Concerned Over the I-91 Checkpoint?

If you’re concerned about racial profiling, political scare theater and pork-barrel spending at the Border Patrol checkpoint on I-91 in Hartford, Vermont — 100 miles from the Canadian border — you’re not alone! I’ve created a new site, StopTheCheckpoint.Com, as a rallying point for a spring/summer 2005 campaign to make sure this bad idea never gets the $9 million the agency seeks to make it permanent. The site contains links to more information. Here on PreemptiveHindsight, you can read my recent Boston Globe op-ed.
The checkpoint has been cutting back on hours lately, perhaps in repsonse to bad publicity that even included Newt Gingrich calling it a “stupid” idea! But it might just be hoping we’ll think it’s gone away — — while that $9 million appropriation is still actively under consideration! Let’s get together and shut it down. Thanks!

— — HistoryBuff