What bothers me so deeply about
border checks and anti-immigration sentiment is the lie so readily told to
cloud the truth. Go ahead if you must, defend your borders, erect checkpoints
to confirm citizenship, detain people in airports, interrogate, incarcerate,
but be honest about the reasons behind this behavior. Stop fooling yourselves
that you are better, nobler or more enlightened.
Basically the US is the result
of a bigger, stronger tribe that warred, cheated and brutalized its way to the
top, as many tribes likely have done since humans began roaming and settling
this planet. And that’s the key. The people who now rule this area of land
known as the US, the ones with the largest stash of cookies, are no better than
anyone else. It wasn’t THAT long ago that African Americans were lynched in the
US and native children forced into industrial Christian schools. And that
Europeans publicly tortured people and killed in the name of their God just
like what often occurs in some countries now.
You can say, well we don’t do those brutal things anymore
unlike those ones out in Africa, Saudi Arabia,
Afghanistan etc., but the thing is YOU DO, covertly.
There is A LOT of torture and cruelty perpetrated in the name of the US and Europe.
And furthermore,
take away those supermarkets and restaurants, crumble that big pile of cookies
and it won’t take long until all the so called civilized, democratic way of life
breaks down and it’s all back to openly warring and brutalizing again.
Defend your land, you out bullied the others for it, it’s yours, that’s the way it
goes, isn’t it?
But don’t pretend you are defending anything righteous.
You are just at the top so have the luxury to wallow in this pretense of civility.
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