Protecting America's Borders Impossible? Not If A Computer Science Research Group and A MAGLEV Rail Transportation Company Have Their Way and Build “The Borderline Flyer”
The American Computer Scientists Association (http://www.acsa.net, ITC Reference: http://www.acsa.net/hshrt) and the Interstate Traveler Company (http://interstatetraveler.us) issue a vital notice to America regarding Homeland Security. It is possible to facilitate low-cost, joint protection of our borders: we could save a lot of money and achieve far, far more if the ITC Interstate Traveler, a high speed solar/hydrogen hybrid powered MAGLEV Rail System, were run along both our northern and southern borders. The border patrol version of the Interstate Traveler would be equipped with surveillance devices, protective cars and personnel its entire length. Patrolling the border and monitoring activity would be a cinch, using only a handful of special border observation stations. Best of all, it could all be done without buying any fuel and without polluting the environment. The entire nationwide proposed Interstate Traveler System is designed to run on clean, efficient hydrogen produced by the Traveler's vast network of built-in Solar Energy panels and hydrogen producing hydrolyzers.
(PRWEB) June 20, 2005 -- In today’s announcement, ACSA indicated that the
Interstate Traveler System, a proposed MAGLEV system some 50-250,000 miles long,
could also assume a vital border-securing role in America’s Homeland Security
Future.
“We can easily optimize costs and reduce manpower, while
creating a perfect deterrent against terrorism,” say scientists working in the
ACSA VISTA Incubator, a project to mentor extremely advanced science and
technology which is working with the project.
The Interstate Traveler is
a 250 mile per hour, 250,000 mile long MAGLEV system powered by Solar/Hydrogen
technology. Described as both a nationwide, fuel efficient, non-polluting
transportation system, it has also been described as a way to generate up to 100
Quadrillion BTU/hours (the United State’s entire annual demand for energy) of
electricity and low cost, clean burning hydrogen for US consumption, the
Interstate Traveler might free America of its fossil fuel dependency.
The system would be self maintaining, autonomously controlled and would
provide low cost transportation of people, freight and autos. The Intestate
Traveler Company is collaborating with the American Computer Science Association
to get it built.
“The biggest technical problem American Homeland
Security faces when protecting the borders is to avoid having to position
manpower with weaponry every 100 feet along thousands of miles of our borders
with Canada and Mexico,” said ITC President Justin Sutton.
“The ‘living
line,’ demonstrated by the tremendous effort of ‘the Minute Men’ recently
publicized in the news, is something that the Traveler can make much more
feasible by extending the range border observers cover the entire border with.
That would make it inexpensive and easy to manage. The Interstate Traveler can
be equipped with extensive surveillance equipment and vibration/motion sensors,
external to the system or mounted right on the MAGLEV Rails themselves. We can
send Robotic MAGLEV vehicles to extend the monitoring from central locations.
Our standard Rail Cars, provide a way to get the Homeland Security border
personnel from a nearby Border Observation Center to any critical point along
the border, traveling at 250 MPH. With the advanced surveillance net, we'd be
able to easily differentiate between the average Canadian or Mexican civilian
going cross border and not confuse them with a dangerous group of terrorists,”
he added.
“The speed of the system would allow us to place border
observation stations every 75 to 150 miles, to watch everything on both borders
with only 30 stations and 2 central offices. That would be more efficient,
eliminating the need to place squads of personnel every 100 yards, avoiding
expenses beyond which Congress would ever approve. The Traveler houses a huge
network of fiber optic internet and internet telephone/video-channel
acceleration cables. This was included as part of our plan to also offer
enormous bandwidth to the United States’ Very High Speed Internet Backbone.
Using only a tiny percentage of that speed, we can easily monitor sensor
networks covering up to 60 miles surrounding the border tracks. We’d be able to
constantly share our observations with the Mexican and Canadian authorities,”
remarked Dr. Timm Finfrock, lead science advisor at ITC.
ACSA’s
chairperson, Dr. Jack A. Shulman, whose Vista Incubator is mentoring ITC,
stated: “In this special application, the Traveler would be equipped to create
as wide as a 60 mile buffer zone the entire length of the United States’ borders
with Canada and Mexico. Using about 30 modest sized defensive patrol centers and
a pair of central observation posts, special patrol vehicles could use the rail
system and go 'off road' where they were needed. The combination of surveillance
and 250 MPH Maglev speed, would greatly reduce the cost of monitoring. The ITC
always pays for itself anyway: in energy produced and its primary function: low
cost transport of people, autos and freight. We can reduce the effort of
monitoring the borders to just a handful of special stations and an equally
small number of well trained defensive personnel. In larger emergencies, they'd
be backed by our National Guard anyway. The speed at which points of incursion
could be reached by them and the robust sensor and surveillance camera
technology we can equip the Traveler and its MAGLEV Tracks with, makes the
difference.”
Dr. Shulman continued: “The Interstate Traveler uses only
the Sun as its primary energy source. We can tie in other energy grids for even
greater hydrogen production and electricity cast-offs. For Homeland Security
functions, if approved, ITC has designed specially conceived MAGLEV cars with
Homeland Security features. Clearly, the average cross-border immigrant is not a
combatant. He or she come to America either to make some money for their family
badly needed back home, or wishes to stay here and bring their family here for a
better life. Those are not the people we fear and are not the people who need
the aggressive apprehending. Read the inscription on the Statue of Liberty if
you have any question about that. But there are other problems.”
ACSA's
public policy on the border security problem is "centrist", stated policy
spokesperson for the research foundation Andrew Vanoceur. "We want migrating
peoples to come here legally and stay legally. We don’t want migrant workers and
families in dire straights to become the targets of any anti-Terrorism security
system. The methods of surveillance the Traveler would provide are very
carefully controllable, providing a clear indication of what's going on, night
and day, far from anywhere people reside. The object: to stop terrorists, not to
cause any harm to migrant workers trying to gain entry illegally. The decision
regarding treatment of migrant workers is both a Federal decision and a local
decision in each state. Nonetheless, the US must enhance border security: what
is the point of screening our airports as carefully as we do today, if another
Mohammed Atta (9/11 attack leader who flew one of the jets into the World Trade
Center) can simply walk across the Rio Grande, hail a Cab, hire a limo and blow
up a vital business or facility?”
Dr. Timm Finfrock added: “We need to be
sensitive to those who need to be treated sensitively. Neighboring citizens
seeking a way out of poverty are not necessarily a threat. Protecting against
Terrorism and seeing to it that the law is enforced respectfully of it and of
human rights and dignity is crucial. Think about that group of Al Qaeda related
Anthrax Terrorists in that camp in Mexico stopped by the authorities in July
2003. It would have been all too easy for them to attacked the Rose Parade or
the Super Bowl. Without proper border protection we simply can not defend
ourselves from very dangerous infiltrators. ‘The Borderline Flyer’ would allow
us to inexpensively monitor, identify and then stop terrorism before it strikes.
It doubles as a multilane Hydrogen Super Highway between Miami and San Diego in
the south, and between Maine and Washington in the north, boosting the economy
of every state it passes through. Homeland Security can move manpower and
equipment rapidly to points of any potential problem."
Dr. Shulman
indicated: “Teams of specially trained non-lethal responders would be able to
protect émigrés who tried to enter illegally, while stopping Terror Cells from
entering altogether.”
He went on to say: ”Doubtlessly our border security
is a very difficult subject, because it covers every kind of non-lawful form of
entry. Yet, this country was founded on the notion of ‘give me your tired, your
poor, your huddled masses.’ Any solution implemented needs to reflect America’s
greatness. This is a country and a continent which was founded by immigrants. We
never refuse a job to any people on the basis of race, creed or color, or
national origin. We need to be more understanding about the effects of poverty
on those who try to cross our borders. Many of them are quite desperate to find
work. It is not the American way to turn them away, even if we must turn them
back for coming here illegally. There has to be a compromise that reflects both
abiding the law and facilitating the spirit of Lady Liberty. We should respect
the right of every American to find work."
"The Association feels that by
using autonomous sensors, robotics and surveillance systems to get a clear view
of exactly who is crossing the borders, by providing ITC's high speed solution
to get the manpower where it is really needed, we can do the job right and not
cause any harm to come to those who seek employment here to help their family
survive. It's a tough call. Many border state employers want inexpensive labor.
Every American wants to have and protect their job. I think everyone wants
secure borders. Those in dire straights in other countries would like to come
here to save their families. The spirit of America resides in the inscriptions
found on the Statue of Liberty. Call 'the Borderline Flyer' a working compromise
that should help us catch terrorist infiltrators. If we do it right, we won’t be
trampling anyone’s human rights in doing so.”
ACSA representatives
indicated that response to the proposed Interstate Traveler Company projects to
date had been “overwhelming, extraordinary interest from every direction: every
state, the press, the public, and every Federal Agency communicated with. It's a
win-win solution for clean energy, low cost, high speed transportation and a
safe, secure America.”
To read more: visit ACSA on the web at http://www.acsa.net and read more
press releases at http://www.acsa.net/hshrt. To visit The Interstate Traveler
Company on the web go to: http://interstatetraveler.us
Contact:
John
Buchman
908-272-0016
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