{"id":17002,"date":"2012-09-20T10:20:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T15:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17002"},"modified":"2012-09-22T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T14:39:51","slug":"of-course-theyd-say-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/20\/of-course-theyd-say-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Of course they&#8217;d say that&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/09\/19\/13957722-state-department-no-secret-plan-to-invade-canada\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a> reported that the US State Department has &#8220;No secret plan to invade Canada&#8221;. But they&#8217;d say that even if they <em>did<\/em> have such a plan (and let&#8217;s be honest, they must have thought about it, especially during the Trudeau years):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. and Mexico are not secretly planning to invade Canada, a State Department spokeswoman confirmed to laughter during a daily press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland was taking questions from journalists about its activities Tuesday, which included a meeting between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mexico Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa.<\/p>\n<p>She was asked about \u201ca signing ceremony\u201d with Espinosa &mdash; what was being signed and why was the ceremony not open to the press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s an update on Merida, but I will get that for you,\u201d Nuland reported, referring to the Merida Initiative to fight organized crime.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist asked, \u201cThis isn\u2019t some secret thing \u2026 to invade Canada or something like that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amid laughter, Nuland replied: \u201cNo, no, no. It\u2019s not anything classified.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s also one of the things that military staff do: prepare plans for all kinds of potential conflicts. Canada had a plan to <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/then-we-seize-canadian-power-plants-near-niagara-falls-so-they-freeze-in-the-dark\/\" target=\"_blank\">invade the United States<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update, 22 September<\/b>: For your further reading pleasure, why not go through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glasnost.de\/hist\/usa\/1935invasion.html?ref=1SA2TrQ87\" target=\"_blank\">actual 1935 invasion plan document<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News reported that the US State Department has &#8220;No secret plan to invade Canada&#8221;. But they&#8217;d say that even if they did have such a plan (and let&#8217;s be honest, they must have thought about it, especially during the Trudeau years): The U.S. and Mexico are not secretly planning to invade Canada, a State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,5,13],"tags":[127,516,101],"class_list":["post-17002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-military","category-usa","tag-conspiracytheories","tag-mexico","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4qe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17026,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17002\/revisions\/17026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}