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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:41 PM
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military contractors to gain control of U.S. borders - snookered again

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/18/news/bush.php

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Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, three of the largest, are among the companies that said they would submit bids within two weeks for a multibillion-dollar contract to build what the administration calls a "virtual fence" along the U.S. borders.

Using some of the same high-priced, high-tech tools these companies have already put to work in Iraq and Afghanistan - like unmanned aerial vehicles, ground surveillance satellites and motion-detection video equipment - the defense contractors are zeroing the long borders that separate Mexico and Canada from the United States.

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The Bush administration intends to not simply buy high-tech equipment to help it patrol the borders - a tactic it has also already tried, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, with extremely limited success. It is also asking the contractors to devise and build a whole new border strategy.
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corps. "build a whole new border strategy"

americans snookered again

it goes like this: the more money the bushmilhousegang sucks up an equal amount of people become newly poor.
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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 01:04 PM
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1. Now they are trying to lock us in with fences along with "No fly" list.
Wake up folks.
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Scoody Boo Donating Member (634 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:47 PM
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5. Now is the time to leave...
soon it is going to be too late.

People leaving the US aren't going out across the desert or in numbers to matter. Such statements are just freeper fodder. I am an immigrant and have yet regret coming here for even one day. We have problems but none that I see leaving the US for.
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 01:25 PM
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2. More murder to come and...
phoney investigations with no incarceration
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 01:45 PM
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3. Unreal n/t
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 01:48 PM
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4. More theft.
Out of the pockets of American citizens, into the pockets of the favored few.
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