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Makeshift Arizona border wall falls over, Gov. Doug Ducey suspects foul play
NY Post ^ | August 18, 2022 3:56pm | Callie Patteson

Posted on 08/18/2022 1:23:53 PM PDT by conservative98

Part of Arizona’s temporary border wall toppled over earlier this week — and state officials believe it was deliberate.

Two shipping containers placed along the US-Mexico frontier fell onto their side sometime Sunday evening. Gov. Doug Ducey’s office was made aware of the incident by Border Patrol around midnight and the containers were put back into place at around 6:30 a.m. Monday.

Initially, reports indicated that the containers, which measure 60 feet high and 22 feet long, fell over due to high winds.

“There still seems to be some unfounded speculation that wind knocked these things over,” Ducey communications director CJ Karamargin told The Post, adding that possibility was “highly unlikely.”

“One of the containers that was knocked over … shows some sort of equipment was used to move them because it dented and put a hole in one of the sides of the container,” Karamargin said. “That doesn’t happen with wind.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; dougducey; ducey; illegals; incompetence
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To: llevrok

Exactly


21 posted on 08/18/2022 1:41:29 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: conservative98

“Ducey suspects foul play”

Probably by the “Homeland Security”.


22 posted on 08/18/2022 1:46:39 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: erkelly

Actually, the Germans bypassed the Maginot line. So, in a way, it did work. It just needed to be longer


23 posted on 08/18/2022 1:48:38 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: ConservativeInPA

The sand can always sold later for whatever else they use sand for, so it wouldn’t be a waste of much money.


24 posted on 08/18/2022 1:49:14 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want tod watch the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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To: erkelly

The Maginot line did “work”, to the degree that it reduced the number of men required to hold that part of the front line in 1940. France had a serious problem with manpower in 1940.

The real problem with the Maginot line is that it was not extended far enough north. The principal stretch of heavy fortifications ended just south of Sedan, which was where, not coincidentally, that the Germans broke through.

Had there been a series of “ouvrages” at Sedan, that would have, for one thing, reduced the effect of the Luftwaffe on the French artillery, and the guns of the ouvrages would have retained coverage of the Meuse crossing points, making it more difficult and costly to establish pontoon bridges. More and better bunkers would also have complicated the job of the German engineers in clearing the direct fire defenses, and the ouvrages and deeper bunker systems would also have been bones in the throat of the forces attempting to exploit beyond the Meuse bridgeheads. This all would have bought time for the French reserves to come up.


25 posted on 08/18/2022 1:50:23 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: V_TWIN
When I first heard about this I wondered if they should be welding ‘em together.

They are, bolting and welding. This was apparently a newly placed structure......

26 posted on 08/18/2022 1:52:45 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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To: conservative98

We do have some pretty stiff wind here during monsoon season.


27 posted on 08/18/2022 1:53:24 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I do not recognize Biden’s authority. (@FeistyFed on TS) 🐝)
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To: buwaya

“Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.”


28 posted on 08/18/2022 1:54:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: skeeter
Well, if Biden offered even more incentives, they'd need a couple of hundred feet at least...


29 posted on 08/18/2022 1:54:42 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: conservative98
This would do it:

10,000 lift capacity, 4-wheel drive.

30 posted on 08/18/2022 1:54:48 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: conservative98

If it were my back yard, and this was a sane nation, I would take potshots at those destroying my property.

Or I could invite them in, give them a summons to return for a hearing. Not caring that these people are our enemies, is insane. They may be great people, but they are enemies of the State invited in by those who call ME an enemy of the state.


31 posted on 08/18/2022 1:58:50 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: nascarnation
Sounds like wisdom from Gen. Patton....

Patton didn't want to "patrol" anything. If one of his officers said that, he'd fire the guy.

"I don't want to hear about "patrolling! I want to hear about ATTACKING! ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK! Keep moving!"

32 posted on 08/18/2022 2:04:38 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! Ear ir.)
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To: Blueflag
We drove out to look at them Monday. The Border Patrol was all over the place driving parallel to the wall and these containers.

Patrolling doesn't make a difference either if the congresscritters and puddin' head don't enforce the laws.

33 posted on 08/18/2022 2:05:10 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: erkelly

The Maginot line was a great defense, but the French forgot that a determined force could go around it.

If we have a border wall, strong enforcement at the airports, from ships and laws against employing, harboring, social services, renting homes, licensing them and codify into law that a citizen is someone born in the US to citizens. All others, are children of invaders. EXPEL THEM ALL.

This country is being overpopulated by INVADERS, not by Americans making families. Our roads are crowded because of INVADERS. Our power and water needs are stretched, because of INVADERS. Our schools are full and ineffective. Hospitals are overrun, and entire generations of American children do not know how to work, because of INVADERS hired by American farmers.

I picked berrys, beans, peas, and worked potatoes and haying fields. I was in grade school, and in high school. What is summer for? For kids to get into trouble now. It used to be how boys became men, and girls became women. As THEY used to take summer jobs too. Work at a cannery, shuck oysters, pick weeds.


34 posted on 08/18/2022 2:08:44 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: nascarnation

I’m sure, like train cars, it will be covered in graffiti in a few days.


fixed


35 posted on 08/18/2022 2:11:00 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: conservative98

A few dozen Claymores would dissuade this.

L


36 posted on 08/18/2022 2:11:11 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: conservative98

“That doesn’t happen with wind”.

+++++++++++

We have a really high IQ individual right here.


37 posted on 08/18/2022 2:11:12 PM PDT by CFW
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To: conservative98

Tippy Toes couldn’t make it, eh?


38 posted on 08/18/2022 2:13:48 PM PDT by Osage Orange
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To: conservative98

Pretty funny. Build the damn wall right. Maybe he could hire Trump as a consultant.


39 posted on 08/18/2022 2:15:03 PM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Weld them together.


40 posted on 08/18/2022 2:15:05 PM PDT by Glenmore
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