Way to go, Tom Mullins!

GOP House Candidate Tom Mullins: Consider Land Mines on Border with Mexico But NOT Canada (Audio)

Landmines on the border, to stop immigrants?

Here he attempts to clarify this a bit — Mullins clarifies land mines comment

Now he said in the KOB interview that he’s not advocating this himself, but was suggested by someone he met on the campaign trail.

Still, if you go to the archived audio clip, it does sound at first as though Mullins himself is advocating this very sort of thing —

I think well they need to enforce the law. I actually have a couple of ideas and I received these ideas. We talk about a border fence, and really what we get down to is, it’s very difficult to have a fence and have that work. But we have some low-cost, low-tech solutions, and I know it sounds crazy, but we used to have land mines. I know it sounds like a crazy thing, but if we wanted to stop, if we have an attack on the United States, if we have a nuclear attack and we find that they carried the nuclear weapon and the people that harmed us came across the border and we say we have got to secure the border, we could put land mines along the border. I know it sounds crazy, we could put up signs in 23 different languages if necessary . . . .

Now, later on in that clip, he does say that he doesn’t actually want to use land mines, and that the National Labs can cook up another low-tech, low-cost means to secure the border, but come on now, how many millions will they spend on developing it?

Am I supposed to believe that some future Administration won’t fall back upon the land-mine idea as just the sort of low-cost, low-tech solution? After all, back in 1996, we saw an 18-year-old boy (Esequiel Hernandez) who was herding goats, shot dead by a Marine Corps counter-drug patrol because of the .22-LR rifle that he carried. Between that, the whitewash and coverup investigation of the Waco Massacres of 28 February and 19 April 1993, and plenty of other incidents along those lines, why should anyone trust a Republican of the Lincoln-Roosevelt mold?

We saw just how well the Republican-majority U.S. House members exercised their oversight duties in 1998 looking into the Waco debacle, didn’t we? They didn’t dig too deeply simply because they knew that they would need the Democrats to return the favor and go easy on their Administrations’ . . . indiscretions of using federal power. We saw some of those indiscretions from 2001 through 2009, first at Rainbow Farm, then Afghanistan, then Iraq, the USA-PATRIOT Act of 2001, etc., etc.

What really stymies me is that the clown clique behind Mullins ^[1] keeps pushing the idea that things will improve “when our people take the reins of power.”

The fact remains that they had those reins of power in the Congress from 1995 until 2007, and in the White House from 2001 until 2009. How much did they actually shrink the reach and intrusiveness of Washington DC? How much did they lessen the costs of Washington DC upon us?

1. I know that Mullins says that he’s not part of the GOP Machine, but is the gear in your wind-up alarm clock cognizant of the other gears in the clock, and the other parts that make the hands go around, the alarm go off, and such?
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1. Re: Susana Martinez In NY Times
   

   Logic begs the question, “What is a non-aggressive stance” on social issues?

   See my previous posts on various social issues — the non-aggression principle.

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   Way to go, Tom Mullins!

   GOP House Candidate Tom Mullins: Consider Land Mines on Border with Mexico But NOT Canada (Audio)

   Landmines on the border, to stop immigrants?

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1. The Intelligence² Debate — Stephen Fry (Unedited)

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   Why not plug the leaking hole with Federal Reserve Notes and Treasury securities? The Obamanoids are going to print them by the dumptruck-full anyway; we might as well put them to good use.

3. Re: Changing New Mexico’s Culture of Corruption — New Mexico Liberty / New Mexico Watchdog
   

   Point 3-A — In addition to giving more resources to the State Auditor, the Open Meetings Act needs to be beefed up to open conference committees in the Legislature, as well as explicitly allowing citizens to take their own camcorders into any session of the Legislature. If the legislators don’t like that, that’s too bad — while they’re in session, any photon bouncing off of them goes into the public domain. Same goes for any sound vibration coming from their person. If they don’t want to go on record, they shouldn’t run for election to public office.

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   Here’s the Theory for you to ponder true or nutty:
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   It’s actually made in Croatia and imported by Springfield Armory, Inc. But that’s OK — almost all innovation these days in handgun design has moved from America to central-eastern Europe. Which is NOT what I would expect, considering that almost all of these countries (Germany, Austria, etc.) have gun laws that make California’s look rather benign by comparison.

   The “XD” moniker is simply Springfield Armory Inc.’s marketing name for the HS2000

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