Razor wire and walls keep people in as much as they keep people out

[ck4829]

Just sayin'.

[samnsara]

1. i have ALWAYS said this! That damned wall is to keep US IN!...

[Hortensis]

2. It would make it harder to escape the police of an

authoritarian state. With supercomputers, advanced facial identification, cameras and other electronic surveillance, though, I doubt most people needing to escape in future would get anywhere near the border. Maybe some'd just be tracked down there and then House-of-Sawed into desert prison camps.

We can't let our ability to kick bad performers out every two years, or sooner if needed, be taken away. Or else.

Right now among the Americans I feel sorry for, though, are those who once had nice views out over the desert. There are very few trees down there, and just a little height creates long views to distant mountains. It's minor, of course, compared to the great harms planned for others, but they chose to live there for those views. Now they're being decorated and even blocked with mean, ugly walls and razor wire.

An expert on nations that go wrong advises electorates to "watch out for mean people."

They're here.

[marybourg]

3. Years ago, when I stayed in southern NM

in my RV, there was a little Mexican town that was accessed by opening an unlocked wrought iron gate. In that town were many people who specialized in reupholstering RVs. You went in, made your arrangements, then the tradesman would come back with you and drive the RV to his shop via a road. A more innocent age.

[JHB]

4. When Mitt Romney was in China, he never picked up on that...

...he just blithely believed what the salesman told him.

Seems to be a habit with Republican "businessman" politicians. So used to "their people" handling things they forget when the salesman is "somebody else's people".