Thanks for the ping HJ..!
Discussing the border problems here is a bit like pissing down your leg during a Chicago winter's storm.
It'll give you a warm feeling for a minute or so and then you'll quickly be restored to reality.
FReeRepublic worked well for a while because we were all focused behind the single primary purpose of seeing to Billy Blythe's impeachment and the backs of members of what after all turns out to have been only second-worst twentieth-century "administration" -- the Carter Gang having successfully restaked its claim to be the worst.
Bubbah's impeachment and the Rule of Law were defaecated upon by the Senate's Protect The Oligarchy Society -- and one Scotsman -- and the Cli'ton Crime-Family's "administration" ran its lying, looting, mass-murdering, co-serial-raping course.
FReeRepublic can work well again but not by being all things to all comers.
These days one is as likely to be engaged here -- and distracted from FReeRepublic's aspirations, tenets, precepts and goals -- by Indians and Chinese and Limeys and aliens of every other kind -- and with and by the attitudes and mind-sets cast off and discarded by Americans two hundred years ago.
Only distractions would be bad enough -- if that was all they were -- but in many ways some subtle and some less so what begin as distractions quickly turn out to have caused dissent among us -- and to have reduced FReeRepublic to little more than a multi-national personality-driven irrelevance.
An urgent drive to see that "border control" is restored and that our beloved Republic is guarded against the increasingly-hostilely colonizing alien-invader armies that are over-running us is a noble cause -- but it is not a Primary Purpose.
The only single purpose that can redeem, re-focus and re-direct FReeRepublic, it seems to me -- and see us once again united and marching in step and behind a single pennant -- would be that of uniting behind the idea that if we are not to lose our Republic we must achieve Term Limits -- and rid ourselves of career politicians.
All of the rest of our concerns -- the courts, for example -- can be dealt with only after we rid ourselves -- by term-limiting them -- of such career scum as have destroyed representative government -- and who, by cynical Republocrat gerrymandering, get to chose their electors rather than being choen by us.
Impose Term Limits and the courts -- for example -- may be flushed clean of their communist activists.
And we may see to the restoration of our Sovereign Borders!
Mexico is a "friendly" country just like france is a friendly country
Yep... The Mexican gov sure is helping us in the war on illegal immigration and terrorism. Bush has GOT to know this is going on yet he is silent. Why? (CAFTA)
Keep foreign invaders out!