Shiver Me Timbers wrote:

kontiki wrote:


Why not stop these terrorist people from getting into
the country in the first place?


The above comment you made is so vague and generic as to defy
description.

So why don't you come back to the group and specifically tell us all
just exactly you would do to stop any terrorist from getting into
your country in the first place.

Okay.. thank you for allowing me to elaborate. Every single day hundreds
of unknown, undocumented individuals enter this country across our borders.
The Border Patrol makes but a dent in this number. Who these people are, where
they come from and their exact intentions are totally unknown. Yes, many of them
come from Mexico and countries in South America looking for a better life.
An unknown quantity of other individuals, however, are coming here for other
purposes. These are the ones that would do us harm and they know they have a 50/50
chance of getting in here *totally* undetected. No paperwork... no way to
determine their motives... their intentions or their criminal or political history.

There is also a northern border that is just as porus. I submit that a reasonable
person would conclude that a good use of a percentage of US forces might be to
assist the Border Patrol monitor and secure these borders to a greater extent than
they are today. I bet if you took a poll of all troops in Iraq and asked them if
they would rather serve their tours assisting the border patrol HERE in the US or
in the deserts of Iraq would find a lot of volunteers for the program.

In fact.... I one might also conclude that critical monitoring of who GOT a Visa
and who didn't and just what these visa holders where actually DOING in this country
might have prevented 9-11. It was, after all, the responsibility of the INS to do
this very thing, which they utterly failed to do. The result was that the INS was
dissolved... I don't know about you but I feel better already.

Seems like what we are doing now is hiring a bunch of government
employees to plug holes in the dike.


Who is "we"..... All your doing is mouthing off in a newsgroup about a
problem your government is well aware of, and you are not giving any
specific examples of just what should be or could be done to plug all
the holes in that dike.

"WE" are American citizens and LEGAL immigrants/visitors. I just one specific
examples above, please read. If you desire more I will gladly oblige.


Rhetoric is one thing that everyone in a newsgroup is good at.

Please highlight ANYTHING I just said that any reasonable person would consider
to be simply "rhetoric".

Specific and viable solutions to the problem are a different matter
altogether.

I just gave one. I could give more if you are really interested.

So hop to it kontiki, hoist that sail, grab your oar, and tell us
exactly how you would solve the problem..... and leave your
rhetoric behind.

Balls in your court... diagram all of my rhetoric to the rest of the group.