WHERE IS DUNCAN HUNTER WHEN YOU NEED HIM?
North Korea has a fence. Where is our American fence?
Posted on 12/17/2007 8:48:52 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
MAXWELL, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The omnibus Consolidated Appropriations bill includes a little-known provision that guts the major provisions of the Secure Fence Act of 2006. This provision -- buried on page 123 of Division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act - contradicts the Secure Fence Act’s specific mandate of a double-layer fence covering 854 miles of the U.S-Mexico border.
Grassfire.org has been tracking this provision which was first introduced quietly by Sen. Hutchison this summer as S.Amdt. 2466 to H.R. 2368 (the DHS appropriations bill). “The Hutchison amendment gives DHS virtually total discretion over how and where the fence is built,” says Grassfire.org President Steve Elliott. “In fact, DHS would not be required to build fencing in any particular location -- and the double-layer mandate is totally gone.”
In its report on the “Fence Funding Hoax,” Grassfire has chronicled how the plan to gut the Secure Fence Act was actually hatched the day the bill passed the Senate in 2006. (View that report.) “I find it odd that such an important amendment which releases DHS from specific requirements of an existing law would be passed by a simple voice vote in the Senate and then buried in the massive omnibus bill,” says Elliott. “The American people reasonably expect that a double-layer fence will be built but Congress has always had other plans. This amendment should be stripped from the final omnibus bill.”
Resources:
Text of omnibus bill: http://www.rules.house.gov/110_fy08_omni.htm
(To view Hutchison Amendment, select “Division E” and view page 123)
Grassfire.org’s special report on the Funding Hoax:
http://www.firesociety.com/article/19402/
For more information about Grassfire.org, or to schedule an interview with Grassfire President Steve Elliott, contact Ron De Jong at 757-487-7900 or email ron@grassfire.org
Now there is going to be HOLY HELL to pay.
Last straw time.
Looks like DynCorp has a PAC too.
Even Murtha is on board.
http://www.campaignmoney.com/committee.asp?committeeid=C00131383&cycle=04
You know how the "D.C. game" is played.
I have just returned from a long night of obligatory, Japanese style-year end company drinking parties, (it is 12:45 a.m. in Tokyo, do you know where your expats are??)and despite the copious sake and chuhai induced stupor from five straight hours of that--and work again in just seven more hours, I am one ANGRY FREEPER overseas at this hour, having just booted up FR and reading what they have done to our beloved Republic again!
OUTRAGE! I think I could yell out the window at full volume--it is so irritating to the point that defies words--but for sake of peace in the neighborhood I will register my protest here for now and consider ways to follow up tomorrow our time.
On what a scary PAC!
COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION makes donations to it; but COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION and DynCorp can’t account for contract money they have been awarded????
Holy moly!
I think I’m going to start drinking before this election is over.
FR Posted on 12/04/2004
The Open University of Israel Honors Bernard Kerik
E.OpenU.com | July 28, 2004
Dear Friend of the Open University:
An all-star cast headlines a gala evening for the Open University.
I am delighted to announce that: Bernard Kerik – Dinner Honoree – who will receive the Shomer Award
and Rudolph Giuliani and Baron Robert de Rothschild – Honorary Chairs and Ingeborg Rennert – Chair, Dinner Committee, Steve Witkoff – Chair, Tribute Committee
will lead off this year’s American Friends of the Open University dinner, November 30th at Cipriani’s in New York City. Never has an institution been more aptly named – the Open University of Israel is the most open, diverse and accessible university in Israel. Enrollment this year is 38,700 students – having doubled since 1994! One in every five Israeli undergrads studies at the Open University.
I know you will want to join me in paying tribute to Mr. Kerik, one of the Open University’s staunchest supporters. Recently, Bernard Kerik served on the U.S. Presidential Envoy in Iraq. He spent six months in Baghdad, arriving there just days after the coalition invasion, in charge of rebuilding Iraq’s internal security infrastructure.
Our annual gala is the cornerstone of our annual fundraising campaign. We would be honored if you would become a member of the Tribute Committee, either by reserving a table, or by inscribing your name in our Journal at the Donor level.
As a member of the Tribute Committee, you will be listed along with Mayor Giuliani and Robert de Rothschild on our dinner invitation and on promotional materials for this event.
Our mission is to enable every Israeli to fulfill the dream of a college education – and to strengthen the Jewish nation. Please join us in this effort.
Sincerely,
Irwin Hochberg
perfectly understood ;-) or rather ... ;-(
>>>>Robert de Rothschild
The Rothschilds. The ‘Jews who are not jews’ that launched Soros.
Source:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1205828/posts?page=17#17
BTTT
Unfortunately, America is so financially broke and corrupted by the zillions of US dollars transfered to foreign entities, that we _are_ going to have to fight for any semblence of our proper government, every step of the way, from here on out.
Time to wind it up again people!!! These S0Bs just don’t get it!
Where the hell have you people been the last decade?
Giuliani holds no elective office at this point, he is a private citizen with all the freedoms that are afforded to anyone else. There is absolutely no reason that he should be barred from investing in or working for any company that he wants.
Your point?
The fact that Giuliani has vested interest in border control should be a plus, not a negative. No one invests in failure.
Sounds more like he is giving Thomas Watson’s legacy a run for the money.
My next letter to the editor needs to be to expose Rudy.
Hope a lot of folks write one to their home town newspaper.
“CNN clip:
Announcer: “Back in 1996, mayor Giuliani went to federal court to challenge new federal laws requiring the city to inform the federal government about illegal immigrants.”
Rudy Giuliani: “There isn’t a mayor or a public official in this country that’s more strongly pro immigrant than I am. Including disagreeing with President Clinton when he signed an anti-immigration legislation about two or three years ago.”’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM
Can we trust this candidate to secure our borders? NO!!
Lotta bipartisan support on there!
Absolutely NOT!
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