This doesn't look good
Thank you for giving this its own thread. People need to KNOW what is going on.
Whoops...this ain't cool...
Chris Simcox, now part of the Declaration Alliance, a group linked to neocons, is now seeking $55 million to complete 70 miles of Israeli- style fence in Arizona.
I don't know about the neocons, but isn't Declaration Alliance one of Alan Keyes' organizations?
I'm sure he could release detailed expenses for his project to rebut this? He dammed well better.
This is such a GOOD and timely post.
BRAVO! and thank you.
well, i cant view the video for some reason. if the minuteman people are screwing their donors, then that of course is potentially criminal. i just hope this doesn't allow the MSM to paint all people who believe in secure borders as crooks or phonies.
Interesting. An old article from April, a link to The American Patrol, A reference to a preacher in a tent revival meeting, amazing posts and responses..Hot Damn I love FR!
I don't know all that much about this guy Simcox. Maybe he's guilty maybe he's not. What I do know is that this whole thread appears to be one giant circle jerk of people who seem to be very happy that Simcox may be defrauding a lot of good, honest Americans who want this border situation taken care of. I find that attitude pathetic.
Notice the date!
This is old news that was covered here and elsewhere back in APRIL. ABC 15 has been gunning for the Minutemen since last year. This is bunk.
Too funny!
For those of us not wanting to use Real Player, is there a transcript of the story, a written story on the subject or a FReeper that would care to summerize?
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I NEED $55 MILLION. SEND ME THE MONEY AND I WILL PERSONALLY ASSURE YOU THAT AT LEAST HALF OF THE FOLKS WILL HAVE KIDS WHO ARE ABOVE AVERAGE IN THE IQ DEPARTMENT.
Open border crowd doing a love-in.
The deep question is how do you make Mexico a first class country. This is something that Vincente Fox brought up frequently in May and June.
The trouble is that no one quite sees that the very best thing we could do for Mexico is to send their now well trained citizens home.
Suddenly Mexico would have a skilled workforce who knew something about how a world class country worked.
Think these folk would propel a great leap forward for Mexico?
I do.
Basically the ruling class in Mexico is preditory to its own detriment and will not change of its own volition--even if those changes were in its own interest. But it can be forced to change.
The Mexicans in the USA have had the picture of what a well run country looks like tatooed on the back of their eyeballs. And they'll have an idea of how to get there. Send them back to Mexico and they'll get a revolution in Mexico that'll do that country some good.
The shock troops for that would be the 12 million repatriated Mexican citizens. Having seen what a well run country looks like they would not want to be stuffed back in the old wineskin.
Also, Mexico will need a stronger dose of of the Peruvian Hernando Desoto ideas. Basically DeSoto asked the question why are some countries poor and some countries rich. The basic answers is that in poor countries most of their economy is informal or off the books and their property--ie--land is not formally recognized. (Therefor these countries have no borrowing power and property has no value that can be transferred or liquidated.)De Soto's solutions are being implimented successfully in countries around the world. http://www.ild.org.pe/home.htm
Hernando de Soto's organization was invited to Mexico and did some work on the question. He says that only 6 percent of Mexican enterprises are legal, the rest are informal or off the books. So how do you reverse that so that only 6% of the economy is informal -- as is the case the USA. De Soto would provide the ideas around which the 12 million american trained Mexican returnees could rally.
There's something more.
I follow water desalination research pretty closely. While water desalination costs have dropped to about a third of what they were 15 years ago--the rate at which prices will drop over the next seven years will accelerate considerably. imo in even the next five years we will see desalination costs drop to 1/10th of today's costs. Or even faster than the fall the 3/4 fall that the LLNL researchers suggest.
http://www.physorg.com/news67262683.html
Basically, the foundations are being laid today to make it economically feasable to to turn all the world's deserts green. (The proper way to look at this is to recall that cars, tv's and computers were at first rich men's toys but when prices came down they changed the world. Desalinised water is still relatively speaking -- a rich man's toy. But when the price drops sufficiently--desalinised water will change the world--because most deserts are right beside the ocean. Pumping the water 1000 miles inland will require that the scientists collapse the cost cracking out hydrogen from water. I think that this nut will be cracked sooner than desalination.)
imho cheap desalinised water will do for the republicans (if they can get this on their agenda or even the democrats if the pubbies drop the ball) what the great dam building projects & the tva of the 1930's & 40's did for democrats because 1/3 of the US is deserts. We would increase the habitable size of the USA by 1/3.
Dirt cheap desalinised water will also do things like make it possible to double the habitable size of Mexico. Cheap water is no magic bullet but it will give the Mexican Nationalists a way to dream while the Mexican people do the real work.
A first generation crop that might be appropriate would be one that India has chosen for ist biofuels program. The crop is Jatropha Curcas - a bush. This shrub produces a seed containing oil. This oil works well for biodiesel production ( see http://www.d1plc.com ).
Jatropha Curcas is native to Mexico and Central America (probably originated there). This shrub can be grown in large plantations on marginal soil - assuming some reasonable amount of, say, desalinated water).
Think Jatropha Curas could take up the slack from current oil production? I do.
But years before the USA collapsed the cost of desalinised water--the USA could change the future by announcing that the goal of American research is to kill the cost of water desalination and transport so that it becomes economically possible to turn the world's deserts green. Reagan changed the future by announcing star wars. Bush could change the future by announcing the plan for the greening of the world's deserts.
And desalinated water in tandem with repatriation of now skilled Mexican citizens would propel Mexico into being a world class country.
There is a winner here. The winner is Mexico.
The US profits too by having a prosperous politically stable country with a broad middle class to the south as we do to the north.
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FNC beltway boys said that SPECTER's (leftist liberal) staffers are heading negotiations with the house!!!!!
They are working on "delayed amnesty"! With guidance fromt the WH.
No wall no deal.
Include Amnesty, no deal