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So you are one of those steal my land to promote your agenda types as well...
How about YOU go take some Mexican land and build a wall? Chicken or weak?

25 posted on 09/29/2006 7:51:44 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (We shall never forget the atrocities of September 11, 2001.)

To: ARealMothersSonForever

How about YOU go take some Mexican land...

We did. It's now known as Texas.

You might also want to check into a little concept called 'eminent domain'.

It's in a dusty old document called the Constitution. It's pretty close to the part which designates securing the borders as a Federal responsibility.

43 posted on 09/29/2006 7:57:56 PM PDT by Lurker (islam is not a religion. It's the new face of Fascism in our time. We ignore it at our peril.)

To: ARealMothersSonForever

What's your neighbor's reaction when you build your fence on their land?

59 posted on 09/29/2006 8:03:01 PM PDT by skr (We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)

To: ARealMothersSonForever

"How about YOU go take some Mexican land and build a wall?"

Seizing a sovereign nation's territory without their consent is an act of war. If we're gonna go to war with Mexico I'd like to see it be for a whole lot more than just a few hundred yard s wide strip of desert.

61 posted on 09/29/2006 8:03:37 PM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0

To: ARealMothersSonForever

One of the principle roles of the Federal government is to defend and protect this nation against foreign invasion. To do that, we need secure borders. It is a role well spelled out in the constitution and one I am willing to spend some of my hard earned money for...as opposed to all of the socialistic/marxistic social restructuring programs that are destroying the nation from within.

The majority of the land along the southern border (outside of Texas) is already federal land so no one's private property will be in question in those areas.

In Texas and other areas, I am willing to be that those folks (and I am speaking as a native Texan) will welcome this initiaitive and be willing to be compensated for a narrow stretch of their land right along the border to keep the illegal aliens, drug trafficers, and potential terrorists out.

Since they will be compensated, their land is not being stolen in the least...but the defense of this nation is being provided for according to constitutional means.

The House has long known this...it is clear we finally scared the Senate at election time into supporting it too.

89 posted on 09/29/2006 8:14:06 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)

To: ARealMothersSonForever

So you are one of those steal my land to promote your agenda types as well...

This seems appropriate for eminent domain compensation, not for "stealing".

349 posted on 09/30/2006 9:43:46 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)

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