Posted on 10/01/2010 3:43:48 PM PDT by contrarianpundit
During one of my visits to West’s office, the sheriff launched into a story of how Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is training the drug cartels in terrorist tactics with the assistance and financing of al Qaeda. And during a break at the May 2010 TBSC meeting, Deputy Robert Wilson, Hudspeth’s grant-writer, solemnly reported that there are Middle Eastern terrorists on the border. “We know they are coming through,” he said. If that isn’t enough to get you terrified about border security, Wilson is convinced that there are Chinese soldiers—and Russians, too—immersing themselves in the Mexican population; one day they will “just put on their uniforms and come north.” Sheriff West, with his homespun style, silver tongue, and storyteller’s bravado, leaves you wondering how much of these border-security tales he actually believes, though he is only too happy to collect the federal money they attract.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonreview.net ...
This article is from The Nation Institute, by it own description, “A liberal-left independently funded and administered organization.” An affiliate of The Nation magazine, written by Norman Birnbaum, Barbara Ehrenreich, Frances FitzGerald, Lani Guinier, Tom Hayden, Toni Morrison, Victor Navasky, Pedro Antonio Noguera and more of their ilk. I would not believe a single conclusion this article reaches. Tom Barry works at the Center for International Policy, an anti-military, pro-unilateral disarmament, pro-open borders/unlimited immigration, pro-climate change, pro-Cuba ... well, you get the idea where this guy is coming from. This article is pure crap.
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God Save Arizona by Ray Stevens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWpOcZVnBrc
While pointing out all the waste of money securing the Texas border with this in depth artice, I don’t see nearly the least bit of reporting on all the other wasteful government programs like studying monkeys taking coke.
I wonder why?
Ping!
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