LPA Repost: Great Wall of America

Some Libertarians, such as recent Connecticut Congressional Candidate Phil Maymin

http://mayminforcongress.com/index_old.htm

Support white house resident Dubai-ya’s “Great Wall with Mexico” boondoggle.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6088084.stm

This is wrong for many reasons.

Some of my favorite principle-based arguments against this huge waste of stolen taxpayer money are at

http://radgeek.com/search?search=immigration

Especially

http://radgeek.com/gt/2004/03/22/freedom_is

and

http://catallarchy.net/blog/archives/2006/07/04/

rothbardians-cannot-consistently-support-increased-enforcement
-of-immigration-restrictions/

If those don’t convince you, what about the practical arguments?

Consider what the following had in common:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_wall_of_china

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_wall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_line

The answer of course is that they were all giant failures!

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.