Your Homeland Is Belong To DHS

Your friendly Department of Homeland Security wants to make sure you know it means business when it's charged with securing your homeland. When it's secured your home in the style it likes, you are no longer the owner/occupier, it's theirs. While that may seem like a small misreading to you here on this post, for those whose homelands are being swallowed up as part of the usual misfeasance by the occupied White House, it's a personal tragedy.

That ever-so-dumb fence that keeps threatening our border with terminal stupidity is being located on land that has owners, residents, those subversive types who keep telling crony Chertoff that he's not supposed to 'secure' their property into his pocket instead of protecting it. They have much more to fear from DHS than from the traffic that goes over our land but leaves them still owning it.

Owners who haven't lain down so our fear mongers could ride over them are being slapped with suits to take rights to their property away from them.

Michael Friel, spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, said the government's recent actions don't involve taking anyone's property.

"These court actions are only petitions for temporary easement in order to perform land assessments," he said. "Customs and Border Protection has sought access to border properties to conduct the necessary engineering, environmental and other assessments that will help make a final determination of the location for placing security barriers."

To a large degree, the government has received the needed access, he said.

"But in some cases, we have not," he said, "which is why we've moved forward to petition the courts to provide access."

Border property owners in the Rio Grande Valley are afraid they're next. And they don't like it.

Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster says they have every need to be worried.

"Folks in the Valley should be nervous, as should every American," he said. "This is a violation of the rights of property. I have come to a new appreciation for the consistency of the Department of Homeland Security. They are consistently sneaky and underhanded."

Mr. Foster said the court order by a federal judge in Del Rio forcing the city to temporarily make the downtown property available to the government was issued Monday – the day before Eagle Pass was served with notice of the government's suit.
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The Dec. 7 letter from the Corps of Engineers spelled out for property owners what might happen if a decision were made to build a fence on their land.

"If after negotiations with you, we are unable to agree on a price for the necessary property, the Government will return to court to seek title and possession, and the court will determine fair market value," the letter read. (Emphasis addded.)

This is the sort of protection that usually is followed by 'racket'. Has our executive branch even the slightest idea of what it's like to respect citizens' rights? If it does, it's hiding it really very well. The hare-brained scheme that a totally irresponsible 109th Congress sloughed off onto the border, an ephemeral fence to keep out brown folks from the south, is being carried out by an equally irresponsible posse from the DHS in defiance of reason and the rights of landowners.

The fence itself is a joke, and as Sen. Kennedy and other opponents have said any number of times, to paraphrase, 'show me a ten foot fence and I'll show you an eleven foot ladder'.

The landowners' rights being trammeled are the sort of possession that we are being 'protected' from. If you would like to be protected by this bunch, you can save yourself court costs and just leave.

If you want to vote them all out of their undeserved offices, the primary in Texas is March 4th (consider that a command), and in November we can make it final. Get the crooks out of high office, or they're taking your land in every way you can imagine.