Right Thinking From The Left Coast
"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Monday, October 25, 2004

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
by Lee

The Koreans would shit a canary if they could see our border.

South Korea’s military is investigating signs that North Korean agents might have infiltrated the world’s most heavily fortified border on the day America’s top diplomat is visiting the nation.

South Korean border guards reportedly found a hole in the wire fence that forms the southern boundary of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas.

The hole, which measured about 40 cm by 30 cm (16 inches by 12 inches), was found near Yeoncheon, a border town 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Seoul.

Alerts in the DMZ are taken seriously in the South and the military tightened roadblocks and set up checkpoints in the area on Tuesday, looking for possible infiltrators.

It is considered unlikely that civilians could have made their way past guards and land mines in the heavily patrolled DMZ.

See, this is what we need on our southern border: a De-Mexicanized Zone; a thousand mile fence, combined with a mile-wide minefield.  We need border security.  I love the fact that the Koreans are coming unglued at a hole in our fence.  There are parts of our southern border that are more hole than fence, and one day, when terrorists detonate a nuke in a major American city, the subsequent Congressional commission is going to determine that spending a few million on border security might have saved a couple hundred thousand American lives.

Posted by Lee on 10/25/04 at 09:00 PM in Politics, Law, & Economics  • (1) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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