Money well spent Mr. Perry. This $2 million snared 1% of the number of arrests as projected. Now Mr. Perry wants another $2 million for the project. Great, once we spend $200 million we might come close to eradicating the immigration and drug problem.The funny thing is that the governor's office is now saying that estimates should have been revised after it became apparent that the program would not meet its goals. So, that's what they did. They revised their report to show that the results were close to and even exceeded goals. Nice. It's like 1984 all over again. Your chocolate ration has been increased from 1 gram to half a gram. Who needs a memory? They said the word "increased" so it must be true.
The other cool thing is that 125,000 people around the country and the world signed up online to be virtual Texas deputies. A total of about 40 million people visited the web page including people from Switzerland, Australia, and of course Mexico too. I suppose that's not an exhaustive list. It's possible that people from every far flung place on the planet have seen it too so that they could make comments like this (from the Austin American Statesman article):
One report simply read, "armadillo by the water," while another offered some advice. "Just a word of warning: A moment ago I saw a spider crawl across the top of the camera," the report read. "You might want to try and prevent any webs from being spun across the lens area by treating with repellent or take other measures."
Fortunately, one of our border senators understands what has happened now that Gov. Perry has put our border out to the eyes of the world through the internet despite Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger said, "The bad guys know there are an extra pair eyes on the border."
"Instead of making Texas safer, it has made Texas the source of international ridicule," said Democratic state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh of El Paso.
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