RJB
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- Jun 8, 2007
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This is why I stay out of these conversations. I know where you are coming from. Walling off the entire Rio Grande River is insane. Those random ID checkpoints 50 miles from the border is tyrannical. I support those guys who refuse to show ID.I've never had a problem with Border Patrol or even a military presence on the border. It's when people can't see the bigger picture that I have a problem with. The surveillance police state is very close to completion, thanks to 9/11. 9/11 was used as the excuse for the police state phase domestically, interestingly also under a conservative President. Now, it's immigrants being scapegoated to implement other measures that conservatives and libertarians would otherwise oppose such as calling for walling ourselves in like we're Palestinians. Fear the brown people that threaten you! It's all for your own safety, of course.
However I see the disaster the Uniparty system that California has become, but TPTB will use the excuse to defend against that as reason to implement the above. However not implementing it will mean my state turning into a California and California turning into Venezuela. And no it's not the brown people of Venezuela. It's the socialism of Venezuela that I dislike. As much as the state I live in could improve, it beat the hell out of CA and Venezuela.