It has been stated by leading psychologists that it is common for children to have imaginary friends during their early years of development, although it is deemed unhealthy for the child to continue playing with these apparitions as he reaches adulthood and beyond.
Today, the most esteemed and powerful members of the United States Senate--in view of the untold millions of illegal aliens churning across and beneath our southern border, the billions of dollars this unchecked flood is costing the few remaining taxpayers, the damage this unstoppable tide is causing to our precarious health care industry, the violence the tens of thousands of migrant felons are inflicting on US citizens living in the border areas, the involvement of the Mexican government in the civil prosecution of US citizens for protecting their families and possessions, the failure of the federal government to adequately police the increasingly dangerous and violent boundary areas--are writing an immigration bill.
and as the cream of the Senatorial crop turns their jaundiced eyes to the blighted southern border, they remembered Robert S. McNamara and his technological wizardry which, well, really didn't do a whole lot to win the Vietnam conflict, but it was really pretty nifty. McNamara and his whiz kids came up with people sniffers, which were dropped from aircraft and looked like plants and broadcast radio signals when the notoriously smelly Vietcong would saunter by. They came up with sonic sensors, which would do the same thing when equally noisy trucks drove by. and both would transmit the locations for artillery and air strikes.
Whoa, they all said. We can't be seen upsetting the sovereign government of Mexico, that industrial and military powerhouse to the south--our stolid partners in the war on drugs and crime. They'd never stand for stuff like people sniffers and the sonic gizmos. That would send the wrong message and make them think that we thought that their people possessed a peculiar odor and played loud inflammatory mariachi music. No, we can't do that.
Senator arlen Specter, sensitive to the smallest progressive detail, and fearful of what an incensed Mexico might mean to the US, especially if a way was found to funnel even more immigrants into the US, in violation of both Heisenberg's law and all of Einstein's theories, has declared that the only viable option is a "virtual" or "imaginary" fence.
"Specter's Fence", as it is already being called, would consist of cameras and other "secret" technology to keep an eye on the thousands of miles of troubled border. Though as any good cop will tell you, any time a problem crops up, you can be sure that the nearest camera will be found to be broken and that the other "secret" technology will be connected to the same problematic circuit, and the whole darned thing will be no friend at all. and if past governmental contracts are anything to go by, we'll find wooden boxes painted to look like cameras and rows of blinking lights in command centers to approximate the behavior of the anticipated secret technologies, all accompanied by dogs that don't bark or bite.
all will be bunkum designed to placate Mr. Vicente Fox, to keep the baying of the liberals to a minimum, the costs in check, to tell the New York Times that Mr. Specter has done something no one else had thought of, to cast the US Senate in a popular progressive light and to insure that business as usual continues. Unfortunately, the actual american victims of the vicious nightly onslaughts will receive no respite whatsoever from this Maginot Line of smoke and mirrors, outright fakery and criminal subterfuge.
Senator Diane Feinstein of California, whose home state bears one of the heaviest health care burdens as a result of the intense southern seasonal "migration", has opted to throw in with "Specter's Fence," its associated folly, and hopes that magic, incantations, cameras--real, broken, or crude imitations--secret devices and technological hocus-pocus will keep out or slow the flow of dedicated felons, drug traffickers, MS13 gang members, mules, lamsters, coyotes, pregnant seekers of citizenship, itinerant laborers, outright mendicants, grail knights seeking SSI and the rest of the merry band of pranksters pouring north.
and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, son of Massachusetts, the great progressive pillar and liberal lion of the Senate, never afraid to make a stand --even on the thorniest of issues--is not one to shy away from an issue where the lives and property of american citizens are at stake on a daily basis. Ted has in this particular case decided--after much learned thought and discussions of the highest order--to call for further study, especially in view of the deleterious impact any such activity may have on our close relationship with the sovereign state Mexico, our grand and glowing liberal partner to the south. Caution is our best policy and no fences and no security at all may be the safest course to chart, just as it is with far too many Massachusetts hoodlums and politicians.
at least one Senator, Jeff Sessions of alabama, arose and called for the adoption of a real fence, calling Specter's Folly, er, Fence a "virtual barrier" and not really a barrier at all and a mere "detection device," which it is. Sometimes the course is clear to Senators in the same chamber, while it remains abysmally murky to others in different seats with the same facts and figures available to both.
What is it about dealing with the very real problems which plague the southern border areas of the United States of america that result in her greatest political powers calling upon imaginary friends, stopgap sops and appeasement to halt them?
What makes our elected officials think that hundreds of miles of cameras and advanced electronic detection devices, both real and unreal, will work any better along the far more troublesome Mexican border than they do in Los angeles, Chicago or they did for Robert McNamara?
and how much further study do we possibly need to discern the fact that certain problems exist to the south?
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