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To: Wallace T.
Your comparison of a border wall to the Berlin Wall is ill conceived. ...You might as well analogize the slave ships that brought Africans against their will to this country to the vessels that brought people seeking freedom and opportunity to our shores.

Thank you for this excellent point. Even the mention of a wall, Isreali wall or a US border wall, is assumed to be evil when discussing the issue with liberals or pro-illegals. They have no understanding of freedom, so they see no difference between a wall of protection and a wall meant to enslave or hold a population captive.

253 posted on 04/20/2006 12:52:22 PM PDT by sawoody
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To: sawoody

"They have no understanding of freedom, so they see no difference between a wall of protection and a wall meant to enslave or hold a population captive."

I see, the way to keep people free is to place a wall around them, much the same way the feudal barons did, and to make sure no one gets in to steal, rob or plunder from their castle? I do see your point. I now realize that for me to be free, I must erect a wall to keep out those who are not free. This will in deed protect my freedoms.

Free people, in order to keep their freedom, must not allow themselves to become polluted by those they do not want in. This pollution will ruin the pure things I have learned to treasure and keep me free.

Baloney!! IMHO, if I were really free, my fear of pollution would not exist. I would welcome those who may pollute, because they can not harm me.

My friend, it is our fear that you mistake for freedom. We don't need to imprison ourselves within a wall to be free. Yes we can come in or go out of our castle, but someday we must face those who do not dwell within. If we can not, then we are truly not free, but in a prison worse than you and I can ever imagine.


273 posted on 04/20/2006 1:41:43 PM PDT by bugsplat (Never stoop lower than your opponents, it only drives them nutz)
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