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Mr. Schornack, a veteran Republican who says he gave "blood and sweat and tears" working on Mr. Bush's presidential campaigns, said yesterday in an interview that the fence being built by a retired couple in Blaine, Wash., just south of suburban Surrey, is a threat to the world's longest undefended border. An open border, he said from his home in Williamston, Mich., "reflects friendship, amity, a good relationship. It is also crucial to boundary security. Cameras don't work when you're taking pictures of walls. Border patrol can't patrol if it's obstructed."
He said that officials in the U.S. Justice Department were opposed to his views because they were at odds with a property-rights agenda. "They want the wall to remain. I see a very terrible precedent ... because if this wall remains, others will be built. And when they're built in America, pretty soon they're going to be built in Canada."
For about two months, he said, Justice Department officials were pressuring him to back down. "There were some 20-some attorneys beating on me and threatening me, saying, if I don't do this, they would move it up the food chain and get me fired."
On Tuesday, Mr. Schornack received a letter from the assistant to the U.S. President for presidential personnel, saying his appointment had been "terminated effective immediately" at the discretion of the President. No reason is given in the letter.
So I guess private propety trumps security... except if that property is something like Iraq. 
On an unrelated note, I read in another thread that people prefer if links are put in the tinyurl format. How would I go about doing that?
Edited: Thanks farnival, I didn't realize how easy that would be.
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posted 12 July 2007 08:33 AM
