Posted on 04/21/2006 11:13:30 PM PDT by NapkinUser
Slogan of the Minutemen:<'>
"We doan' need no steenkeeng badges!!!"
The scene with the toll-gate out in the desert?
Right on, T C!
Ping!
Let me see if I got this right, free labor to build a fence, good, a farmer or contractor who hires at market wages, bad.
"Sad that The Minutemen have two pairs of balls; their own and Bush's."
Beautiful! I love it!
Yup! Glad to see you finally catchin' on Dane.
Second verse, same as the first.
Us citizens versus illegal alien non-citizens. Right on Dane.
You got it now!
I think that was Mark Twain.
Interestingly enough, even Hillary kind of "gets it" where Mexico's nearly
omnipotent oligarchs are concerned:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/411104p-347791c.html
"[Mrs. Clinton] said she favors a "carrot-and-stick" approach with Mexico to
provide that government and its "oligarchs" the incentives to give Mexicans
more and better jobs in their own country."
Frankly, the more pressure we keep on Mexico, immigration-wise, the more
reformers inside of Mexico can be emboldened and empowered to scale back
monopolists' abuses down there which keep our own country flooded with
economic refugees. Here's an interesting thread on new legal reform progress
that finally
emerged in Mexico I think as a result of immigration reform's failure:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611677/posts
We can make a difference for our sake, and their's as well, by cracking down
and demanding more activism by our own United States Trade Representative
against protectionist Mexican oligarchs in, for example, the monopolistic
petroleum, telecommunications, electricity and television media sectors.
Isn't prodding our neighbor to finally clean up its own backyard before
lambasting us for ours the neighborly thing to do?
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step...or in this case, one foot of fence...
You're probably thinking of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County.
by Robert Frost
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone.....
"....And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: 'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!' We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'."
"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself. I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.....
"........He moves in darkness as it seems to me~ Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
The cool thing about this is, the ranchers own the land right up to the border, no buffer zone. So, the feds can't say a word about it. In Texas, trespassing can be a shooting offence and this might make everyone take notice.
Looking the other way so that certain people do not have to obey the laws that bind everybody else is "crony 'capitalism'", not the "market".
But you already knew that.
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