Hero/Hack: Barriers to Entry
"We're helping our Border Patrol agents do their job," Bush said before the signing, noting the bill is "an important step in our nation's efforts to secure our borders."
But months before the Secure Fence Act was passed by Congress, the MCDC decided to take border security into its own hands. In May, the group barb-wired a 10-mile stretch of border on another Arizona ranch.
"If the government won't build it, we're a self-governing people, we need to step up and do it," Hair said.
Utilizing high-tech gadgetry straight out of a "James Bond" movie, the Minuteman's latest project is a .9-mile-long barrier designed to be an early detection and warning system to aid the U.S. Border Patrol in its fight against illegal immigration.
"We're trying to demonstrate that you can have an extremely effective, multi-tiered approach to the problem of illegal immigrants coming across the border, and we're trying to show that you can combine technology with just a good old-fashioned tall fence," said Peter Kunz, project manager for the Minuteman fence system.
My hack this week is James Webb, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate for some really ribald stuff found in his novels. Now, you can write whatever you want, but Webb really proved himself dumb because you don't write stuff like that if you might be engaged in public office in the future (see also: Scooter Libby).
Wizbang:
I seem to remember hearing there was some embarrassing stuff in Webb's novels a while back, but didn't hear any specifics and had forgotten about it. These excerpts are very graphic, and go way beyond "embarrassing."Note: This is the first post that I have composed with Firefox 2. Love the built in spell check!
I wonder if Allen will take some grief for bringing them up now, in the final days of the campaign. Whatever criticism Allen gets has to be far outweighed by the content of those passages, though. There is a serious "ick" factor here. I think a lot of voters will just have to ask themselves if they want to elect a senator with such creepy thoughts running through his brain.
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