Perpetuating the Fence Myth -- Ollie North Helps Government Deceive the Public

Perpetuating the Fence Myth
Ollie North Helps Government Deceive the Public

American Patrol Report Comment -- August 24

"The latest addition to CBP's arsenal is this fence."

     On Saturday's "War Stories," Ollie North reported: "The latest addition to CBP's arsenal of deterrence is this fence. Some 630 miles have been built at a cost of $2.3 billion." Actually, CBP has built only about 250 miles of fence, and most of that is poorly designed. (See "This is not a fence.")
    Over the weekend Frank Mankiewicz, former Press Secretary to Robert Kennedy, told Brian Lamb of C-SPAN that he opposed the Vietnam War in part because of a the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965. "The government was actually misleading the public about the war," Mankiewicz said. "Well, if they're doing that in South America, they may be doing it in Southeast Asia," he added. Mankiewicz had spent three years (1963 to 1965) as head of the Peace Corps in Peru and was intimately familiar with South American political affairs.
    Today the government is misleading us about the Mexican drug war. New fencing and barriers have had a major impact on drug cartels, but the Obama Administration hates the fence. It does not want the public to know it could stop drug smuggling by completing the fence, but refuses to do so. Ollie North is perpetuating the fence myth thereby helping the government deceive the public.