Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is back to posting. He thanks his very good friend (and quasi-libertarian) Smallholder for providing such bloggy goodness over the past few days. Your Maximum Leader has been crushed with work and family stuff that he’s not been adept at posting…

Anyhoo…

Check your pockets! If you are an American did you find any Canadian coin in your pocket/purse? If you did beware. That loonie coin may not as be as undervalued and innoccuous as you think it is…

U.S. warns about Canadian spy coins

Aiiieee! Spy coins! From Canada! What the hell?! (En Francais: Aiiieee! Les coynes du espy! A Canada! Quoi?! - Okay… That is a joke… For you francophones out there - and that means you Big Hominid - don’t go correctin’ the French…)

The article says:

In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it described as a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside.

The government said the mysterious coins were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors traveled through Canada.

Intelligence and technology experts said such transmitters, if they exist, could be used to surreptitiously track the movements of people carrying the spy coins.

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Top suspects, according to outside experts: China, Russia or even France - all said to actively run espionage operations inside Canada with enough sophistication to produce such technology.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service said it knew nothing about the coins.

“This issue has just come to our attention,” CSIS spokeswoman Barbara Campion said. “At this point, we don’t know of any basis for these claims.” She said Canada’s intelligence service works closely with its U.S. counterparts and will seek more information if necessary.

Experts were astonished about the disclosure and the novel tracking technique, but they rejected suggestions Canada’s government might be spying on American contractors. The intelligence services of the two countries are extraordinarily close and routinely share sensitive secrets.

Yeah… Sure… Pass it off on the French or Chinese… We all know that Canada is bent on world domination. They even have a website that says so…

All your Maximum Leader can advise red-blooded Americans to do is make sure you dispose of all your Canadian currency, check that your firearms are ready for quick use, get rid of any Molson or Moosehead beer you might have in your fridge (by any means necessary), and keep your eyes on the horizon for invading hordes of polite Canadians.

Vigilance!

Carry on.

UPDATE FROM YOUR (ILLEIST) MAXIMUM LEADER: Steve-O says go Red! Great minds…