The new "Great Wall"
I am not sure if it receives as much attention in the U.S.A. media as it does here in Mexico, but the aim our congress has to build a wall between Mexico and North America receives a great deal of coverage here in the media. Most Mexican folks I have talked to find the idea absurd.
Putting aside all reasoning and logic for a moment, does it not seem irreputably wasteful and medieval to try to barr one country from another with an obscene material object such as...a WALL? Shall we venture to ask, how many people will pay for it with their lives (on either side?) either attempting to cross it or in its construction?
Other walls in human history:
The "Great" Wall of China. Did it work to keep people out? People suffered in building it, and died crossing it and protecting it... Now people just walk on top of it as a tourist adventure, and it is kind of amazing (yet also disgusting like an unhealed scar,) that one can see this structure from the moon.
The Wall dividing West Germany and East Germany. Did it help? (Well, we got a good Pink Floyd album out of it.) Remember how long it took to dismantle it. Remember the rejoice when it was torn down.
The news today:
"MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (Reuters) - Leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal on Sunday criticized U.S. plans to build a fence on the Mexican border to keep out illegal immigrants and urged Washington to reconsider.
Ending an Ibero-American summit focusing on migration, leaders from 24 countries issued a special statement expressing "deep concern" about the fence plan.
"The building of the wall doesn't help us go in the right direction," said Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.
President Bush signed legislation last month approving the construction of the 700-mile (1,100-km) fence -- a move that angered Mexico's goverent.
The border fence controversy has overshadowed the two-day summit's theme of looking at ways to control the number of Latin American migrants heading to the United States and Europe."
Putting aside all reasoning and logic for a moment, does it not seem irreputably wasteful and medieval to try to barr one country from another with an obscene material object such as...a WALL? Shall we venture to ask, how many people will pay for it with their lives (on either side?) either attempting to cross it or in its construction?
Other walls in human history:
The "Great" Wall of China. Did it work to keep people out? People suffered in building it, and died crossing it and protecting it... Now people just walk on top of it as a tourist adventure, and it is kind of amazing (yet also disgusting like an unhealed scar,) that one can see this structure from the moon.
The Wall dividing West Germany and East Germany. Did it help? (Well, we got a good Pink Floyd album out of it.) Remember how long it took to dismantle it. Remember the rejoice when it was torn down.
The news today:
"MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (Reuters) - Leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal on Sunday criticized U.S. plans to build a fence on the Mexican border to keep out illegal immigrants and urged Washington to reconsider.
Ending an Ibero-American summit focusing on migration, leaders from 24 countries issued a special statement expressing "deep concern" about the fence plan.
"The building of the wall doesn't help us go in the right direction," said Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.
President Bush signed legislation last month approving the construction of the 700-mile (1,100-km) fence -- a move that angered Mexico's goverent.
The border fence controversy has overshadowed the two-day summit's theme of looking at ways to control the number of Latin American migrants heading to the United States and Europe."
posted by Akire at 11:37 AM
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