-- At 05:23 AM 4/19/2001 -0700, Blank Frank wrote:
Protesters have dubbed the barrier the "Wall of Shame'' and liken to it to the Berlin Wall as a symbol of oppression and division.
The Berlin wall kept prisoners in. This wall keeps attackers out. There is an interesting, and quite deliberate, symbolic historical echo here. The wall for the most part runs along an old fortification, a fortification created long ago to defend a frontier entrepot town against attackers who wished to loot the trading post, a wall created to protect trade against brigands and violent monopolists sponsored by hostile states. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG eKWeOZWHIbvWPAWQnxtP615cxMVrPxD/ygbZziPh 4omFDAVSh3L9NMOsCeYqgM9oYcl2v6HviqRM4T72T ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald