Great wall : Mexico - part I

A new wall of shame is coming thru! Nah I’m not kidding our beloved president of United States of America the president George W. Bush wants to build a wall along Mexico frontier, while Europe in the same time is trying to forget what happened few decades ago.
How can anyone in the twenty first century think about building a 2000 miles (3218.6 km) security fence just to keep out of the US poor Mexican guys trying to survive?
I don’t really get it! A mandatory IQ test should be a must for the new presidential elections in the states.

F**k I forgot! I should propose the same test for the Israel government too. The Israeli government have already started building “the great wall of Israel”. Here you have a picture and some “official” explanations about the Israeli wall of shame.

The Security Fence is a multi layered composite obstacle comprised of several elements:

• A ditch and a pyramid shaped stack of six coils of barbed wire on the eastern side of the structure, barbed wire only on the western side.
• A path enabling the patrol of IDF forces on both sides of the structure.
• An intrusion- detection fence, in the center, with sensors to warn of any incursion.
• Smoothed strip of sand that runs parallel to the fence, to detect footprints.
• Solid barrier system: This particular design is used in a minority of cases- a total of 8 km in the initial stages of the project (4%). Its main purpose is to prevent sniper fire into Israel and on major highways and roads. In this case, a solid concrete wall resembling a highway sound barrier often used in the US and Europe is erected. This design is used mainly along the new Trans - Israel Highway, in Bat Hefer and Matan, and in densely populated urban areas such as Jerusalem. Once the whole project is completed, the portion of the concrete sections will be 6%, approximately 30 km.
• Various observation systems are being installed along the fence alerting authorities, beforehand, to attempted intrusions.IDF and Border Police units will be deployed along the Security Fence under the command of the IDF.Their deployment requires coordination and cooperation governed by the mutual wish to discover a terror act in its planning stage and thwart it.

(Israeli fence photograph credit: http://www.securityfence.mod.gov.il)

Dear readers don’t worry I will send an email with a link to my blog to Georgy! Just to give him ideas to build his wall

“What is not resolved by policies and by leaders is resolved by citizens. That is how the Berlin Wall fell”

Just to cheer up some photographs showing the few costomized parts of Berlin wall:

(Berlin wall photographs credit : Me June2005)