CIVILIANS PATROLLING THE BORDER

Insight Magazine ^ | January 20, 2003 | By Kelly Patricia O Meara

[Uncle Bill]

It's sickening. Click here and here.

[Carry_Okie]

BTW, your source for that quote has another interesting document; on a tangential, but certainly related topic.

[Uncle Bill]

Yes, I can hear them saying, this is troubling, between breaks regarding other duties.

[Carry_Okie]

Comptroller General David M. Walker said that although "major obstacles need to be overcome...considerable effort is being made by agencies...and steady improvements in financial accountability are occuring."

That's twice in one thread. Comptroller General? I'd be willing to bet he's related.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Most people are either in denial or are ignorant of the fact that this war against terrorism is a modern-day crusade.

[Uncle Bill]

David M. Walker

[NY.SS-Bar9]

One word:

"Claymores".

Even better, Post:

"CAUTION - RIFLE RANGE - DO NOT ENTER"

On the southern border of every ranch. Would hate to have any accidents you know.

[occam's chainsaw]

Bump for after work hours reading...

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Comptroller General of the United States David M. Walker, who heads the GAO, has an even more obvious dilemma. Until November 9, 1998 he was a partner, board member and global managing director at Andersen. As persistent questions bubble about Andersen’s possible complicity in Enron’s criminal falsification of financial statements Walker’s past relationship with Andersen management raises a question about his own ability to investigate in an unbiased fashion.

GAO spokesman Jeff Nelligan told FTW, “There is no link, no reason to recuse at all. When Mr. Walker was at Arthur Andersen he had nothing to do with Enron and he left well before all of this took place. He’s been gone for three plus years now.”

The possibility that Walker had no knowledge of Enron activities (Enron was Arthur Andersen’s second largest account paying Andersen some $52 million last year) is questionable given his position as a director and board member. And the statement that he was not at Andersen when Enron’s financial statements were being falsified is flatly contradicted by a 2001 Enron corporate filing with the SEC (form 8-K) which states that “Enron will restate its financial statements from 1997 to 2000 and the first and second quarters of 2001” to account for the fraudulent or grossly negligent financial statements given to the SEC by Enron executives and certified by Andersen.

Walker was on the board of Andersen for almost two years while Enron was cooking the books and Andersen was signing off on it.

Many of the Andersen connections and possible improprieties have been noted by Rep John Dingell (D), MI the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. On December 5, 2001 Dingell wrote to Pitt with a series of detailed accounting questions that, when addressed in any one of eight announced Enron investigations, cannot help but draw Andersen deeper into the controversy.

[SAMWolf]

Bump

[Carry_Okie]

Souprise, souprise!

[Zobaz]

"It's almost hilarious if it weren't such a serious problem,"

It's not hilarious. It's obscene. It's traitorous. There have been others before him, but Bush II is in the position of responsibility now. To allow this situation to continue in the aftermath of 9/11 is absolutely criminal. He wants a photocopy of my posterior, but still refuses to perform his mandated Constitutional duty, which is to secure the nation. Bush should be impeached and jailed. Clinton may not have done anything about this invasion, but at least he didn't encourage it, and he wasn't operating in a post 9/11 world. His sensational earthy peccadilloes (excluding the China/nuke/missile business, which no one seemed to care about. The Chinese don't need refined warheads or accurate missiles anyway. All they need to do is drive a big clumsy bomb anyplace in the U.S. they desire. Maybe they're concerned about Russia, since it has borders) are meaningless compared to this betrayal. I can't believe I wrote something positive about Clinton, but it's true. Bush is the one wanting Mexican trucks on our highways, while the Customs people admit they can't inspect but a small percentage of those that already come across. Clinton at least maintained limiting them to a zone within 20 miles of the border. Bush is the one pushing this latest "amnesty" or "guest worker" scam for illegals, while Clinton's INS rushed some supposedly legal immigrants through the system without FBI background checks. Democrats or Republicans? Take your pick. The frying pan or the fire.

The fact that Mexico has troops on the border is a new one to me. I should have realized it, because they shoot at our Border Patrol. I just never made the connection. So Mexican troops on their border is fine, but our P.C. troops, that keep half the world's borders, would be too insensitive to "human rights and civil rights" to secure our own.

All I can say is live for today. The only factor I can reason that has forestalled our inevitable destruction is God Himself. We are truly the most apathetic, jaded and suicidal pack of idiots this earth has ever seen.

[MissAmericanPie]

"Simcox is a newspaper man, but the headline earned him the labels "vigilante" and "racist" from those sympathetic to undocumented aliens and the groups supporting open borders."

Yeah, those sympaythetic to undocumented aliens whose last names are Martinez, Gonzales, and Guadalupe who could not withstand much scrutiny as US citizens themselves.

[sweetliberty]

But we NEED these criminals people to do the jobs Americans won't do so that we have more people getting paid under the table paying into the system while they are sucking up benefits seeking a better life and learning to vote democRAT become Americans. The problem is obviously these terrible, racist Americans with guns who don't think their property should be overrun by foreign invaders while the government looks the other way. The obvious solution is to take away the guns and these peoples' land. That'll teach them to try to protect their own property AND the country. < /sarcasm >

[RnMomof7]

John Ashcroft has his nose down to the ground. Ah, he thinks the Canadian border is the big problem:

Yea I live on the border..the Canadians can not wait to run the border at night..they covet our unemployment and our heath care system...

The "politidal " reasons are clear..Hispanic votes and support from the employers that benefit from cheap illegal labor..

[Reaganwuzthebest]

The only factor I can reason that has forestalled our inevitable destruction is God Himself.

If and when we have another illegal alien terrorist attack I would not want to be a politician in office period, democrat or Republican given these open borders. The blame will be placed squarely on those in Washington who did not do more to keep the bad guys out, even if some wanted to, like Tancredo.

[Zobaz]

Friend, I hope that you're correct. But since I have no recent precedent of the serfs bringing the rulers to task, I must conclude that we vestigial Americans will continue our butt-slide into history's ash-can.

[The Coopster]

Ummm....you have to break a law to be impeached, don't you?

[The Coopster]

That's right! Divide and conquer. Worked for Perot.....

[Zobaz]

I'm not sure. It would appear to the rational that the act of failing to enforce obvious laws is as odious as the breaking of others, but you may have a slight point.