Crossposted from Town Called Dobson & My Left Wing
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For a modern day example of what a border fence will do to us, we need to look at Israel and Palestine. This report is shameful.
What difference does it make? What does make a difference is the appalling question of what prompted a soldier, or a Border Policeman, to open fire from a long way off at the boy and then to leave him bleeding on the ground until he died. What goes through the mind of the shooter, in the moments before and after he takes the life of an adolescent, who was in no way putting anyone at risk – even if he touched a fence that must not be touched? Three fences surround the abandoned airport, and last Sunday we saw no hole in any of them, three days after the unnecessary, criminal shooting.
Fences and wall never work and leave nothing but disaster in their wake. Congress chats a lot about jobs, employment and economic consequences of a border fence, but they have yet too look deeper into the social consequences of such an atrocity.
thx for this series. the last pane gave me quite a chuckle.
Your point is excellent. We should also note that the fence cuts orchard owners from their groves, and separates many small neighborhoods from their wells. Jimmy Carter, I’m afraid, is right–we have not considered the misery of the average Palestinian in our national policy. We react to the evil of suicide bombing and terrorism, and ignore the face of human suffering.
Berlin Wall, Wall in Palestine, Walling off Jews to a Ghetto in Warsaw,(Walling the Border with Mexico)..none of them belong together…all are atrocities instituted by narrow minded persons…without the strength to see the real problem is themselves.