Stupid CNN Poll: Which is more important to tightening

[woodsprite]

the U.S.-Mexico border?

More technology 32%
More manpower 68%

with 40932 votes

What happened to the other choice? Enforcment of current laws

[electropop]

1. Both are needed in order to enforce current laws.

It's like asking, "Which do you need more: air or water?"

[Orsino]

6. Restoring the Border patrol funding that Congress cut...

...is, of course, not an option--or if it is, it can't be stated that way.

[jojo54]

2. That's the kind of stupid neocon question that I refuse to vote in.

They really STILL think we are all just dumb sheeple, don't they?

[PATRICK]

3. These are almost like WH commissioned polls

They seem to want to sneakily test things that cannot be directly asked without giving away what they are after while at the same time serving the good old news spin for making you assume these choices are both a done deal.

A scientific study of unscientific MSM polling might reveal whether it is corporate subservience to the Bush agenda, their own agenda, their fear of the public turning, timidly getting behind a new wave of opinion or simply crafted adjuncts to WH polling itself. And whether the poll is creating opinion and decisions rather than asking for them. Since they are heavily tampered with and "unscientific" of course the main goal is to present their opinion and have people fighting over which version they prefer of a lie.

In this case one might suspect whether they are testing or goading the people on commitment of troops and how tempting and acceptable it is to say "go for the high tech whatever that is and don't bother us". The predisposition of this Coup to privatize and take out the troublesome human element completely for massive and centralized technological tools is pretty plain, from voting to war to spying. The win win goes like this. Without getting to an increasingly necessary draft the human forces are stressed out and then the public given relief by taking this to the private sector and toys of mass control. The logic forced on the public veers them constantly toward making every WH disaster push toward a new WH solution. And if they want more troops they are signing on to the federal militarization(martial law) of every single deliberate failure. If they prefer the tech that will take time while the martial law blanket over America descends they have no clue what it is or how it will likely be used, also far beyond the scope of the single issue and its real needs.

And on and on...

[bleedingheart]

4. how about electing a socialist government in Mexico that cares for

its own people enough to not want them to leave?

How about improving the standard of living among Mexicans in Mexico???

Nope...they don't deal with the real problems...just the bandaids

[fasttense]

5. Oh my God, there is an immigration post (well actually a post

about an immigration poll) and I agree with everyone who has posted here. Has hell frozen over?

[liberal N proud]

7. They dare not mention the corporation who are hiring illegals

Or stopping them.