12 August 2011

Dividing Us ~ Spiegel Spotlights Barbaric Barriers

Der Spiegel's Andreas Lorenz, Katharina Peters, Marc Pitzke, Ulrike Putz and Carsten Volkery write that Barriers Continue to Divide Around the World...
"Every one of these barriers is a monument to the failure of politics. When conflicting parties can't make peace at the negotiating table, they simply build a wall. When the flow of refugees gets out of control and immigration exceeds the parameters a country is willing to accept, it builds a fence. This type of defense is an attempt to hang on to the status quo, a message that things must remain as they are, no matter what the cost. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 showed how long such fortification can cement division. It takes a revolution to tear down such defenses."
Can't come soon enough for these places...

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