For an example of how silly the right can get:
Charles Krauthammer has said that "If fences don't work, then why do we have one around the White House?"
In case it is necessary:
1. The fence around the WH is short.
2. It is "closed" - that is it has no ends that one could go around.
3. It is all in constant public view.
All valid points.
ReplyDeleteTo be effective security measures must be appropriate for the level of security desired and the physical and logical landscape involved.
When I leave my house I lock my doors knowing full well that a locked door will not keep a thief out of my home, but I still do it. I do the same with my vehicles; again with the full knowledge that a locked car will deter only the most inept car thief.
At the shopping mall security consists of a 70 year old retired man with no side arm. That will deter who/what?
I suspect that most people have at one time raised the question of why border check points have any value. Can’t the evil doers just cross somewhere else?
I will agree that Charles’ analogy was silly with the caveat that I suspect that there are “some” places on the border where fences are appropriate.