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And you dun them for a pack mentality

True, one does stray from the pack from time to time. ;)

Yes, we all are biased in just about everything we do in live. It is much easier to be naturally subjective over objective. However, whether we agree with someone or not, often they do raise a point that is to be considered and researched before we run off at the mouth they are a troll.

There are also many levels to a conversation. Some stay on the surface and repeat bumper sticker rhetoric from both sides of the aisle, others choose to go much deeper and do more research. On FR that is done more-so than on some of the beforehand mentioned groups.

This border problem is not all cut and dry. There are many questions such as will guardsmen(women) sign up to stand on the borders for the rest of our lives? What benefits will entice them to do so. Lets face it, no one rushes to do anything until there is a crisis/lives lost etc. Many will have families to support. Many illegals come here just to feed their families etc. What happens when they no longer are able to do so. What will Fox and his South American buddies do then? You have some pretty serious #$%@@!! happening in that part of the world while we continue to focus on the MiddleEast.

You might check the main page of FR to see how Jim has laid out the problems and the questions at hand. (Oh I forgot all MinuteMen news is stuffed into a smoky back room-bunk! hheeeehhee).

This is not a cut and dry issue. The MinuteMen have drawn attention to our border issue; and say they have approx 2,000 that will join up? Thats a lot of people to keep under control. Who will be the leaders, what are their qualifications? What are their backgrounds. Who will pay these people. Will they donate time and money of their own to guard the borders while millions of Americans go about their daily routine giving the MinuteMen not a priority status in their daily lives. Will they move their famililes to checkpoints that could change all the time. Going to stand on the Northern borders in the middle of winter in 6 feet of snow?

If anything the President and the "powers that be" need to dress this issue openly and give the positives and the negatives; so that this issue does not come across as ignored. When this issue drawing such a strong con-census from the American people and the news media is not addressed by our government and misinformation is thrown out there to squash the work the MinuteMen have done, then that really bothers me. There is more we are not being told. Could that be we do not have enough men and women to fight in the war on terror? Would that bring back a draft of some kind of community/military type service?

We now find that the security system a Conn. company had implemented on our borders and received tax payer money in payment of has failed to do the job. Again we get soaked for "crap" I want to know who got that company the "job" of building this equipment. I want to know what government offical pushed this company and its' equipment through the pipeline. We now find the airport scanners are not doing the job. That agents are testing the "security apparatus" which again we were soaked for, and getting weapons onto the planes. We find that government workers at the airport are being seen taking baggage/laptops etc. to their cars.

Our money is being wasted to the tune of billions of dollars. So now that I channel my ramblings through my sleepy mind this morning, I say more power to the MinuteMen..it is a start in the right direction!! Homeland security is just another bureaucracy that will suck us dry and it will be just the luck of the draw by some terrorist that we are attacked again.

Thanks for the reply,

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