I Don't Inherently BELIEVE In Borders or Fences

[matcom]

and I LOVE the Mexican People and have spent quite a bit of time over the years with them in Mexico. I give to "Doctors WITHOUT Borders" as a charity for a reason.

I also am 100% AGAINST corporate exploitation of ANY worker and quit the Chamber of Commerce a LONG time ago for this and many other reasons.

Fences divide. We should be one. Man keeping Man 'out' OR 'in' isn't the way it should be.

don't know where that puts me but fuck it.

[ret5hd]

1. i've felt for a long time that...

borders are man's version of a dog's trees...we're always goin' around pissin' on 'em and yellin' "all this stuff in here's mine!"

[stillcool]

2. it's an iteresting predicament....

and has caused me to check my thinking. When I saw the protests my first reaction was envy...I have not been involved in large protests for a number of reasons but mainly financial, and travel, and to see that many people engaged, over immigration, but not war....was disturbing. After that subsided, I found myself seeing immigration as a tool to divide Americans even more....as though allowing one extra person space in this country, will take the food right out of my mouth. It is not the argument but the intention of the argument that pisses me off. The fact is that I nor anyone else has any control over where they're born, but where ever you live on this earth, if you were not born into a certain strata of society... chances are ...the militarized corporate enterprise will fuck you up.

[ourbluenation]

3. Me too...it's one big blue marble

and everyone is my brother and sister.

I'm a world citizen first, then an american...and I hella love my country.

[sweetheart]

4. the berlin wall

I remember seeing the berlin wall as a kid,
to see live-fire sniper guns sticking out of mirrored towers,
watching a rather wide mined space, tanktraps amid,
so much rubble left untouched from WW2 russian bombers.
And my dad explained to me at the brandenburg gate,
that when they put up a fence like that, leave the place, abort her,
fences pointing the opposite way, positively ornate,
securing mexico out, prison wall an unsighlty tall order.

2000 returned to the brandenburg gate,
berlin no longer divided, not a part of soviet imperial Mordor,
the 2 world wars can not seal the joyous fate,
of a united people praying for peace, goodwill on a planet without borders.
Between seeing the berlin wall and its fall,
An american berlin wall sickens me, i'm apalled.

[400Years]

5. those who want Fences want to live in a cage

[magnolia]

6. I agree....

...hence, my signature line.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. As Woody Guthrie had to say in "This Land Is Your Land"

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

;-)