Friday, November 4, 2005


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If I were in charge of securing Arizona's 350-mile border with Mexico, this is what I would do:

I would pour one non-stop cement building along the entire 350 miles. Its rear wall would be 3 feet thick and would extend 10 feet below ground. Above ground, this building would be about 30 feet high so it could contain either one or two floors........and about 30 feet deep. Its roof would have a 5-foot-high protective wall on the Mexico side (for guards to stand behind), and a 350-mile electric rail on which border-guard vehicles would travel back and forth continually.

This 350-mile building would be divided into stores, restaurants, game-rooms, artist studios, internet cafes, performance theaters, bars, dance halls, playgrounds, a horticultural garden, perhaps a casino where it crossed Indian land, and countless other types of family-fun attractions, fronted by a wide sidewalk and a wide, non-stop road interrupted only by turnarounds that would lead to residential areas, motels, and other small-town developments.

Then I'd employ artists from the 25 Arizona Indian tribes, to paint 350 miles of "Homeland Security" figures, sort of like the above illustration, placing Indians symbolically in charge of defending the State of Arizona against foreign intruders.

There'd be at least 35 towns able to develop and grow along this corridor, providing police protection, city services, water, electricity, and all the other stuff needed for the area to become a popular and prosperous tourist destination.

It might result in a fabulous experiment that would turn a desolate, dangerous, extremely undesirable area into a wonderful solution to the entire problem of criminals, illegals, drug dealers, and terrorists who now just plain walk into the USA and threaten its very survival as a nation. In fact.....I believe it would be so perfect.......so successful, that every other country with a border issue would copy the concept. and be grateful to us for having initiated it.

So who's going to develop
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