{"id":1613,"date":"2010-06-10T14:33:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T14:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:33:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T14:33:26","slug":"when-you-build-a-wall-be-prepared-to-kill-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"When you build a Wall, be prepared to kill for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is the tough lesson guardians of the East German workers&#8217; paradise learned: once you build a Wall along the border, you must be prepared to kill in order to maintain its usefulness and integrity.<\/p>\n<p>It is no different along the US-Mexico border; whatever it is that people think is worth protecting by building a Wall (something that is quintessentially anti-freedom: a device constructed for the sole purpose of limiting people&#8217;s freedom of movement, to maintain some kind of a political or economic status quo), such a Wall cannot stand unless its guardians are willing to kill. Kill, if necessary, even a 15-year old teenager by <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/laplaza\/2010\/06\/border-shooting-mexico-reaction.html\">shooting him in the face<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps someone who has one of those medals in his possession that Honecker used to give his border guards would mail it as a gift to this fine US border agent in appreciation for his bravery.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1613' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the tough lesson guardians of the East German workers&#8217; paradise learned: once you build a Wall along the border, you must be prepared to kill in order to maintain its usefulness and integrity. It is no different along the US-Mexico border; whatever it is that people think is worth protecting by building a <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1613' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}