It Ain't Over Until It's Over

I know, I know, there's a new president, and the Border Patrol checkpoint in White River Junction isn't in use very often, and surely the darned thing's just going to go away... Right?
Well, so far the answer seems to be: Wrong.
The new president seems awful busy. And his Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, doesn't seem interested in even answering Senator Leahy's questions about the checkpoint, let alone shutting it down.
As for the Border Patrol, the August 22, 2009 Valley News reports that the BP is still shopping for a permanent site for the interrogation facility they'd like to build. (Yeah, I know interrogation facility" isn't a polite way to refer to the place they take you for questioning after they pull you over for looking non-white or having an excessively "Islamic" or Hispanic last name. But that's what it is.) Of course, according to the News, the BP is having some trouble distinguishing Northbound from Southbound I-91, but they're still trying...
And it's still true that no one can explain why that HUGE sewer line was extended a mile-and-a-half south down Route 5 from the new Aquatic Center. Just for the little Rest Stop on I-91 South? Hardly...
Like the misguided war in Afghanistan, which some of us hoped the new president would disentangle us from, the Border Patrol's push for internal checkpoints in the USA ain't over until it's over, folks.
It won't be over until we make it stop, by letting our representatives on every level -- local, state and fed -- as well as the president and Secretary Napolitano know it HAS to stop.