THE LAND OF THE FREE: THE MEXICO-UNITED STATES BORDER FENCE

By Gundhramns Hammer

June 19, 2013 

 

Source: Google imágenes

Its official name is "The United States of America (USA)". Hispanophone people call it "The United States of North America". But what is "North America"? Is it not "North America" from the Equator to the Arctic? Or could it be that we are upside down in the "Milky Way"?

 

The USA are known amongst its citizens as the "Land of the Free". But free of what? Freedom to be mortgaged and in debt for life?

How can anyone talk about freedom when humans cannot go wherever they wish searching for their own betterment and survival on planet Earth?

 

Was perhaps such a thing only possible in the Pleistocene times? Why not now when man is supposedly more advanced? Obviously economics and politics get in the way.

 

Mexicans and other people, with the exception of the mafiosi, that want chiefly to escape from the claws of starvation risk their lives or die along the way to come into the United States the illegal way. But now these migrants are faced with the US-Mexico border fence. And they still keep pouring into the rich nation. 

 

If people were not so fucked up in their own backyards by the devouring and evil globalisation forces that eat out their guts, poor migrants with intentions of "progress" in their minds would not risk their necks.

 

This problem of immigration is quite complex.  But not so complex if people had enough sense not to ever enter into the waters of the river of selfishness.

 

Let us see what the US-Mexico border fence looks like:  

 

Source: AvaxNews

The Mexico – United States barrier – also known in the United States as the border fence, rotted fence or border wall – is actually several separation barriers designed to prevent illegal movement across the Mexico – United States border. The barriers were built as part of three larger "Operations" to taper transportation of illegal drugs manufactured in Latin America and illegal immigration: Operation Gatekeeper in California, Operation Hold-the-Line [1] in Texas, and Operation Safeguard[2] in Arizona. The barriers are strategically placed to mitigate the flow of illegal border crossings along the Mexico – United States international border into the Southwestern United States. Construction supporters cite the ongoing escalation of national security risks, relating to Cartel border violence, and their possible co-operation with overseas terrorists. Opponents claim the barriers are a taxpayer boondoggle, an ineffective deterrent and that the barriers inappropriately jeopardize the health and safety of those seeking illegal entry into the United States, as well as destroy animal habitat, prevent animals from reaching water, disturb animal migration patterns, and otherwise damage the environment.

Is it not ironic that the descendants of the same people that escaped from Europe in search of freedom are the same ones that have built this wall?

Freedom is for everyone

No land can be called the land of freedom until any human being or animal can move freely all over the Earth upon which he/she/it may choose to stay and live on any country/nation/corner of his/her/its liking on the planet.

 

Earth is the sole owner of all of his inhabitants and no human being has any business in appropriating any part of this planet that which can never be possessed. 

 

Furthermore, all corners and life belong to Earth itself, the Mother/father of every creature that flies, swims, burrows, crawls, jumps, twists, walks or any way of locomotion to move about freely in the environment.

 

All living beings must be respected and given the same rights as human beings. Life is sacred and more so is the Earth, for It is its creator, the fountain of all the wonders that surround us. 

 

I know, I know.... Life feeds upon itself. So to live, man should take only what he needs but not the senseless way of life he call "high standard of living", which is nothing but squandering what belongs to everyone.

 

Earth, as the fountain of everything. It must be respected and cared for, so that all the children of the future can enjoy the same privileges that we all enjoy or should enjoy at the present time.

 

But caring and respecting cannot grow without the good soil of freedom. And the freedom seeds are carried by everyone on Earth. 

 

Freedom is for everyone. And those that now enjoy this rightful gift have the duty of extending this precious dignity to anyone that has not yet found it or be given back such right which may have been robbed from him/her/it by human thieves.

 

But what kind of freedom should be freedom for human beings, at least for this species that has been bitten by the bug of pondering so much? 

 

Freedom to be free. "Freedom when nothing nor anyone has any power over you", as my dear father used to say. 

Well, at least whilst we are alive, for death will bring the freedom of the end to all of our pains.