I’ve seen a real fence - you don’t even know …
I’ve walked up to the most famous fence in the world, while it was still operational. I was under USAFE Command stationed in Germany from 1982 to 1984. The real fence was built to keep it’s people in. You really don’t even know what a real fence looks like, do you? Sure, you can wax prolific about seeing a fence around a prison. OK, so, maybe you’ve been close to a very secure US Military base. Or maybe you’ve seen razor wire atop a fence that has brand new cars being stored prior to transit. And maybe you think that by building a fence we’d be just like them. But, what made the most famous fence so, famous?
I’ll tell ya, guard towers with men inside with orders to shoot to kill. Shoot their fellow citizens that were trying to leave! Not to arrest or detain, not to control a population illegally crossing to get a few bucks doing hard work and get free medical and dental. No questions asked, kill. And did you know that even if you were able to cross the fence, there was still 50 more feet before you were truly free?
Have you ever been to Check Point Charlie and seen the bullet holes in the buildings where good people fled for their lives? Have you ever driven through Helmstedt and been given a direct order to wait for the East German guard to salute you first - because we do not recognize them as a country (learn why, learn a ton)? Have you been followed by East German patrols or KGB as you were seeing the sights on a sunny day? Do you know why these practices were in place?
I’ll tell ya, ’cause the most dangerous regime after WWII was in charge of a poor people who needed help. That country watched their people so closely that there was very little room to have your own personality. The fence extended way beyond the perimeter and entered every soul within it’s boundary, binding everyone through real acts of spying, not the lame stuff in the news today, that isn’t even spying (see Echelon for real spying). You here in the United States of America can talk freely and jump in your car to go to Vegas without having to notify the local “authorities”.
You do not even know what a fence really is, and you do not really know what spying is like. You’ve never had your every move tracked, day by day, just because they want to track you. Not ’cause you are an enemy of the State but because you might want to escape to the free world. Ask The Chief, go to his site The Truth, learn something - you’re in no way an “expert”.
The people that came to the rescue of those people trapped behind that fence were lead by one man. A man so courageous he threw down the gauntlet and forced the evil power to relinquish it’s cold as death hold on it’s people. That man was vilified often, misunderstood by many, and oh so underestimated by the world. Uh-huh, you know what I’m going to ask, who was that man?
President Ronald Wilson Reagan.
I served under his leadership. He’d provide no safe haven for anyone exhibiting Chamberlain-like traits. Why are we letting the psychos run the asylum, huh? Why are we so afraid of being the people that the rest of the world laughs at so often? What’s wrong with being a God fearing, Jesus loving, SUV driving, cowboy?
And for those of you that think I am against a fence on our southern borders, you are sooo very wrong. These people are not escaping an oppressive government that is torturing, killing, tracking, placing them in death camps, or stealing the money out of their hands. Yes, those crossing do come from a depressed economy. But arrest or put sanctions on their Presidente and the scum keeping them down which is forcing them to come here for free handouts and a better way. Sure, the work is hard, but if they came across legally, the pay scale is better and they can join the rest of us in the benefits later in life.
I did not write this post to show how bad a fence is, but the difference. Here, try this one on for size. If you had a purchased a brand new ski boat and you knew that access was easy and anyone cold just hook up a hitch and drive away with it, what would you do? And what if that person was starving and just wanted to sell it to get some money to send home to their family. Is stealing right?
I guess inside the beltway, stealing is OK. So is giving our Social Security money to illegals. If it’s OK to do that, McCain, maybe we should just start cuttin’ checks to all the scum in our prisons, too.
Wait, they should vote too! Right?
Ronnie, we miss you.
TAGS: Fix4RSO, Milblog, Military, Kudzu, Myopia, Reagan, Fence, Illegal+Aliens
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:51
Amen. I always say WWRD. (What Would Reagan Do?) It is not our job to take care of Mexico. I also fail to see how aiding illegals is considered “helping our fellow man.” I get that even from some of my Christian colleagues. It helps illegals, to be sure, but also brings more hardship on millions of others. Deport them all. Better yet, TAKE Canada and Mexico and become The United States Of North America.
May 23rd, 2006 at 7:32
Well, we might as well let ‘em vote, right?!! All the illegal immigrants that are sitting in our jails (which we are paying for with our hard earned tax dollars let’s not forget). Not that voting does much good anymore when the Supreme Court just turns around and says “oh no, that law is unconstitutional”. Who cares if the majority of (God fearing, Jesus loving, SUV driving) Cowboys voted it into law!
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:11
WWRD is sooo very right here. Hey, that’s a pun!
The hardship is very evident in all the closest border states. It also spreads North into the rest of the country - just less painful.
Hey Kelly! Yep, some of us Cowboys voted for Prop 187 our here! And, when the ACLU and the Democrats went after us, we cowboys were left hangin’ in the wind.
And, anyone who is mad now should have been mad then
And, Mark Belling needs to sit down and shut up. I hope Rush never lets him guest again.
May 24th, 2006 at 12:13
I noticed your quote in a cross post I did this morning from Debbie at Right Truth and added a few pieces at the beginning referencing your quote.
Her comment back was to this post, which I meant to look at earlier, but as usual as the day passes and keeps busy I spaced it.
Any comparisons that have been made between our arguments for a wall and the Wall are so off base it’s propaganda to an extreme. I hated the eastern side of the wall. The only two times I went to the other side were because I had to; to my little mind the depressing, oppressing feeling I had were just too much. Gray, drab, institutional looking cement buildings, gray skies, all the cars the same (with the exception of a 50’s something chevy; owned no doubt by an apparatchik), goods in a department store reminiscent of my old 70’s hi-fi hand-me-down from my brother.
No, no, no…there is no comparison.
May 24th, 2006 at 12:14
I love this post/rant. People say the truth in rants, they express how they feel deep in their soul. We should have more of that. You won’t hear any ‘rant’ from a politician. They NEVER tell us what is deep in their souls, not really.
Some others in the CAII picked up on your post also, so maybe it will send some more over to read it, and other good posts on your blog. I sent you a trackback, but TypePad has been acting weird since it was hacked three weeks ago. Hopefully it will get back to normal soon.