I have seen some articles in various publications talking about the wall between Mexico and the United States. Of course the articles are very negative but have taken a little bit different tact recently. One article I saw discussed the environmental impact of building a wall upon wildlife and their inability to roam their natural habitat. There is also been discussion about landowners along the border losing their property because the government is taking it to build a wall. Clearly these stories are meant to create an emotional attachment to the animals and the landowners and against Pres. Trump's plan.

First of all let's address the taking of property. I have talked to some of my friends along the border and they have absolutely no concerns about losing 5 to 10 feet swaths of their property along the border. These are the people who are most impacted by drug smuggling and illegal aliens traveling across their property. We all know the stories of ranchers who have been killed, threatened, kidnapped, and more. Not to mention the environmental impact of the trash left by the coyotes and those they lead. The vast majority of people living along the border want to have the wall not just to protect themselves but to protect our sovereignty.

And the environmental impact of building a wall upon wildlife is vastly overstated. Animals have an incredible ability to adapt to things like walls and neighborhoods and roads and hospitals and pretty much everything else we put up. I'm not saying there won't be some impact upon animals that do roam large areas looking for food and water but they will do what they have done in the past when their food sources have migrated, they will adapt and migrate with them or find other food sources. I mean look at what wolves have done since being reintroduced into the Southwest. They have begun roaming outside of what the environmentalists called the wolves GǣtraditionalGǥ habitat. To those of you that say we've seen species die out because of man's impact, there are some, yes; but there are many more that have adapted. There are also a ton of species who have died out without man even being around. It's nature.

But let me ask you this; drive around these United States especially in bigger cities and what do you see along the roadway's, highways, major thoroughfares? What do you see around many neighborhoods, especially where the more affluent people live? You see walls. Big walls made of concrete that are designed in part to keep noise out and also to create privacy and keep out of the neighborhood others that those property owners have deemed to be undesirable or a threat to themselves and their property. Isn't it funny that many of these environmentalists and anti-wall protestors are people who live in walled communities themselves?

Apparently building those walls was not much of an environmental concern. It only becomes an environmental concern when somebody doesn't want it there.

Here are a couple of facts about the wiretapping or eavesdropping on members of the Trump campaign and transition team that you will not hear in the mainstream media. I listened to a good portion of the committee hearing in the Senate on Monday where the directors of the FBI and NSA were being questioned. They both admitted that in the course of investigating intelligence breaches, there were monitored conversations between members of the Trump transition team and others, probably Russians included. What you really won't hear from the left wing is what both of them said subsequently; under direct questioning which had to be narrowed several times, both men said that there was no evidence, no indication, no hint that the Russians had in any way shaped or formed affected votes, vote counting, voting machines or in any way shape or form did the Russians attempt to or successfully affect the election process in the United States of America.

One Democrat senator asked if there was any evidence that hacking into the DNC computers and publishing emails from members of the DNC and/or members of Hillary's campaign, influenced the opinions of voters in America. As FBI Director Comey put it, that is beyond the purview of the investigation being conducted by either agency.

What is more important is the admission that our intelligence agencies were actively spying upon Americans, not just members of Trump's campaign but also members of the media. This is absolutely 100% illegal and unacceptable. We also now know that members of Obama's White House staff and probably Obama himself saw unredacted copies, that is raw data, of those monitored conversations. That is also highly illegal. Staff and even the President are only supposed to see summaries of intelligence that have all identifying information excluded, to protect the rights of American citizens.

This is so much worse than anything Richard Nixon did but is getting so much less attention from the media that is so hell bent for leather on destroying Donald Trump that they are ignoring violations of our rights as American citizens. They are ignoring something that was being done by a president and the bureaucracy that is no better than some Banana Republic being run by a dictator with a bad haircut.

Once again, it proves that they are only concerned with having and keeping power, not doing what is right.