My friend it’s useless to reply to the FR windbags here who have never been to Texas....frankly, they are dumbasses in the highest order talking about a fence. I don’t even reply because there are actually not that many...they just show up on very thread with the same nonsense. Most of them are Yankee’s who I would like to round up and march their ignorant azzes along the nearly 1400 miles from Brownsville to the Arizona border and see what they had to say about a fence then. Unfortunately you just can’t help stupid people and it seems that FR has bunches of them lately... .... RVN Airplane Driver
Yep. As I noted in my last post, even the Israelis did not build a Fence in the middle of the Negev Desert.
However, in the current dumbing down of America, it seems that Presidents are being chosen in these so-called "Debates" that are nothing but "The 30 Second Sound Bite Game". It is in that silly game that the Fence has become the only way to skin a cat.
Maybe the Texas FReepers can stress how, in Texas, putting the entire Rio Grande riverfront on Mexico’s side of a Fence is a huge private property rights issue. Far too many conservative are thinking with their knee-jerk reflex.
Ever lived in a foreign country or two, where you had to go through their immigration process to obtain a visa to voluntarily live and work there?
Ever had to go through the same process several times when your visa was about to expire in those countries?
Ever been through the extremely arduous LEGAL process to bring a foreigner, your spouse of several years, back to America to live - wondering why it's so difficult as an officer in the US armed forces, and that you have American citizen children together?
Ever felt proud when your spouse finally obtained that cherished Green Card, knowing you were playing by the rules in getting it?
After all that, have you ever had a Republican President, some hack politician, a TV talking head, or a fellow conservative call you "a vigilante, a racist, a xenophobe, a nativist, heartless, a windbag, a dumbass, stupid" just because you want everyone else to follow the same rules you did, in your spouse's country, and now in your own?
"We have a connection that goes back many years," he said. "And Israel has a lot that we can learn from, especially in the areas of water conservation and semi-arid land - Israeli technology has helped us a lot in dealing with drought."
"But also," the governor continued, "when I was here for the first time some 18 years ago and I was touring the country, the comparison between Masada and the Alamo was not lost on me. I mean, we're talking about two groups of people who were willing to give up their lives for freedom and liberty." Beyond the comparisons, Gov. Perry said another point of his trip here was to show other people "what was really going on", with regards to the military threats facing the country, and in particular the IDF's recent Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip.
"We went to the border with Gaza and received a briefing from the army there, and we went to Sderot and saw the police station with all the Kassam rockets piled up, we saw playgrounds that had to be covered from rocket fire. It's a powerful place." In that vein, the governor said he was also interested in learning more about security aspects while in the country, as Texas has a large, porous border with Mexico, and the recent violence in that country had unnerved many Texans.
"Israel is a leader in security technology, and another reason for our visit to the Gaza border was to see some of the security measures being used there," said Perry.
"Kassam rockets have killed 28 Israelis over the last eight years. Well, 1,000 people have been killed in Juarez [Mexico, on the border with El Paso , Texas] since the beginning of the year [in drug-related violence]. So we're trying to find ways to secure that border, because just like it's important to Israelis to keep heavy security on their border with Gaza, it's important to citizens of Texas to keep out the illegal activities that are going on with drugs [in Mexico]……”.