Adding a few names that might be interested to the ping and continuing the conversation from #490, 567,660. Let me know if you want me to stop pinging you.
BobL said in #682, “”Well they got a crappy lawyer if he thinks the Patriot Act supersedes the 5th Amendment. In other words, I don’t buy it.””
Bob, you obviously didn’t read the article I referred to. Here’s the link, again.
http://www.samuellogan.com/articles/texans-fence-with-federal-authorities.html
Tell that to the city of Eagle Pass, who also lost their battle - the fence goes through the city park, but not the industrial park.
The main complaint, after the inefficiency of a fence that will only delay crossing for 4 minutes, is the arbitrariness and what appears to be favoritism - or at least the lack of defensible reasoning behind where the fence is going.
http://www.utexas.edu/law/clinics/humanrights/work/Border-Wall-right-to-property.pdf
Some of these sections of fence stop at country club boundaries and at the property line of land owned by Ray Hunt and his businesses.
The University of Texas at Brownsville did win the right to negotiate a plan to put the fence through the middle of the campus. Now, it’s only part way through.
First, I’m not commenting on this Sam Logan dude because I have no clue who he is.
Second, I really don’t care if the fence causes problems down there, but I’m also sure that Cain will not put up with the cockiness of federal dudes down there - he’s not like Rick Perry.
Finally, there are 300,000,000 other Americans that need the fence...they are my priority. I’m simply not into turning national defense issues into local spats.