Posted on 08/29/2009 9:25:55 AM PDT by deport
Updated: Perry calls border wall ‘nonsense’
By Jason Embry | Friday, August 28, 2009, 05:28 PM
In a speech today to at the Montgomery County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Business Forum, Gov. Rick Perry said he prefers a “technological barrier” along the Texas-Mexico border instead of a physical border wall. Here’s a 43 second clip
....Update: Perry spokesman Mark Miner said Perry is “for a fence in strategic areas, but he believes you need to use technology and other innovative resources to protect the border. He doesn’t believe you need to build a fence from one end of Texas to the other.”..... end snip
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Kinky Friedman to announce gubernatorial run
By Corrie MacLaggan | Friday, August 28, 2009, 04:58 PM
Kinky Friedman, the humorist and 2006 independent gubernatorial candidate, will formally announce on Tuesday he is running for governor as a Democrat, according to campaign manager Rania Batrice.
Friedman’s announcement tour — which will start Tuesday and go through Thursday — will start in Austin and continue in Houston, Dallas, El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley, Batrice said. End Snip....
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Updated 4:15 PM CDT, Thu, Aug 27, 2009
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I rather agree with the guy - the fence is expensive, and not too difficult to circumvent. Just recently, they caught Mexicans cutting the steel up and selling it for scrap. Higher tech and more boots on the ground would be the way to go, I rather think.
talking about “technological” border security is a political tap dance to try to appease people who want a wall without offending hispanics. what a crock.
The technology fence requires even more boots on the ground. That part they won’t provide and the fence will be just like most immigration enforcement..a farce.
An independent TX would have the fence and it would be effective as part of a national defense.
“Higher tech and more boots on the ground would be the way to go, I rather think.”
Drones. Missles. Make ‘em think real hard about coming illegally.
If we're going to use a "physical" fence, I prefer one with the fence posts mounted on very large, structurally sound insulators. An electrical carrier would be woven through the fence wire and would carry a high voltage.
A system such as I've described carries at least one negative. There would be some endangerment to wildlife, but I don't think that would be particularly objectionable to most sane citizens.
>> Gov. Rick Perry said he prefers a “technological barrier” along the Texas-Mexico border
What Perry has in mind is no doubt some sort of RFID toll tag system for illegals.
Maybe time to play a little “follow the money”. Building a fence may require taking of property via eminent domain if the parties can’t come to an agreement to fair market. May be interesting to know how much property is left to be purchased and just how those negotiations are going. And if those land owners contributed to Perry’s campaign.
What Perry has in mind is no doubt some sort of RFID toll tag system for illegals.
LOL....... Hey amigos, stop by the water tank and get your pellet implant before moving on.
I have long supported a fence providing it’s electric!
Perry seems to be a great panderer!
A fence by itself is just a speed bump for the illegals. I think (hope) that was what Perry meant.
Whether there is a physical fence or technological fence, there must be boots on the ground and eyes in the sky overwatching and enforcing it.
Perry is not perfect but a far closer to what we need in Texas than Kay Bailey.
Perry is not perfect but a far closer to what we need in Texas than Kay Bailey.
Well we’ve had him at the helm for almost 12 years now and a couple more as LtGov. Time for him to find another teat to suck at.
I’ve always thought that anti-personnel mines were always an effective tool?
Best tagline I’ve seen.
12 years now
S/b 10 years....
sheesh
Code phrase for “We will talk a good talk, but that’s about it”
Perry does know the crowd he’s speaking to. That said parts of the border once you get away from the Gulf becomes a challenge to build a physical barrier such as a fence due to the canyons, etc.
Absolutely Perry’s right. It’s an obscenely expensive, utterly ineffective boondoggle - a massively wasteful monument to political pandering.(And pandering is something our gov knows something a little bit about.)
A minefield would be cheaper still.
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Kay Bailey called herself more of a Congressman than a Senator due to her work at bringing Federal money into Texas.
We need to get rid of Politicians that seek reelection by being Appropriators, that is what has led us down the path we are at now.
I am over here in Artesia and I see many more ex military being trained as BP than are need to replace BP agents leaving.
“Virtual fences” are only designed to gull virtual idiots.
Note that there is not only a “virtual fence” around the White House, Camp David, etc.
"F" the fence I want a wall with guard towers and boiling oil vats!
Not fun when you’re bored all the time.
Radar and infrared controlled mini guns, after all he did say technological didn’t he?
High tech & boots can be turned off or told to stay in the barracks. They would be a great addition to a lot of low tech, reinforced concrete. The concrete barrier won't stop them, but it would slow things down, and maybe channel the effort making the boots & hi-tech payoff better.
Problem is that we currently have no one running the show in Washington who has a lick of military experience and this, IMO, is a military issue. When you have a management team where the women all look like they have more testosterone then the men you have a real problem.
I agree. 50 years ago they put the interstate highways through in similar areas. Just do it. Dynamite works wonders.
I saw the arson charges were dropped against Fran Medina, the wife of the republican TX Supreme Court justice. Now that’s a case that needs looking at from outside of Texas.
That guy has more baggage than Southwest Airlines.
Perry is correct. What we need on the border are soldiers with bazooka’s and orders to shoot. These people will tunnel under fences and the fences will have to be monitored using personnel anyway.
You need to give these people motivation to stay on the other side...a soldier with a bazooka and a some grenades is good motivation.
Yep, two grand juries indict the woman and then the DA comes along and dismisses the case. The judge also has some ethics charges that are ongoing. He has admitted to using some $57,000 or so campaign funds to reimburse himself for travel to and from work. That is illegal and now he says he’ll repay. He should be disbarred, removed from the Judgeship at a minimum.
My wife and I were very close to David and Francis once. Then, David only wanted to be close to my wife. Very close.
I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him.
These high tech fences will do nothing more then produce a large number of false alarms.
We need a multi-layered fence with sensors in the middle to detect these border crossers and tunnelers.
A single layered fence won’t even slow these people down.
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