Steve King equates immigrants to livestock

[Rose Siding]

It was prop time on the House floor Tuesday night when Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), making the case for building a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, showed a miniature version of a border wall that he “designed.”

He had mock sand representing the desert as well as fake construction panels as C-SPAN focused in on the unusual display.

But it got really interesting when King broke out the mock electrical wiring: “I also say we need to do a few other things on top of that wall, and one of them being to put a little bit of wire on top here to provide a disincentive for people to climb over the top.”

He added, “We could also electrify this wire with the kind of current that would not kill somebody, but it would be a discouragement for them to be fooling around with it. We do that with livestock all the time.”

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/UndertheDome/071306.html

[CottonBear]

1. Sick man. Stupid, twisted idea.

An electric livestock fence wire would not stop people from climbing over the wall. I know because I'm shocked by an electric fence, more frequently than I'd like to admit, at the farm where I keep my horse. Live stock electric fencing is high voltage but low amperage. It won't kill you. If you're not wet and are wearing gloves, a shirt or jacket and long pant you won't get much of a zap if any at all. The electricity is sent in pulses. Sometimes it shocks you and sometimes it doesn't. It depends when you touch the fence and for how long. It might be several seconds between pulses.

edit: sp.

[cyberswede]

2. Apologies

Once again, on behalf of the state of Iowa, I'd like to apologize to the entire world for our deranged Congressman King. I keep thinking he can't possibly be more of an embarrassment, and then he outdoes himself. Again.

He does have an opponent this November, in case anyone is interested in helping King on his way to early retirement:
http://www.schulteforcongress.com/

thx - cs

[CoffeeCat]

4. I just posted similar thoughts...

I'm also from Iowa.

Having King in our state is like having the Tasmanian Devil for a child. He's a constant embarrassment and you must continually apologize for his words and behavior.

Makes you want to hide in the nearest cornfield, doesn't it?

Hang in there.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

6. Don't forget...

... IBP (Iowa Beef Processors), now owned by Tyson, both have a long history of hiring illegal immigrants. The IBP situation actually nearly destroyed communities in northwest Iowa, not to mention Sioux City becoming a haven for hard drugs, ie.... meth, crank, coke. Check this one out: "Immigrants, meatpacking and my town:
I confess my confusion" <http://www.populist.com/4.97.mytown.html>

King is not making unneccesary political hay with these immigration issues.

My brother was down in the Dakota City, Neb IBP plant (just across the Missouri River from Sioux City, Iowa) on health and safety inspection/code adherence visit and when on tour with the floor supervisor, they were approached by an "immigrant" who wished to quit for a couple of months to go see his family across the border, whose status as being an illegal was quickly established by approachee and the supervisor who told him "that's fine, take that $3000 you saved over the last 9 months and go on home to Mexico, when you run out of money, call me at this number and I will give you your old job back." .... of course that meant "restarting" at base wage and no benefits for 3-6 months upon return.

That being the case, King isn't just being facetious or bandwagon jumping. I don't spend my time backing up GOP stooges, but he is advancing his constituents concerns on this one.

[CoffeeCat]

3. This man is an abomination, and an...

...embarrassment. He's from my state--Iowa.

It makes me sick that he throws out these radical, inane, undignified and ignorant statements
on a regular basis. The guy manufactures stupidity with incredibly efficiency.

Steve King is a nimrod. If you notice, the only time you hear about him--is when he's just made an ass out of himself by saying something so moronic, that it cannot be ignored. The man lacks intelligent, rational ideas. He's a dullard trying to get attention.

And how does a brazen caveman get attention? He reveals outlandish, controversial bunk.

This man HAS to be voted out of Congress. I am so ashamed that he is from my state.

[RagingInMiami]

5. Has this idiot ever heard of the hundreds of tunnels discovered

along the border in recent years?