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Long article, but worth reading in its entirety. Is it time for the military to secure our borders?
1 posted on 02/04/2008 7:43:35 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

1986 was the time for the military to secure our borders, north and south, and our ports and airports also.


2 posted on 02/04/2008 7:46:23 AM PST by steve8714 (Don't sacrifice the important for the urgent.)
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To: ladyjane

Never happen. The Council has decided to end us.

Look at the choices for Puppet in Chief. They are all lackeys of the Council.


3 posted on 02/04/2008 7:49:15 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (And close the damned borders!)
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To: ladyjane

And they used to.... our friend was USAF and his job was flying along the border to STOP ILLEGAL DRUGS. He retired about 1993 and I wonder what happened to that idea? They used to STOP the drugs. Now our agents go to prison for trying to STOP the drugs. Thankful Joe didn’t go to prison for doing his job.


5 posted on 02/04/2008 7:51:55 AM PST by buffyt (Hillary, picking up other women's underwear off the bedroom floor is NOT presidential experience!)
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To: ladyjane

There are far too many diverse sources claiming that special ops etc. branches of the military have been directly involved in . . . transporting . . . riding shot-gun etc.

for my comfort.

I’m skeptical that a bunch of globalists hell bent on erasing the boarder and on using such illegal monies from such illegal products to further the technologies supporting their globalist aims . . .

I’m more than exceedingly skeptical that they will ever support cracking down until every last serf is totally enslaved.


8 posted on 02/04/2008 8:05:43 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: ladyjane

Another powerful argument for border control. It’s not just immigration, it’s the chaos and crime spilling over the border.


12 posted on 02/04/2008 8:36:37 AM PST by Polonius (It's called logic, it'll help you.)
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Marijuana Growing Called Biggest Threat to National Parks
June 18, 2003

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U.S. officials say illegal marijuana farming is the biggest threat to national parks since their creation over a century ago, the Christian Science Monitor reported June 10.
“This is massive-scale agriculture that is threatening the very mission of the national parks, which is to preserve the natural environment in perpetuity and provide for safe public recreation,” said Bill Tweed, chief naturalist at Sequoia National Park in California. “Growers are killing wildlife, diverting streams, introducing nonnative plants, creating fire and pollution hazards, and bringing the specter of violence. For the moment, we are failing both parts of our mission, and that is tragic.”

For decades, park rangers have discovered small cannabis stands in national parks, but now the operation is on a much larger scale. Illegal marijuana farming has increased significantly in parks with international borders, including Sequoia, Glacier National Park in Montana, and Big Bend National Park in Texas.

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, officials said drug farming has moved from remote forests to public national parks. As a result of tighter security on U.S. borders, park rangers, as well as visitors, are running into more armed growers in the wilderness.

“The most visitors used to worry about is running into a grizzly bear. Now there is the specter of violence by a masked [illegal] alien toting an AK-47,” said David Barna, chief spokesman for the National Park Service (NPS).

Park officials said marijuana growers are causing havoc. Besides clearing trees and brush to cultivate marijuana plants, growers often terrace the land, stirring up soil and attracting plants that wouldn’t otherwise take hold. In addition, the diversion of water is hindering the migration of wildlife, and pollution from fertilizer runoff is killing fish.

“The whole trend is that these groups are moving around more and heading to areas which are more populated,” said Laura Mark, an agent for the U.S. Forest Service. “They are going after public land meant for families, where they threaten people and cause untold damage. And they don’t care because they are making more money than most will see in a lifetime.”


21 posted on 02/04/2008 9:28:21 AM PST by buffyt (Hillary, picking up other women's underwear off the bedroom floor is NOT presidential experience!)
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To: ladyjane

I don’t think securing the border with our military would fix this problem. There is huge demand for drugs and huge sums of money to be made. The drugs will find their way in. Shoot, we can’t even keep drugs out of prisons, we aren’t going to be able to keep them out of our country.


28 posted on 02/04/2008 10:07:13 AM PST by TKDietz
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To: ladyjane
Is it time for the military to secure our borders?

Past time, I would say.

31 posted on 02/04/2008 10:40:02 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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