Quote Originally Posted by JustKev View Post
Your reply is not germaine in this era, not when terrorists use aircraft to destroy buildings like the towers in New York and their attempt at the Pentagon. Like I said in my post, if a cacher were to stop by the office and let Border Patrol know what they're doing it would probably go an incredible distance toward not having an incident that could easily get blown out of proportion. And just one cacher reacting negatively could give an incredibly bad name to the game here in Maine. Is one geocache really worth it? We should go out of our way to ensure we don't stir up trouble for future cachers and the younger ones currently involved. It's not the "Serious Tool Game".
Do you feel you need to stop into every town's police station and inform them that you are Geocaching in their municipality when you enter another town? I doubt it. When a Government's actions have instilled enough fear into it's citizenry where they feel they must check into a border parol office to tell them that they are Geocaching in that area, then we have a tyrannical government who has been enabled by people such as you by allowing them to erode their Constitutional rights without any accountability.

If I am not crossing the border, then there is no reason for me to have any contact with the Border Patrol. Plain and simple. Just as there will be no reason for them to have any contact with me. No one in my own country is going to stop me and say "paper's, please" if I am not violating a law.

It's funny. I was stopped for speeding twice in the last ten days while Geocaching. The first was for doing 66 in a 45 above Calais in Woodland. Hey, I broke the law. Police are there to enforce those laws and they did. The officer gave me a warning. Last night I got stopped by Falmouth PD coming off of 295 near Martin's Point. 50 in a 35. He clocked me just as I was slowing down into the new speed limit zone. Again, he was there enforcing the LAW. Again, a warning. I know how to handle police officers who are truly ENFORCING the law, but to be warned that if I am to NOT cross the border and to walk on the U.S. side to a certain point, I will CERTAINLY be stopped, detained, and questioned? NO f$%^ing way. And anyone who will use the dubious fact that "terrorists use aircraft to destro buildings like the tower in New York and their attempt at the Pentagon" as reason to erode MY Constitutional RIGHTS and civil liberties, has no concept of the truth.