Concerns Raised on Border Fence: Lawmaker Seeks To Delay Handover Of the Boeing System

Wall Street Journal ^ | 6 December 2007 | AUGUST COLE

[SwinneySwitch]

Virtual ping!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.

[SwinneySwitch]

ping!

[Calpernia]

>>>..."SBInet," it may eventually monitor 6,000 miles of the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada. The government has withheld final payment on the initial $20 million contract while Boeing fixes glitches.<<<<<

Is this what Chertoff allocated the PHYSICAL border fence money to????

[melancholy]

the big attraction is that Bush open borders types can, in just a few minutes, flip a few switches and turn a virtual fence off.

Good point. Not only turn it off, which is reversible, but also, sabotage key pieces of equipment. That would take months plus foot-dragging to replace.

Build an old-fashioned wall, NOW.

[Calpernia]

The Secure Fence Act written by Congressman Duncan Hunter, Presidential Candidate 2008, would extend THIS "San Diego Primary Fence" throughout our southern border states.

[SwinneySwitch]

Duncan Hunter on the fence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTfId2lJtKA

[NRA2BFree]

I think that the rest should heed your tagline.

I have wondered what your tagline says, so this is a good time to ask. :o)

[Redleg Duke]

"Boeing saw an opportunity in the push for a fence and offered an expensive facsimile from which it could profit with building costs and decades of maintenance contracts."

You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. I worked the proposal for this contract on another team, and this is what the government wanted! Don't go blaming the contractor.

[Osage Orange]

They are hundreds of miles of border...that I don’t think a fence is practical..If not impossible to build.

[Liberty Valance]

Can a virtual fence be paid for with virtual money?

[Redbob]

The “Boeing System”???

Why don’t we just try the “Home Depot System?”

[stephenjohnbanker]

” think we should start giving Congress “virtual pay checks.” Do you think that would get their attention? ;o)”

How about we give them a photocopy of their checks

LMAO!!

[wolfcreek]

There’s already a blimp outside Marfa,Tx. It’s tethered a couple of thousand feet in the air and can see for quite a ways.

Why not have more of these?

[kinoxi]

They are hundreds of miles of border...that I don’t think a fence is practical..If not impossible to build.

We have got over 2 and a half million miles of paved roadway in this country. Much more complicated and costly to build. To think that we are incapable of building a proper wall to protect the citizenry seems to be lacking in perspective. We have the money, it may ultimately save money on enforcement. We have the manpower, or we could (IMO) use some illegals to help with the labor :) . There also seems to be a strong desire by many who are affected by the illegal influx to have a government act in accordance with it's mandate to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare," etc.

[Osage Orange]

Ever build a fence down the middle of a river?

[kinoxi]

Lintel it. I’ve done it. Rather extensive masonry/structural experience here. If the river is too wide it will act as a natural barrier leaving a wall across it unnecessary. The ‘virtual fence’ can take care of that IMO. Humans have been buildings structures across bodies of water for many thousands of years using the most archaic tools and techniques imaginable. I think the US government could manage to build a few. It doesn’t need to to be a wall across a river. The wall is a barrier. A fence delineating the sovereign border. Water can and has deterred just as effectively.