It has a bad reputation. But a better percentage of safety. The best way to describe it is north of the border I carry. South of the border I find no need. I no longer subscribe to the name a better place myth.

I made the move when the rest of the country voted three times to ditch the bill of rights without a whimper yet still continues to cling to that now non-existent document.

Not only and objective decision but a realistic decision.

As for rights I've yet to run into any problems worth mentioning as long as I remember two things. I am a guest. Even the former Constitution ceased one inch over the land border and three miles offshore.

So far of little note but worth mentioning. I've been able to assist in keeping two not guilty people go to jail in a burglary and theft charge situation. Some of the items claimed as stolen and recovered were in fact gifts.

Small thing but significant. In Florida one would still be waiting for the police to show up.

In Oregon they would be figuring how to make it a No Fault No Report situation and get back to their restaurant and coffee shop duties.

Thinking about it I would say the current country has a 100 percent record of respecting rights as long as you remember it's their laws that count and one can hardly give high even low double digit marks to a country that tossed theirs into the ash heap of history.

Terrorists Two Former USA minus two.

How do I score?

When you give up your rights and values in order to defend your rights and values you lose. What's the last time an airplane hit a building? When was the last time you were treated like a felon for the crime of wanting to fly on an airplane?

Most important. Did anyone stop to think that terrorist activities are not confined to some group of raghead jihadists nor even to a Timothy McVeigh. The new law which calls for apprehension upon mere suspicion and ditched the rest of the former bill of rights using the charge of suspicion of terrorism can be filed against that one percent of law enforcement that bashes in the wrong doors and terrorizes the wrong people and makes them just as guilty as any other terrorist. How many have been charged? Or is there a fear of retribution.

There are no freedoms when every breath and every step you are no longer protected by the Bill of Rights but subject to the whims of what I call the Directorate of Internal State Security.

Seig Me No Heils Comrade I do NOT serve the Government Party and refuse to vote for either one of it's two wings at any level. I turn my back on a rigged one party system of government. I am more than fairly sure I earned that right though in the end it wasn't worth the effort.

So? I live openly and not in fear and pay my mordida to Obeyme and his Protective Echelon. Not enough time left in life to waste it on much else other than voicing my one half cent worth (minus inflation) which I would not do on the other side of the border.

(Not to mention cost of living, medical, weather and fishing is much better).

IRS reminds me if they want a charge and this is under the old Constitution system a signed copy of your income tax return is generally enough. Somewhere in the last twenty or fifty years you made a mistake. No one's perfect but it says when signing you are saying everything on the form is perfect.

We had a class one time on how to find a reason for detention.

Decal in the front or rear window (obstructing vision)

Blue tinted head lights

Wearing any part of a Class A military uniform.

Once pulled over you can eyeball the interior of the vehicle. You may not look for a shotgun in the glove compartment. However if the driver was erratic can have a sobriety check etc. Then are responsible for the safe keeping of the vehicle and contents. Which means a thorough and witnessed and video taped search ....

Think you can drive home with out drifting over the center line at least once?

This was taught but we were flat out old it better be worth the courts time ....at least in our area it wasn't allowed.

Finally....warning verbal or written.

Best way though is radio a head. a radio is faster than any vehicle.

But take heart and be of good cheer. The incidents of officers breaking the laws is the same as it is for the public one per cent. In a small town with only one officer you havve 99 to one chance.statistically

If your state has no fault do NOT agree to the investigating officer using it if you are sure you are not in the wrong. First thing the Insurance rates go up because and to quote the lizard, "Since they didn't find any one culpable you could have been at fault."

The method is already in the new Constitution. Arrests may be made on mere suspicion. No longer any need for probable cause, warrants courts, trials and all that crap.
Like I said before if I can find it with a Google Search what they have a black out on such stuff once you cross the border?

once again, Patriot Act nullified the Bill of Rights. It' suspicion of not probable cause and the rest of the rights are gone too.

If i can find that how come you all up in the USof formerly A can't find it?

The curbside or side of the curb is in all likelihood not on your property. If they want to paint a number all you can do some evening is paint it out.

It used to be to help the fire trucks and ambulances and all they wanted was the house number on the curbside.

We had one incident in a town of 1200 told 911 third house on the left. It was the fourth house on the left. The first house used a number from the cross street. In that neighborhood no one had moved in for over twenty years.

In the cities I didn't know the name of anyone who lived on the same floor in different apartments.

But these days I would put it up in big neon lights to make sure they knew. But then i don't live in the neighborhoods of the USA any more.

Too unsafe.

Taxes to high

No return on investment

Up in Oregon the fifteen cent a gallon fuel tax is near three decades old. It was supposed to pay for roads and so forth. I heard the town still hasn't got a stop light at the north end but has one at the south end. Some pigs..... etc.