Considering what else goes on within the borders of the U.S. it shouldn't be surprising to hear about the Minuteman Project, but it is for me. Here is this story in Thursday's paper about a 51-year-old professor who is going to spend her vacation this summer building a fence along the Mexican border. Excellent idea. I know just the right thing to help the Minuteman Project accomplish this task--a huge chunk of concrete outside the Imperial War Museum in London. I can't remember exactly where it is from, but it does have a bunch of graffiti tags on it, and they aren't in English, ahh yes, the Berlin Wall. I wonder why a piece of it has been put on display? Because it was such a good idea, right?
The Minuteman Project's executive director says this about the Project's members, "These guys actually have teeth, they don't all chew tobacco, they don't all have a gun rack in the back of their truck." Right, but most of them do, and I hope the director sees why this might bring concern to the millions of Americans now confronted with this group of fanatics on the television, internet, and in the newspapers.
Luckily their is a group monitoring the Minuteman Project for racist rhetoric, but shouldn't their be some history buffs on site wherever the group goes so before they set out on building a wall--that the government won't build--they can consult the European History books?
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