In response to the insane, right wing anti-immigrant crowd, our government announced that we would be building a 700-mile border fence between the U.S. and Mexico. How fucking awesome is that? Especially when you consider that the border is 2,100 miles long. Obviously it will work, because most ranchers only fence off 1/3 of their land and the cows dont know the difference. I know when I was growing up, we fenced in 1/3 of the yard, and our dog was never able to get out. Thats how fences work, especially retarded fences.

So, in October 2006, Bush signed The Secure Fence Act. And then we went about figuring out how to build this border fence. The Department of Homeland Security, which never does anything wrong, came up with the construction plans and began acquiring land. In California, Arizona, and New Mexico there were few problems because borderland is mostly federal land. But Texas is another story, because much of the land is privately owned. That means eminent domain, which means people are losing their land. For a retarded fence.

Oh, and by the time 2008 rolled around, the 700-mile border fence was halved.

Department officials have since whittled that down to a plan for about 370 miles of pedestrian fencing and 300 miles of vehicle barriers to be finished by the end of 2008.

Vehicle barriers? How the fuck is an illegal immigrant ever going to get over a vehicle barrier? Its genius! And dont even think that illegal immigrants will know how to build a ladder or dig a hole. Thats crazy talk.

Late last year, the DHS sent letters to 135 private property owners explaining that they had to give up their land - for a fence that will only cover 370 miles of land on a 2100 mile border.

Landowners were given 30 days to change their minds or face legal action. More than 100 of them -- 71 in Texas -- let the deadline pass.

The US has begun taking legal action to take the property away.

Over the past several weeks, U.S. attorneys acting on behalf of the Homeland Security Department have been filing lawsuits against the holdouts. Already, federal district judges have ordered one landowner in California, 11 in Arizona and 11 in Texas -- including the small city of Eagle Pass -- to temporarily surrender their properties. The mayor of Eagle Pass, which is located about 100 miles southwest of San Antonio and stands to lose 233 acres of city-owned land, said the city is planning to appeal. Suits are also pending against 14 landowners in California and 44 in South Texas.

Okay. See anything wrong there? How about a city losing 233 acres to a fucking fence? Exactly how wide is this retarded fence? Its a pretty consistent story all along the border. Nydia and Fred Garcias ranch is screwed.

The fence would mean that 25 acres of the 80 acres of farmland that they and another brother jointly own would be on the Mexican side.

Massive amounts of land will be lost because of the placement of the fence. One would expect a border fence to be built on the border. No so. In some cases, like that of Eloisa Tamez, 72, the fence will cut through her ranch, which is one mile north of the border. And why not? Its not like the government hasnt completely fucked her family over before?

Her ancestors once owned 12,000 acres. In the 1930s, the federal government took more than half of her inherited land, without paying a cent, to build flood levees.

Now she only owns three acres -- and the government wants to put a fence through the middle of it. Did I mention the fence will be 370 miles long, while the border is 2,100 miles long? I did? Oh, did I mention that the fence wont be in one piece? Did I tell you about the giant missing parts of the fence? That there will be big holes in places where rich people live?

Meet Dallas billionaire Ray L. Hunt. Hes good friend to a man named George Bush.

Hunt was a Bush-Cheney campaign Pioneer in 2000. More recently, Hunt donated $35 million to Southern Methodist University to help build Bushs presidential library. In 2001, Bush appointed Hunt to his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, granting him a security clearance and access to classified intelligence.

Hunt, one of the wealthiest oilmen in the world, previously served on the board of Halliburton and was National Petroleum Council chairman between 1991 and 1994.

Guess whose land the fence wont affect? Turns out the fence is just going to stop when it gets to Hunts land, then pick back up on the other side. Thatll stop those illegal Mexicans!

Daniel Garza, a 76-year-old man who might lose his home to the border fences intrusion, noted, I dont see why they have to destroy my home, my land, and let the wall end there. Pointing across the street to Hunts land, he added, How will that stop illegal immigration?

It wont. Now shut the fuck up, poor person. Of course, its not the only place the fence will have holes.

While the border wall will go through her backyard and effectively destroy her home, it will stop at the edge of the River Bend Resort and golf course, a popular Winter Texan retreat two miles down the road. The wall starts up again on the other side of the resort.

It has a golf course and all of the amenities, Tamez says. There are no plans to build a wall there. If the wall is so important for security, then why are we skipping parts?

Because they dont give a shit. Because its not about the fence. Its about money. They used the fervor of the anti-immigrant morons to steal more money from Americans. Its about a bullshit project that gives money to some company for making a worthless product. They certainly dont care about the people of Texas.

Foster says he has never received any logical answers from Homeland Security as to why certain areas in his city had been targeted for fencing over other areas. I puzzled a while over why the fence would bypass the industrial park and go through the city park, he says.

The word soulless comes to mind. Understand what this is: Nothing more than a giant give away of money to private companies. This is the most useless, fucked up, retarded fence in the world. Officially, its going to cost at least $1.2 billion, while most estimates double that amount.

In a February 2007 hearing, Congressman Henry Waxman, a California Democrat and the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, had more scathing remarks for Giddens and the SBInet project. As of December, the Department of Homeland Security had hired a staff of 98 to oversee the new SBInet contract. This may seem like progress until you ask who these overseers are. More than half are private contractors. Some of these private contractors even work for companies that are business partners of Boeing, the company they are supposed to be overseeing. And from what we are now learning from the department, this may be just the tip of the iceberg.

Waxman said of SBInet that virtually every detail is being outsourced from the government to private contractors. The government is relying on private contractors to design the programs, build them, and even conduct oversight over them.

Total fucking waste. But thats just to build the fence. What about keeping it operational?

A 2007 congressional report estimates the cost of maintaining and building the fence could be as much as $49 billion over its expected 25-year life span.

America, bend over, because a retarded fence is being rammed up your dirt hole.

emotedcreations

Germany

July 2006

FEB 21, 2008 03:03 AM

mistressmissy

Grand Rapids, MI

March 2003

FEB 21, 2008 03:20 AM

Yeah it's completely retarded that the government can come over and say, hey we're building a fence where your house is, you gotta move. and people will have to because they say so.
That does not seem very constitutional at all.