Stalag U.S.A.: Cain wants electrified border fence

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An electrified, 20-foot-tall fence should be erected along the U.S.-Mexico border, Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain said in remarks that electrified Tea Party groups during a Saturday bus tour of Tennessee.

Cain had second thoughts overnight, and said on Meet the Press Sunday that he was joking.

He talked with specifics about the fence to the Roane County (Tenn.) Tea Party, according to a New York Times report.

“It’s going to be 20 feet high. It’s going to have barbed wire on top. It’s going to be electrified. And there’s going to be a sign on the other side saying: ‘It will kill you. Warning’,” Cain said.


The sign, Cain said later, would be “in English and Spanish.”

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2011/10/16/stalag-u-s-a-cain-wants-electrified-border-fence/

More to keep us in than them out...

[nc4bo]

1. Simpler solution: Fix our immigration laws.

:wtf: Citizen Cain is an ass tool.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Another simple solution for the simple folks.

Guess Cain just realized that you don't become President once you win the Republican nomination. The good news is there's a veritable gold mine of video on these candidates with outrageous positions they'll have to either defend or walk away from in the GE - neither option will be beneficial to their chances.

[FSogol]

2. Remember how we all complained about the Berlin Wall? Now the GOP wants one in the US.

:facepalm:

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Herman is backpedaling and crawfishing on that ludicrous proposal

Cain: I Was Joking About Killer Electric Border Fence
But that appears less-than-clear
By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 17, 2011 9:52 AM CDT

(Newser) – When David Gregory asked Herman Cain yesterday about statements—made as recently as the day before—that he’d build an electrified fence to keep out illegal immigrants, Cain brushed it off. “That’s a joke,” he said. “I’ve also said America needs to get a sense of humor." But the New York Times isn’t buying it. Cain’s initial remarks were delivered as “serious commentary,” it argues, and they drew cheers, not laughs.

“We’ll have a real fence. Twenty feet high, with barbed wire, electrified, with a sign on the other side saying, ‘it will kill you,’” Cain said, adding that he was “not worried about being insensitive,” and that he’d even consider sending troops “with real guns and real bullets” to keep immigrants out. Cain has actually discussed the fence a few times—in another speech spotted by the Christian Science Monitor (video No. 3), he does indeed appear to be playing for laughs. The Times also noted another exchange in the interview in which Cain admitted that he was “not familiar” with the term “neoconservative."

http://www.newser.com/story/131206/cain-i-was-joking-about-killer-electric-border-fence.html

Please note his comments about neocons...isn't that just what this country needs - another intellectually incurious jackass in the Oval Office? I daresay even WhistleAss knew what a fucking neocon was!

[Distant Observer]

4. Stop puting down that brilliant Tea Party leader. Cain 2012!

[pampango]

5. Cain said he might use military troops “with real guns and real bullets” at the border.

This was after he said he would build an electrified fence on the border with Mexico that could kill people who try to cross illegally.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/us/politics/bachmann-and-cain-deliver-blistering-attacks-on-illegal-immigration.html

A Great Southern Wall (electrified just to show China and East Germany that our "Great Wall" is better than theirs), troops with machine guns. How about nuclear weapons, Herman, if you are really serious about this? Otherwise, Bachmann or some other crazy repub is liable to out "hate the 'illegal'" you. Can't have that, can we?

[livetohike]

7. The tea baggers - party of sadists who get off on the idea

of torturing and killing people. Cain knows exactly what he's saying.

[OmahaBlueDog]

8. Just playin' to the base

As much as GOPers cry and scream about "the illegals," they won't stop hiring them.

[pampango]

9. They've stopped hiring them in Alabama and Georgia.

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/17/141413786/the-nation-the-high-cost-of-anti-immigrant-laws

It was mid-June, and we were in town for the watermelon harvest, but we might as well have walked into a ghost town, thanks to Georgia's recently signed Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act, otherwise known as House Bill 87. And thanks to HB 87, a copycat law of Arizona's infamous SB 1070, millions of pounds of watermelons were left to rot in the fields this summer—along with peaches, blackberries and cucumbers—as many of the most dependable and experienced farmworkers steered clear of Georgia and headed north for friendlier states...

A similar story is unfolding in neighboring Alabama, where a federal judge recently upheld most provisions of an even more draconian bill, championed by Governor Robert Bentley as "the strongest immigration law in the country." The ruling spurred frantic midnight evacuations, as immigrants fled rural towns across the state, leaving a trail of abandoned homes and businesses.

"How did Georgia come to suffer such a painful, self-inflicted wound? The proximate cause is the intoxicating power of spreading anti-immigrant sentiment, fanned by incendiary Tea Party–style politics, which have found fertile ground throughout much of the South.

But like most things in the South, the roots of this particular problem run deep, into a long regional history of undervaluing agricultural labor. Georgia's leaders (and much of its agricultural industry) were confident that replacement workers could be hired without a hiccup in the harvest. This particular confederacy of dunces believed their own rhetoric and are now paying the price. And from the look of things, it really hurts when you shoot yourself in the foot.

[OmahaBlueDog]

11. I'm surprised these states didn't require able bodied recepients of Unemployment, TANF, & SNAP to...

..pick crops.

Thanks for sharing that - great story.

It does beg the question: with unemployment hovering near 10%, would displaced workers have taken those picking jobs if they knew they were out there. My guess is "no."

[OneGrassRoot]

10. You KNOW he wasn't kidding...not really.

He's no better than Limbaugh, pandering to a bloodthirsty audience, saying outrageous things, instigating violence, but in the end they say "just kidding."

bullshit