What’s the best way to keep people from foreign lands that you’ve indoctrinated with your consumer culture from coming in to your country? If you have corporate ties that make Mussolini look friendly, unlimited cash to waste, and no feasible possibility of building a 2000 mile wall, then the answer might be Boeing’s Virtual Border Fence®.
What is a Virtual Border Fence® you might ask? It’s a series of 100 ft tall towers equipped with cameras, radar, and other sensors that was supposed to enable border patrol agents to keep out of that desert heat and only have to check their blackberries every once in a while.
Unfortunately, as the Washington Post has reported yesterday, the project’s Pilot program along about 28 miles of the US border in Arizona was a complete failure. It turns out that the cost of this virtual fence is much more than a real fence would have cost, at more than $3 million dollars per mile.
The project has now been delayed because of technical difficulties, including radar systems activated by rainfall, cameras that apparently aren’t as good as we thought they were, and the government’s inability to print money fast enough to feed to Boeing.
It’s still unclear as to whether Michael Chertoff is the actual son of the devil.
Thanks to AZ Rainman for his awesome chertoff photo.
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on Feb 29th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Scary image. A picture is worth a thousand words.
I think it’s safe to say that Michael Chertoff is the son of the devil.. if not one of his relatives.