Posted on 08/22/2006 9:33:03 PM PDT by mdittmar
TUCSON, Ariz. A Washington-based company is donating up to seven (m) million dollars worth of fiber-optic security fencing material for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps for new barriers near the border.
The mesh has embedded sensors that can differentiate between human and animal contact and conditions such as high winds or heavy rain. Tied into cameras and alarms, the system can alert monitors to the precise location of any intrusion.
A spokeswoman for the Minuteman corps says the material could be used on range fencing similar to what the group put up earlier this year on a southern Arizona ranch.
Arizona's 377-mile border has been the focal point for smugglers bringing illegal immigrants into this country for years.
".."We're certainly not against immigration," said Nina (pronounced NINE-uh) May, the head of FOMGuard USA, which is donating the material to the anti-illegal immigration group. "We're against illegal immigration, because there are standards to follow. Too many people stand in line for years, and it's not fair to them."
FOMGuard USA represents FOMGuard Co., a South Korean enterprise that developed the fencing material.."
Oh that is priceless ... LOL
Welcome to FR. Sometimes threads get rowdy - alot like the stands at college football games. Think of it that way and you'll be OK.
Yes, I am and have done so far longer than you; even though you are a retread.
Yep, ripping off gullible Americans and lying about what they are doing.
Or under it if it's not buried.
From your link:
May said the number of miles of fencing to be donated will depend on how the Minuteman volunteers want to configure it.
A 5-foot-high stand-alone fiber-optic mesh fence would require a different configuration and use less fiber-optic material than one 10 feet high, May said.
The Minuteman group has already erected more traditional fencing.
Sure I do.
Where is the frog marching you had lined up for these folks a month and a half ago?
All your "Opposition Research" from the Clown Posse and Liberty Post, and competing border watch organizations is coming to naught.
Make fun of them, slime away. You are looking real silly.
I told you it would be a little more difficult than Dan Rather-gate.
People put their money where their interests lie.
Whatever the company, is getting a good deal for 7 mil. Free R&D, and probably some type of tax writeoff. If they do a good enough job, who knows, possibly a government contract for somewhere else on the fenceline.
"Lumer recalled a quote from Gov. Janet Napolitano, who once told reporters, 'You show me a 50-foot wall and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder at the border."
We might as well give up and be annexed by Mexico. /sarcasm
click the link
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh..........riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigt. Okay, what are your other nics on FR?
Or under it.
If corporations hire illegals, illegals will find a way to get here.
So until the feds start arresting some CEO's at corporations that benefit from illegal aliens....
Yaaaawwwwn.
favorite team?
Tennessee Volunteers of course! Thus the screenname.
I don't mind a rowdy discussion.
So Simcox has fleeced Taxpayers of 770 million, with no website, like the feds have?
Dig a bigger hole.
We wanted the fact; and we still don't have them.
And there still isn't as much fencing as I have on MY personal property.
How interesting.
Whoever told Alan Keyes to wear a black felt hat to the border should be fired.
It's sure looking that way. Thus far, I count two filing extensions in the last year from Simcox's organization and no fence.
I promise that I have never posted on this website before tonight.
I confess that I do not really know the community so I am just winging it. I have posted for years on Volchat, Swamp Gas, and a few other boards that all have political discussion in addition to college sports.
Have an admin check if my email address was previously registered. I have had the same email account since the mid 90's.
LOL
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