Not to single Sean out too much, but he's the only one I know who officially lives in California.  UCSD can go fuck itself, and so can these assholes who have a brilliant new plan for helping illegal aliens make their way into the US using (you guessed it!) government funding.

Yep.  Spending government money to help people break the law to get in to our country.

 Faculty at University of California, San Diego are developing a GPS-enabled cell phone that tells dehydrated migrants where to find water and pipes in poetry from phone speakers, regaling them on their journey much like Emma Lazarus' words did a century ago to the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" on Ellis Island.

 The Transborder Immigrant Tool is part technology endeavor, part art project. It introduces a high-tech twist to an old debate about how far activists can go to prevent migrants from dying on the border without breaking the law.

 Immigration hardliners argue the activists are aiding illegal entry to the United States, a felony. Even migrants and their sympathizers question whether the device will make the treacherous journeys easier.

 The designers — three visual artists on UCSD's faculty and an English professor at the University of Michigan — are undeterred as they criticize a U.S. policy they say embraces illegal immigrants for cheap labor while letting them die crossing the border.

 "It's about giving water to somebody who's dying in the desert of dehydration," said Micha Cardenas, 32, a UCSD lecturer.

 The effort is being done on the government's dime — an irony not lost on the designers whose salaries are paid by the state of California.

 

 "There are many, many areas in which every American would say I don't like the way my tax dollars are being spent. Our answer to that is an in-your-face, so what?" says UCSD lecturer Brett Stalbaum, 33, a self-described news junkie who likens his role to chief technology officer.

Here's the deal, Brett - can I call you Brett?  Of course I can.  You're never going to see this, anyway.  The idea behind a democracy is that people have the ability to give voice to their concerns and their issues; that if enough people oppose something - say, the potential commission of a felony by a government-grant-funded-"art project" aimed at getting illegal immigrants into the country - our collective voices can be heard and communist fuckheads like you can be shut the hell down.

I know it sounds crazy, but people who pay taxes have a right to express whether or not they like it when someone spends their tax dollars on a GPS machine that reads fucking whiny ass poetry to illegals who are coming into our country.  Really?  Poetry?  Some asshole thought, You know what these guys need, aside from an old cell phone that will point them to a place that may or may not have viable water - they need some poetry to uplift their poor souls while they're trudging through oppressive heat and dealing with all that global warming.  By the way, Brett, that global warming you're so terrified of will probably make all the water at your fucking water stations evaporate, which will just be peachy when the souls of these migrants, uplifted by the poetry read to them by their GPS phones (which, by the way, they hope to provide for free to folks in Mexico), show up and there's no motherfucking water left.

Just.  Fuck.  Off.  Please?

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