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Is a nation without borders a nation?

Whitewing

Well-known member
http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-crisis-on-the-border-1405029753

What is happening at the southern border is a true and actual crisis. News accounts justly use words like chaos, collapse and breakdown. They feature images of children—toddlers, 4- and 5-year-olds—being shuffled to warehouse holding centers, sleeping crowded at night on what look like pallets, covered only in Mylar blankets. "I never thought we'd have refugee camps in America," said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, "but that's what it's appearing."

All this gives normal people a feeling of besiegement and foreboding. Is a nation without borders a nation? Washington's leaders seem to recognize what's happening as a political problem, not a real problem. That is, they betray no honest alarm. They just sort of stand in clusters and say things.

There seem only two groups that view the situation with appropriate alarm.

One is the children themselves, dragged through deserts to be deposited here. To them, everything is a swirl of lights, color and clamor, and shouting and clanking. A reporter touring a detainment center in Texas noted a blank, lost look among some of the younger children. Every mother knows what that suggests. Children who cry and wail anticipate comfort: That's why they're crying, to alert those who care for them that something is wrong. But little children who are blank, withdrawn, who don't show or at some point know what they're feeling—those children are in trouble.

The other group feeling a proper alarm is normal Americans, who are seeing all this on TV and who judge they are witnessing a level of lawlessness that has terrible implications for the country.

Normal Americans. Indeed. And I submit to you that those who look the other way while this is going on are NOT normal Americans.

Lawlessness. I've said repeatedly, that's the top-down message from the current regime. There was a time when obeying the law was important to normal Americans. Some here bragged repeatedly about how they took an oath to protect that precious Constitution. Where are they today?

They're busy trying to score points with stories about greenie-weenies and NIMBY's while the country goes to hell in a handbasket.

Normal Americans.
 

Mike

Well-known member
They can't handle the fact that "WE TOLD THEM SO" and they were dead wrong.

The worst part is they don't seem to care one iota about their grandchildren's future.

:roll:
 

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