Virtual? Isn't that a fancy word for pretend?
Maybe we can convice everyone in Mexico to wear these:
and have the attached computers display a really big wall with barbed wire and land mines in front of them.
Posted on 08/20/2005 7:25:22 PM PDT by bayourod
The Customs and Border Protection agency has plenty of work to do as it constructs the virtual fence needed to help protect the country from terrorists.
It’s a long fence, and its electronic extensions overseas are making it longer. The country’s land borders extend some 7,500 miles, and there are 95,000 miles of shoreline and navigable rivers. Each year more than 500 million people, 130 million vehicles, 2.5 million rail cars and 7 million cargo containers cross the borders, 95 percent of them at the country’s 361 land, sea and air ports.
Before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, border agencies concentrated on preventing the smuggling of contraband materials and illegal immigrants into the United States, as well as managing customs collection.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcn.com ...
So we'll be virtually protected from terrorists?
Should be effective keeping out those pesky virtual illegals.
Well, maybe, but more importantly the government will be able to fine people who cross border checkpoints when they're not open for business [and who don't obscure their license plates].
Virtual? Isn't that a fancy word for pretend?
Maybe we can convice everyone in Mexico to wear these:
and have the attached computers display a really big wall with barbed wire and land mines in front of them.
As long as they add a component that STERILIZES anyone not coming through the official checkpoints the legal way, I think this might actually get a handle on the problem.
Our priest said tonight that we're getting 300 more BP in our area.
As big an oxymoron as the Dept. of Homeland Security.
"To secure the borders, "we need to use all technologies including satellites and unmanned aircraft along our borders... we will put up a virtual wall on our borders with technology," DeLay said. "
The definition of "secure the border" is to erect a virtual fence. Once the virtual fence is completed and the reforms enacted to make it effective the border will be secured.
You didn't really think we were going to build a 102,000 mile fence so big that men willing to risk their lives to feed their children could not climb over it? Or that we were going to hire 3.3 million border guards to patrol it did you?
Based on the failed Gate Keeper project (see my profile page) that won't even effectively secure ten miles.
So just how many times have you been personally attacked by terrorists since 9/11?
Looks to me like they're batting a thousand. Or did you want them to forget about terrorists and just stop babysitters and gardeners who annoy you by their existence?
Of course, no politician much less the soft people of the US have the will to do that, after all a cheap head of lettuce and no nuke plants are more important than securing the borders from illegals and terrs.
No, we will be protected from Virtual Terrorists.
The border perimeter of the United States is less than 20,000 miles. Your numbers are exaggerated by a factor of more than 5.
Illegal aliens don't come to the United States because they can't manage to feed their children in their home countries. They come to the United States for a better paying job than they had in their home countries. How do you think illegal aliens are able to save up thousands of dollars to pay the coyotes to help them get over the border.
Awwwwwwwwwwwww, isn't that sweet? Bayouroid's tender and compassionate concern for the gardeners and babysitters.
Hey, at least YOU'RE not annoyed by their existance - you don't even want Hispanic people anywhere near you unless they're mowing your lawn or cleaning your toilet, so no problem, right?
The information on your home page is wrong.
Looks to me like they're batting a thousand. Or did you want them to forget about terrorists and just stop babysitters and gardeners who annoy you by their existence?
Actually, they're illegal alien lawbreakers. And these illegal alien lawbreakers annoy a majority of Americans by illegally crossing over our border.
No. Just virtual terrorists.
"that men willing to risk their lives to feed their children"
How much do you get paid for every time you post this line...?
I know, you won't answer...
one-trick pony...
Oh, yeah, virtual fences that's the ticket. They will work great against all the virtual ILLEGALS that wander across the border, but what about the real ones?
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