New Richmond Airport: Homeland Security v. "Free" Fencing To Protect Expensive Toys

Here's something you won't be reading at www.ontheborderline.net. The New Richmond airport recieved -- unsoliciated -- $300,000 to build a fence around the airport perimeter. Evidently, this will make our country safer and protect a lot of expense toys. If you take a drive over by the airport, you can quickly see that, as long as the terrorists don't go through the front gate, they should be able access the airport without tearing their pants or breaking a fingernail.

According to Mike Demulling, manager of the New Richmond Regional Airport, a $300,000 fence was built around the airport after he received an unsolicited Homeland Security grant. Demulling, who said he had originally hoped to build a mesh fence to keep out deer, switched to a steel-and-barbed wire security fence after a phone call from the Office of Justice Assistance.

"It was, 'We're going to send you the money, this is what you have to do with it, this is what we expect,' " Demulling said.

As you read this, the Republican Congress is busy cutting holes in our country's social netting and giving tax cuts to the rich so they can build bigger fences around their gated communities.

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