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Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams'
Dr_Barnowl writes "The BBC reports that Texas intends to erect a network of online webcams at its border to Mexico. The intention is apparently to use viewers as a kind of distributed processing network, with a free phone number to report border-jumpers." From the article: "'A stronger border is what Americans want and it's what our security demands and that is what Texas is going to deliver,' Mr Perry said. The cameras will cost $5m (£2.7m) to install and will be trained on sections of the 1,000-mile (1,600km) border known to be favoured by illegal immigrants " Hey, it's working for Britain, right?
well the private sector can set this up (if shooting border jumpers isn't illegal)
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http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/17/internet-hunti
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'
This will save a lot of money by not having to hire government employees to watch these cameras. People will be fighting to watch these cameras and there will never be a shortage of people willing to help out. I do like the attached sentry gun idea a little more though. Once it got done shooting it would be cool if it said something like "Don't mess with Texas".
If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up. - Comedian Mitch Hedberg R.I.P. 03/30/68-2/24/05
Of course, GP already knows this, but rather chooses to use emotional rhetoric to justify illegal immigration. Either that, or GP doesn't differentiate between "guest" and "trespasser".
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Next.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Ri-ight, because most of our ancestors never "invaded" America, or deposited our "people" here.
And those who came over were obviously the best and brightest, and not religious nuts, farmers fleeing a potato famine, etc.
The difference, we took the land through acquisition - buying it from the French, Mexicans, and waging outright war on the Indians, which we have given them vast ammounts of land to call their own, and allowed them to do otherwise illegal activities (Indian Casinos in CA anyone) to try and make ammends so the far left will feel good about themselves. What Mexico is doing is equivocal to declaring war on us and invading us, but if we were to declare war and strike back, or in the case of us wanting to defend ourselves everyone things we are the bad guys.
When will you UN loving hippies pull your heads out of your rectums and realize that we have as much of a right to live and have our ideals as you do; and you trying to force your one-world-government, open borders, homosexuality for everyone and such closedmindedness on us is just as wrong as the KKK's white supremacy movement.
Erutangis ym si siht.
I think they should also mount a rifle or something at the same location as the cameras. This rifle could then be controlled remotely from the web site by the cam viewer. This would avoid the need to have to call the violation in.
Yes it is an argument. Murder and child molestation ARE illegal, watching a public display within your own home is not. Perhaps, in your derth of logic, what you meant to say was "what is the moral difference?" No, there's a great difference there as well.
Perhaps your problem is in not understanding there's a difference between reality and abstract example?