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2011-01-14 Home Front: WoT

Homeland Security Axes Bush-Era 'Virtual Fence' Project

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Posted by gorb 2011-01-14 16:14|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Subcontract out to the 'former' East Germans. They knew how to keep people in. Shouldn't be hard to make it to keep people out.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-01-14 18:17|| 2011-01-14 18:17|| Front Page Top

#2 In other words she's going to make it so confusing that nobody will know if border security is going up or being torn down....

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-01-14 18:31|| 2011-01-14 18:31|| Front Page Top

#3 I still vote for planting tumbleweed between the fences. I've heard that's very effective for slowing people down, and the screams of pain are almost as good as thermal imaging for locating intruders...

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-14 18:34|| 2011-01-14 18:34|| Front Page Top

#4 tw: not tumbleweeds. Cholla, aka "jumping cactus". It was invented by the devil himself, and when he had a hangover.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-01-14 19:46|| 2011-01-14 19:46|| Front Page Top

#5 This thing has been a mess from the start. Not because the technology is difficult, but because it is politically radioactive.

The sensor part of the problem is easy. The hard part is deciding what to do with the information. Further, if the politicians are unwilling to answer that question, then actually getting the sensors in place just provides information that em-bare-asses them. So, they sabotage the whole acquisition and blame the contractor.

Posted by rammer 2011-01-14 20:41|| 2011-01-14 20:41|| Front Page Top

#6 a triple fence in the San Diego sector has done wonders. It's costly, but so is the influx damage. In very rough terrain, no need for it - use UAVs, IR, and collection crews

Posted by Frank G 2011-01-14 21:02|| 2011-01-14 21:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Gee, who didn't see this coming?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2011-01-14 21:20|| 2011-01-14 21:20|| Front Page Top

#8 How man YEARS did that idiot Bush waste with this? We could have ha a real fence all the way to the Gulf by now.

Posted by OldSpook 2011-01-14 21:37|| 2011-01-14 21:37|| Front Page Top

#9 How man YEARS did that idiot Bush waste with this? We could have ha a real fence all the way to the Gulf by now.

Bush is no idiot. Bottom line, he wants a porous border. The best way to do this was to spend the most amount of money possible on the least effective system. He succeeded, in spades. Now he can point to this failed project as just another sign that the border cannot be sealed.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-01-14 22:18|| 2011-01-14 22:18|| Front Page Top

#10 not tumbleweeds. Cholla, aka "jumping cactus". It was invented by the devil himself, and when he had a hangover.

Improvement accepted, Anonymoose. One of these days I'll get to that part of the world, and properly learn the native flora. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-14 23:08|| 2011-01-14 23:08|| Front Page Top

#11 So we're gonna go with the real, physical fence? Yeah I didn't think so.

Posted by Hellfish 2011-01-14 23:51|| 2011-01-14 23:51|| Front Page Top

#12 How man YEARS did that idiot Bush waste with this? We could have ha a real fence all the way to the Gulf by now.

Mission accomplished.

Posted by gorb 2011-01-14 23:53|| 2011-01-14 23:53|| Front Page Top

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