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| 2018-12-08 |
| [Mercer at Townhall] In the United States, even Customs and Border Protection apologizes for doing its job. CBP is supposed to "protects the public from dangerous people and materials attempting to cross the border ..." On one of the networks that wants all people, dangerous or not, to cross the southern border into the U.S., if they so desire, a CBP officer was bending over backwards to appear like a "global force for good." (That, believe it or not, was the U.S. Navy’s motto, between 2009 and 2015!) Tear-gassing rubble-rousing migrants, who were charging his officers and breaching the U.S.-Mexico border, was in the service of protecting ... the migrants, especially The Children. Perhaps that’s in the oath of office a CBP officer takes? Law enforcement officers entrusted with the safety of the American people struggle to articulate pride in executing their mandate. Attached to the expected self-loathing repartee is, invariably, a declaration of loyalties to The World. It’s instructive to contrast the apologetics around defending the U.S. border and the American people with the absence of apologies on Israel’s borders. In May this year, "Tens of thousands of Palestinians massed near Gaza’s border fence, threatening to ’return’ to the lands their forefathers lost when Israel was created in 1948." They wanted in. Israeli soldiers responded not with tear gas, but with bullets. They killed over 60 protesters who threatened to breach the border. The number has since risen to 120. Most of us, this writer included, would condemn such excessive force. Yet surprisingly, the Economist‐a liberal, pro-Palestinian, most excellent weekly‐pondered but briefly and nonchalantly about Israel’s army having used excessive force, concluding almost callously: "Every state has a right to defend its borders." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 The title is an interesting idea. What if law abiding folks showed up and started throwing rocks a the rock throwers. It'd be interesting to see those that defend the Palestinian rock throwers and the caravan rock throwers suddenly reverse course and suggest how inhuman it is. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2018-12-08 16:06 |
| #3 looking for a massing of water cannon bearing trucks that would hose down the wall whenever scaling attempts were discovered. People get twitchy when you talk about autonomous killbots guarding the border, but they could be as easily equipped with water cannons in place of a chain gun. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-12-08 12:03 |
| #2 looking for a massing of water cannon bearing trucks that would hose down the wall whenever scaling attempts were discovered. non lethal method and provides a bath for those still trying.... and if periodically some 10w-30 Pennzoil found its way into the plumbing,, well moving parts do need lubricated |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2018-12-08 11:57 |
| #1 "Tens of thousands of Palestinians massed near Gaza’s border fence, threatening to ’return’ to the lands their forefathers lost when Israel was created in 1948." Lost in the failed war to destroy Israel. Just like the Germans three years before lost Prussia and Silesia in a failed war. Both those provinces were ethnically cleansed. Right of return? Ask the Russians and Poles. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-12-08 06:30 |