The walls Europe is building to keep people out

Washington Post ^ | August 28, 2015 | By Adam Taylor

[Brad from Tennessee]

After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, for a while it seemed like border fences and barriers were a thing of the past in Europe. Many on the continent hoped for a new era of integration and receptivity. It didn't happen. Instead, a variety of pressures have led Europe to adopt wall-building projects that would make Donald Trump proud.

Right now, in Hungary, for example, the government is rushing to complete a 109-mile-long barbed wire border fence along its southern frontier with Serbia – a project made bitterly ironic by Hungary's 1989 decision to cut its border fence with Austria and help break the Iron Curtain. "We have only recently taken down walls in Europe," European Union spokesperson Natasha Bertaud said when news of the fence spread in June. "We should not be putting them up."

[Brad from Tennessee]

Graphics at link.

[Little Ray]

It is a start.

They also need policies that prevent these people from claiming refugee status, establishing residency, or claiming public assistance.

Stop them from coming and take away the policies that attract them. Problem solved.

[nathanbedford]

If one has no concept of property he need not distinguish it or protect it. If one regards property as intrinsically evil, he no doubt regards protecting it as working in the service of evil. If one regards one man having dominion over a thing or a piece of ground to be morally wrong, one probably does so because he wants to distribute things among people according to some standard other than the idea that man acquires legitimate dominion over property by virtue of his sweat.

If one believes that things of value ought to be distributed according to a rule which has nothing to do with merit, nothing to do with labor but according to a vision which says that each shall receive according to his need and each shall produce according to his ability, the idea of any individual exerting dominion over property becomes anathema. That rule of distribution cannot function so long as the principle of property lives.

Not incidentally, the people who despise the concept of property also despise the concept of the nation state and therefore seek always to undermine one of the classic definitions of a nationstate, the ability to establish frontiers and to exercise dominion within those frontiers. If the left despises the idea of disparate nations and further despises the idea of frontiers defining those nations, certainly it disapproves of fences the marking and protecting those frontiers. Thus we have the application on a macro level of the desire to do away with fences protecting property on the micro level.

Without fences there is no property and there are no frontiers, without frontiers no nation states; with unrestrained immigration, the disintegration is hastened.

[henkster]

Just exactly how many of these refugees has Adam Taylor personally taken into his home and assumed the responsibility of caring, feeding and clothing?

I’ll bet my next paycheck the answer is “zero.”

[WilliamofCarmichael]

What am I missing? They are fleeing Islamists atrocities I thought. A linked article says "Thousands of refugees, most fleeing wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan . . . .

Christians, Jews, and Muslims are refugees.

American liberals.. "If I'd been living at the time of Nazi atrocities I would have put an end to it. I tell you."

Today Islamist atrocities? No, no, no . . .where? Are you an Islamophobe?

[Jumper]

Those same people demand privacy and a lack of accountability. If we could, say, give them anything and everything under a requirement for a drug test, they would demand no drug testing en mass.