Time to stand up (or lay down) and be heard. Yes, again.

[lagilman]

The Bush administration is bulldozing environmental laws to build a controversial fence designed to block illegal immigrants from crossing the Mexican border. To force through its construction, the secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, waived 35 separate environmental protection laws last week using provisions of the Real ID Act of 2005. The act allows him to set aside laws that might interfere with the construction of physical barriers at US borders. (emphasis mine)

Segments of fence totalling 750 kilometres are to be completed this year and will pass through many sensitive environments. In southern Texas the fence will run along flood-control levees between 100 and 1500 metres from the Rio Grande, creating what critics call a "no-man's land" between fence and river.

This section of the fence will cut through rich wildlife reserves, including the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in Alamo, the Sabal Palm Audubon Center and most of the Nature Conservancy's Lennox Foundation Southmost Preserve near Brownsville. Other wild areas are threatened in New Mexico, Arizona and California.
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I am not surprised. Nothing this so-called administration does any more surprises me. Angry? Oh fuck yes. Let's see, we're in the middle of a worldwide climate crisis (oh wait, Bush and crew says nothing's wrong), our bees and bats -- essential to our continued well-being as a species -- are dying, water sources are drying up, and They think that plowing under precviously protected resrouces to keep illegal immigrants is a win-position.

Anyone in the area feel like chaining yourself to a bulldozer/laying down in front of a backhoe? If you can't physically protest, now would be a good time to raise your voice and make an angry noise, remind someone in D.C. that they're supposed to be of the people, for the people, not of their paranoia and for their wallets.

Excuse me, I feel the need to wind-up a bitchslap they'll actually feel in the Yellow House....

(thanks to windrose for the heads-up)

Comments

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

This has been going on for months. The environmental organizations have been fighting tooth and nail, but when a regime thinks the Constitution itself doesn't apply to it, who's going to listen to a bunch of Librul Treehuggers(tm)?

High crimes and misdemeanors.

But no. There's no blow job involved. Can't do a thing.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

No matter whether the fence is built or not, it will NOT stop illegal immigrants from coming in. If someone wants to cross that border, fence or no fence, they will.

All it will do is destroy valuable wetlands and habitats for species of animals that eventually will end up endangered, more endangered or even extinct.

Nothing this administration does any more surprises me. Everything it does disgusts me.

Bush and his cronies have forgotten that this Country was built upon 'illegal immigrants'

[lagilman]

Yeah. 'Cause the one in Israel has solved alllll their problems, hasn't it?

I can't be the only person thinking "President Bush, tear down this wall!"

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Yeah. 'Cause the one in Israel has solved alllll their problems, hasn't it?


Yup, worked about as well as the Berlin Wall did, in fact.

I can't be the only person thinking "President Bush, tear down this wall!"

You're not. Unfortunately, we are being over ruled by the dipshits in office.

[arouraleona.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised you hadn't heard. Walls solve all problems!! Hadrian's wall did wonders for the Romans... oh and there was that wall in China... It's still standing, and hey, visible from the MOON, surely it worked too right?

::sigh::

Between this, the Orphan Works, and the Election itself I'm more than ready to take off for a long tour of the world outside of Bizzaro Country.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

It will also drive up the death toll among those who do decide to make an illegal border crossing. But I doubt anyone involved in this piece of fuckwittery gives a damn about that.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Ogf course not. Whatever gave you that idea? }:)

[bigferret.livejournal.com]

Grrrrrrrrr! I hate Bush for shit like this.

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

Yep. He's a dipstick all right!

[house-draven.livejournal.com]

I don't like the sound of this at all, but Washington *desperately* needs to come up with a viable way of blocking illegals. For one thing, the sheer amount of litter they leave in their wake is an environmental disaster. (Seriously, you can see several "trails" from the border through the desert to Tucson just by following the litter. It's horrendous. I know this sounds like a joke, but I'm deadly serious. It may be one of those things you have to see to believe, but omg, it's disgusting.)

Of course, I'm also not crazy about being stopped by the Border Fascists 60 miles inside the border and interrogated about my birthplace, where I came from and where I'm going. I've gotten to the point where, if I'm willing to risk being pulled over and quarantined for a few hours, I tell them I'm a US citizen, show my DL, and if they ask me anything else, say, "I'm a US citizen with a valid passport and driver's license, and you have no right to detain me further."

I don't know what the answer is to the immigration problem, but it's bankrupting Arizona. The feds want all these restrictions, but they aren't willing to pay us for them.