Freedom Fencing

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Here's a photo of brown-skinned people and barbed wire. They are in a desert.

Q: Where are they?

Could be almost anywhere.

One thing's certain- that barbed wire is of U.S. design, if not manufacture.
We

invented the stuff. We perfected it. Barbed wire has passed Jazz as America's leading cultural export.
Hooray!

Screw that hoary old " Nation of Laws " crap. That's backward.
Law.
Wal.
Let's be a Nation of Wall (Mart) s and Really Sharp Fences. To show how serious we are let's melt down the Statue of Liberty and use it to make more barbed wire.

There's a sort of precedent for this- the steel from the World Trade Center remains was sold to scrap metal vendors in China and India- chances are that some of the girders, beams and wreckage from Ground Zero were converted to barbed wire, Chinese tanks and thirty-dollar DVD players.

Just imagine what the Qin dynasty could've done if they had some good old American barbed wire:
Sure would have saved a lot of trouble. Bought a little extra time.
That's all , though. Just a little time.
This wall is still standing, but today it is useful only as a tourist attraction or subject for calendar photographs.

Here's a wall that's not around anymore:


Hmmm... maybe walls don't work so well after all.
Maybe the social, environmental and economic forces that move millions of people to act in desperation are greater than can be contained by walls and buttressed by nationalistic rhetoric.
Just. Maybe.


Let's not consider this. Let's just build more walls. It'll buy a little time.