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Sunday, July 30, 2006

Can We Finally Get Some Action?

Via Drudge

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Cleanup crews from various agencies, volunteer groups and the Tohono O'odham Nation hauled about 250,000 pounds of trash from thousands of acres of federal, state and private land across Southern Arizona in 2002 to 2005, says the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
But that's only a fraction of the nearly 25 million pounds of trash thought to be out there.
Authorities estimate the 3.2 million-plus entrants caught by the Border Patrol dropped that much garbage in the Southern Arizona desert from July 1999 through June 2005. The figure assumes that each illegal entrant discards 8 pounds of trash, the weight of some abandoned backpacks found in the desert.

The trash includes water bottles, sweaters, jeans, razors, soap, medications, food, ropes, batteries, cell phones, radios, homemade weapons and human waste.

● In 2002, the U.S. estimated that removing all litter from lands just in Southeast Arizona — east of the Tohono Reservation — would cost about $4.5 million over five years. This count didn't include such trash hotbeds as Ironwood Forest National Monument, the Altar Valley, Organ Pipe and Cabeza Prieta.


Do you think we'll get help from the environmentalists now? Or are they going to come out for litterbug amnesty to one-up the US Senate?

Illegal immigration is so wrong, so many ways.

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i wish we could use all of it to make the wall bigger…

Chi chi on July 30, 2006 at 02:19 pm
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Good idea!  Maybe a moat filled with their garbage, 10 feet deep and really smelly…

robert108 on July 30, 2006 at 02:23 pm
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exactly!

“The figure assumes that each illegal entrant discards 8 pounds of trash, the weight of some abandoned backpacks found in the desert.

The trash includes water bottles, sweaters, jeans, razors, soap, medications, food, ropes, batteries, cell phones, radios, homemade weapons and human waste.”

so we have what, 66 million illegals? that’s 528 million pounds of trash… that’d make a huge freaking wall/moat…

Chi chi on July 30, 2006 at 02:31 pm
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Look at all those water bottles.

I wonder how many of those were given to the illegals by helpful liberals?


The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Rob on July 30, 2006 at 02:56 pm
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So… ya’ want amnesty?  Well, discussion about amnesty will begin once the trash is picked up… and not one minute before hand.

I don’t give a damn what La Raza or any other race-baiting poverty pimps have to say about it.  I do not believe that this country has any need at all for people who not only violate our laws getting here, but then start to literally trash the place before they are barely over the border.  There is no justification for welcoming any more trash here.

Bat One on July 30, 2006 at 04:54 pm
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12 million illegals could pull one hell of a policecall. And now the leftards will jump in and call us NAZIs because we want to use forced labor to clean this up, and bigots because we want illegals of the brown persuasion to clean this up. Here is a twist, round up 12 million leftard protestors and have them clean it up. Do I have a second on the motion?

TwoHotel9 on July 31, 2006 at 04:13 am
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You’re on to something 2H9, but you don’t know how big.

Here’s the deal the lefties want us to let the illegals stay.  How about one illegal for one lefite.

It’s a win win win.

The lefties will be happy because they get to save the illegals.  Since they hate America anyway....

The illegals will be happy because they get to stay in the greatest country on Earth.

The producers in this country are better off because some of the illegals actually do work as opposed to the lefties.

And the other countries that the lefties move to will be better off due to them receiving people with superior intellectual capability able to do their thinking for everyone else.

Ok, maybe win win win lose.

The Whistler on July 31, 2006 at 04:33 am
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And it is Devious Plans Monday, here at Sayanything!

TwoHotel9 on July 31, 2006 at 04:55 am
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By the way… where’s the leftwing, radical chic, “Save the Environment” crowd, anyway.  Probably too busy protesting against the Minutemen down at the local IDE office.  After all, you can’t expect that they are going to clean up behind a bunch of Mexicans, can you?

Bat One on July 31, 2006 at 05:00 am
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Are you asking about these environmentalists?

Founded in 1989, Wilderness Watch is the only national organization whose sole focus is the preservation and proper stewardship of lands and rivers…

realitybasedbob on July 31, 2006 at 05:46 am
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RBB,

Nice link.  I was not aware of Wilderness Watch, and after reading through their site, and the page you linked to in particular, I’m still not aware that they actually DO anything regarding the Arizona border Cabeza basin are mess.

It is a Catch 22 situation. While Border Patrol operations can substantially impact Wilderness resources their presence is essential to its protection. The budgets and staffs of the border natural resource management agencies are too inadequate to address the border problems. Furthermore, their operational missions are very different from that of the Border Patrol. While allowing increasingly damaging activities to occur may ultimately save some Wilderness resources, it is equally possible that they may not. Management at the Cabeza has tried to find progressive solutions, weighing the priorities of law enforcement and saving human life with protecting natural resources and wilderness character. A lot of what has been done on the border would not be acceptable in other Wilderness areas, but the Arizona border is embattled like no other area in the nation. It is a highly unique and problematic situation requiring difficult and unique solutions.

This truly eloquent bureaucratic doublespeak which boils down to “we know there’s a problem, but we are offended at the obvious solutions available, and have nothing substantive to offer as an alternative”

Still, their website does have some really nice wildlife photographs, doesn’t it?

Bat One on July 31, 2006 at 06:09 am
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Eviromentalist are often time rich bastard that can’t afford to get their hands dirty, lol

aNONOMISLY on July 31, 2006 at 12:57 pm
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Environmentalists are lefties who can’t get their totalitarian agenda past the electoral process, and so resort to lies and propaganda to make people think they care about the environment.  They use political stunts, like demonstrations and heavy-duty lobbying, to get their agenda passed through the courts, since they can’t win at the ballot box.

robert108 on July 31, 2006 at 01:15 pm
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Realitydenyingboob, I actually followed that link, just another non-effective protest group totally concerned with revenue generation. They give no more of a fuck about the enviroment than any of my cats. You leftard fucks are so Goddamn pathetic.

TwoHotel9 on July 31, 2006 at 05:41 pm
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