More?
So while Mr. or Mrs.
Average Citizen can just about lose their house and everything
else they own for accidentally pouring the mineral oil down the
drain that they were using as a laxative, the California State
Parks can dump 1,000 cubic yards of debris and tens of millions
of gallons of almost fluorescent effluent across miles of land,
even into the ocean itself, every single year, and yet nothing
is done.
Each year that goes
by, ever more raw sewage flows from Tijuana into America, with
more poisoning of the land, more poisoning of the animals and
more poisoning of the sea itself.
With federal USBP employees
suing the federal government for being “Agent Oranged”
by the land, sea and air of this place it is quite possible that
the State of California does not actually want you to be here.
Sure, they have spent
hundreds of millions of dollars (as has the County of San Diego)
on this place but maybe they know something that you only know
now. And that is, that this place is dangerous
and will never get better and can really get worse.
To get this far you
have already endured microscopic human feces flakes (Did you miss
that? Go to the Tijuana page), human urine dust (same), bubbling
fluorescent sewage that dissolves asphalt, enough RICIN to drop
the entire mammalian population of planet earth, a few “New
Age” border guards in Birkenstocks (in the USBP Exclusion
Zone), and tattooed gang members returning to the L. A. Barrio.
Since this entire
2,500 acre area is some really strange quagmire of inter-agency
political links and even stranger funding sources, the very distant
“Visitor’s Center” is also officially part of........
“The Park.”
The State of California
told you that the “park” was miles in the other direction.
CALTRANS tried to send you off on some fantasy trip to a pointy
looking concrete bunker. The concrete cottage people “over
there” in their bunker will tell you that they are “the
park.” You are the one who ignored their entreaties and
literally went out of your way and came here instead.
If we examine the
exact words used by the California Park Service in describing
this "park" we can only become even more intrigued by
its mysteries:
The park offers
hiking, horse trails, surf fishing and birding. The Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo was concluded on February 2, 1848, officially
ending the war with Mexico. It provided that the new international
border between the two countries be established by a United States
and Mexican Boundary Commission. Both commissions surveyed and
located the initial borderline at Border Field.
So the State of California
website invitation to join them in diverse and exciting experiences
here in Border Field State Park may not really mean all that it
says.
The mean spirited
among us might point out that what they say is that there is no
bathing, no wading, no walking. They also might say that the only
permanent structure here (except a toilet) is a monument to Mexico’s
defeat at the hands of the Gringo. Note that they also mention
“horse trails” but have done all in their collective
power to bankrupt and destroy the only horse rental business within
five miles.....