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?

Identity Crisis

The incognito of lower class employment is
an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
--Margaret Cho

Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth
--Matthew 6:3
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The fact that all Americans who travel outside of and return to the U.S. from Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean must now obtain extra identification cards to prove we are who we say we are, paying hard-earned dollars and wasting precious time in the process, got Ranger thinking.

Millions of us have United States Uniformed Services Identification cards DD form 2 (retired) and Department of Veterans Affairs ID cards. Active Duty Military and Reserve Force personnel also have official identification cards. These individuals have undergone security clearances that clearly exceed the requirements of the current ID cards.

Why must these federally identified individuals, bearing federal ID, also possess the new passports to prove that they are citizens? The U.S. government should not require further ID of these individuals; it is needless redundancy and cost.

Why are these layers of ID needed? The duplication of identifying documentation does not make anyone safer from terrorism. It is another example of the federal left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.

It simply takes money out of American pockets.

--Jim