Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Mr. Gorbachev, There Is One Major Difference

In a speech in Midland, Texas, given by Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, he said:
"You remember President Reagan standing in Berlin and saying, 'This wall should be torn down,'. . . Now the United States seems to be building almost the Wall of China between itself and this other nation with which it has been associated for many decades and has had cooperation and interaction with."
The Berlin Wall was built to keep the legal German citizens from leaving the tyranny of the Soviets while the wall in Texas is designed to keep illegal aliens from sneaking in and destroying the country we have.

What would you have done if 500,000 people from India stole across the border into the Soviet Union each year and sent 3/4 of what they earned back to India? Then, after 10 million of them were living in the USSR, and you tried to control their flow, they marched, protested and declared that they would continue to inflitrate your country until they had made it into an extention of India?

Would you have politely said,
"I think what is really needed are ideas and proposals about how to improve that cooperation and work out all of those issues regarding immigration flows."
or would you have sent them to Greenland or Siberia?

I guess my dad was right, it all depends on whose ox is getting gored.