This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Guest Post: Border Controls Are Back In Europe
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man
Border Controls Are Back In Europe
Somewhere in America, Barbara Boxer is weeping.
The California senator’s version of the Highway Bill (S.1813, also known as MAP-21) which passed the senate and seemed destined to become law, has been dropped in favor of a rival bill that President Obama will sign into law today.
If you recall, Boxer’s highway bill contained provisions authorizing the government to deny US citizens a passport in the event of unpaid taxes.
These provisions have been removed from the new version of the law; so the US governments efforts to restrict Americans’ travel have been dropped. For now.
Don’t worry, though there are still plenty of bonehead line items in the law, like authorizing public service campaigns to raise awareness about the risks of ‘leaving a child or unattended passenger in a vehicle after the vehicle motor is disengaged.’
Your tax dollars at work.
Speaking of travel restrictions and border controls, though, European authorities seem to have no qualms about implementing them.
For the last several days, I’ve been weaving between northern Italy and Switzerland checking out great places to bank, new places to store gold, and taking in these gorgeous lake views.
Every single time I’ve crossed the border, I’ve been met by rather snarly police on both sides; they’re stopping cars, turning people’s trunks inside out, and causing major traffic problems.
A friend of mine who came up on the train from Florence to meet me for lunch in Lugano said he was stopped at the border for nearly an hour as thuggish customs agents randomly questioned train passengers and demanded to see their IDs.
So much for Europe’s 26-country ‘borderless area.’
Based on Europe’s 1985 Schengen Treaty and 1997 Amsterdam Treaty, you’re supposed to be able to drive from Tallinn, Estonia to Lisbon, Portgual without so much as slowing down at the border.
This is not dissimilar from driving between states in the US or provinces in Canada.
Yet as Europe descends into greater financial and social chaos, leaders are starting to ignore these agreements which guarantee freedom of movement across the continent.
No big surprise, electing Marxists and Neo-Nazis tends to bring that sort of change. Border controls, currency controls, wage and price controls– these are the usual tactics of desperate, insolvent governments.
As times get tougher, they tighten their grip, foolishly believing that they can decree and legislate their country back to health.
In the early 4th century AD after decades of economic turmoil and social strife within the Roman Empire, Diocletian issued his infamous Edictum De Pretiis Rerum Venalium, or Edict on Prices.
In addition to setting a fixed ceiling on over 1,000 products, services, and wages, Diocletian also commanded the death penalty for currency and commodity speculators who he blamed for inflation (as opposed to the steady debasement of the currency).
Obviously very little has changed.
Capital controls usually follow; these amount to the direct confiscation of wealth by a government from its citizens.
Often capital controls take the form of legal requirements which prevent people from moving money abroad, holding foreign currencies, or buying precious metals.
Just yesterday, in fact, Argentina’s central bank formally banned people from buying US dollars– forcing them to hold rapidly depreciating pesos and watch their savings inflate away.
At some point, people finally reach their breaking points and spill out into the streets to be beaten by the police. This is when we see social controls implemented– turning off mobile and Internet infrastructure, curfews, etc.
These tactics have been all too common over the last 18-months.
And finally, if things get really bad, border controls are implemented as a way to prevent a flood of people from leaving. After all, the government needs as many milk cows as it can get.
This is why I say that the US passport denial provision has been dropped… but only for now. Don’t be surprised to see it creep up in another proposed law in the near future.
»
- 17745 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
For the last several days, I’ve been weaving between northern Italy and Switzerland checking out great places to bank, new places to store gold, and taking in these gorgeous lake views.
Go fuck yourself.
Notice: to store gold, not USD.
But a few lines down, prohibition of USD purchase is noted.
US citizenism at work: demand on USD for this US citizen serves his welfare.
Grasshoppers conform to rabid salad overcharging.
Dog woker speak in riddles, um hum.
Seen Empire Strikes Back too many times?
I've been driving thru Spain France Portugal no stops only toll booths.
I read an article on KWN someone went pickup their gold in swizznazi and their gold wasn't there. I hear in Zurich you can get a good deal on teeth bullion. I need a new grill.
How come everytime I click on a Simon Black article I get that "I pooped today" AD SERVE?
H-M-M-M-M...
remember this:
http://www.france24.com/en/20090613-billions-bonds-seized-swiss-border-japanese-italian-police
i will never forget
I don't have but about $5 to my name, live paycheck to paycheck, and work a crappy office job. I know/understand very little of the in-depth financial analysis provided here on ZH but read it every single day in the hopes of learning increasingly more. I started reading this site about 18 months ago and it has opened my eyes to a lot of things and I am forever grateful for the work that is done here. The info on world events is also top notch.
Where am I going with this? Well, even with my limited background in most ZH topics I can tell you that Simon Black is an assclown extraordinaire. If the borders to various countries are getting harder to pass through then say just that. I don't care about your search for fabulous new places to store your gold. The last gold I saw was on the fronts of the gentleman who literally growled at me while cutting me in line for the bus.
The only thing that surprises me about this article is the lack of mention of his fabulous, mythical Chilean compound.
Hang in there ...
When you say « ... $5 to my name, live paycheck to paycheck, and work a crappy office job ... »
Do realise that you are far from alone. - But having a job at all, sort of puts you in the 'middle class' these days!
Knowledge is its own reward ... In the Great Depression of the 1930s, some Americans hit by the hard times, learned their way to a new life in America's public libraries ... maybe you will do the same now, reading the more truthful, but minority perspectives, which are still at the moment accessible on the internet.
Good luck.
"......new places to store gold."
If you haven't already, try storing it up your ass.
Simon Black you STUPID WANKER.
Switzerland isn't even a signatory to the Schengen Agreement.
EDIT: Ooops. I'm wrong, they are in the Schengen Convention, since 1995
I think I've worked it out; the vehicle that Simon is travelling in has a great big giveaway cloud of SMUG above it.
"I’ve been weaving between northern Italy and Switzerland"
You carrying any US Treasury Bearer bonds (maybe a few hundred $billion)?
No Joe sixpack he is carrying a bullshit sarcastic attitude and thumbing his nose at everyone here in the process. My guess is he wrote it from his pool somewhere in California. He just wants you to think he is like you except he is fucking awesome and living the life you want to live. He is trying to appeal to Joe sixpa......
Sensitive today, aren't we?
I was employing some sarcasm to make a couple of pints, yes. That is not too uncommon here at ZH.
yeah sorry I'm pissed today. My bad.
Pissed today only? Shit! Since 2008, I have not had that pissy feeling subside. Too much of a clear view of the fraud since then.
DITTO... I'm always pissed, and it's beginning to show, I'm afraid.
We Can Work It Out (We Can't?)
by: Big Brother & The Mighty Capital Control Bass Tones
Try to see it my way,
Do I have to keep on taking your wealth till you wan't to move on?
While you see it your way,
Run the risk of knowing that our social pact may soon be gone.
We can work it out,
We can't work it out?
Think of what I'm saying.
I can get it wrong and still think that it's alright.
Think of what I'm saying,
We can work it out and you can get straight, or say good night.
We can work it out,
We can't work it out?
Your ife is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and withdrawing "your" money, my citizen.
I have always thought making withdrawals is a crime,
So i will ask you once again.
Try to see it my way,
Only time will tell if I am right or if I am not wrong.
While you see it your way
There's a chance that you and your fellow citizens get drone'd before too long.
We can work it out,
We can't work it out?
I could use a couple of pints myself!
A little sarcasm might get you a pint!
I first got an inkling that the derivatives bubble was bursting when I was in Korea in ~Sept./Oct. 2007 drinking a pint of Guinness at a hotel, and realized I just paid $17 for it. I mentioned it to the Brit sitting next to me who exclaimed "wow, this Guinness is 10 quid. They practically give this stuff away back home!" Another clue was that a Starbucks house coffee was about $3.50 (in Seoul). In China it was about $1.85 (about the same as the US). The final clue was when I got on the plane home and read about failing SIVs in FT. In January 2008 I started www.siv0.com (now Derivatives Collapse, and somewhat dormant).
You just ooooooozzzzze jealousy from every pore.
I've crossed that border myself numerous times. The check points are nothing new.
What's the point of this article?
So we can be wowed by the travels of Simon the Magnificent.
pods
He says the place is fucked and full of marxists and fascist. And he's the asshole driving around looking for places to store gold there. Not because he has any, because he wants you to read his crappy site and take his word on where to store your gold.
Fuck no I wont'.
he wanted to say something
Switzerland never agreed to be a part of the borderless "Schengen Area". There have always been checks on the IT-CH border. Just not so regularly and thoroughly as of late.
Want to see a Fascist checkpoint?, try entering Canada with Texas, or Oklahoma plates.
Your vehicle will be taken apart.
Try driving into Canada in a pickup truck. That kind of vehicle seems to draw a lot of unwanted attention from Canadian border police.
It is well known that those types carry guns and bibles...
Not at the Ferndale border crossing. Everybody drives trucks out here.
I usually cross at Niagara. Ferndale is a little, um, out of my way.
But it's just a few minutes off I-5 and half the wait time! Other than that. It's hard to the full monty search out here.
Try driving back from Canada into the US, with any US license plate. #cavitysearch
As one guy told me at a poker table (and was a Fmr Mountie) in Montreal: "The fucking American Government is nuts. They're own citizens are lucky to be let back into their own country!".
At least I would of goten stuck in Montreal....
"Want to see a Fascist checkpoint?, try entering THE US with A FOREIGN PASSPORT"
Fixed.
Hell as long as you are wearing a burka, a turban, or there is a reasonable chance you are packing a underwear obomb, they wave you right through, no need for a passport.
http://ancavge.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/authorities-quietly-reverse-unde...
Me thinks you missed the importance of that story in your hatred of Islam. The point is he had help from someone with some security leverage ie someone who could get security to make an exception. This points towards insider collusion and another false flag to ram through more security. Who did this benefit the most? Arguably Michel Chertoff the former head of DHS under Bush who went on to form the Chertoff Group (founded 2009) which represents manufacturers of the scanners.
So we have a former Bush inner circle guy who's naked body scanner PR firm helped their represented companies make BILLIONS from security being compromised on Obama's watch. Hmm, perhaps both parties like to wet their beaks and push security policy by endangering Americans with false flag operations. Clamp down on civil liberties and funnel money to security companies win win for the elite.
I guess you win the argument automatically now if you are the first one to accuse your opponent of "hate?"
The new KO punch, just accuse the other guy of "hate" and you take the moral high-ground and you WIN! (If you are a retard)
Did you not notice where I said "wave you right through" did you not notice where I said "no need for a passport" does that vaguely sound like your retort to me, which was "insider collusion" and "had help" yeah dude, like "help" in high places who can get him waved through security?
You basically call me a person with HATE!!. Then repeat what I said back to me. I am not disagreeing with what you said, because it is the same thing I said. And of course the Chertoffs and other corrupt war companies and, well, Hate companies are going to profit off the theater and spectacle.
Anyway, you probably aren't any dumber than a lot of the fruitcakes posting on this site lately
Yup. Coming back from Halifax, my wife,my 9year old daughter and me got pulled out of the line for a pat down while a muslim family (burkah and all) walked on by us. By the time we got on the plane, the overhead bins near us were full. It's hard not to be upset when the powers that be do this political correctness crap. Don't pick on people because of their faith, but use a little common sense!
Switzerland is signatory of the Schengen agreement, aka 'borderless europe'. This is one reason why we are getting all those so called asylum seekers via Italy and France (by train and car/busses).
The point is that Switzerland is not part of the European Union Customs Union (EUCU) and therfore can enforce customs checks at its borders.
Lot of nimrods on this website these days
Since December 12, 2008 Switzerland is part of the Schengen Area...
www.swissinfo.ch/ eng/ specials/ switzerland_schengen/ index.html?cid=47540
Correction, professor, Switzerland joined the Schengen agreement in 2008.
I cross the border between CH and IT half a dozen times a year or more, in a car. A month and a half ago was the first time i have ever had to pull over at the border, entering switzerland.
They actually took my papers and went into their little hut to verify everything. Once they came back out there were quite polite and asked if i had any alcohol with me to declare, the answer in the negative and i was on my way.. the booze question almost seemed like an afterthought just asked out of habit, since why else would they ever bother stopping anyone. It was pretty late in the night, though.
Before CH joined Schengen i can recall crossing the border with germany on some occasions and typically there wouldn't even be anyone in the booth on the swiss side, but the germans were pretty particular about checking passports. The french have been pretty spotty about checking passports in my experience (for non-schengen travel), and on the austria-swiss border likewise typically there isn't even anyone manning the crossings.
just a few datapoints..
@ walkuere
Yes, the train between France and Italy almost always stops at their border along the Med Sea and the border police come on board. On one trip, they Italian cops came in and took off a misbehaving young Arab guy...
The trains stopped at the France - Spain border as well, at least when we went some 2 -3 years ago.
Any train coming out of Amsterdam has always been a good target for a thorough going-over by border police. Especially the overnight trains. Happened to me once years ago. Nothing like getting woken up at 3am and having your suitcase opened up looking for drugs.
I drove from England to Amsterdam and back , we got strip serched at every crossing, my friend got caught with a half oz of weed on the french crossing and got banned from France for ten years. They did not find the 2 kilo in the spare wheel, so the trip paid for itself.
Not only for border police. When the ICE fast train from Amsterdam reaches its final destination in Frankfurt, very frequently local police is awaiting the passengers with drug-sniffing dogs.
I had drug-sniffing dogs used on me when I took my Harley across the ferry from Michigan to Wisconsin. No asking permission, no warning, just there they are.
this article is quite misleading!
nothing has changed. There's no border controls. What he is talking about is a random customs check.
These customs checks have always existed between Schengen countries and very often people get caught smuggling large amounts of cash or gold bars between countries. Large amounts of cash have to be declared.
nothing to see here. move on.
Actually I passed that border 2 weeks ago. That is the Italy-Swiss crossing at Chiaso, near Lugano. The italians were not interested, the Swiss stopped us and checked our passports. I talked with the Swiss border guard, he told me the Italians were mainly looking for nationals that try to bring currency over the border, but "we don`t mind", said the Swiss officer.
It was pretty chill, there were no vehicle searches, no lugage searches, but we were instructed to pay the Swiss road tax - very important.
Italy is a whole other story, I`ve seen interesting things, Italy is frozen economically, nothing happens, many stores are closed, and I spoke with some Italians that stressed the need for a return of the red brigades. They told me that the mafia no longer shoot people, the mafia is the banks and the government.
This was in Milan. In Genoa you can find on all the buildings, in the center of the city, all types of manifestos against Monti, Billdenberg, and the EU.
I went through the Chiaso crossing a few years ago via train, that particular border point seemed pretty well-controlled on the Swiss side, it made a little bit of an impression on me. However I certainly don't remember any aggressive baggage searches.
yeah, the swiss customs only really care about alcohol and meat (both heavily taxed inside CH) at the bordrer. and perhaps they mind if you look like you might be poor. They don't want poor foriegners coming in making the place look shabby.
This dumbshit has no gold to store. He's just a douchebag.
Reminds me of "Impossible is Nothing" guy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Is_Nothing_(video_r%C3%A9sum%C3%A9)
Yeah, Italy's a great place to bank now.
might I suggest a JPM bank vault. lol
Many Us citizens of course do not know that Switzerland is NOT in Schengen area. That is why there are border controls.
Lot of nimrods on this website these days
Since December 12, 2008 Switzerland is part of the Schengen Area...
www.swissinfo.ch/ eng/ specials/ switzerland_schengen/ index.html?cid=47540
lol, I think you just spoke for everyone.
For the last several days, Skateboarder has been weaving between the neighboring suburbs, checking out great places to skate, new places to smoke weed at, and taking in these ugly rush-hour traffic views.
.......because ZeroHedge is THE place to talk about all your drugging and doping, nowhamsayin?
DOUCHEBAG.
"No big surprise, electing Marxists and Neo-Nazis tends to bring that sort of change." Lefties !!
Wait, you will protect your savings by buying USD? LOLOLOLOLOLOL
They are pre-emptively making sure no one is immigrating into their better economic zones,out of shithol-s
Smaller bid/offer spread for USD (& liquidity) probably makes it a better hedge against peso devaluation than gold, at least in the short term
What do you prefer, a crappy USD? Or an ARS devaluing at 30% annually? And consider that buying gold in Argentina is considered as buying foreign currency, specially because it's bought in USD. So the prohibition on foreign exchange for saving purposes (as written by that law) regrettably includes gold too. There is at least 1 bank that sells gold in ARS, but I never bought there, is not that trusted, and I'm not sure they're doing it now.
Just yesterday, in fact, Argentina’s central bank formally banned people from buying US dollars– forcing them to hold rapidly depreciating pesos and watch their savings inflate away.
_______________
Are they prohibed from buying gold?
Because USD is fiat. In this regard, the argentinean government protects their people when forbiding them to buy USD.
Gold is money. And money is gold.
So US citizens say.
...Gold is money. And money is gold.
So US citizens say.
What? Only US Citizens think gold is money?
That's pretty funny coming from a Chinaman. You dorks invented fiat, remember? No? Well, remember this: anyone holding Chinese fiat saw their 'money' return to its intrinsic value.
I'm willing to bet more Chinese citizens hold gold and silver than US citizens, the majority of whom are utterly clueless when it comes to understanding the ephemeral worth of unbacked paper.
I guess those Chinamen must somehow be 'US Citizens' too.
Meathead.
Oh, yeah, I forgot......AnAnonymous: see post, red-arrow down, scroll. Ignore post. Troll.
Debate moderator : "Sooooooo Representative Paul, could you tell us again what your point about fences designed to keep us INSIDE was about AHAHAHAHA?" (*audience laughing*)
Rep Paul: "Yes, it was designed for that. But now with the plan to bring down Net Neutrality I'm devising with my son, you know, RAND; very soon we'll lock you in corpo-land even in the virtual space! Libertarianism for the rich banzai!"
Mindless Eurotrash statists --- gotta love 'em!
Nope, not European my friend. And I'm just quoting (sic) Rep. Paul from this article:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/the-pauls-new-crusade-internet-freedom
Where their new plan, rather than End the Fed is End Net Neutrality. Nice chap, huh?
I see the Paul's are still working on containing many label-hats under a big-ass umbrella,
Christian Conservative Republican, Mitt Romney supporting, libertarians, hmm.
legacy voters, keeping it all in the family, an amrkn tradition set by the Bush clan, name brand recognition makes the thinking that much easier on the voters, thanks Dad!
like father? like son!
Politicians that don't pay taxes can still travel abroad. Now if we can only get them to stay there.
Switzerland is not part of the EU or Euro "zone".
You can drive from Estonia to Portugal but not through Switzerland - at least not unchecked.
When they start controlling cars at the French/German border to stop money transits from Paris to Frankfurt, it would make headlines.
Switzerland is not part of the EU or Euro "zone".
That was my first thought. No surprise here.
dude, check the difference between EU, EEA, and Schengen Area. switzerland IS in Schengen Area.
They are in Schengen, meaning you can work and live there without a visa. They did NOT join the customs union.
Switzerland is, however, a signatory to the Schengen Agreement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area
The original intent was no passport check, you were supposed to just drive through the border at reduced speed.
It is interesting how the Schengen Agreement is now controlled by EU legislation, which Switzerland is not a part of.
Hi Matt, but check out this wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement
You won't find the word "Switzerland" in it. Then there's the Schengen Convention. I'm confused.
Diversification is the key. Don't put all your eggs in one (currency) basket. Keep your valuables well hidden and portable and be prepared to live without the conviences of modern life. Otherwise you will be sheep to be fleeced.
Olympics. Casting the net wide in an attempt to prevent attacks.
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH I TRAVEL AROUND & ACT LIKE AN ARROGANT PRICK BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH EVERYBODY BUT ME THINKS I'M A DOUCHE BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH I BLOW NEW ZEALAND GOATS (WHEN i'M NOT BLOWING COSTA RICAN OR INDONESIAN GOATS BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH i'M MORE QUEER THAN ANDERSON COOPER BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH....
Anderson Cooper does not deserve your venom. I do feel for the goats though.
Anderson Cooper most definitely deserves venom. He was a douchebag when he was in the closet, and--surprise!!-- he's a douchebag out of the closet.
My point isn't that gay people are or are not bigger douchebags than straight people-- although in my experience, they in fact are bigger douchebags.
No, my point is, that Anderson Cooper has always been a douchebag, and his douchebaggery was entirely independent of his ghey-ness.
You emplyed humor where I went with straight anger. Up arrow to you.
I up arrowed you too... That sentence that you referenced was about all I could take... I think SB needs to get friendsy with Richard Branson & start telling us how things are on the far side of the moon...
I could care less that someone junked you or me. But it had to be MDB right?
As far as AC is concerned...
~~~
"Deservin's got nothing to do with it"
~William Munny
T minus (very little) until Simon becomes a US presidential candidate.
wtf!..
buy Bitcoins
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
I prefer gold & silver... Fuck ~ Not even Jabba the Hut wanted to be paid in bitcoins...
Try beating a bitcoin into a bikini...
Actually ~ you're on to something there...
A little creative "body placement" of payment microchips & we could start having ourselves a good old time...
Ya can't email gold and silver to your drug-dealer, tho.
>>buy Bitcoins
Bought me some. Up 40% this year. Best thing is the bernank cannot manipulate them.
Yellow brick road still the best option if you don't want to diversify.
As usual, the trust-funder-with-no-purpose provides a late observation but no insight. What is unusual is that SWISS border controls are taking place for people LEAVING SWITZERLAND as Swiss control tries to find Swiss citizen mules taking large and very large amounts of Swiss currency cash out of the country for people who are not Swiss citizens.
The couple of times I crossed out of Switzerland (Geneva) into France, I had to stop to pay an exit tax. That was just before the euro started, but the euro probably did not change anything.
"This is not dissimilar from driving between states in the US or provinces in Canada."
HAHAAAAA HAHAHAAAAA HAHAHAAAAA AHHAHAHAAAAAAAAA.......ahhhhhhh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1e7EBze6ho&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL97D2A8566B7F1395
The checkpoints of Border Patrol have been brought inside the border by over 100 miles.
Good point. Also, there are agriculture checkpoints entering California.
Plus a multitude of local municipality checkpoint, for our own good of course, that include vehicle safety checkpoints, DUI checkpoints, stops for too dark tint on car windows, stops for going faster than authorized, loud music violations, seat belt stops, cell phone use stops, full time and attention traffic stops, lack of front license plate stops, and every other imaginable "paper please" option Johnny Law sees fit.
They hate us for our freedom.
I am in Texas, and we have NONE of these stops ,and or check points.
Maybe at night a few random DUI points,other n that.
You are left alone.
WHEN and if it starts here, there will be hell to pay.
I thought you were in favor of the AZ cops checking for ID?
Don't you go and blow away everyone's cognitive dissonance.
I thought you were in favor of the AZ cops checking for ID?
In Texas,you show your I.D. to any PoPo who asks,if your pulled over,also in my county you do NOT get to vote unless you have the voters reg card, or a Tx D.L., or a picture form of a state I.D..............period.
This is a no brainer,if you cannot prove residence, and I.D. you should not get to vote in ANY elections.
In early days the common folk did not get to vote period, unless they were land owners.
Ah, good to hear, I wasn't aware of that. We don't have to produce ID here in NYC, although we have to submit to bag-searches if asked when we enter the subway. (Technically we also have to give our names if a cop asks, but it's not like they can force that.)
For sure having to carry papers is a great indication that your liberty is being very well protected.
Incorrect. There is an agriculture stop on I-10 west of El paso and a border patrol check north of Big Bend National Park on Hwy 385. Water temp in the pot just got a little hotter.
They hate us for our freedom.
Actually, I think it is true - the police do hate us for our freedoms.
And we have apple maggot quarantine zones in WA st. Never seen checkpoints though, just signs. Invasive species is kind of a big deal.
For the last several days, I’ve been weaving between dive bars, checking out great places to whiz, new places to store my essence, and taking in these overtanned 50-something cougars...
Hey you guys in Europe, let us know more about how the NWO is working out for you over there first chance. The latest from here is that the TSA is telling travelers to FREEZE. I guess that means if you don't then they shoot you. Or it is some tactic to let you know that you better start stocking up on ammo and frequency jamming devices.
You must be drunk.
TSA=USA
So, Simon Black who owns acreage in Chile and is raving about the great Chilean infrastructure maintenance (one or possibly two highways, big deal) is now telling us he's weaving from Northern Italy to Switzerland to checkout new banks there?
Simon Black .. early Friday humor?
Simon is in Switzerland because Hong Kong was soooo last week. Indonesia last month.
And don't get him started about opening a business in Latvia. Every since Simon let the cat out of the bag on that one, the place has become a home for the Untermensch.
pods
I'm really beginning to believe he is just some guy in his mom's basement fantasizing about being an international man of mystery. Maybe he is Robo's alter ego.
Simon Black: "I don't always drink beer
but when I do,
I fuck fat chicks"!
Stay thirsty my friend.
Pods, you missed one out. Thanks to Simon I'm now down and out in Georgia. It was shit advice.
I thought it was the freedom mecca of Georgia we all should be moving our asses and money too. Pay no attention to the tanks and anti aircraft units on the streets.
Hot investments in Mongolia too, according to Simon Black. the Sovereign Man.
Though I hope he stays on ZH, the comment sections are fun after his articles.
And actually he does have a point about getting out of the USA ...
Please get your facts right.
Switzerland has joined the Schengen treaty which means you never need an entry visa, when having a passport of any of those countries within.
However Switzerland did not join the customs union, meaning they are allowed to keep on doing border controls.
It's holiday time in Europe so the main roads - especially at borders - are very crowded. The regular random checks just cause more of a delay, that's all.
Why is this "article" on ZH?
Is it because this site has become all about Euro-bashing in order to divert attention from the biggest sinking ship?
That's a ridiculous comment. You have been around long enough to know that the Hedge has been way ahead of the curve ,especially when it comes to the largest sinking ship. If you don't know that by now you haven't been paying attention.
Then this kind of crap reporting should be cut as it's simply nonsense.
Careful there. Next thing you'll be wishing away Captain Hindsight, aka Robo. Some things "just need to be".
I KNEW that this story was by Simon Black, even before I clicked on the story (on the front page) in order to see the by-line. KNEW it!!
S. Black has long made it clear that there should be absolutely no borders at all, and that the entire 3rd world should be free to invade the developed world at will -- which, in the USA at least, is exactly what has happened.
-- Paul D. Bain
paulbain@pobox.com
after a while, you can sense who is writing the article before opening it......our friend charles smith is an easy one to recognize, as is brandon from alt-market....
http://www.infowars.com/new-tsa-policy-ordering-travelers-to-freeze-on-command/
http://www.infowars.com/army-manual-outlines-plan-to-kill-rioters-in-america/
Currently a U.S. citizen can be put on a no fly list and have all air travel suspended without due process, so there really is no need for punitive measures regarding nonpayment of taxes and free travel. After all a terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist as far as Uncle Sam is concerned................
Always appreciate Simon's boots on the ground type reporting.
For the last several days, I’ve been weaving between northern Italy and Switzerland.. Stop driving drunk you sick bastard.
Wait until the States here in the United States are implementing Border controls. There would be hell to pay.
There isn't anything truly defended until Freedom is lost.
As I pointed out above, California has agricultural checkpoints already. I remember these at least in to the 1970s. Of course, California is one of the most socialist states.
They're there to stop all you smugglers from undermining California's citrus farmers. They'd bomb Florida if they had the money.
"They'd bomb Florida..." >>>Quote of the Day!
You think those naked body scanners are to detect weapons?
They already have some scanning on the Interstate. It's usually near the scales and before major infrastructure like the Holland Tunnel.
Open borders libertarians are flat out insane. That is a fact.
You are sooooo right. The idea that humans should be seperated by arbitrary boundry lines drawn by politicians based on results of war and plunder make so much sense. Because, as well all know, only "insert country here" need to be in this particular area. Those "slanderous ethic name" from "another country" just aren't right.
How are they to keep their flocks of sheep separate and counted otherwise? Rustlers, looking to steal a few nice lambs, are everywhere.
“A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.” – Ronald Reagan
The open border Utopia of which you dream, Dr. Head, is outlined pretty well in Orwell’s book,”1984”: it is the sacrifice of individual aspirations to make a unified world where the State is everything.
Your dream is well on its way to reality. Globalism likewise is the dream of the Jews and is rooted in their foundational beliefs to destroy rooted, traditional cultures to create a uniform world. The Jewish influence in America, from their saturation of the finance industry to their undue influence in the media, film, publishing houses, politics, university hierarchies and corporate acquisitions, to the 1965 immigration law opening America’s borders to the Third World, indicates theirs is a power that should not be underrated.
Marxism and democracy, it has been said, "are two absolutely complementary and mutually indispensable forces in the project of constructing a global Empire.”
.Gov is giving our country away, to any and all takers. There's no America left to even say goodbye to. It's been gone since at least 2001.
nice to read others making use of my fave meme. . .
arbitrary imaginary lines, drawn in the minds of the people herded between, defended by the taxing collectors, moved and removed at will, flags to be saluted, waved, cheered on special holy-days with fireworks even.
fictions.
Open borders are a fine idea without a massive welfare state.
For the last several days I've been weaving around my town trying to find some good weed.
In honor of francis_sawyer's post above:
Simple Simon scouted Thailand,
because he was a bear;
Says Simple Simon to the Thai-man,
Let me taste your ware.
Says the Thai-man to Simple Simon,
Show me first your penny;
Says Simple Simon to the Thai-man,
Indeed I have not any.
Now that's the spirit!
When do we get to hear about how awesome Afghanistan and Somalia are? I hear one can make billions in these two countries if you're a terrorist entrapreuner and pay no tax at all.
Low taxes and limited government! As long ago said on ZH, the libertarian paradises! Afghanistan and Somalia, the 'free market' at the max.
Switzerland is not in EEC and always had border controls. Soliders with machine guns stopped me and wouldn't let me in as I had a ChiCom girl with me.
The Rule of Law. Made by honorable men, elected by their free peers, Scrutinized by courts. Why, they're as sound as the dollar....O - Oh!!!
Well, they are written down....they are WRITTEN DONW ON PAPER - for all to see - why,they have the standing of paper currency ....0-Oh!!!