Comments on: Interview with John Smallberries, Minuteman Project Volunteer

By: ed

ed — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:15:50 +0000

if bush had his way and if not for 9.11 there would be people
waltzing across that border right now, open border.

By: PapaScott

PapaScott — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:36:08 +0000

Borders and Tunnels
Two items from John Robb’s Weblog today: one from the New York Times on an elaborate tunnel discovered at the Mexican border, and another on a citizens’ militia in Arizona to patrol the border. This is related to Nicole Simon’s…

By: John Robb's Weblog

John Robb's Weblog — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:44:07 +0000

US Paramilitaries
La Shawn has an interview with a member (he has a nom de guerre of John Smallberries, right out of the movie

By: Daily Pundit

Daily Pundit — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:48:48 +0000

At War On The Border
Remember America’s own pop-up militia, the Minutemen volunteers who will soon begin patrolling the US/Mexico border. La Shawn Barber has now conducted an interview with one of the Minutemen and posted Part 1 and Part 2 on her website….

By: stan

stan — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:07:07 +0000

lwlfnm,

Businessmen want their cheap labor and both parties are trolling for votes. Its a matter of political will, not technology.

By: lwlfnm

lwlfnm — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:05:55 +0000

I don’t understand why it is so hard to seal the borders. In the former Soviet Union borders were literally sealed. They had a much longer border than United States does. Several lines of barbed wire, a strip of plowed ground and vigilant patrolling did the trick. I think the USA being much more advanced technically and financially could do at least as well.

By: stan

stan — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:05:39 +0000

Heck,

I didn’t say I wanted the population to grow. I didn’t say I wanted Arizona or the Great Plains to grow. I just said that those are the facts. The Great Plains are actually de-populating. And I would doubt that any Nebraskans think there’re too many people. They are devastated that so many of their young people have left the state. The population has only begun to grow again in the last decade. And this has only happened because people are living longer and because places like Lincoln and Omaha are creating a few jobs. Another reason is the presence of an increasing number of Mexicans, legal and illegal.
As a Californian and living in a county which has almost double Nebraska’s population, I would love to send about 10 million of our folk somewhere else. Many are moving away but its still not enough. We’d still have 27 million, which is 6-7 more than Texas but where can I send them? Any ideas?(ha!)

By: heck

heck — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:41:50 +0000

Stan,
Why would you want to have all those open spaces filled with people? For what purpose? Once those spaces are filled, they will be filled for always. Then what? There are people living in India who, also, don’t think that India has a population problem. I find your view just as irrational as theirs. Or, perhaps it’s just a matter of perception? Since 1950 the population of Nebraska has increased by almost 1/4. I would wager that there are older Nrbraskans who think their state has become over populated.

By: SCSIwuzzy

SCSIwuzzy — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:04:07 +0000

Actually, asm and Highlander are both right. The policy has changed many times over the years. It has been very open, and it has been very selective, depending on the political and economic climate at the time. It’s a dynamic thing, this democratic republic of ours.

By: SCSIwuzzy

SCSIwuzzy — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:00:06 +0000

stan,
Correct. The city of Philadlphia, PA, the size of a moderately large county, has 3 times the population of the entire state of Wyoming. Wyoming, BTW, is noticeably larger than Pennsylvania as a whole.

By: stan

stan — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:59:54 +0000

Amen, asm…a number of my folks, Germans from Russia, were turned back for some of those reasons and went to their death in the days of Stalin.

But no need to react emotionally to Highlander. Your argument proved your point.

By: asm

asm — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:37:31 +0000

Of those who were willing, some had to break the law, but most didnâ€™t have to: it was American policy to welcome immigrants. (“Give us your tired, your poor.”)

Hmmm, really? Let me see, in 1920 when my great-grandparents immigrated from from Norway:

No Chinese were allowed.
Also excluded were persons convicted of political offenses, lunatics, idiots, and persons likely to become public charges.
Admission of contract laborers was banned.
Polygamists and political radicals were excluded.
People with physical or mental defects or tuberculosis and children unaccompanied by parents were excluded.
Illiterates, persons of psychopathic inferiority, men as well as women entering for immoral purposes, alcoholics, stowaways, and vagrants were excluded.
Japanese immigration was restricted.

You’re sure full of hot air, Highlander, but I have yet to see you successfully defend your point. In fact, I’m not even sure if you have a point.

By: stan

stan — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:16:19 +0000

Oops! orange grove not orange orchard. I grew up in a farm state, Nebraska, but I’m a city boy. My bad.

By: stan

stan — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:11:58 +0000

Heck,
The U.S. might be overpopulated in some urban areas but it is by no means overpopulated. West of Illinois lie Iowa and the Great Plains states, including Nebraska, where I grew up. I will guarantee you that they are not overpopulated. They are all dying to get more people to move there. I lived in Phoenix for 13 years. There is room there to grow west to the Colorado River (perhaps 150 miles) and south to Tucson (120 miles). Counting those two areas, there is room for 10s of millions and Arizona wants them. AZ is populated by hundreds of thousands from the state of Illinois. Maybe you should encourage more to move to AZ. U.S. population problems are based on distribution, not on raw numbers.

By: stan

stan — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:22:03 +0000

Cameron,

Most of the problem with “illegals” is identical to our drug problem. Dopers have created an insatiable demand for their drug of choice. U.S. employers continue to create an insatiable demand for low-wage labor. The problem is not with the illegals or with the government of Mexico, etc. It is with the “illegal” employers here who hire them and WANT them to come here. Start putting them in jail and see what happens.
Pres. Bush is 100% right when he says that they are doing jobs Americans won’t do. Not sure where you live but why don’t you go round up a bunch of “Americans” and bring them out to my home San Diego County. We need a whole bunch of strawberry pickers right now in the fields along I-5 in the Carlsbad area. If they don’t like that then we also have openings for avocado and citrus pickers, too. Housing is provided by shanties out in the little canyons under the trees. If they’re single, generous ladies come by regularly to relieve their tension. Pay is low but hey!…we have the best climate in the country plus the Zoo, Wild Animal Park and Sea World. And maybe they can work their way up and own their orange orchard someday. What’s not to like?