Canada-US Relations...Oh, Get Real.

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Today, I made a major decision not to sell our manufactured products into Canada.

We are a small Corporation that invents, manufactures, and sells unique electronic controls to the welding industry. Our market is narrow since our products apply to specifically American made welding machinery and few applications exist external to the US. I am the majority stockholder and President of the company.

It is uncommon to sell outside the bounds of the US but we do get inquires and orders from external countries. This morning I received an email requesting one of our catalogs along with a request for technical assistance pertaining to an American made machine located in Quebec.

As I read the email something swept over me. It kept gnawing at me for about an hour before I knew what it was. The answer came to me…it was a request from an individual in a country that hated Americans and all that it stood for, asking for technical assistance and requesting information on our uniquely American products that are not available nor manufactured in Canada. The products and assistance would greatly enhance this Canadian’s ability to save on the cost of repairs to his equipment and provide technical assistance he was apparently unable to receive in his own country.

Over the past few years I have rejected sales from French Canadians and now I expand this to the whole of Canada. As of today, no technical information will be given to Canadians and no sales will be made to Canadians until their hate for Americans and our way of life changes. I expect Hell will freeze over before this happens. They are in a headlong race for total Socialism, if not downright communism.

Now, this may not be earth-shaking news and what I do will certainly not even raise an eyebrow on a national basis, but what I do is the only way that I can fight them since our politicians and large American Corporations are “financial prostitutes” and will sell away the American way of life and the freedoms (those that still exist) to anyone (or any country) that will pay them for their pandering, regardless as to how small the amount.

My company website has the phrase “Made in Texas by Texans” on the home page and it has been there for years. Now I will be placing a notice that we do not sell to Canada and the reasons thereof.

Some may think this as a stupid idea since I will lose some sales. Like I said, they don’t amount to much anyway and the idea that I can irritate and inconvenience individual Canadians by refusing to sell to them along with providing them the reasons for doing so lets them know that at least one American is standing up and doing the only patriotic thing they can do to stave off the impending damage that Canada will do to our society, our freedoms and our security. Yes, I am aware that is not the textbook way of doing business.

I realize that this is a tiny, teeny, itty-bitty, miniscule, microscopic action that no one will notice except the recipient of my direct action but if many small corporations and small sole proprietorships (Ma and Pa businesses) who sell a very small percentage of their gross services or wares into Canada and can afford a small reduction in gross sales, will unite and refuse to sell to Canada, a major statement can be made. As each Canadian who is refused service or sales from America is affected, they will become annoyed enough to tell their associates and friends. In turn, over a period of time, they all will get the message.

Don’t expect the prostitutes to help, only little people can!

KEYWORDS: AMERICANHATERS; CANADA; CANUCKISTAN; FRENCH; SOCIALISM

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

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'These Americans are crazy'

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh my God. I am never setting foot in Texas again.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

The comments on that page made me cry inside.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh jeez that's pathetic.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

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Oh, Canada...no defenses for you
When missiles fly, you're gonna be so screwed

You will come to us when you're getting scared
You will beg upon your knees

We will say pound sand...you are out of luck
Even if you whine pretty please

Oh, Canada...once a good friend
You've taken up the Euro-weenie trend
Oh, Canada, you can kiss our rear end

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

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― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Over the past few years I have rejected sales from French Canadians

What's that about? 'Cause they're French?! Good to see the man expanding the hate and ignorance.

"FLAG, n.
A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees in vacant lots in London -- "Rubbish may be shot here." - Ambrose Bierce

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

"external countries"

What a weird phrase.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Texas, don't make my son like this!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

They are in a headlong race for total Socialism, if not downright communism.

Wait, they are in a race for socialism/communism? Like, as the prize? Who are they racing against. (TWO SCIENTISTS WERE RACING FOR THE GOOD OF ALL MANKIND.) Or do you mean, like, towards socialism? WRITE ONE NOT FUCKED UP SENTENCE.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Good lord! These little signatures are insane:

"Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others."

"Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves."

"Kerry & Democrats; supported, financed, trained, guided, revered, in favor of, Communists."

"Liberalism is a sickness not a political ideology."

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Did Hank Hill write this?

I, too, will withhold technical assistance to Canada until they can guarantee that Neil Peart will stop writing lyrics.

― andy --, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I make test and measurement equipment and I sell it in the US and Asia. My only rule is I will NOT sell anything to Islamic countries because their god allah declared war on us. I also boycott muslim and French products.
Get one history class.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

From the comments section:

I'd equate your actions right up there with a Rosa Parks.

Wow.

― alex in montreal, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

"Canada also has a European rooted sense of indignant pride that is based on nothing more than a air of superiority."

― green uno skip card (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

To: Centurion2000
Please keep in mind that not all to our north hate us, only the leftist elite. There are many consrevitives in Canada.

17 posted on 02/28/2005 5:42:36 AM PST by stockpirate (Kerry & Democrats; supported, financed, trained, guided, revered, in favor of, Communists.)
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haha xposts!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Entertaining. I love stupidity.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

What kind of muslim products is this guy boycotting? GAS?!?!?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

$34 BN in trade daily and Canada hates us?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

There are many consrevitives in Canada.

― consrevitive in his use of splelling mistaeks (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

A red state company losing business sounds like good news to me.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

"I predict a non violent revolution in the near future..."

Follower of Ghandhi?

― andy --, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

"Anyhoo...most of the Americans up here in the oil sector hail from Texas and Louisiana.
Mostly everyone chatted about Tear-azza Kerry,
most concluded that she decides when the 2 have sex and for how long...LOL"

― green uno skip card (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

This is the Free Republic site, folks! I expect assholedom as a matter of course. If this makes 'em happy and makes them think minds will be changed, let them delude themselves -- cutting off nose to spite the face in action.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

anyone want to call from Canada and ask for 7 figures worth of product, and see how quickly he folds?

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

To: DH
Well Good.
The time of reckoning is coming for a lot of so called decadent countries.
For way to long the East coast Canadians have been able to experiment with government like the 60's hippies of old.
So far the consequences of this radicalization of government has not hurt those out side Canadian borders.
However, the grand experiment in Canadian socialization is slowly sinking as the common citizen realizes that something has gone askew.
Just as Communism died in Russia socialism will wane in Canada.
The only way to sustain socialism is through the manipulation of the general population with lies, prison or even death.
The results of Canada's maniacal experiment is spelling disaster for most Canadians.
I predict a non violent revolution in the near future.
As with liberals in the United States, liberal politicians in Canada will reap the harvest of their sorry fruits.

48 posted on 02/28/2005 6:26:10 AM PST by OKIEDOC (LL THE)
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THE 60s HIPPIES OF OLD...WHO DOES THIS GUY THINK HE IS, THE REPUBLICAN GANDALF?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I can't tell if there's more jingoism or mixed metaphors!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Beware the 60s Hippies of Old...like Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

NB: The original post was printed in excerpt on the Op-Ed Page of the National Post.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

For way to long the East coast Canadians have been able to experiment with government like the 60's hippies of old.

Huh? Was this a blind taste test that I missed one day?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Besides, what do Nova Scotia and Newfoundland have to do with this?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

They're smashing apples pies and ridiculing baseball.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

do they mean the east coast of lake ontario? or like what?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

We don't like welding anyways!

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Good @#$% canadians
thank you for this sacrifice
my father who is originally from Canada said he wants absolutely nothing to do with it up there anymore and refuses to visit

There's a couple of more we'd like to trade.

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A federal judge on Wednesday granted a livestock group's request to postpone reopening the U.S. border to Canadian cattle and expanded beef imports because of concerns about mad cow disease.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture had planned to reopen the border beginning Monday.

But following arguments from livestock interests that the government's plan was premature, U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull granted a temporary court order preventing it from going into effect.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

does this guy trade with china? since, like, they consume more steel than the u.s. does now anyway.

"Richard Cebull"?!??!?! dude shoulda recused himself.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

those hippies. always experimenting with big government.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

"You look like you experimented with government when you were in school. Tsk, tsk. Naughty boy!"

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

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Tune in, turn on, invent electricity!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Dear Canada,

Although we fear your potentially dangerous prescription drugs, please send us your potentially dangerous diseased beef. Think of it as a trade.

Love,
America

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

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― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

As with liberals in the United States, liberal politicians in Canada will reap the harvest of their sorry fruits.

They'll get six-figure jobs with Bob Dole's lobbying firm?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Sorry fruits:
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― Huk-L, Thursday, 3 March 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

I really hope the Mexi-Canadian highway gets built now.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 3 March 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

"Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves."

"Liberalism is a sickness not a political ideology."

...shit like this is always scary, not because of the sentiments, but because once you describe some sort of viewpoint or race in terms of a sickness/disease, you can start planning your holocaust

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 3 March 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

canadian liberals get rich while in office, no need to wait til after.

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 3 March 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

He'll be here all night folks.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 March 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

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