Posted by
elixelx on Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Kevin McCullough suggests that all illegals presently held in jails in the US be taken down to the border and MADE to do hard labour building the fence to protect the border they have breached!
Take a breath, Kevin; the ACLU and others of its misbegotten ilk will never let it happen UNLESS...unless these felons are offered commutation of sentence followed by amnesty, on the grounds that they have helped DEFEND the USA! (Shades of the "Dirty Dozen"?) Careful though: one cannot offer this EXCLUSIVELY to Mexicans lest there be even more name-calling. If there are Canadian, or British, or French or Colombian illegals, felons or not, they too must be given this opportunity to defend the USA.
Come to think of it that may be a glimpse into A FUTURE FENCE against illegal immigration, and into the treatment of those already in country. Actually, King Solomon himself gave all those vexing Philistines hewing and drawing jobs in the making of his Temple and his palaces.
NOW, to move forward from this argument over the efficacy of the FENCE, I believe that a VIRTUAL wall, followed by a REAL wall will only address two-thirds of the problem. The final one-third is, lamentably, BULLETS!
Let's look into the everyday reality of A FUTURE FENCE..
Here in Spain we have a fence to keep Africans out; it's called, in various parts, the Med, the straits of Gibraltar, and the Atlantic.
Spain also has territories on North Africa called Melilla and Ceuta. Over there, there is a physical wall made of three rows of razor wire.
Every single day, summer and winter, attempts are made to breach these walls, with little boats, ladders and, sometimes, main force (rushing the barriers). In the summer, it is not infrequent for twenty or thirty "cayucos", 500-600 people, to beach in the Canary Islands DAILY, far too many for the overstretched CoastGuard to stop. In the course of a single summer that can be 8-10,000 in the Canaries alone, and that's just on that side; now the cayucos are taking longer, more dangerous trips to land on the Med side!
You do the Math; if there are 12 million illegals in the US today, almost all Mexican, and they came since 1986, the Reagan Amnesty, that's possibly 10million in 20 years, 500,000 a year, 1500 per day, every single day, for 22 years. It's a swollen, rushing river; Walls, Virtual or Concrete cannot stop it; only, maybe, stem its flow!
The Virtual Fence can only tell you when there is an attempted breach of the Physical Fence in progress, but neither helps once there is a breach, as the East Germans Guards on the Berlin Wall found out to their daily horror.
When the breakthrough comes BULLETS will be the only answer. Especially now, when there is a new tactic in play!
Three days ago the Israelis really faced this tactic for the first time; the suicide bombers have been trying to get through in ones and twos and have been virtually and physically stopped; but what happens when ten thousand, twenty, fifty thousand determined people decide they want to get through a wall? When women and children and the elderly and the handicapped are put in the front lines?
Would the Israeli soldiers have shot to kill ? Can American border guards shoot to kill? The East German soldiers had no qualms, that's why the Berlin Wall gained it's fearsome reputation! The Spanish had no qualms in Melilla two years ago when they shot and killed a few illegals trying to storm the razor wire, actually causing that route to be far far less used than the far more difficult sea passage! But both the Spanish and the Israelis must be dreading the day that hundreds even thousands, using such new tactics, try to break through.
Will it ever happen? It already has, at Rafah, when the Egyptian guards put their guns down and 700,000 people crossed in a week, out of a population of 1.5 million. OK, they all went home, but the tactic was a success and you can expect it will be used increasingly against the Israelis, the Spanish, and in time, on the Mexican border!
BULLETS will have to be deployed because the FUTURE FENCE will not be enough! And, if it comes to lead, will Americans stand for it?
Oh! and it happened once before; One of the most telling incidents of the Iran-Iraq War occurred toward the end of that conflict, when the Iraqi Republican Guard, the creme de la creme, put down their weapons and ran away from an oncoming horde of Iranian "Basijis", pre-teen and teenaged boys, unarmed except for the plastic key to the gate of Heaven given them by their instructors, possibly including one fearsomely dedicated ideologue called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The battle-hardened Iraqis were so sickened by the wanton slaughter they were inflicting on innocents, that they simply fled. That is why Iran was able to garner an "honourable" end to a War that was lost!