So we're going ahead and building a giant steel and concrete monstrosity on the Texas border. So what if it's ugly, imposing, and would remind anyone with half a brain of the Berlin Wall. It'll keep out the brown people, right?
Well, I guess it would help if there weren't any gaps in the fence, don't you think?
But, there will be gaps - big ones. Perhaps you don't have to have a fence on your property - if you give George W. Bush enough money.
This article in the Texas Observer indicates that we will indeed not have a complete fence.
Ray Hunt is one of the richest oilmen in Texas, and I'm sure he's probably on many of those silly Robin Leach-style "lists" as well. He has been very helpful to George W. Bush over the years, and he has been very generous to the foundation building the GWB Library at Southern Methodist University, to the tune of $35 million (which seems odd to me - after all how big a library do you need for a few comic books, a few pages of totally redacted PDBs and a copy of My Pet Goat?); but, I digress.
But the big, imposing border fence will not actually span the whole border. It won't, for example, cover Ray Hunt's border property.
I know what you're thinking: I'm just ginning up a conspiracy. I'm not, though. I believe this is a clever plan to save the taxpayers money in the long run. Instead of putting up the fence, ol' Ray will just set up his buddy Dick Cheney with a lounge chair, a cooler full of Jack and Bud, a 12-gauge, and an endless supply of shells. That ought to keep them varmints off Ray's land. After all, even a 15-year-old from Sinaloa knows that Deadeye Dick shoots first and, NOTHING, he just shoots first.
I'm glad I'm a proud American who would never get hung up on conspiracy theories (such as this whole border fence thing being just a cynical scam to rile up the wingnut base's natural bigot tendencies). I don't question the wisdom of George and Dick. They have nothing but our best interests at heart, I'm sure.
I think everyone here should contact his or her representatives in Congress and let them know how much we appreciate the brilliant logic in this plan. I'll bet some of them don't even know about it yet. They should.