Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Good Fences and Bad Fences

Cliff May notes a plan for even more fences:

The new fences will be chain-link and six feet tall, topped with small spikes to “deter” those who might consider scaling them. Well, we’ll see what the International Court of Justice in The Hague has to say about this!

Oh, wait a minute, sorry. These fences are not being erected along the West Bank to protect Israeli communities from Hamas terrorists, these fences are being erected between the District of Columbia and Prince Georges County in Maryland, and they are meant to stop “criminals” from crossing from the city into the suburbs.

If it's OK to erect a fence to keep junkies out of you neighborhood (and I think it is), how can a fence that keeps out suicide murderers be wrong?

For more fences from Belfast to Zimbabwe that somehow escape the ire of the international community, see here.

1 comment:

Jack Mercer said...

Democrat crosses over, hmm...

Winston Churchill said, "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is
over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."

Guess that can apply to a woman as well!

Look forward to digging into your blog!

-Jack