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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The Minutemen are a joke
Here's another bunch of jackasses to ignore. Did anyone see the Stephen Colbert special on the Minutemen? It was pretty great. My favorite quote was, "We should give them 6 months to get out of the country and then kill the rest." Just patriotism I'm sure, no xenophobia/racism there.
These idiots go out and "secure" small sections of the border by erecting 4-foot high barbed wire fences that you could probably clear with a good running jump. For the elderly or infirm you could probably drape a blanket over it, or, just pull the wire apart and step through. Or, since it's at most going to be a 10 mile stretch, just walk around it. A perfect give up issue. As long as they're playing cop on the border and suffering the occasional heat stroke they can't cause any trouble where people actually live. If only we could find a useless activity to occupy bigots all year long. |
6 Comments:
You write:
"These idiots [are] erecting 4-foot high barbed wire fences that you could probably clear with a good running jump"
However, an actual news report on the fence describes it as:
"two parallel 12-to-15-foot fences with anti-vehicle ditches and eight feet of coiled barbed wire on either side"
4:37 PM, May 30, 2006
Ahem. "Proposed" is the operative word that you cut out of that sentence. You really have a neat trick of just not even seeing the words that contradict your pre-formed ideas.
Watch the Colbert report on the fence they're building, or look at the pictures. They are building a fence that couldn't stop grandma from crossing. The "proposed" fence might be 12-15 feet high. The "actual" fence is a shoddily constructed joke.
actual fence
12:14 AM, June 01, 2006
"Watch the Colbert report on the fence they're building"
I know you are too smart to take Colbert seriously but I don't get the joke here.
I linked to a real news report on the difference between what they wanted to build (i.e. proposed to build) and what others wanted to restrict them to.
Can you link to a report (not a Colbert Report) to indicate what role that that rickety little fence in the photo plays in their plan?
1:14 AM, June 01, 2006
You can "propose" the Empire State building and erect a 10 foot pile of shit. But I don't have to pretend your pile of shit is the Empire State Building.
Google image "minutemen fence" and you will find images like this one. I'm not impressed.
11:39 PM, June 01, 2006
Possibly there is no photo yet because groundbreaking wasn't scheduled to begin until a couple days ago.
12:52 AM, June 02, 2006
They did go out to build a fence. Colbert had video (the same fence that was in that picture). It was pathetic. That's all I'm saying.
And they did not build the fence in that picture from the minutemen site, that's clearly a picture of an existing fence.
Let me repeat. If you propose the empire state building and instead compost your cat's feces for a year, I will not be impressed. I was listening to NPR Justice Talking and the agreed upon cost of such a fence was about 4 billion dollars.
Luckily the minutemen are taking donations. With their rate of 4 hours of work on holiday weekends each year, they'll surely finish construction sometime before the Earth is swallowed by the sun.
What a joke.
5:47 PM, June 05, 2006
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