Feldman: Good Fences (Immigration; EU preview)

American Thinker ^ | February 21, 2016 | Clarice Feldman

[jazusamo]

Robert Frost wrote in "Mending Walls" that "good fences make good neighbors", and this week it appears that people in this country and the UK are chock full of citizens who agree. As I explain, the immigration crises both here and in Europe have underscored growing anger at the arrogance and incompetence of unelected bureaucrats and their rules.

The big election kerfuffle of the week was the Pope's ill-considered attack on those who want to limit illegal immigration from Mexico by building a wall at the border. To many it seemed an attack on Donald Trump whose campaign against illegal immigration struck a receptive chord with voters. Many noted the hypocrisy of such a statement coming from the head of the Vatican state which is itself surrounded by a wall erected in the ninth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries to protect against pirates and invaders.

In a rare defense of the Church, the New York Times argued that the charge of hypocrisy was unwarranted.

Tom Maguire was having none of it:

Those Ever-So-Clever Progressive Apologists

Those walls around the Vatican City aren't really walls, don'tcha know?

If the Times employed this sort of sophistry in defense of the Pope's anti-abortion stand their readers would burn the place down but since this nonsense is part of a Trump-basher it will be Hosannas all around.

I will cull this as the most offensive bit:

Today, the public can freely enter some parts of Vatican City, including St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's Square and the Vatican Museum (which charges for the price of a ticket). Those areas receive millions of visitors each year who are able to enter and exit the tiny city-state as they wish.

[jazusamo]

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[Paine in the Neck]

Strictly, it was Frost’s neighbor whom he has ay those words. Frost says “something there is doesn’t love a wall.”

[Paine in the Neck]

"ay those words" -> say those words

[Don Corleone]

"good fences make good neighbors",

Francisco doesn't seem to think so.

[upchuck]

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[PGalt]

HOORAY Justice Minister Michael Gove (in article)

[DoughtyOne]

[jazusamo]

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[GOPJ]

My starting point is simple. I believe that the decisions which govern all our lives, the laws we must all obey and the taxes we must all pay should be decided by people we choose and who we can throw out if we want change. If power is to be used wisely, if we are to avoid corruption and complacency in high office, then the public must have the right to change laws and Governments at election time.

But our membership of the European Union prevents us being able to change huge swathes of law and stops us being able to choose who makes critical decisions which affect all our lives. Laws which govern citizens in this country are decided by politicians from other nations who we never elected and can;t throw out.

Good 'starting point'...another nice argument against 'one world' thinkers.

[SaraJohnson]

We have a uniparty of globalists and corrupt courts that are no better than the EU. We can not touch them on immigration and a variety of other issues, like re-education...so far.

To try and stop us, they will be funneling in non-citizens to vote in our election as they have the past few years. I would guess we are dealing with 30 million illegals - not the 11 million made up fifteen years or so ago. Especially since Obama has “ruled”.

We have to stop them THIS election. Treasonous animals.

[GOPJ]

I would guess we are dealing with 30 million illegals - not the 11 million made up fifteen years or so ago. Especially since Obama has “ruled”. We have to stop them THIS election. Treasonous animals.

Right on every point Sara...