Berlin Wall and Company

by JAMP | November 12, 2009 at 12:11 pm

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Night Captain, a friend from the South, posted about Walls. He was inspired by the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of Berlin Wall, a past symbol of socialism.

According to corporate media coverage, it seems that Berlin's is the only wall that matters, even when it's absent at present.

Nigth Captain reminded that the wall lifted by the United States in the Mexican frontier causes 150 deaths every year, while the wall of Berlin, from 1961 to1989 according to data provided by anticommunist sources, took 125 lives in that time.

The Wall lifted by the State of Israel to isolate and to suffocate Palestine, measures about 721 kilometers and the international community called dramatic humanitarian consequences for the daily life of the Palestinian. A total of 187 countries condemn it as act of violation genocidist.

Soon, Europe will treat immigration issues as a bigger crime. Spain also keep walls, but nobody speaks about them.

But Berlin's is the only that matters, despite many Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Poles and German people have realized that they were deceived by capitalist machinery. Many of them were seduced and psychically pressed to yearn, making western paradise an object of desire.

The Night Captain talks about some exchange when the Wall felt down : freedom of eating Mac Donalds and zapping 181 TV channels for people that granted their brain.

The walls of the shame by Mister Sarkozy, Mrs. Merkel, Mister Brown, are the invisible walls of hunger, unemployment, illiteracy and divided societies are here, in this World. There is no anniversary celebration for them.

Thanks, Captain, and please keep reporting.

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Amy Judd

at 14:10 on November 12th, 2009

Thanks for bringing this issue to our attention.

Mikethompson

at 15:09 on November 12th, 2009

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Karen Hatter

at 16:36 on November 12th, 2009

Great piece, JAMP.

caj1

at 19:00 on November 12th, 2009

I agree Karen. It's a brief and lyrical piece about walls that divide worldwide. However, I would just like to point out that between U.S. and Mexico, there is only a wall along certain miles of the Rio Grande river. A lot of it is just desert and river, with no wall. Many of the deaths that occur, happen because of the heat, and the danger in trekking miles from Mexico to the U.S. Border Patrol police have a dangerous job, as it is, because of the drug traffikers also crossing the border. Just wanted to point this out, as background to this piece.

Hugh Askew

at 04:24 on November 13th, 2009

Strange article coming from Cuba.

Strange that all those folks tired of eating McDonald's aren't hightailing it to the Cuban paradise.

Uwe Paschen

at 18:24 on November 12th, 2009

The Berlin wall was to stop people from leaving their country were as those walls are to stop people from entering.

East Germany was only a Socialist regime in NAME, its whole structure and functioning was a continuation of the previous fascist regime though.

West Germany by its constitution and laws was on the other hand a Social Democracy based on Karl Marx his philosophy.

Sadly though the walls we put up, no matter the reason always have a negative impact and prove that way to much injustice is around us still today.

The greater the walls and the greater the injustice it tries to hide or dismiss.

Many more walls will have to fall before our world will be a just one and equal one as well.

Good posting. Thank you.

J2B (not verified)

at 22:49 on November 12th, 2009

this week, I watched a CNN program about the Berlin Wall. There are people living in what was East Berlin who wish the wall was still in place and wish for the "good old days!"

The_Cynic

at 20:25 on November 12th, 2009

The Great Wall of America - you can see it from space!

What does that tall woman in New York have to say about bringing your huddled masses ... or do I have that wrong? It could, of course, mean that the US doesn't mean what it says unless it means that bringing cheap labour is no longer an option and US corporations rely on slave, child and imprisoned labour to produce the cheap goods that are imported - by those same companies - into the US so they cannot employ Americans at a fair days wage and make billions in profit.

Americans employ illegal immigrants! If they didn't then those illegal immigrants would go back home - or starve!

10 illegals for the price of two Americans - ahhh, the smell of the 'free market'!

When are they starting to build the wall along the Canadian border? I have spoken to many Canadians who want it built. No, seriously!

caj1

at 20:37 on November 12th, 2009

Yes, the quotation from Emma Lazarus's poem is correct, the poem that is celebrated both at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. She was an immigrant, but she was celebrating the "opportunity" of America, not the opportunity of being victimized by the capitalist system. This is exactly why we must now be hard on Wall Street excesses, and big bank bonuses being given while the little people suffer. Emma Lazarus was ahead of her time. She wasn't writing about Wall Street...she was writing about the opportunity of arriving as an immigrant to the U.S.A.