{"id":19,"date":"2005-11-18T06:46:19","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=19"},"modified":"2012-10-27T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T14:15:00","slug":"borderline-parallel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2005\/borderline-parallel\/","title":{"rendered":"Borderline Parallel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miami Herald’s headline for the story is interesting (Remember Berlin Wall? Now, think Mexico<\/a>) yet deeply flawed as an historical parallel.<\/p>\n

My recollection of the Berlin Wall is at least three-fold:<\/p>\n

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  1. It was an intra-national wall.<\/li>\n
  2. It was built by the government whose people were “voting with their feet.”<\/li>\n
  3. It was there to keep people in.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So when should anyone think of the Berlin Wall when a US-Mexico border fence is discussed?<\/p>\n

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    1. When the thinker believes the US-Mexico national distinction should not exist. In said case, the thinker would see the fence as an intra-national fence rather than an inter-national fence.<\/li>\n
    2. When the thinker believes the fence is to be built by Mexico to keep its oppressed people from choosing freedom in the US.<\/li>\n
    3. When the thinker believes the purpose of the fence is to keep people in the United States.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      In my view, the parallel the Miami Herald expounds is borderline at best.<\/p>\n

      If you haven’t yet, at least scan the article\/editorial. Notice the words and expressions that serve to plant and foster and anti-fence bias.<\/p>\n

      Oh, and why should a conservative Anabaptist<\/a> care about the issue?<\/p>\n

      Good question. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The Miami Herald’s headline for the story is interesting (Remember Berlin Wall? Now, think Mexico) yet deeply flawed as an historical parallel. My recollection of the Berlin Wall is at least three-fold: It was an intra-national wall. It was built by the government whose people were “voting with their feet.” It was there to keep … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[546,378,717,171],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-borders","tag-illegal-aliens","tag-law-enforcement","tag-mexico"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}