Locks only keep out honest people
April 12th, 2008 by Brian Withnell
The border fence, one of the proposals for deterring illegal immigration, is a plan that by itself will do no good. Why? The same reason that intelligent people know that just locking the doors at night is no guarantee that their house will not experience a break-in. The locks only prevent honest people from entering. Dishonest people will break-in to homes, or break-in through the fence.
What the fence buys is a little time. Just like locks and alarms buy time for those in a home. In a home, when someone breaks in, you gather the family into the most secure location you can, arm yourself so that the intruder will be stopped if he continues, and call the police. Anything less, and you risk being the one that “when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.” The country needs to treat this the same way. People that cut through a fence to enter the country should be viewed as potentially being drug runners, smugglers, terrorists, or any other kind of evil people. They are attacking the borders of our country, and should be repelled with all available force. The fence — along with technology to warn of the attack — should be used to give enough time to deploy force. We have a national guard, we ought to use it.
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April 12th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
The Washington Post just had an article recently that states 2 Dems have gotten the work on the fence stopped with prodding from the Sierra Club. It seems that the fence affects the environment. Not the trash left by the people on the otherside of the border. Not the drug and human smuggling either. We are disturbing lizards, spiders, snakes and sage brush. Oh, don’t worry. They won’t be breaking thru a fence that will never actually get built far enough to really do anything.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I agree. Boarders should not be attacked by anyone. There are many reasons they must rent, as opposed to buying homes or condos. Boarders also can be extremely helpful to persons on fixed incomes (e.g., the elderly) who need to maximize return on the investment in their homes and whose children have left the nest. We should encourage boarders whenever possible, so long as they keep their rooms clean and don’t make a lot of noise after hours.
April 13th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
NoVA,
Spelling is affected at times. I guess the interpretation of this threads meaning was above your intellect level. It’s about a bookstore-not rent.
April 13th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I’m so embarrassed. I guess I’ve been spending too much time at Barnes & Noble. Thanks for putting me straight on this.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Homonyms. Don’t you just hate them? Thanks.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Yes, we all hate the homos.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:48 am
What is that they say- Give a man an inch and he will take a mile.
This is a case of- Give a man a word and he take
a paragraph.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Historically nations built fences so as to reduce the amount of manpower required to guard a border. It also was built to send a message, the message being “We are serious”.
April 14th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Hadrian’s Wall comes to mind, as does the Great Wall.
(P.S. How many times have I taken “so as” out of your writing?)
April 14th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
jacob,
Are you using Jack as your personal “ghost writer” so as not to look foolish with your diction? He helps me with me spilling so as I doink luke like a dork.
April 15th, 2008 at 7:35 am
ACT,
I use Jack as an editor for some of my Posts. He knows grammar, I intuit it. I write well enough, but if there is a resource available I use it. I also ask my wife to proof read, she is also a grammar officiando.
As for looking like a dork …