Posted on 02/27/2006 8:57:03 AM PST by devane617
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I'm OK with "ominous".
The Berlin Wall was about imprisoning your own citizens so that they could not flee a dictatorship.
The proposed wall is about secure borders so that our laws regulating immigration can be respected.
" but already its 700 miles of fencing and electric sensors loom like a new Berlin Wall in the Latin American imagination."
probably asking too much for paper to remind us what the function of the berlin wall was, who built it, and compare and contrast that with any hypothetical wall on the mexican border.
The Berlin wall was constructed by those wanting to keep its people from leaving. Big difference.
They keep forgetting the Berlin wall was not to keep people out it was to keep people in...
S...T...F...U you hyperbolic MF.
Uh... One teensy weensy little difference...
Our wall will not be there to keep our own citizens captive.
well quoting the ambassador is half-way ok, though it might just be his opinion.
Fear not illegals, you will be allowed to leave anytime you want.
The Berlin wall kept people IN East Germany, this wall will keep people OUT of America. Bush better not veto this bill if it comes to him. And any senator who is running in 08 and votes no, I won't vote for. Hillary or no Hillary
''The U.S. government has fostered an atmosphere of collective paranoia, given a green light to its spies . . . and institutionalized torture,''
If we're that bad, then why would you want to come here? If your countries are so bad that you would liken a U.S. border protection wall to the Berlin wall, you'd do better service to your countrymen by staying and revolutionizing your own governments.
Hell of an imagination -- the Berlin Wall was created to keep the people IN, not out.
Think of it at the "Great Wall of the United States" -- eighth wonder of the world!
What about the one we're helping the Dominicans build across their island?
We could make the wall a lot shorter if we invade Mexico and build the wall across the skinny part.
Actually the walls are going up a heck of lot faster than they are falling. We are extending ours near San Diego. Israel is building theirs as fast as they can. And India is building one along their border with Pakistan.
The reason countries build walls is because they work. Anybody who is arguing against this wall is arguing for a continuation of status quo illegal invasion.
...well...in the imagination of Hector Tobar anyway
(Nevermind that the Berlin Wall was erected to lock in would-be refugees trying to escape from the communist prison that was East Germany and the Mexican Border Wall is designed to keep out a tsunami of would-be immigrants attracted to the Capitalist Miracle that is the U.S.A.
The distinction is lost on Tobar--or, perhaps more precisely, he hopes it will be lost on you.)
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