by Jim Barton on Friday, September 16, 2011 at 10:16pm
Since the George Dubya Bush Commemorative Border Wall cuts through farms, golf courses, homesteads and businesses it needs openings large enough to allow homeowners and their vehicles to get from one side of their property to the other. These openings have now become sort of a security breach since the undocumented can actually leave their 11 foot ladders at home and simply walk around a section of the wall. Homeland Security never saw this coming, but are quick on their bureaucratic feet with a response.
In an unspecified time frame, Homeland proposes to have built 80 gates to seal up these openings, thus making our country secure again. Of course, closed gates can be opened, but Homeland is so far ahead of the game, it's funny. No, Master Padlocks did not get a huge government contract. Our government agency of protection is going with key pads. Only local law enforcement and the farmers, landowners and necessary personnel will have access to the code. Once open, a gate will remain so for only 5 minutes. Who could possibly sneak in that quickly? Any landowner who feels he is being followed as he approaches the gate is instructed to alert local law enforcement.
The fence around El Calaboz, TX, with known ocelot migration routes already has "cat holes", as pictured. Since it was proven in the 70's by my friend Tom Robinson that ocelots migrate across the Rio Bravo in Cameron County as well, perhaps we need the same. Next we may even hear from Mildred Camomile, chairperson of the Rudy's RV Park Tea Party, suggesting prison barb wire topping the walls.
So if you are a landowner and I want to cross my merchandise over, I can hold your family member hostage. If you call the authorities, you will never see your family member again. The idea of the gates is as foolish as the Wall. The only ones who benefit are the ones who get the contracts.
ReplyDeleteExactly. The landowner becomes an unarmed, or at least untrained member of law enforcement, controlling the traffic through the gate. The instant a gate is constructed, it puts the family on the land in increased danger.
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