Awesome!

Just this afternoon we were on Rudy Giuliani’s case for suggesting that his flipflop on the endability of illegal immigration was not a flipflop but merely a response to the breakthrough technologies that have been developed over the last decade. But is it possible Rudy’s cronyism may be a mightier sword than his bamboozlement.

It turns out that not only does Rudy have a ‘technology’ in mind but he’s been cut in on some equity in the company that makes it and by an odd coincidence he thinks the federal government should buy a whole lot of it.

TPM Reader JN pointed me to this nugget in Peter Boyer’s profile of Rudy in the current issue of The New Yorker …

As for securing the border, Giuliani proposes the construction of what he calls “a technological fence,” which he insists would be much more effective than a simple physical barrier. Giuliani’s security division is a part owner of a company that is developing such technology with the defense contractor Raytheon. The innovation is a sensor-based platform that can be launched aloft and will “see” a twenty-kilometre area, in a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree panorama. “It will be able to conduct a surveillance, actually,” a person familiar with the project told me. “It can follow an individual, or follow a car, at very far distances.” Giuliani emphasized to me, “It doesn’t have to be that technology. We have no desire to have Raytheon benefit or whatever. There are a hundred other technologies similar to that, with the ability to process data and communicate.”

So to review, in 1994, Giuliani believed that with America’s ethnic diversity and long borders it simply wasn’t possible to end illegal immigration without turning the country into a police state. But now thanks to the onward march of technology that’s no longer a problem because Rudy’s company can install this ultra fence which appears to constantly spawn mini-Predator drones which will keep the illegals under active surveillance until they show up for work at your local restaurant before vaporizing them with a missile or something.