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June 27, 2008
Border Security in Northern Minnesota
The United States/Canada border up in the Boundary Waters is a strange thing. In the area that we canoed, the border ran through the middle of Crooked Lake in most cases. Of course, there were no markings in the middle of the lake to denote the invisible line, even though being on the Canadian side of the lake is technically illegal (an offense which we and others committed countless times). On land, however, the border is marked by little .2 meter tall bronze posts (photo), which look like mini obelisks and have strange markings on them. As it turns out, the bronze markers in the Boundary Waters are just one of a dozen different ways of denoting the border between the two countries.
The lack of border security became a big joke during the course of our trip as I insisted on carefully looking at each canoe we passed to make sure none contained suspicious persons. Luckily, we didn't find any. The Minnesota chapter of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps must be doing its job.
Posted on June 27, 2008 at 11:21 PM
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