As long as its the Texas DPS that mans the boats I'd rather have them than not. The cartels are no joke. Not in favor in general of militarization of the police, but the cartels done militarized (with our money and weapons).

Not to be outdone, Arizona's, finger wagging, uber-Girl Governor, Jan Brewer is seeking either AC-130 Gunships or surplus Claymore mines to slow down illegal border crossers. Please this is a joke as is our Governor.

would be the drought expanding and the Rio running dry.
Think of it as the silver lining...

It is worth remembering that the Founding Fathers were all traitors.

Here's the secret to the cartels and why all this is useless: drugs make tons and tons (and tons!) of money. Literally tons, like thousands of pounds of $100 bills.

That's why and how the cartels are militarized, drug money. But once they have the supply lines locked down (in Mexico) to get a monopoly and the product is flowing, it i impossible to stop the money train. Here's what happens with these boats:

* The local police are bought off such that the cartels know the routes, times, and capabilities of each boat. Sure, you let them catch a full boat with a crew of noobs every few months, as long as the other 5 full boats pull through every night (on schedule.)

* If a police boat captain is causing trouble and not sticking to the routes, you buy him off. If he won't be bought off, he disappears. It might look like a car crash or maybe it's discovered he's got some "debt" to the local usury boys, or there is heroin in his system when he's found in a ditch with a bullet in the head. Whatever, the coroners can be paid to say and do what you want. It's funny how quickly the other captains get this message when this happens once or twice.

* If all else fails, you get the US politicians to lean on the police to cool it off, or the DEA (who are addicted to the drug problem as much as anyone to the drugs themselves), or you get the Mexican politicians to raise a quiet stink with the Governor.

The upshot here is as long as drugs make SO MUCH money, there is simply no way to contain the the flow of drugs and stem the corruption of said cash. It's not like the drug cartels have an upper limit on what they can spend and their methods are diverse and deep.

But yeah Texas, enjoy your toy boats. I'm sure the drug war is all but over now that we put gunboats in the Gulf. I'm also sure they'll never, ever be used against unarmed civilians. Fucking idiots.