Comments on: “That’s like putting your faith in half a condom” http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/09/21/thats-like-putting-your-faith-in-half-a-condom/ Stories, thoughts & insights on Jesus, college students, and the Bible; Los Angeles, immigration, politics, ethnicity and culture, and also about my daughter Isabel - from a spanglish gringo father living in, learning from, leading & loving life in East L.A. Sat, 19 May 2012 04:45:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Tom Pratt http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/09/21/thats-like-putting-your-faith-in-half-a-condom/#comment-681 Tom Pratt Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:29:25 +0000 http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/09/21/thats-like-putting-your-faith-in-half-a-condom/#comment-681 I love Pat Morrison. She's a voice crying in the wilderness. She and Hugh Hewitt used to part of Life and Times, an LA based PBS show that tried to get something honest and open going on. Pat is still trying to do it. Hewitt has become a bizarre and leading right wing nut case. Those right wingers can't resist wacky self-righteousness. I guess it comes with power. Acton Institute stuff no doubt. I love Pat Morrison. She’s a voice crying in the wilderness. She and Hugh Hewitt used to part of Life and Times, an LA based PBS show that tried to get something honest and open going on. Pat is still trying to do it. Hewitt has become a bizarre and leading right wing nut case. Those right wingers can’t resist wacky self-righteousness. I guess it comes with power. Acton Institute stuff no doubt.

]]> By: Spanglish Gringo http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/09/21/thats-like-putting-your-faith-in-half-a-condom/#comment-680 Spanglish Gringo Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:39:00 +0000 http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/09/21/thats-like-putting-your-faith-in-half-a-condom/#comment-680 For me, Eddy, I think all the emphasis on border security as an equivalent to national security is the same as the French building the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_line" rel="nofollow">Maginot Line</a> <u>after</u> WWI to defend against a WWI-type strategy, leaving them defense-less for the <i>Blitzkreig</i> strategy that Germany attacked them with in WWII. Building a fence at the border doesn't protect our borders, nor does it serve as a real deterrent for illegal immigration. It only ensures a more physically-fit undocumented workforce. It would be more difficult - and more expensive - for woman & children to come across an increasingly militarized border, but healthy men who could endure the desert terrain could still make it. Putting a partial fence along the border doesn't accomplish anything for national security or for immigration reform. It is a bad plan. For me, Eddy, I think all the emphasis on border security as an equivalent to national security is the same as the French building the Maginot Line after WWI to defend against a WWI-type strategy, leaving them defense-less for the Blitzkreig strategy that Germany attacked them with in WWII.

Building a fence at the border doesn’t protect our borders, nor does it serve as a real deterrent for illegal immigration. It only ensures a more physically-fit undocumented workforce. It would be more difficult - and more expensive - for woman & children to come across an increasingly militarized border, but healthy men who could endure the desert terrain could still make it.

Putting a partial fence along the border doesn’t accomplish anything for national security or for immigration reform. It is a bad plan.

]]> By: Eddy E http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/09/21/thats-like-putting-your-faith-in-half-a-condom/#comment-679 Eddy E Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:41:48 +0000 http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/09/21/thats-like-putting-your-faith-in-half-a-condom/#comment-679 Her writing seems to be a bit more animated than her radio show; case in point: your choice of sentence for the headline... You know that's gonna get some wierd google keyword searches She seems to emphasize more of the financial costs and logistics of this idea (which are totally valid). However, my concern is also what a fence communicates, how it communicates it, and that so many Christian conservatives are for it. Maybe I'm a little naiive, but regardless of our politics, I would hope the Church is working more on loving the "alien among us" than protecting our borders. This seems like a no-brainer to me--am I being a bit naiive? Her writing seems to be a bit more animated than her radio show; case in point: your choice of sentence for the headline… You know that’s gonna get some wierd google keyword searches

She seems to emphasize more of the financial costs and logistics of this idea (which are totally valid). However, my concern is also what a fence communicates, how it communicates it, and that so many Christian conservatives are for it.

Maybe I’m a little naiive, but regardless of our politics, I would hope the Church is working more on loving the “alien among us” than protecting our borders. This seems like a no-brainer to me–am I being a bit naiive?

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