I'd like to hear the border patrol's version of these events. About 300,000 people cross the US/Canada border every day, there isn't enough time or manpower to search and interrogate people without a reason.

While I don't doubt that harassment happens at the border, something is fishy about their story. It doesn't help their cause that they are the type of people warning about chemtrails and other retarded conspiracy theories.

The description of this actually contains the line "This is how it all started in early 30's germany." Leave the drama to the college underclassmen, the Jews and gypsies weren't persecuted for not handing over their car keys. A videotape of the whole episode would be helpful, although it's not likely available. This video is only one half of the testimony, let's not be so easily manipulated.

I cannot get any sympathy up. Americans get stopped and frisked and arrested all the time on much less provocation.

@longde @ulysses1904 @Skeeve

All three of you are asshats for trying to dismiss the border patrol's blatant abuse of power as "not deserving of sympathy".

If you got detained, frisked, had your belongings searched and stolen, for any reason, you'd be pissed too.

Harassing these women served no purpose.
Neither country is safer for it.
Not to mention, your tax dollars were wasted in the process.

For that (the first two, more than the latter) you should be highly offended.

Justice for everybody or justice for nobody, is how I feel. The lamentations of the classes of people who heretofore were exempt from police abuse strikes me cold.

@GenjiKilpatrick, I'm not "trying to dismiss the border patrol's blatant abuse of power" because frankly I'm not sure there was an abuse of power to dismiss. All we have to go on is the word of some radical anti-government conspiracy theorists - not exactly neutral and unbiased witnesses when it comes to government abuse.

I don't trust these girls to wipe their own asses (TP is probably a fascist plot to control our bodily functions, don't you know) let alone provide accurate testimony regarding anything the government does.

Sounds like you are believing these women, sight unseen. By me questioning their wide-eyed innocent proclamations of "gosh, all I did was ask a simple question and they totally freaked out" doesn't mean I turn a blind eye to abuse of power. I refused to be duped by a one-sided story.

Case in point
>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

@longde @ulysses1904 @Skeeve
All three of you are asshats for trying to dismiss the border patrol's blatant abuse of power as "not deserving of sympathy".
If you got detained, frisked, had your belongings searched and stolen, for any reason, you'd be pissed too.
Harassing these women served no purpose.
Neither country is safer for it.
Not to mention, your tax dollars were wasted in the process.
For that (the first two, more than the latter) you should be highly offended.

Upon looking at this YT account (unbanhippelove - Now called "Truth Fairy Media"),
Her videos are quite political - from occupy, hunger strikes, and toxic soap to chem trails, liberty and toxic water. It is quite possible she has gotten her name flagged from some sort of list from a possible protest or something.

I could just be reading into it but it is possible. She may have done nothing wrong at the border except question, though it may have been what came up on screen before that which gave the patrol some doubt. disregarding a request may have been all they needed to set them off.

So then, the question is, "Is it necessary for them to be unprofessional and unkind without a crime actually being in progress?" I don't doubt their authority but I do doubt their methods.

I too have been stopped at a border crossing and had our car searched - it was simple and efficient. The officers were professional. I was very worried and nervous but knew I had nothing to hide. There was no incident and we were sent on our way.

So, ya, it is possible there were other reasons but at what point do they go from professional to inappropriate?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Boarder Crossing' to 'Border Crossing' - edited by Issykitty