| Name |
Views and Comments | Date |
| TL Winslow |
Here's what to do with the U.S.-Mexico border: poof!
The age-old pesky U.S.-Mexico border problem has taxed the resources of both countries, led to long lists of injustices, and appears to be heading only for worse troubles in the future. Guess what? The border problem can never be solved. Why? Because the border IS the problem! It's time for a paradigm change.
Never fear, a satisfying, comprehensive solution is within reach: the Megamerge Dissolution Solution. Simply dissolve the border along with the failed Mexican government, and megamerge the two countries under U.S. law, with mass free 2-way migration eventually equalizing the development and opportunities permanently, with justice and without racism, and without threatening U.S. sovereignty or basic principles.
Google "Megamerge Dissolution Solution" to read how. |
7/1/2009 |
| Rev. McGrail |
There are not enough words to describe the horror I feel about turning our children into spies. It is Orwell's 1984 come alive. What kind of monsters have we turned into that anyone would think this is morally justified? |
5/30/2009 |
| B Chewy |
The U. S. Border Patrol Explorers Program is great! It took me nearly a year of hardcore training to earn my badge. Coming in as a 15 year old kid and graduating as a strong adult almost a year after is a wonderful expirence. I like to believe that my Post is one of the best and the ideas of border protecting is more clear to me than an individual person.
Border Patrol Agents really do go thru alot than other law enforcement officers. I respect them all and give them my thanks! Our borders are alot dangerous and crossed than others might believe... |
1/29/2009 |
| C. Roberts |
Being a girl in any aspect of law enforcement is challenging, and being a Border Patrol explorer is just as difficult...especially when the media misquotes and puts their own spin on a supposedly "unbiased article about life on the border." The reporters who wrote this article made it seem like we're a buch of rascist teens who learn torture tactics and how to hunt illegal aliens. Had they truly been unbiased, they would have actually taken notes on what we did, as opposed to making up their own ideas about what we do. And another thing, why are the words "illegal aliens" in quotes in the article? They have entered our country illegally, and the term "alien" is due to the fact that they are not American citizens.
As a Border Patrol Explorer who wants to learn about the laws governing our country, I can only say how disappointed I am to have been so unjustly portrayed. I only hope that the people who have read this article will look into the matter of illegal immigration themselves rather than be swayed by the use of emotionally slanted language and biased reporting. |
9/15/2006 |
| Braden Vincent |
I think you need to stop telling the American people that the illegals are only here for a better life. Many of them bring drugs, disease, and a flood of people that is damiging the US economy.
I am in the Explorers and I can tell you the reason we don't want to go to mexico is because of the filth, disease, and crime. |
9/13/2006 |
| Mark Hoerrner |
Karl: The story was not meant to be stolen, but simply to be summarized and published here with definite acknowledgements to your original story. Which I loved, by the way. I did everything I could to ensure that LA Weekly was credited with the direct quotes and did not plagiarize anything that you wrote. I did not, as I had originally intended, send my editor the link to the original article which was supposed to be included at the end of the story. In that regard, my hope was that more people would visit the original story. She was quick to add it after your first comments.
On the comments, the deletions are not my decision. I believe we need a free exchange of ideas here. Whatever your opinion, I am in favor of your voicing it. |
9/9/2006 |
| Karl Stromsta |
This will be my third comment, now. The other two have been taken off. Why, as the original author of the story, am I not allowed to comment? Of all people it would seem that myself and my colleagues would be qualified to judge the story -- and then criticize or add to it.
Don't steal other people's stories. |
9/8/2006 |
| Dave - LA |
I noticed that yesterday this comment board carried a number of posts by people who identified themselves as students involved in a Journalism program affiliated with the Carnegie corporation including the author of the original article that your piece so liberally quotes. I did a search myself and the article, "Girls Gone Border Patrol" is easily available by going to the LA Weekly's website and searching for either the title or the name of the original author, Karl Stromsta.
I was wondering why your site chose to remove the comments from these posters. If your piece is anything but blatant plagierism, why not leave these comments up and let people compare the two pieces for themselves. If your article did take unfairly from this other story, then it only seems fair that those involved in the production of the original should have a chance to let their voices be heard.
Either way, don't remove the posts. Anyone claiming to be a "Journalist" or "Author" should have the courage to stand up for their work, no matter where it may be published. Such debate is the cornerstone of the free press, and the very bedrock of our democracy. |
9/7/2006 |
| Davis |
I think that the border patrol would be a great gob. I went to mexico and frankly it wasnt a very interesting place besides the surfing. |
9/7/2006 |
| Mark Hoerrner |
Interesting comments one and all. I should note for all that the Border Patrol Explorers is really not that new an invention. Most counties across the U.S. have Police, Fire and Sheriff's Explorers that give kids a taste of public safety. For those who see it as a possible career, it gets them involved early. For those who just want a unique teen experience, it gives them a constructive focus as they learn to be positive, productive citizens.
In response to Storm Olsen's comments, I would say that I do have a lot of sympathy for illegals that cross our border and yes, I think that many are looking for a better life. In the sense that I am a father, I know that if my children were starving, if I lived in abject poverty, national borders would likely mean little if it meant that by my sacrifice, my family ate well, could afford fresh water and medical care and might be able to attend school. So I try to see their viewpoint before summarily condemning their actions. What an illegal is doing by crossing the border is far different from a criminal who takes a gun and shoots his fellow man. That person made an active choice to kill someone and should be taken out and shot in turn. But most of those illegal Mexicans that cross the border are looking for a life they can't find in Mexico and it really wasn't that long ago that we came to these shores and killed off the residents of this country and took over. So while I acknowledge the problem, while I acknowledge that illegals are, in fact, illegal, I think there's a quality of life issue that needs to be addressed.
I would also suggest that the "send 'em all home" approach may not have the ramifications Americans are hoping for. Consider that illegals do about 80 percent of the jobs we CHOOSE not to do - restaurants can't keep dishwashers on staff; builders and contractors offer good wages to Americans but the work is hard and many Americans don't want to work all day in the sun doing hard labor when the opportunity to make the same money exists working in a customer service call center; most of our major grounds crews are staffed by day laborers who are not taking jobs from Americans, but doing the jobs we refuse to do. So unless we want to see the construction, landscaping, restaurant, and commercial painting industries suffer huge financial losses and see the prices for homes shoot through the roof, we might consider something other than a "purge-them-all" attitude.
By the way, W, thank you for serving in the military. I appreciate you stepping forward to preserve our rights and our nation. |
9/6/2006 |
| THE PAGAN WOLF |
I am disgusted by the views expressed by this young teen. The problem doesn't lie in the illegal immigrants, the problem lies in the buisness who hire them. If there was no demand, there wouldn't be a supply. Recruiting young people and teaching them to hate hispanics is just an accident waiting to happen. Oh wait, I most certainly did happen. We corrupted a young mind into doing some rich asshole's bidding!! |
9/5/2006 |
| Brent |
Smoke em sweetheart! and Eric...you are such an ignoramus....what a puss! |
9/5/2006 |
| Steve Noe |
Hey, she looks good with a Bushmaster in her hand! Although Bush does little to protect us, she is a model for all Americans; just do it! My hope is that she will be properly trained and the God will protect her---and us---in this battle for Freedom. If we truly want something done we must do it ourselves. We, the People, are sovereign. So, let us all follow her courageous example. |
9/5/2006 |
| regular |
Unless the Border Patrol is vastly reorganized and has the full support of the federal government, I can't see a future for this project. At the present, the Border Patrol ground forces are undermanned, under-equipped, penetrated by illegals, prosecuted for doing their duty by our federal government and protecting an unarmed National Guard building roads. So, professional soldiers are road building and servicing vehicles and the Border Patrol has to protect them instead of our border. |
9/5/2006 |
| eric |
The 'Border Parol Explorers' sounds suspiciously like the Hitler Youth of a previous age. They were a 'patriotic organization, defending their country from undesirable races, too. |
9/5/2006 |
| Carl D. Blyth |
This is a good article and a great idea for all of our American youth. Any kind of program that teaches our young people to honor the laws of our land AND to be prepared to protect, defend, and be stand for right is a great program.
I want to see if there can be an expansion of this program to my state of South Carolina, even though we don't have a border with a foreign country to secure.
This program could be expanded to give all our young people a good understanding of what it means to be an American and how we can stand against all kinds of invaders who want to enter and steal what is ours by birth and by right!
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9/5/2006 |
| J. C. - Tucson |
On 9/11 the kids in Naco schools heard an announcment about immediate border closure due to the terrorist attacks in New York and D.C.. School administrators advised if anyone needed to cross the border they should leave now. More that half of the school left and returned home to Mexico. Perhaps that is the reason the Helen Brady is home schooled. Don't forget we are paying to educate these nonresident criminals! All along our border with Mexico the story is the same. |
9/5/2006 |
| Storm Olsen |
The sympathetic tone of Mr. Hoermer creates a credibility gap regarding his truthfulness. How does he know the illegal he refers to was coming to this country "for a better life..."? He could just have well been coming here for better criminal opportunities. He was a criminal by definition.
What part of this is OUR country don't these folks understand?
As a decorated combat veteran I did not make my small sacrifices for the toxic waste populations of the world. I did it for my fellow countrymen. Illegals are not my countrymen. |
9/5/2006 |
| w |
"another illegal immigrant seeking a better life than the one he left behind in Mexico"
So I guess that makes it ok? I'm tried of the sob story commentarys by the corporate media. They are not here to give they are here to take. Invaders go home we have our own poor to care for we don't need Mexico's. It's time Mexico grows up and starts take care of their own... |
9/5/2006 |
| Benay |
Fabulous! |
9/5/2006 |
| Joy |
The Border Parol Explorers is a great, badly needed program, and the young girl with the gun is getting essential training. My feeling is that people whose property is invaded by illegals should all be armed with weapons such as these and be free to shoot at any trespasser they see night or day. Our country is being invaded and we're supposed to be "nice"? |
9/1/2006 |
