I love the beautiful irony of the privately funded Minuteman border fence. Instead of taking the ton of money given to them to actually build a fence, they just paid off themselves and built a cow fence. Not at all what these staunch patriots (er, bigots) were expecting. They thought they were building a super high double fence with trenches and cameras and what not. They got a five wire cow fence that anyone could jump over or cut through in a matter of seconds.
Could it be that privately funded efforts are just as prone to graft and corruption as public ventures? Perhaps even more so because of the complete lack of accountability?
Here is the question I have for all of you Minuteman fans; why aren't you up in arms about the Canadian border? It's much bigger, much more porous, and the one documented entry of a terror suspect we have coming over a border was from the Canadian side. Shouldn't we be putting up a fence there too? And how about the border between Alaska and Canada? And the waters around Hawaii? Seems like we have a lot of borders. So why is the Mexican border the only one you care about?
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