Day: June 26, 2006

Ya know, I’ve not been able to mention the wall treatments that I’m (just now) finishing up in our home to local folks, neighbors, friends and the like. Why? Because America’s Third World County has a communication system that is faster than light. As soon as (if not slightly before) I said something like “I just finished plastering the walls, working evenings over the past few weeks… ” it’d be all over the county about how I spent all my evenings getting plastered.

Count on it. Communication that’s faster than light, just not all that reliable.

*heh*

Knocking back a few at Consevative Cat

“The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day… ”

The following article is reprinted with permission via Minuteman HQ email.

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An Update from the Minuteman Fence Project Manager

First, let me say thanks to the brave ranchers who are stepping up to put their lives on the line to stop the illegal invasion. They live and work within spitting distance of the Mexican border every day. These brave men and women are working side by side with Minutemen in this war zone they call home, allowing us to secure America.

Second, let’s be clear. Not every single mile of the border or every ranch or rancher is the same. The full-on Israeli-style Security Fence is our primary design and first choice for construction. However, when circumstances dictate adjustment to a Border Fence with barbed wire and a vehicle barrier or another design to meet local requirements, we will make the necessary adaptations—and keep building.

Our plan: Do the job until our government does its duty.

• Announce the need for the Minuteman Border Fence.
• Ask again that President Bush do his duty and secure the border.
• Schedule a groundbreaking to get the Border Fence launched.
• Begin raising the $55 million needed for 70 miles of fence in AZ.
• Work with ranchers to design fence to meet specific private landsite requirements.
• Get steel and contractors to manage the sites.
• Register and vet fencing volunteers.
• Build a Minuteman Fence Security Plan to patrol fencing.
• Set up Volunteer Crews administration and crew management
• Continue to build fence as fast as resources allow.
• Start more sites in TX, CA and NM as donations and olunteer capacity permit.
• Continue Border Watch and Fence Operations until the border is secure.

Click to view details of fence diagram.


A Comprehensive Design
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This week I have planned posts on “Mending Walls: Faith, Part 3” and another tentatively titled, “Mending Walls: Public Education—The Carefully Considered Rape of the American Citizen’s Mind.” I suspect the rest of the twc posts this week, apart from those that are crossposts informational or simply for my own amusement, will be themed similarly, influenced by the following comment made by William James in his Dedication Speech for the Shaw Memorial (Robert Gould Shaw), Boston, May 31, 1897:

The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes; they always dwell within their borders. And from these internal enemies civilization is always in need of being saved. The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks. Such nations have no need of wars to save them. Their accounts with righteousness are always even; and God’s judgments do not have to overtake them fitfully in bloody spasms and convulsions of the race.

I leave it to my readers to educe the theme.

Rabbit trail: read the whole speech. It’s a reminder of how much better a writer William James was than his brother, Henry.

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