McSame's "Hypocrisy and Lies Express" Drives The Mexico and U.S. Border Fence

Bush's regime and its Republican flunkies and supportoers' anti-human rights, anti-ecology, anti-environment border fence has been placed on hold.
 
The corporate contractor with its scamming the taxpayers boondoggle should never have seen the light of day to begin with.
 
I wrote about this border blight many times, here, here and here, for example.  Included in those postings were this: "...the abominable border fence being constructed by theDepartment of Homeland Security.

"Another Bush monstrosity fails. His virtual fence along the Mexican border doesn't work and will be delayed for at least three years.

"The Washington Post reports, "Investigators for the Government Accountability Office had earlier warned that the effort was beset by both expected and unplanned difficulties. But yesterday, they disclosed new troubles that will require a redesign and said the first phase will not be completed until near the end of the next president's first term.

"Those problems included Boeing's use of inappropriate commercial software, designed for use by police dispatchers, to integrate data related to illicit border-crossings.Boeing has already been paid $20.6 million for the pilot project, and in December, the DHS gave the firm another $65 million to replace the software with military-style, battle management software." 

"Giving Boeing millions of taxpayers' money and its product doesn't work...par for the course for the Bush administration and its corporate profiteering cronies.

"Bush's administration has even played favorites with the 700 mile steel and concrete border wall, destroying the homes and property of regular working Americans and public institutions but bypassing the property of rich Republican donors, like oil tycoon, Ray L. Hunt, a close friend of Dubya's.

"Bush's wall is also destroying the environment as the Orwellian Department of Homeland Security has already waived environmental regulations to erect the barrier.

"Like most of the Bush administration's Rube Goldberg like idiocies that can't even effectively finish a simple task, this one is already a failure before completion.

"From environmentalgraffiti comes this gem, "They have bravely persisted in building the fence despite repeated assertions from a variety of sources that it will be massively expensive and completely ineffective. (My personal favorite piece of anti-border fence media comes from Penn & Teller's: B*llsh$T. They built a fence to the specs the government created, then had several undocumented immigrants try to get through, under, and over it. It took about 5 minutes for 6 people to get through.)" 
 
And this: "Bush's administration has even played favorites with the 700 mile steel and concrete border wall, destroying the homes and property of regular working Americans and public institutions but bypassing the property of rich Republican donors, like oil tycoon, Ray L. Hunt, a close friend of Dubya's."
 
The always informative Cursor.org today has this: "According to a new Pew survey, Latinos in the U.S., upset about "aggressive immigration enforcement policies," are 'dourabout their situation' and less likely to vote for McCain, who is perceived as "zigzagging" on immigration as he backs away from the border fence."
 
 
"Just after the Republican National Convention ended, the party's nominee Sen. John McCain sat down for an interview with a major American network. It wasn't ABC, NBC or CBS: he was interviewed by Jorge Ramos, Univision's lead anchor and the host of the show Al Punto which focuses on politics. The network's web site summed up the interview saying McCain, "skirted questions about his vote in favor of the border wall."

"In fact, McCain seemed to tell Ramos he did not vote for construction of the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico. (He did not finish the sentence twice, however.) Here's that segment of the interview (the video is dubbed into Spanish):

"Here's a transcript of the original exchange in English, as published by Univision:

Ramos: You voted for the construction of the wall between Mexico and the United States. However, the Mexican Government has just confirmed that every year, at least half a million Mexicans come to the United States. How exactly are you planning to secure that border? Every single minute there is an immigrant coming into the United States illegally.

McCain: I didn't vote for, I am not sure what you are talking about, but we can secure

Ramos: about 700 miles.

McCain: I say we can secure our borders with walls and/or fences in urban areas, and then virtual fences, vehicle barriers

Ramos: But, you did vote for the wall.

McCain: I didn't vote for an, I don't know what you are exactly, what you are referring to. What my plan was, and what our proposal was, that we secure our borders, and we can secure it, not necessarily with walls and fences. Although that is important in populated areas, in the deserts of Arizona vehicle barriers, cameras, and sensors, all of those things, can be used.

"Did McCain vote for the wall or not?

"On Sept. 28, 2006, when the Secure Fence Act was passed that approved the construction of the border barrier, McCain voted "Yea," Senate records show".

Posted by Kaz at 9/19/2008 6:06 PM
Categories: 2008, McCain
 

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