The Walls Are Tumbling Up

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

The Walls Are Tumbling Up

According to The Daily Telegraph the Greeks are planning to build a 128-mile wall along the border with prospective European Union member Turkey.

Unlike us, our border controls emasculated by EU directives, the Greeks are no longer willing to put up with illegal migration from Asia Minor - as though in apology for Alexander the Great's prolonged excursion the other way in the fourth century BC.

They say in principle it's just like the 850-mile security fence erected by the Americans along parts of its border with Mexico, whose citizens seem intent on reclaiming Texas and other parts of South-Western America lost after the phyrric victory at the Alamo.

The Turks are reportedly pissed off by the idea that they are responsible for the demographic pull east to west - one of the consequences of the EU decision to extend open borders across 27 member states.

Apparently they haven't heard the saying that good fences make good neighbours. Look at the shit the Israelis have taken for that ugly West Bank Barrier. Critics say they nicked Palestinian terriroty to build it. Israelis say since its construction the number of Palestinian suicide bombing attacks (73 in 2003 with reportedly 293 killed and 1,900 injured) has plummeted.

Last January, the Israelis announced their intention to build a 266-kilometer security barrier along the Egyptian border, to deter illegal immigration. How effective that is likely to be is anyone's guess.

Walls and fences are all the rage. You can read on Wikipedia that attempts to remove separation barriers between Catholic and Protestant communities in parts of Northern Ireland in 2008 were greeted with anger. These barriers range in length from a few hundred yards to more than three miles. People feel safer behind these defensible lines, it seems.

Our political masters, behind their gated offices, protected by armed robocops, surveillance that George Orwell scarcely dreamed of and armour-plated limos, know all about that. They need peace of mind and security in order to go on making Britain a better place to live in.

There is an irony in all this, of course. Fifty years ago this August, the Russians and East Germans erected a bloody great nine-foot high barrier of breeze blocks and barbed wire across Berlin, dividing East from West, communism from capitalism.

How simple that made life. Everybody knew where they stood, by and large, knew which side they were supposed to be on at least. And, let's be honest, the Cold War was a damned sight more interesting than the one that replaced it - the war against terror, Islamic terror.

The likes of John Le Carre were free to write gripping political thrillers about the whole dirty business. These days not even stand-up comedians have the gumption to take on the Europhiles, global warmists and the martyrs who murder in the name of Allah.