(Reprinted from NewsMax.com) One Reporter's Opinion: Citizen Militia on the Border George Putnam Friday, Dec. 13, 2002 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. The cost is staggering – each checkpoint and its facilities to cost an average of $300,000. It is...
