http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_03.15.01/news/ftaa.html -- The Laws of Serendipity: 1. In order to discover anything, you must be looking for something. 2. If you wish to make an improved product, you must first be engaged in making an inferior one. Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate@tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
This is misguided. You can't involve the general public when you are going to be doing something illegal. The guy announces, "we will have secured the bridge...." to the general public and every and every LEO in nine states dispatches officer friendly to make sure it doesn't happen. So you have a problem. You can open the border *IF* you don't blab about it so the public can cross, or you can announce it to the general public and watch a zillion lions converge to make sure it doesn't happen. It looks to me like this is a straight-up publicity play; the guy has no intent to open the border (or at least knows he won't be allowed to), but wants the publicity that will be generated by a bunch of would-be border crossers running into a bunch of lions. Besides, the US/Canadian border is pretty permeable anyway; it's very long, unguarded, and has a long history of being crossed by unarmed individuals who didn't bring any special tools... such as the draft dodgers who (unlike Quayle) couldn't afford national guard posts. Bear
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