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The Chasm Between the Hunters

The Transborder Immigrant Tool leads travelers to water put out by Water Stations Inc., founded and directed by John Hunter.  TIT, however, was attacked in an op-ed piece by his nephew, Representative Duncan D. Hunter (R.). 


Born: December 7, 1976
US Representative-Republican
California's 52nd Congressional District
(East and Northern San Diego County)


Sponsored:  H.R.1091 :
Unlawful Border Entry Prevention Act of 2011

Son of Duncan Hunter, John Hunter's brother.

Born: Nov. 14, 1955
Director & Founder of Water Stations, Inc. 

Ph. D. Particle Physics

Invented: 
"Super Gun" The Super High Altitude Research Project (SHARP)  1994.

Director of Quicklaunch
Low Earth Orbit delivery system

Duncan D. Hunter took the seat of his namesake, his father, Duncan Hunter, who was initially elected to Congress in 1980, stepping down in 2008 for an unsuccessful presidential election bid.  Duncan, the father, was a party-loyalist and promoted legislation to build border fencing. 

John Hunter is not the liberal inverse of the Duncans, but instead a scientist following the edict of his Christian faith, according to Brett Stalbaum.  

In 2007 Mother Jones wrote a profile of the two brothers.  From Mother Jones article: 
Nevertheless, Duncan (who declined to be interviewed) has aided John's push to save the lives of those who do cross. He prodded the Bureau of Land Management to give Water Station the right to set up on public land and helped secure $92,000 for John's proposal—later defeated—to install lifesaving buoys in the All-American Canal, a 200-foot-wide aqueduct that skirts the border. In July, testifying before a congressional committee on the efficacy of a fenced border, Duncan boasted, "You may know, my brother is a well-known humanitarian who...puts out water in the desert to keep people from dying of thirst." John rejects the "humanitarian" moniker, saying, "The average person associates those guys with losers." He adds: "We come from the same mother. We only fistfight on alternate Tuesdays."

The Transborder Immigrant Tool apparently launches on alternate Tuesdays, as well, as it further polarizes these Hunters. 
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