From a terrorist perspective the Southern border is far too dangerous. They don't want to risk a 20% chance of being caught 1% might be tolerable.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? Obviously the risk does not end at the border for an illegal and if a terrorist is going to spend months or years here before an attack he will avoid the risk of being an illegal.
It takes no "knowledge of a terrorist's mind" to be able to figure out how they think. It is really quite simple but first one must know how to think. Knee-jerk spouting off from dubious assumptions is worthless.
You don't seriously expect me to believe you believe it is difficult to buy a gun illegally do you? Or that you can't get almost anything you want in the inner cities? Even McVeigh figured out how to get guns without buying them.
Obviously to those not being deliberately obtuse a random police stop can occur AT ANY TIME and at any place when one is driving in a car or riding in a car. Involvement with police can be from numerous sources and aren't limited to a border. A terrorist wants to be sure that such encounters are not going to unravel his plans.
Only an idiot believes Mexico or Mexicans are our enemy.
While no particular fan of the 9/11 Commission I prefer its description of how this plot was ACTUALLY done to vague generalities from self-appointed tacticians. And the Report contained much useful information relevent to these issues. Certainly more than would be available from goofballs hysterical about people doing what they have done for hundreds of year WITH NO CONCERN by authorities.
Mexicans desperate to feed their families are not a threat to us. They may be a nuisance or criminals. But criminals are not terrorists no matter what Kerry believes.
Anyone flying in with a ME name to Mexico will receive considerable scrutiny. Just because you are unaware of it does not change that. It would be worth a great deal of positive publicity to the Mexican government to be able to tout the breakup of a terrorist gang. Are these things SO difficult for you to figure out or is that obstuse attitude causing difficulties with your logical thinking again?
Every major city is run by RAT mayors and EVERY ONE has refused to cooperate with immigration authorities for years before 9/11. Every media source of any significance save Fox (barely) does nothing but attempt to undermine America in every way AND HAS FOR YEARS. Those are our main enemies because they make war on the truth and without the truth we can do little. Without their lies and misinformation Bush would be winning in a landslide and our soldiers would be much safer. They are the one's who make us vulnerable to our foreign enemies. They are the ones who help turn the world and part of our own people against defending our nation.
MY kind of thinking cost us nothing. I was aware of the danger from the Islamaniacs before you even heard of al Queda and read the Koran in the early 80s just to make sure I understood the mindset we were facing. THIS gave me great insight into the minds of the terrorists maybe some of your confusion could be aleviated if you read it.
You can put hundreds of thousands of troops on our borders and it would have NO impact on protecting us from terrorists. But it would be an enormously costly diversion of resources which would weaken the war on terror. Only those without knowledge of this matter or with massive naivety don't recognize this. Or those, like Kerry, attempting to undermine the President's efforts.
Why do you think Israel is doing it. Do you think they're stupid?
Yes they are. If they get voter registration cards and elect politicians like Bustamante who was a member of MEChA, an organization that wants to reclaim the American Southwest and rid it of non-Hispanics, then, yes, they are a threat to us.
I'll simply say one or the other of us is wrong, and I hope to God it's me. If so, you can continue calling me obtuse and I can continue accusing you of being blind to the threat posed by our unprotected borders and coastlines. If I'm right...well, again, I hope I'm not. Only time will tell. 'Til then, I urge you read up on how Arabs and other Middle Easterners are using forged documents, to include Hispanic names, to get into Mexico and even into the US. All's not well, and all the rose colored glasses in the world won't change that fact.
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