From Simon Black at sovereignman.com:
“The advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.
Ronald Reagan, 1987
On August 12, 1961, Walter Ulbricht, the Chairman of the State Council in East Germany, signed an order to close the border and begin building a wall around East Berlin.
It happened quickly. Soldiers began tearing up the roads leading into West Berlin almost immediately and actually stood with weapons at the border with orders to shoot anyone who tried to cross.
Before long there were barbed-wire fences. Then concrete walls. Then dogs. Guard towers. And even anti-tank obstacles.
Of course, the East German government told people that the wall was for their protection, ostensibly to keep out rapists and thieves.
They said that there were too many foreigners coming in to East Berlin who unfairly bought up state-subsidized goods.
They also warned people of the looming threat of fascist invaders, and even went as far as to call the wall an “Anti-fascist protective rampart”.
As a child of the ’80s (I was born at the tail-end of the Carter administration), I remember how the Berlin Wall was a symbol of tyranny and oppression.
And from the steps of the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Ronald Reagan told the world in a now-famous speech from 1987, “The advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace,” before demanding, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Back then if you had talked about building a wall in America, they would have called you a Commie.
But now, in the Land of the Free, it’s all the rage to build a new wall.
They’re also talking about rounding up Muslims and having ‘databases’ just in case you have the audacity to be brown.
There’s already a massive level of surveillance in the Land of the Free. Everything you do online is monitored and tracked.
The police state grows by the day. Federally-funded police forces now don combat boots, Kevlar vests, and intimidating paramilitary attire to drive around in their urban assault vehicles as if they’re in downtown Mogadishu.
Nearly every federal agency down to the Fish and Wildlife Service has its own gun-toting police force… which makes it pretty unsurprising that Civil Asset Forfeiture has risen an average of 21% per year for the past two decades.
Yet despite all of this security and surveillance, the government still doesn’t feel that it’s enough.
To continue reading: Jeez. Whatever happened to the ‘free world’??
