Amnesty

Dead Bill/Bill Dead…


Science tell us that with all of our technology, we could not build a pyramid that could match what the Egyptians built more than three thousand years ago.

We know that.

But what is hard to understand is why an America, the superpower of Nations cannot build a simple wall to protect its borders.

In point of fact no other country has such porous borders….

And if this goes unchecked, expect that Mexico and Central America will be empty in perhaps a decade or two and America will gain perhaps another 50 million in population.

Some argue that we are already at the breaking point; that we cannot afford another illegal jumping the border. Our hospitals and our services simply cannot keep up.
And the cost to the American taxpayer is staggering…

But that seems to have had little reaction on Washington despite Homeland Security’s promise to protect our borders.

What we are seeing in the Katrina Syndrome, a barometer of inefficiency and disinterest spread wide.

But maybe the wall is something to take seriously.

The message is clear: We cannot solidify the terms of the law until we can control our borders.

There are countless examples from history that suggests that the problem of illegal border crossing is solvable.

Examples of other countries putting up walls to protect their borders is legion dating back to the beginning of civilized society.

Under the Han’s dynasty, China began a wall that was to run for twenty five hundred miles for the purpose of keeping out the Mongol hordes—the largest man-made object in the world still visible from outer space.

Or, moving forward to Hadrian’s wall, a way to separate Roman territory from the Barbarians of the north….

There have been walls of all kinds—some well=intentioned and others with more sinister purpose. From the walls of Jericho to the Atlantic wall eventually to the Berlin wall, we as a people have become very familiar with walls….

But regardless of the motives behind them, the governments that said they were going to erect them have done so.

And that is with none of the tools we have today.

No computers. No contemporary metals. Or heavy transportation. No satellite GPS system. No esoteric blastic devices…

Still, they built them to stand.

Today, China is building a paved highway to the highest mountain in the world. This after building a train that crosses the high mountains of Tibet to Lhasa—a miraculous engineering feat thought impossible.

If a backward nation can do that, can we not build more than eleven miles of a border wall that we began six years ago?


And the blame must be laid at the feet of the administration that has persisted in a policy that is intentionally dubious, unclear, and unfair to most of the country. Again, we are badly served by policy that is for the few and against the many.

Makes you wonder where our government’s loyalties are.

Six years after 9/11, the promise of border protection has not been realized.

It is time to start asking the hard questions.


Les aaron