searched cars for less than this.
Sgt. Gary Cameron of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would not comment on whether it was, in fact, blood on the chain saw.
On the same day Despres crossed the border, he was due in a Canadian court to be sentenced on charges he assaulted and threatened to kill Fulton's son-in-law, Frederick Mowat, last August.
Mowat told police Despres had been bothering his father-in-law for the past month. When Mowat confronted him, Despres allegedly pulled a knife, pointed it at Mowat's chest and said he was "going to get you all."
Police believe the dispute between the neighbors boiled over in the early-morning hours of April 24, when Despres allegedly broke into Fulton's home and stabbed the couple.
Fulton's daughter found her father's body two days later. His car was later found in a gravel pit on a highway leading to the U.S. border. Despres hitchhiked to the border crossing.
After the bodies were found on the afternoon of April 26, police set up roadblocks and sent out a bulletin that identified Despres as a "person of interest" in the slayings, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The bulletin caught the eye of a Quincy police dispatcher because it gave the suspect's Massachusetts driver's license number, missing a character. The dispatcher plugged in numbers and letters until she found a last known address for Despres in Mattapoisett. She alerted police in that town, and an officer quickly spotted Despres.
In state court the next day, Despres told a judge that he is affiliated with NASA and was on his way to a Marine Corps base in Kansas at the time of his arrest.
After the case was transferred to federal court, Despres' attorney, Michael Andrews, questioned whether his client is mentally competent.
OK. Now, I get the fact that our border patrol and customs guys are a bit stretched, but for God’s sake, where’s the common sense? You don’t need a forensics lab; the suspicion is enough. And what this guy was carrying with him should have been enough—alone—to detain him and question, at the very least. But some Einstein decided it was OK to let this guy in.
This simply reinforces my belief that a top-to-bottom reformation is needed for the border patrol, ICE, and any other branch affiliated with immigration on the federal level. It must be. We can’t stop a guy who—more than likely—murdered a couple in Canada with a chainsaw and another edged weapon from coming over the border. If that’s true (which it is) then how in the Hell are we supposed to stop illegal immigration and terrorists from coming over the border?
http://hcgtv.com/item/1086 (For a picture of this nut.)
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/6/7/151319.shtml (For the story above.)
Publius II
Under no circumstances do I berate our border patrol or customs agents; they have a thankless job that isn’t easy. And that is most evident when the government shows that it could care less whether they do the job correctly at all. But I caught this story this morning, and Mike Gallagher brought this up. And in the course of a few minutes, he ran through all the questions that I had in my head in the thirty seconds I read this story.
On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States.The following day, a gruesome scene was discovered in Despres' hometown of Minto, New Brunswick: The decapitated body of a 74-year-old country musician named Frederick Fulton was found on Fulton's kitchen floor.
His head was in a pillowcase under a kitchen table. His common-law wife was discovered stabbed to death in a bedroom.Despres, 22, immediately became a suspect because of a history of violence between him and his neighbors, and he was arrested April 27 after police in Massachusetts saw him wandering down a highway in a sweat shirt with red and brown stains. He is now in jail in Massachusetts on murder charges, awaiting an extradition hearing next month.At a time when the United States is tightening its borders, how could a man toting what appeared to be a bloody chain saw be allowed into the country?
Bill Anthony, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the Canada-born Despres could not be detained because he is a naturalized U.S. citizen and was not wanted on any criminal charges on the day in question.
Anthony said Despres was questioned for two hours before he was released. During that time, he said, customs agents employed "every conceivable method" to check for warrants or see if Despres had broken any laws in trying to re-enter the country.
"Nobody asked us to detain him," Anthony 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."
This guy goes a bit beyond "bizarre", don't you think Mr. Anthony?
Anthony conceded it "sounds stupid" that a man wielding what appeared to be a bloody chain saw could not be detained. But he added: "Our people don't have a crime lab up there. They can't look at a chain saw and decide if it's blood or rust or red paint."
I don't need a crime lab. Suspicion is enough. This guy was bizarre, came into this country over the border with weapons, and one of them appeared to have blood on it. The police have searched cars for less than this.
Sgt. Gary Cameron of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would not comment on whether it was, in fact, blood on the chain saw.
On the same day Despres crossed the border, he was due in a Canadian court to be sentenced on charges he assaulted and threatened to kill Fulton's son-in-law, Frederick Mowat, last August.
Mowat told police Despres had been bothering his father-in-law for the past month. When Mowat confronted him, Despres allegedly pulled a knife, pointed it at Mowat's chest and said he was "going to get you all."
Police believe the dispute between the neighbors boiled over in the early-morning hours of April 24, when Despres allegedly broke into Fulton's home and stabbed the couple.
Fulton's daughter found her father's body two days later. His car was later found in a gravel pit on a highway leading to the U.S. border. Despres hitchhiked to the border crossing.
After the bodies were found on the afternoon of April 26, police set up roadblocks and sent out a bulletin that identified Despres as a "person of interest" in the slayings, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The bulletin caught the eye of a Quincy police dispatcher because it gave the suspect's Massachusetts driver's license number, missing a character. The dispatcher plugged in numbers and letters until she found a last known address for Despres in Mattapoisett. She alerted police in that town, and an officer quickly spotted Despres.
In state court the next day, Despres told a judge that he is affiliated with NASA and was on his way to a Marine Corps base in Kansas at the time of his arrest.
After the case was transferred to federal court, Despres' attorney, Michael Andrews, questioned whether his client is mentally competent.
OK. Now, I get the fact that our border patrol and customs guys are a bit stretched, but for God’s sake, where’s the common sense? You don’t need a forensics lab; the suspicion is enough. And what this guy was carrying with him should have been enough—alone—to detain him and question, at the very least. But some Einstein decided it was OK to let this guy in.
This simply reinforces my belief that a top-to-bottom reformation is needed for the border patrol, ICE, and any other branch affiliated with immigration on the federal level. It must be. We can’t stop a guy who—more than likely—murdered a couple in Canada with a chainsaw and another edged weapon from coming over the border. If that’s true (which it is) then how in the Hell are we supposed to stop illegal immigration and terrorists from coming over the border?
http://hcgtv.com/item/1086 (For a picture of this nut.)
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/6/7/151319.shtml (For the story above.)
Publius II
posted by Syd And Vaughn | 6:37 PM
2 Comments:
Gruesome story in more ways than one. Surely there is a paragraph in the rules and regulation that entry into this country is not a right but a privilege and anyone who wants in can he held for a reasonable time when there are suspiciosu circumstances. Rawriter
Raw,
Thomas was severely crticized for this post. Many people still do not think that he has a right to raise some concerns, and offer solutions.
Personally, I think the more people that tell him to keep silent, the louder he should shout. We do have a problem with our borders. He has sound ideas. He may not have all the details, but he has, in my opinion, a firmer grasp of the situation than most give him credit for.
This story is the sort the MSM loves to show in an attempt to do 2 things.
#1: Show how much of an embarressment our borders, and their control actually is.
#2: To show our enemies a prime weak-point in this war.
I will not give the media any quarter on this point: They are doing whatever they can to aid the enemy, whether it be through a direct revelation--the Post's outing of a CIA operation--or through an attempt to demoralize the nation--in the incessant repeating of Abu Ghraib.
The media is not to be trusted. They are the enemy.
Marcie
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