Become a Cyber Minuteman Now! - September 2, 2006

The Border Fence Project has completed a series of forms that allows anyone to take an online exam, as many times as you want, and pay a small PayPal 99-cent fee for a background investigation, in order to become a Cyber Minuteman, and engage in remote border watching with your computer. Once we have down-streaming video available on our website with our many border cameras, you will be able to identify and report illegal crossings and crime..

Please go to:


http://www.borderfenceproject.com/cyberMM.php


and fill out a simple form, take a 20-question exam, and complete the application process. We should have down-streaming video available online in two weeks.

Thank you so much for your participation.

Sincerely,

Jim Wood

NoInvaders.Org President

http://www.NoInvaders.Org

http://www.BorderFenceProject.com

$18 Thousand Collected Quickly - September 1, 2006

The Border Fence Project has just made major strides with a direct mail campaign that brought in $18 thousand over a short period of time, a break-through after a bad summer for Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and ourselves. This will give us much needed funds for a $5000 high tech 16-mile camera, base station, and a gator or mule atv, so we can continue fence building operations in Boulevard, where over 1 mile has been built, Campo, Nogales, and Palominas, just for starters.

Our next meeting will be September 20 at the Denny's Restaurant in Lake Elsinore (map and directions will be given prior to meeting). I will also request the board of directors to approve for me a small salary to work 168 hours per week as a full time Minuteman President, which will have a contract. I will step up operations with our consulting firm to escalate more direct mailings, and pursue other tangible marketing options after the Labor Day protests when disdain for these illegal immigration issues will also escalate.

Please stay tuned for meeting invitations and other information.

Sincerely,

Jim Wood

NoInvaders.Org President

http://www.NoInvaders.Org

http://www.BorderFenceProject.com

1500 Feet of Fencing Delivered, 6 Miles on the Way! - August 26, 2006

The Border Fence Project, in conjunction with Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and members of Friends of the Border Patrol, have just received 1500 feet of chain link fencing in good condition and we delivered it to critical locations in San Diego County near the Mexican border. Thanks to generous fencing companies and government agencies that no longer need the material, we will soon receive 6 more miles of completely free chain link fencing material, which should seal off high traffic corridors in the mountains of east San Diego County soon. That is why we will soon do background checks and recruit many of you who volunteered for the fence building project. If you have not signed up already and would like to spend one or more weekends near San Diego with chain link fencing operations, please sign up now at:



http://www.borderfenceproject.com/time.php

We have to date completed about one and one-half miles of fencing between Campo and Jacumba, CA, and are in the process of installing eight new camera units that will upload 24/7 video to the website, once we also enable a rancher's house with high speed Internet access. We will also provide to all of you a chance to become a Cyber Minuteman, which only requires passing an online test and a 99-cent PayPal purchase of a background check - we will also let you know when that is available as the exam has been tested on several current members.

We invite you to visit BorderFenceProject.com as your help and donations will help fund new low .0003 lux cameras and necessary computer and receiving equipment. Let us know if you have old computers with at least 1 GHz, 128 MB RAM, and Windows 98 or higher to donate - they will be greatly appreciated in our efforts to upload video from all the ranchers' houses. Thank you for reading and being a part of our unprecedented mission.

Sincerely,

Jim Wood

NoInvaders.Org President

http://www.NoInvaders.Org

http://www.BorderFenceProject.com

New Fence Material Reviewed - August 15, 2006

The Border Fence Project, which has now built over 1 mile of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, is now considering new wire mesh material for the barbed-wire fencing we repaired and constructed. As some of our chain link fencing is occasionally cut through, we want to offer a solution which is almost impossible to cut or climb.

This new 4 mesh x 4 mesh has square apertures only 1/4" wide with galvanized wire 1.0 mm in diameter, and because the aperture is so small, it is almost impossible to access each wire with wire cutters small enough to enter each aperture, otherwise causing intruder to have to make hundreds of cuts for a sizeable hole for human entry. The mesh cannot be climbed with fingers and hands, and even a hatchet is of no consequence when striking at the material. The supplier offers this mesh at $53.40 per 1-meter x 30-meter roll, and if we double each roll for a 2-meter high fence and add shipping costs, we are looking at only $1.40/foot, keeping overall fencing materials' cost below $2.00/foot. When adding no more than $3/foot for camera costs, we can keep our promise and build overall high-tech fencing for under $5/foot. If you know any metals supplier who might donate material or sell it cheaper, please let me know.

Once fencing on ranch near Jacumba, CA, has proven to seriously slow down invaders and knock their numbers to a trickle, we will be confident in setting up overt and covert cameras, which are still going through some bug-fixes now..

We invite you to visit BorderFenceProject.com as your help and donations are greatly appreciated in our drive to help meet our goals. Thank you for reading and being a part of our unprecedented mission.

Sincerely,

Jim Wood

NoInvaders.Org President

http://www.NoInvaders.Org

http://www.BorderFenceProject.com

Senate Flip-Flops, Authorizes Fence - August 3, 2006

Faced with what could be an avalanche of support for anti-illegal immigrant politicians in November's election, the Senate reversed its earlier decision to stop southern border fence building, agreeing 94-3 to an amendment to the Defense Department appropriations bill providing $1.83 billion for 370 miles of triple-layered fencing and 461 miles of vehicle barriers on the U.S.-Mexican border.

It is important to note three obstacles we still face in doing what is right to seal off the border as soon as possible:

• The Senate immigration bill authorizes construction of 370 miles of fencing and several more miles of vehicle barriers but does not provide funding for them. The House has authorized but not funded 700 miles of fencing
  
• Timing in funding and actually constructing the fence could face many delays because of threats from pseudo-environmentalists, the Border Fence Project and Minuteman Fence is focusing most of its efforts on fencing on private land adjacent to the border
  
• 370 miles of fencing is about 1600 miles short of the entire border and 330 miles short of the "critical 700 miles" considered to be crossable where inundations occur daily
  

The Border Fence Project is now working on low budget cameras that might be just as effective in sealing off all roads that lead inland, and even the smallest donations will greatly assist our efforts to get uploadable video to the Internet soon, to prove the magnitude of the problem.

We invite you to visit BorderFenceProject.com as your help and donations are greatly appreciated in our drive to help meet our goals. Thank you for reading and being a part of our unprecedented mission.

Sincerely,

Jim Wood

NoInvaders.Org President

http://www.NoInvaders.Org

http://www.BorderFenceProject.com

Funds Accountability Confusion - July 21, 2006

Many of you read an article from the Washington Times or other periodicals about allegations Minuteman Civil Defense Corps may be mishandling funds, and thought we, The Border Fence Project, were the same organization under the microscope. First and foremost, we are a completely different organization never accused of mishandling funds.

We are entirely separate from Minuteman Fence and Minuteman Civil Dense Corps (MCDC), an independent non-profit firm under the jurisdiction of NoInvaders.Org. We do support MCDC, however, and expect them to come out unscathed after an independent audit later this summer.

We have always shown all evidence of income and expenditures at http://www.borderfenceproject.com/funds.shtml, which include bank statements of all incurred check and deposits, transfers, PayPal activity, and photocopy of all receipts. We will also consider an independent audit once that option is affordable, as we bring in much less revenue than MCDC but anticipate far more returns in the near future. The bottom of the above hyperlink page resembles the image below, where all evidence can be clicked on and visited:

We encourage all of you to read reports carefully, as there are many Minutemen organizations and all are under attack from the miscreant forces of open borders.

Sincerely,

Jim Wood

NoInvaders.Org President

http://www.NoInvaders.Org

http://www.BorderFenceProject.com

One-Mile Fence Near Completion - July 21, 2006

The Border Fence Project and its volunteers have now completed near one-mile of chain-linked fencing near Boulevard, California, as of July 15, 2006. The project was designed to thwart a major corridor of illegal drug and human smuggling activity where Border Patrol is rarely seen and detentions on private property by Minutemen is necessary. Some of the border ranchers are believed to be part of the drug trafficking trade and, of course, will not cooperate with fence building efforts, but we now seek to fence around them or on the federal international zone. Once fencing is complete on the mile-long stretch, we hope to put up at least one camera as camera will be better protected by fence, and vice versa.

While we have permission to build barbed-wire fencing on the international zone, chain-linked fencing can better seal-off private property with a solution that is much harder to cut through and requires more time to cross, if intruder is successful. Rebar is planted at the fence base to prevent illegals from crawling underneath the fence. Usually, the chain-linked section is 5-feet-high, but we will also double the fence to 10-feet in height with an extra 5-foot section. Hog rings fasten the chain-linked material to pre-existing barbed-wire fence rungs. We will soon recruit additional volunteers, in teams of four, to help extend the fence there and other parts of east San Diego County. We hope to plan for late September when the weather cools. We will encourage volunteers to look for free chain-linked sections at their local dump - our material for now comes from a local fencing company nice enough to donate the sections. We continue to buy 1/8-mile-long rolls of barbed-wire for only $4.77 from Lowes, and we will also be in need of u-posts, t-posts, o-posts, and rebar.

Mobile camera for Campo, CA, should be in operation this weekend for late afternoon and night patrols. We will also soon upload video from a place near Palominas, AZ.

We invite you to visit BorderFenceProject.com as your help and donations are greatly appreciated in our drive to help meet our goals. Thank you for reading and being a part of our unprecedented mission.

Sincerely,

Jim Wood

NoInvaders.Org President

http://www.NoInvaders.Org

http://www.BorderFenceProject.com

Remote Cameras Tested - July 13, 2006

The Border Fence Project has made significant progress after purchasing 4 cameras and testing three of them for our southern border surveillance fence. We purchased our second D-Link DCS-5300G PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) wireless IP camera, the first mounted near Paliminas, AZ, and the second near Campo, CA, along with a Wiseman wired infrared camera and a newly purchased Linksys WVC200. The main focus now is obtaining long range night vision - the D-Link camera has proven to be very high in resolution with outstanding optics and easy-to-control robotic pan-tilt-zoom, but may need help with its 1 lux low-light sensitivity with headlights of the mobile vehicles we will place them in, or industrial motion lights on stationary positions. The Linksys WVC200 has an infrared sensor, but non-optical infrared lamps will probably be required.

The Arizona model will upload video to the Internet by Sunday, and there will be video and audio feed for the other cameras by Saturday near the California-Mexico border. Some of the snapshots from the D-Link DCS-5300G, time-lapsed during sunset in the San Bernardino Mountains, reveal the following:

Exposure at 8:20 PM, just after sunset, show some detail from 100 yards away in the background.

Exposure at 8:26 PM, with some sunlight illumination but little detail.

Exposure at 8:41 PM, pitch black with no artificial illumination or infrared sensor, only the brake light of a passing car. No infrared emitted from the heat of the car engine, only the WVC200 and Wiseman will have infrared sensing at sub-1 lux illumination.

Exposure at 5:56 AM, well after dawn. While field of view only extends 100 yards, depth of field is great and high resolution and focus expected for human subjects up to 1/2 mile away (remember zoom, and 640x480 pixel map capabilities).

We invite you to visit BorderFenceProject.com as your help and donations are greatly appreciated in our drive to help meet our goals. Thank you for reading and being a part of our unprecedented mission.

Sincerely,

Jim Wood

NoInvaders.Org President

http://www.NoInvaders.Org

http://www.BorderFenceProject.com

Remote Camera Installed Near Border - July 4, 2006

I want to wish you all a happy Forth of July as we celebrate America's 230th birthday with another Minuteman fence project in southern Arizona, more miles of fencing built and high-tech equipment offered by the Border Fence Project, to help replace the dangerous mission of border watcher with a 24/7 solution, putting more Minutemen out of harm's way. The second high-profile mission was completed July 3 and we expect many more in the near future, with fence building practically occurring around the clock, with engineers scheduled to build the more Israeli-style 6-layer-fencing soon.

We have launched the first remote camera near the Mexican border with Internet-uploadable audio and video scheduled in about a week. The D-Link Securicam, a wireless unit with pan/tilt/zoom and extremely low-light sensitivity, is designed to be a mobile unit that can be mounted on the dashboard of a Minuteman vehicle, carried on foot, or positioned on a number of protected outdoor settings while viewing illegal intrusion or other illegal activity in a hot bed near Palominas, AZ. The range of the wireless signal is not yet fully known but combined with a router as a pseudo-relay, it could potentially transmit a signal from 1/4 to 1/2 miles away or further. We donated the camera, router, and PC combination, a $1300 expense, to Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and can potentially save much revenue as the $700 work station can handle up to 16 cameras. The optical range, however, is a good 1/2 miles with fine detail, and we expect the night view to be exceptional, especially when combined with industrial motion lights. There was a delay in gaining Internet access, so I will phone-tutor a Minuteman techie in setting up uploadable video to allow all surfers down-streaming border-watch activity.

We invite you to visit BorderFenceProject.com as your help and donations are greatly appreciated in our drive to help meet our goals. Thank you for reading and being a part of our unprecedented mission.

Sincerely,

Jim Wood

NoInvaders.Org President

http://www.NoInvaders.Org

http://www.BorderFenceProject.com

Earth Driller with Auger Donated - June 26, 2006

The Border Fence Project has received a generous donation from Ground Hog, Inc, of San Bernardino, CA. They donated to us a hydraulic, gas-powered Earth Driller with Auger on wheels. We requested this item as a possible item for material contribution on our "Materials and Tools Needed" page and they came to the rescue! Only this item is far more convenient and practical then anything we thought we'd use. It can be towed behind a vehicle like a truck or ATV and takes the strain off two individuals who would have to do heavy labor to lift and position a two-man manual Earth Driller - it rolls along rough terrain with little effort. The unit comes complete with a 6" Auger (large drill bit) and we will now ship to our California zone for drilling holes for fence and camera posts.

We will soon receive a truck load of donated barbed wire as well to mend and extend federal cattle fence. My observation of the California and Arizona southern borders, along with Minuteman testimony in New Mexico and Texas, tells me much of the international zone already has single and even double cattle fencing, but gaps in wire from cutting or pulling can be found almost one area per 100 yards, making coyotes keen on paths of entry know how to advance intruders at a fast pace. However, this makes our job so much easier, as mending can be done at a much greater rate than extending, and we could very well mend several miles in one day with a team of about one-dozen people. The cameras, again, are what prevent damage to the fence and allow Cyber Minutemen to identify and report intruders for the best deterrent and actual detention, the physical fence only slows them down enough to give Cyber Minuteman ample time after motion sensor detonates. The Earth Driller makes it possible to cement new fence posts at 90-degree bends and terminating ends, so posts cannot be knocked down. We will use the Earth Drill for 15-30-foot-high posts and quads for cameras, which will be positioned about one per 1/4 mile in sync with mended/extended fencing. Please feel free to join us in Arizona this weekend for the camera launching event - see http://www.MinutemanFence.com.

We invite you to visit BorderFenceProject.com as your help and donations are greatly appreciated in our drive to help meet our goals. Thank you for reading and being a part of our unprecedented mission.

Sincerely,

Jim Wood

NoInvaders.Org President

http://www.NoInvaders.Org

http://www.BorderFenceProject.com

Minutemen Commence 10-Mile Fence Near Palominas, AZ - May 29, 2006

I and about 200 other Minutemen, along with press and keynote speakers Alan Keyes (presidential candidate - 1996), Don Goldwater (candidate for governor, Arizona), and Congressman Steve King (R- Iowa), amongst others commenced operations in the building of a 10-mile steel-rail and barbed wire fence near Palominas, AZ. This is the beginning of what is anticipated to be a 70-mile fence separating all of Cochise County from Mexico, and with our efforts, all 1952 miles of southern border.

The first-day mission included the building of a 150-foot-long steel rail fence, with posts about 15-feet high, and the keynote speakers and myself raising the first ceremonial pole while cementing in place and singing "God Bless America". There are now two of these fences separated by about 15 feet, where our cameras will be mounted in the middle facing along the fencing itself, and signals transmitted about 10 miles away to a house in Palominas. The fence also extended well over 1/4 mile to the east after the many volunteers were able to help construct 6-foot-high barbed wire fencing after about 2 hours work. We will return to Palominas in the next few weeks to demonstrate the cameras and possibly plant for permanent operation.

We invite you to visit BorderFenceProject.com as your help and donations are greatly appreciated in our drive to help meet our goals. Thank you for reading and being a part of our unprecedented mission.

Sincerely,

Jim Wood

NoInvaders.Org President

http://www.NoInvaders.Org

http://www.BorderFenceProject.com