Friday, September 29, 2006

Terrorists Flooding Into Michigan?

The U.S. Coast Guard has begun patrolling the Great Lakes surrounding the State of Michigan armed with mounted machine guns, rather than their traditional small arms and rifles.  According to Toronto Globe and Mail reporter, Margaret Philp, the reason for this show of arms is the following,

The U.S. Coast Guard has started to patrol the Great Lakes with machine guns mounted on their vessels and are conducting live-ammunition training drills on the American side to prepare officers to combat terrorists flooding across the border from Canada by boat.

I’m curious to know if this flood of terrorists is a larger threat to the Great Lakes than zebra mussels, or the Canadian themselves.

It’s also curious to note that this terrorist flood does not seem to emanate from Dearborn, Michigan, which appears to maintain the largest population of Muslims in the United States.

Personally, I think that if a terrorist flood begins to overwhelm the shores of Michigan, it will not be the U.S. Coast Guard which stems the tide.  Rather, the terrorists will probably run directly into one of the largest militias in the United States, the Michigan Militia, and they’ll get their clocks cleaned.

Margaret Philp’s story is titled Coast Guard’s live-ammo drills on Great Lakes raise ire, and was linked via Scripps Howard News Service.

Posted by John Venlet on 09/29 at 05:33 AM
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