Border Patrol Agitprop

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Ranger saw a Border Patrol advert on television this week. This was not a recruitment ad, but rather depicted the agencies' officers as protecting our way of life.

What gives? Why are our tax dollars being spent on such non-essential items? Do we have funds to waste on such frivolity, or this necessary to encourage the groupthink that will not question the encroachment on our civil liberties?

Tres Chic

Everywhere around the world
They're coming to America
--America, Neil Diamond

Is there hope for America?
So are we standing at the Great Divide?
Take the flag we wave, the freedoms that we sing.
Without respect for one other,
it doesn't mean a thing
--Great Divide, Queensryche

And life goes on for the lucky ones
out here in the zone
behind the barrier
--Behind the Barrier, Planet P

Oh I'm bad, I'm nationwide
--I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide, ZZ Top
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Here is an advertisement for U.S. Border Patrol Agents. They look menacingly like soldiers on a combat operation.

Is this the new look of domestic law enforcement?