Re: U.S. militias on the Border

pgissource offers:

->>I personally don't care much for militarizing the border. That stinks too
much of totalitarian states.<<-

Bilge: The difference, chappie, is in which direction the muzzles of the border
police's weapons are pointed. No one who ever saw the Berlin Wall and the
handiwork of the Volkspolizei so powerfully displayed at the Checkpoint Charlie
Museum would be in any doubt whatsoever about the issue.

->> However, it's also amusing watching the right whine that the feds aren't
doing enough when the very same rightwingers also want to see fed budgets and
resources slashed<<-pgissource

Bilge: I'd offer that there'd be less whining if the funds were not being
essentially squandered in the nth rerun of the same old impotent dog and pony
show. (Regardless of which "wing"{fin?...flipper?}, you might assign me to.).

->>Perhaps why so many of the "border militia" types seem to hail from areas
*not* along the borders.<<-pgissource

Bilge: Well, jeez, chummie, I'd wager that a miniscule percentage of illegals
"drop anchor", so to speak, a scant 100 yards inside the border.
Rather, they go where the jobs are...major metropolitan areas, in all
likelihood, along with labor-intensive agricultural districts. 
  It's the folks in these areas whose jobs are being lost, and whose wages are
being depressed by illegal alien labor on the local job market.
I'd offer that it only stands to reason that the (mostly) white working class 
, which I ken constitutes the vast majority of militia membership and fellow
travellers, bends their efforts toward what they perceive to be the source of
their troubles.

->>Most of us that have spent prolonged periods along the SW
border know better than to think a few guys strutting in cammies toting guns
really answers the issues. Though they could be useful for rescue ops with a
little proper management and the right attitude<<-pgissource

Bilge: I spent 4 years at 29 Palms, California...does that qualify? In fact, I
even got to trudge many,many,many miles of the Mojave Desert thereabouts,(more
than I ever freakin' cared to, frankly), and I was dressed even more
ridiculously than your average "Bracero".

 Oh, yes, my point...those hobbyist gentlemen in camouflage behind that
creosote bush yonder might be far more effective back at home with a set of
binoculars and a cell phone within visual distance of your average construction
site or suburban neighborhood. If our Feds and or States really gave a damn
about trespassers, a nice sliding bounty scale for reporting the "stowaways"
would be set up.

 Say, $100.00 a head for garden variety undocumented worker,
         $500.00 a head if he's been "shown the door" before.
         $1000.00 a head if he's a property criminal in addition to his status
         $10,000 if he's a violent criminal
         $100,000 if he's on our terrorist watch list.

 The funds would be negligible to the public purse, since the erstwhile
employer would get that chunk taken out of his bank balance.

  And the dirty little trick would be to pay the snitch money...even to other
illegals. Make 'em all paranoid of each other.

  Oh yeah, this voyage was Boston, Norfolk, Jax, Panama, Guam Okinawa,
Saipan...generally westward.

   Victory;