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The Tale of the Invisible Seven-Hundred-Mile Fence
self | 6 January, 2007 | joanie-f

Posted on 01/06/2007 8:31:55 AM PST by joanie-f

Ever since the crisis at our southern border was recognized as one, there have been countless meaningless rumblings, and one actual piece of ‘legislation’ (not suprisingly, still unsupported by the funds to back it up) from congress -- all aimed at suppressing citizen outrage regarding our open borders -- none of which is destined to see realization.

When it comes to genuinely and resolutely addressing the crisis occurring across the border, everything that emanates from Washington is simply window dressing. To the majority of opportunistic traitors in our government, the invasion that is destroying our national identity, making a mockery of the rule of law, rewarding insidious parasitic behavior, and putting every American citizen in danger, is secondary in importance to the desire to increase their voting base, the lure of cheap labor, or the vision of a one-world borderless utopia. And don’t tell me the fundamental nature of the above does not fall under the definition of treason (common synonyms: betrayal, disloyalty, duplicity).

Tom Tancredo, in his book In Mortal Danger, writes:

We have the necessary technology, combined with human resources, to secure our borders tomorrow. It is a canard for politicians to say that it is impossible and that we must figure out a different way to defend America rather than defending our borders. What they are really saying is, ‘I choose not to defend and secure our borders because there are political ramifications that I fear.’ It is those fears that put the life of every American citizen in mortal danger.

Every day that our borders remain porous physically endangers every one of us, as a result of the increase in violent crime that invariably accompanies the influx of the criminals, and it drains our economy and our education and healthcare systems because many of the parasites demand and receive the same services that the rest of us have earned. But, much worse, it increases the likelihood (becoming more of a certainty with the passage of time and the inaction of those whose charge it is to ensure our safety and sovereignty) that there is an ever-increasing number of terrorists among us, some of whom have brought with them the means for our destruction.

Jerome Corsi, author of Unfit for Command, discusses the threat that both nuclear suitcase bombs, and dirty bombs, pose in his more recent book, Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians:

... the threat of dirty bombs is real, though we should not assume that a dirty bomb would be the weapon of choice, especially not for a group of skilled terrorists who would have the backing of a nuclear-armed rogue state such as Iran. The mad mullahs and their terrorist associates would, if possible, opt for a much more deadly scenario, one that could truly bring the civilized world to its knees in the space of one day. If serious terrorists are going to spend their time devising attacks, the terror masters directing them will move to the most feasible attack that can cause the maximum amount of damage. Why bother with anything less?

Whatever their eventual modus operandi may be -- future attacks of a nuclear, chemical, biological, or other sort -- the facts are clear: there are already countless islamic cells within our borders. They are proselytizing and recruiting in mosques, schools, and prisons. And we continue to allowing more of them, and additional 'equipment', to enter this country virtually unfettered.

With such an unprecedented, deadly threat staring us in the face, and virtually nothing keeping islamic operatives from simply strolling across our southern border ... suitcase in hand ... with what are the president and congress occupying themselves?

The piously declared ‘new era’ in Washington is being ushered in with significant fanfare and air of self-importance. Will the much-touted ‘new Iraq policy’, an increase in the minimum wage, expansion of embryonic stem-cell research, a tightening of ethics rules (where have we heard that before, and which of the ‘fool-me-once’-challenged among us continues to believe such pap?), and the inexhaustible fountain of nonsense posing as issues of importance, have any relevance when one of more of our cities are reduced to rubble, and our countrymen are suffering in debilitating ways that our minds cannot even begin to comprehend?

Not only is our government reneging on its promise to build a physical barrier to prevent the continuing flood of illegals of all stripes (islamic terrorists surely among them). Our fearless leaders are also stationing our countrymen at the border, putting their lives in extreme danger, and forbidding them to do what needs to be done to fulfill their duties.

Yesterday National Guard troops stationed along the Arizona border were forced to retreat when confronted by hostile criminals intent on crossing. Unable to engage the enemy because their role is bureaucratically defined as not to extend beyond an administrative capacity, members of the greatest fighting force in the history of the world had no choice but to retreat at their own border, when confronted by armed criminals seeking to cross (story).

Every informed American knows that the goal of islamic terrorists is to bring America to her knees, in as brutal and violent a manner as possible. We also know that we have it entirely within our power to at least dramatically reduce the probability that they will succeed. Yet our own leadership is forbidding us to do so, when the single most vital responsibility of our government is to defend our territorial integrity.

When the next, and much more deadly and virulent, terrorist attack occurs here on American soil, upon whom do we lay the blame for the torment and suffering that will befall thousands, if not millions, of our innocent countrymen? Do we hate the madmen who have made no secret of their desire to destroy us? Or do we reserve a more potent brand of hatred for those calculating pretenders among us who claim to be our protectors, while at the same time placing their insatiable thirst for personal power above the very lives and liberties of those whose trust and commission they consistently debase, and deliberately betray?

The American government is as much an enemy of the American people as is any Middle Eastern terrorist organization. And, if wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing deceit contributes to degree of malevolence, then the wickedness of those who claim to represent us, and who claim to have our best interests at heart, is beyond measure.

The American Crisis is worsening by the day, while our leadership continues to turn a convenient blind eye, polishing their primping and posturing skills, and offering up meaningless, toothless, mirage ‘solutions’ to a cancer that threatens to eventually render our individual liberty and sovereignty extinct.

It would appear that the future of our republic rests on the shoulders of the American patriot. We are walking down a path ... certainly not well-lit, nor well-traveled ... that has not existed in our lifetimes, or those of our parents or grandparents. We must continue to keep the Founders’ vision primary in our focus, and always look to Him for guidance.

I believe I hear them weeping, and imploring us to reflect on the glorious history of this republic, the monumental sacrifices that were required to make it so, and the need to assure her future (‘to provide new guards for [her] future security’) ... before the time and opportunity to do so has passed.

~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed


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KEYWORDS: aliens; border; cwii; fsp; fsw; government; illegals; immigrantlist; porculpine; terrorism; treason
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To: joanie-f; All
Just look to NOLA... and the immediate days following the levee break. Then imagine THAT... as everyday life in America.
21 posted on 01/06/2007 9:05:07 AM PST by johnny7 ("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
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To: joanie-f
The Texas Gov Perry a few month before campaign suddenly was for border control and the weeks after he won he took down the website he was boasting about on commercials. Many around here are fuming on the flip flop.
22 posted on 01/06/2007 9:05:20 AM PST by Orange1998
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To: processing please hold

Joanie
I feel your passion and am sorry to disagree. To equate our government with terrorists is a bit over the top and I don't think you really believe that but add that statement just to show how strongly you feel about the subject.
Having lived on the border all my life I can tell you its not perfect..a rich country right next to a poor country. But both nations are better off with trade both sides of the communities along the border benefit. As to the whole business about terrorist threat coming from Mexico..please reconsider..its the islamic facists not poor mexicans. These people pick our fruit and clean our toilets they wish us no harm. Now those imans, mullahs, and assorted nuts..can't we go after them?


23 posted on 01/06/2007 9:06:57 AM PST by Westpole
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To: raybbr

Thanks for the additional resources. I appreciate information available online, and for which I don't have to spend my hard-earned, not-yet-confiscated, dollars. :)

Will check them out (especially the Heritage report) later this week when I have the time to sit down and digest them. Much appreciated ...


24 posted on 01/06/2007 9:07:43 AM PST by joanie-f (If you believe that God is your co-pilot, it might be time to switch seats ...)
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To: lindor

Thanks for the kind comments, lindor.


25 posted on 01/06/2007 9:08:42 AM PST by joanie-f (If you believe that God is your co-pilot, it might be time to switch seats ...)
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To: processing please hold

Thanks for the kind comment, pph.


26 posted on 01/06/2007 9:09:25 AM PST by joanie-f (If you believe that God is your co-pilot, it might be time to switch seats ...)
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To: archy

Tagline change.


27 posted on 01/06/2007 9:10:51 AM PST by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: archy
... there are many such within who answer to other masters superior to their oaths to the Constitution of the United States, or who are just in it for the paycheck and retirement package.

Bears repeating ... along with the pledge they have betrayed.

28 posted on 01/06/2007 9:11:10 AM PST by joanie-f (If you believe that God is your co-pilot, it might be time to switch seats ...)
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To: joanie-f
Excerpted from

January 15, 2007 Issue
Copyright © 2007 The American Conservative

Fragmented Future

Multiculturalism doesn’t make vibrant communities but defensive ones.

In America, you don’t need to belong to a family-based mafia for protection because the state will enforce your contracts with some degree of equality before the law. In Mexico, though, as former New York Times correspondent Alan Riding wrote in his 1984 bestseller Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans, “Public life could be defined as the abuse of power to achieve wealth and the abuse of wealth to achieve power.” Anyone outside the extended family is assumed to have predatory intentions, which explains the famous warmth and solidarity of Mexican families. “Mexicans need few friends,” Riding observed, “because they have many relatives.”

Mexico is a notoriously low-trust culture and a notoriously unequal one. The great traveler Alexander von Humboldt observed two centuries ago, in words that are arguably still true, “Mexico is the country of inequality. Perhaps nowhere in the world is there a more horrendous distribution of wealth, civilization, cultivation of land, and population.” Jorge G. Castañeda, Vicente Fox’s first foreign minister, noted the ethnic substratum of Mexico’s disparities in 1995:

The business or intellectual elites of the nation tend to be white (there are still exceptions, but they are becoming more scarce with the years). By the 1980s, Mexico was once again a country of three nations: the criollo minority of elites and the upper-middle class, living in style and affluence; the huge, poor, mestizo majority; and the utterly destitute minority of what in colonial times was called the Republic of Indians…

Castañeda pointed out, “These divisions partly explain why Mexico is as violent and unruly, as surprising and unfathomable as it has always prided itself on being. The pervasiveness of the violence was obfuscated for years by the fact that much of it was generally directed by the state and the elites against society and the masses, not the other way around. The current rash of violence by society against the state and elites is simply a retargeting.”

These deep-rooted Mexican attitudes largely account for why, in Putnam’s “Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey,” Los Angeles ended up looking a lot like it did in the Oscar-winning movie “Crash.” I once asked a Hollywood agent why there are so many brother acts among filmmakers these days, such as the Coens, Wachowskis, Farrellys, and Wayans. “Who else can you trust?” he shrugged.

29 posted on 01/06/2007 9:11:16 AM PST by ckilmer
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To: joanie-f
Mexico: Production in Mexico’s largest oil field peaked in 2004 and is slated to decline at about 14 percent per year. Mexico has discovered many other deep water oil fields that could offset the declining production in older fields, but does not have the funding or the expertise to develop them. All Mexican oil and gas resources were nationalized in 1938 and foreign ownership is prohibited by the Mexican constitution.

Last March, the CEO of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Luis Ramirez Corzo stated that the company needs to invest $20 billion annually for the next 20 years to maintain production. However, Pemex has invested only about half that over the past 5 years. Amazingly, as private oil companies around the world raked in record profits last year, Pemex lost $3.75 billion. Why? The chief reason is that the Mexican government loots the company to finance itself. Only a state-owned oil company can lose money when oil prices have been this high.
30 posted on 01/06/2007 9:12:08 AM PST by ckilmer
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To: Orange1998

I was not aware of that. Absolutely sickening.


31 posted on 01/06/2007 9:12:33 AM PST by joanie-f (If you believe that God is your co-pilot, it might be time to switch seats ...)
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To: Orange1998
Well not only do we have open boarders here in San Diego but now our esteemed *ahem* Republican Gov. wants me to pay for the health care of illegal children (even more than I already pay)! Frickin' amazing!

"Come one, come all, and let me pay your way" *shaking head in disgust*

32 posted on 01/06/2007 9:13:02 AM PST by CAluvdubya (What's so hard to understand about the word illegal?)
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To: archy

And the clock ticks....


33 posted on 01/06/2007 9:17:13 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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To: joanie-f; archy

Good post. Unfortunately by the time folks wake up it will be way too late.


34 posted on 01/06/2007 9:17:51 AM PST by RadioAstronomer
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To: Westpole
These people pick our fruit and clean our toilets they wish us no harm

I beg to differ. How about La Raza and La Mecha? They want "their" land back and they openly state it.

Generalizations do not tell a complete story.

35 posted on 01/06/2007 9:19:31 AM PST by CAluvdubya (What's so hard to understand about the word illegal?)
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To: RadioAstronomer

It's already too late.


36 posted on 01/06/2007 9:19:40 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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To: joanie-f
Short of an actual revolution, the prospect of that feat ever being accomplished is becoming more difficult by the day. ...

But it makes a Soviet Union/1991-style breakup more possible, and more likely. The loss of several border states to Mexico or invading Mexican squatters, those states being *guaranteed* protection by the constitution, would constitute a sufficient constitutional abrogation to render the Constitutional contract between government and governed forfeit, null and void:

U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4:

The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.

37 posted on 01/06/2007 9:20:52 AM PST by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: ckilmer
Your post explains, in part, why the mass northern exodus is occurring. The problem is that, when these people seek refuge within our borders, they too often refuse to assimilate, or revere that which brought them here. They eagerly transform from oppressed to parasitic.

Thanks for the access to little-known (and, unfortunetly, little-sought) information.

38 posted on 01/06/2007 9:21:14 AM PST by joanie-f (If you believe that God is your co-pilot, it might be time to switch seats ...)
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To: Dead Corpse
It's already too late.

No. You put your back against mine, and we add a worthy companion or relative or two to our efforts, and take one step forward, and we've reestablished a Zone of Control and a FEBA.

Add in a few more like-minded and qualified individuals, [AKA *citizens*] and it's an Operational Area. Accordingly, it's not at all tooi late.

39 posted on 01/06/2007 9:27:22 AM PST by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: joanie-f
BEFORE Election Day

Republican Gov. Rick Perry has made securing the state's 1,254-mile (2,000-km) border with Mexico a major part of television ads in his re-election campaign. The cameras at www.texasborderwatch.com will also be equipped with night vision lenses for 24-hour surveillance.

AFTER Election Day.. http://www.texasborderwatch.com/

The Texas Border Watch Test Site is now closed

40 posted on 01/06/2007 9:27:47 AM PST by Orange1998
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