[Nephi]

I wonder how long it will take the government to send the military to fight the militia?

[Fish out of Water]

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[Gritty]

The plan is to slow the flow of illegals, illicit drugs, terrorists and contraband into and out of Afghanistan. The United States will finance the construction and maintenance of 177 checkpoints, staffed by 12,000 border police in that far-off land.

Nice gesture, that.

It nevertheless fails to recognize we probably have more "illegals, illicit drugs. terrorists and contraband" across OUR borders than their. And ours are a helluva lot closer!

[waxhaw]

This is worth thinking about - that our government is more ready and willing to protect the sovereignty of Afghanistan than the sovereignty of the United States. In my opinion, it clarifies where our president, congress and government stand when it comes to serving our Constitution and the citizens of the U.S.

[madfly]

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[madfly]

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[madfly]

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[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Roger that.

[nicmarlo]

FYI ping (sorry if you've already been pinged):

It is this reporter's opinion that I found it the height of hypocrisy when I read the headline "U.S. Plans to Seal Afghans' Porous Border." The plan is to slow the flow of illegals, illicit drugs, terrorists and contraband into and out of Afghanistan. The United States will finance the construction and maintenance of 177 checkpoints, staffed by 12,000 border police in that far-off land.

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Contrast this with the fact that our country cannot and will not control the flow of illegal aliens across our own porous borders – 15 million illegals that have poured into the United States, violating our sovereignty!

I don't understand our President on this border issue. His, his Administration, and Congress's stand dismays any rationale.

[Iscool]

Looks like this one could use a good BUMP...

I defy our president to arrest any of us for doing what the government refuses to do to protect the sovereignty of our beloved country. This land belongs to every citizen; it's OUR land. I challenge my government to come and arrest me. We are not "crazies," we are concerned citizens, we are responsible people.

This fella sounds like he understands the concept of a Free Republic...

[SteveH]

In regards to government support for third-world country border patrol at the expense of domestic border patrol, please see a potential connected event described in

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/806945/posts

The general idea is that multinational corporations may be willing and able, through developed world governments, to put enough investment into third world infrastructure to support exploitation of local natural and labor resources, with a notion of eventually shifting operations away from regulation-burdened locales such as the US to those third world locales (current examples for which include Mexico, China, and Vietnam).