Utter nonsense.
Walls WORK.
If you don't believe that, ask Berliners who lived with their own "wall". I saw it personally, and traveled _through_ the Berlin wall in 1971, and viewed it from BOTH sides.
Painful message: it did what it was intended to do. It kept the overwhelming majority of people on one side of the wall from going to the OTHER side.
One can take issue with the purpose of the wall that was built in Berlin: to keep people confined INside. But you cannot argue against its success in doing so.
OF COURSE a few were still able to "get across". A few.
But not thousands
But not millions
But not tens of millions
Or even one hundred million.
The reason the "wall opponents" and open-borders folks are so vehemently opposed to even the NOTION of building a border barrier is BECAUSE it will work. It will work effectively and passively, and will be there for future generations (and political administrations).
One can "turn off" a virtual fence (howls of derisive laughter towards ANYONE who thinks such a concoction can be established). And that's exactly what Hillary is going to do once she assumes power in 2009.
Questions for maria:
Have you ever been to Washington?
Have you been to the White House?
What surrounds the White House grounds?
Why is it there?
- John