Mexican gangs dig mile-long tunnels under the border, directly into warehouses in the U.S., to bring in guns, drugs, and whatever else it pays to smuggle. What we talk about in San Diego is the two big tunnels the Feds have found in the last couple of years. But what about all the other tunnels they haven't found? Any fool with money could hire a Russian or Chinese engineering team to build a long tunnel out in the desert from Tecate or Mexicali to somewhere north of the border. It would cost millions of dollars, but who cares? The profits would be enormous.
I wouldn't even tunnel to a warehouse, I would go to a non-descript office building, somewhere with a parking lot of 50 or so cars. A single van load of contraband a day would be insanely profitable. And I wouldn't sit tight either, that's how smugglers get caught, by getting lazy. I would figure out how long I needed to keep the tunnel open to turn a nice profit, then I would fill the tunnel in with soil, being careful to engineer it so I could easily dig out the tunnel at a later date. Then I would move to a new location, or maybe several. Someone with ingenuity and capital could stay ahead of the Feds for years. That's what has me so worried. If I can sit here in ten minutes and dream up ways to beat the system, someone with a lot more time on their hands and the incentive to act on their ideas could build a serious smuggling network in a short period of time. I don't like Thompson. I mean, he's a good guy, but not Presidential material. Giuliani I could live with, although I would probably rather have Bill Richardson. He's a smart dude and would never be over his head in the job. On 3/18/07, Gruss wrote: > > > RoMunn wrote: > > lords smuggling military-grade weapons and ammo along with the drugs. > They > > don't even have to make it themselves, the Russians will be happy to > make it > > for them. > > > > Who the hell cares? Guns are more easy to detect than drugs and the > price would be prohibitively high for your run-o-the-mill criminal. > > Besides, I'd legalize drugs first and that'd cut demand by 50% or more. > > Don't worry Robert - you, me, and Tim will fix all this stuff - it'll > just take a little time and a few compromises between us. And, no, > Fred Thompson is not our compromise candidate. You'll have to stick > with Giuliani. > -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:230714 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
