Build a Wall and They Will Come

In the context of the total mess created by the Bush administration, the building of a wall across our southern border to keep out illegal Mexicans might not seem all that important. Nevertheless, it symbolizes the idiocy perpetrated by the numbskulls running our country.

A mayor in Texas (can't remember the name) said once that if you show her a 50 foot wall, she'll show you a 51 foot ladder.

She had it right. A wall ain't gonna do it, but building a wall does give the Department of Homeless Insecurity something on which to waste more money. The DHS can also continue to browbeat and harass people just like Hitler's Brownshirts. They can condemn land and take it away from people who don't want to sell. And that's just what they do.

The Texas Observer describes some of the shennanigans perpetrated by DHS in the building of the wall. Eloisa Tamez is 72. She lives in Brownsville, Texas. She "is one of the last of the Spanish land grant heirs in Cameron Country. Her ancestors once owned 12,000 acres. In the 1930's, the federal government took more than half of her inherited land, without paying a cent, to build flood levees.

"Now Homeland Security wants to put an 18-foot steel and concrete wall through what remains."

That's bad enough, 'cause the wall will run through her backyard and essentially destroy her home. But, worse, it will stop two miles down the road at the boundary line of the River Bend Resort. Why is that? River Bend is owned by John Allburg, who had no comment.

Further on, another resident faces the same problem. The wall will go right through his brick home and a little house he gave to his son. Then it stops. The reason it stops is that where it stops is land owned by the Hunts.

The Hunts are wealthy Dallas folks who are close friends with G.W., so close Ray L. Hunt just donated $35 million to SMU to help build Bush's library. In 2001, Bush put Mr. Hunt on the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. What would qualify Hunt for that position, only god knows.

So this is basically the story. The wall goes up and over the little people, ruining their homes and their land. But when the wall comes up to land of important folks, Republican moneyed folks, it stops.

So there are big, gaping holes in the wall that is supposed to stop Mexican illegals.

The wall, as you might guess, is not so much about keeping illegals from entering the U.S. It has more to do with the Bushites providing another channel for government funds (that's your money and mine) to be funneled to various corporate entities that will profit from its construction.

When you have gaping holes, who the hell needs a ladder?