Replies

Whatever we do, we can't allow the federal government to keep throwing money into projects that do not do any good.... HERE IS AN EXAMPLE:

Monday, November 25, 2002
Failure of High-tech Border Cameras Threaten Nat'l Security
KIRO 7 Eyewitness News

A multi-million dollar, high-tech camera system developed to protect America's borders isn't working as promised -- and many days, it's not working at all. KIRO Team 7 Investigators uncover a national security breach that, if not repaired now, could let terrorists simply walk across the border into Western Washington. Our exclusive story exposes a failure that has top-level Justice Department officials scrambling..........

They are supposed to see in the dark, zoom and record images four miles away, even read the body temperature of a human target. Border Patrol calls these super-computer cameras RVS or Remote Video Surveillance. In Blaine, Washington, these lenses are the new eyes and ears along 46 miles of rural, vulnerable Canadian-U.S. border.......

Border Patrol has publicly touted this new system as a panacea for the future: fewer agents more efficiently covering more territory. However, a six month KIRO Team 7 Investigation into RVS reveals massive deficiencies in the Northern border camera system, repeated failures that continue to put national security at risk........

KIRO Team 7 Investigators obtained documents from confidential sources that detail hundreds of specific daily breakdowns with Remote Video Surveillance near Blaine. "All cameras: Controls not working 95 percent of the time." "It's another warm day and the cameras are once again not responding." "Infrared Down, Infrared Bad.".....

and then the clincher (my words):

So who is the contractor on the border camera project? It's a company called International Microwave Corporation or IMC. We've discovered, despite the failures in Blaine, the Justice Department is making IMC the main government contractor for installation of surveillance camera systems along all U.S. borders. We obtained the no-bid $200 million blanket purchase order for the work made out to IMC. But this $200 million contract comes with a sensitive political connection. The vice president of government contracts for IMC is a woman named Rebecca Reyes. Her father is Texas Congressman Silvester Reyes.... Congressman Reyes, who sits on the House Intelligence and Homeland

IMC recently received a $200 million no-bid contract from the Department of Justice to install security systems along all US borders.

I read about that no bid contract and was very proud of our government officials deceiving the American taxpayer so smoothly. I wonder how many illegal aliens work for IMC. We need to get these people out of America and put the jobs back into American hands supporting American families, not Indian, Egyptian, Brazilian or any other foreign familiess who snuck in hear under false pretenses. The Mexicans are the ones who get the most news coverage but I'll bet both my legs that we have more illegal aliens from other countries totally, who outnumber the illegal Mexicans.

Can anyone show me in the Constitution where it say Americans are obligated to support the world?