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Old 05-09-2010, 09:52 AM   #391
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Originally Posted by BornBronson View Post

Do you suppose we do nothing,like maybe if we ignore all the drug killings,and rapes,kidnappings taking place it will just fix itself..go away perhaps.No,I feel we need to do something about it.

Passing this law was a good start.

My eyes are tired,I am going to bed now y'all.
Oh, perfect border security is easy enough. Once we achieved it we wouldn't be recognizable as the same nation, but achieving perfect border security is simple.

Step 1) Build a large wall along the border.

Step 2) Put a mine field on both sides of the wall.

Step 3) Every 200 yards or so, put a weapons system based on the Phalanx ship-defense system (rotary cannon, auto-firing) using an FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared) targeting system tuned to shoot at anything with a heat signature larger than, say, a coyote. To be 'humane' have warning signs in several languages 1000 feet from the wall warning that anything trespassing into this are will be shot by an automatic system. Lights and sirens here might help.

Step 4) Have routine, 24 hour, aerial surveillance using either predator drones or satellites (probably the former, the physics of doing the latter in a very low orbit (which is what you would want for this kind of application) ). The drones could be armed or unarmed, take your pick.

There you go, perfect border security and defense in depth. Anything that makes it through all the layers is an army.

We can already control the ports of entry so that's not the problem. You take the ports of entry down to a very small number (no more than half a dozen) and there you have it. You have achieved a level of border security that would be the envy of the East German Stasi. Congrats!

Now, who or what you'll blame when there are still murders, still theft, still drug trafficking in Arizona after we have achieved perfect border security I don't know.
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