The Great Wall of Arizona
The US House of Representatives voted to construct a wall along the US-Mexican border. The usual suspects will decry this as racist, or suspect, or even just unfriendly toward our prosperous and friendly neighbors to the south. I don't think this is necessarily the case. I don't have a problem with individual Mexicans. I don't have a problem with Mexicans - even in large numbers - moving northwards in an orderly and legal fashion.
I do, however, have a problem with most of the Mexican nation shouting, "Hey! Look! Terrorists!" and sneaking over the border en masse while we're looking the other way. Despite the predictions of many dreamy-eyed one-world-staters, the importance of the nation-state has not withered away. And one of the essentials of national soveriegnty is control over the borders. If we can't keep the damn furriners out with the existing border, than by god we should build a better one.
Sadly, it looks like the planned wall won't really be a wall, exactly, but rather a security fence with cameras. In other words, looking north from the otherside of the border will, in essence, be much like looking in at any standard issue industrial facility. Which, in essence, is the whole relationship Mexico has with the US anyway. So no worries!
What we should build, just because we can and because it would make a much better statement is a combination of this:
And this:
That would just be fun.
[wik] Bram adds: We’re going to need some cheap Mexican labor to build a wall that big! Good thing there is plenty available.
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Ooooo, I like that idea.
Ooooo, I like that idea. Build the wall six or eight miles in from the actual border, put big naval guns on it at intervals, and do the actual patrolling with a combination of UAV's, autonomous sentry bots (surveillence only) and some sort of cross between a Bolo and an Ogre. And since we're at it, we need a galaxy of dedicated border-crossing geosynchronous satellites and finally, just because we can - and screw the rest of the world - every last bit of the entire system should be nuclear powered.
That would put the balls back in the Border Patrol.
That wall of yours? I am
That wall of yours? I am totally on board (and I know you were waiting for just my approval to get started...) So, when can we break ground on that?
We're going to need some
We're going to need some cheap Mexican labor to build a wall that big! Good thing there is plenty available.
Bram, I wish I had thought of
Bram, I wish I had thought of that. Now that we have Princess Cat's approval, we should start rounding up labor battalions in the new year.
Should be an easy round-up.
Should be an easy round-up. Just put up a stand in a couple of border towns with this sign:
"Brick-stacking work: $10/ hour - no questions asked"
I guess the tricky thing
I guess the tricky thing would be to make sure they're on the right side of the wall when it's finished.
That's pretty funny! Thing
That's pretty funny! Thing they would notice if they are pointed north as they lay those bricks?