THE IMPORTANCE OF STRONG BORDERS
The Land Inside A Country Is The Collective Property Of Its Nationals& No One Else
BY PARKER BEATLEY
REPRINTED HERE FROM HIS POST ON ALT.POLITICS.IMMIGRATION
The history of democracies, monarchies, and all other political systemsis the history of allowing foreigners inside its borders and cities onlyto conduct trade and social relations with the understanding that they werepassing "guests" who would be leaving after their business isfinished.
In ancient towns, at the city gate foreigners would receive a visa to enterthe town for business, but could be refused entry if it was believed theywere there to spy out the town for later attack by a foreign power.
In many ways, a country is collective private property, property owned bythe nationals who reside inside its borders and NOT owned by those who donot live within those borders that define the geography of the country.
No one here in the United States feels that any part of Mexico, Russia,or Canada belongs to them collectively, because that land is owned by thenationals who reside inside those borders exclusive of us and their rightto it goes far beyond our right to it. We have no right to it.
In fact, everyone here except the free borderites, possibly, would agreethat the Mexican people collectively own Mexico and the American peoplehave no right to Mexican lands or to lands in Russia, Canada, China, orany other country. By the same logic, nationals of these other countrieshave no right to our collective lands either. They belong to us exclusivelyto do with as we please.
Open borders represent the immediate loss of territorial ownership by thenationals living within them. Having an open border where anyone can walkright in and live within that country is like having one's front door removedfrom one's home and allowing strangers to just come into the house, liedown and sleep in the bedroom, and take possession of it which violatesthe rights of the owner. The door of the home is there not only for protection,but as a sign that this property is not to be entered and that it is spokenfor. Borders are doors, also. People should respect them, especially foreignpeople, and not try to take from others what is not theirs.
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