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KenDckey -> RE: Republicans & Immigration (12/29/2010 9:05:05 AM)
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ORIGINAL: rulemylife
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ORIGINAL: KenDckey
I still think we should mine our borders, turn out all the stray dogs between the fences and put up machine gun towers to guard the border and make it a weapons free area. Then if you want in, you can follow the law.
All law abiding (that means they did it the LEGAL way) are welcome.
There you go Ken. Good thinking! And we can use this as the model. I can hardly wait till we can provide such freedom and security for our beloved Homeland.
The Berlin Wall wasn't built all at once. It evolved from a barbed wire fence to a pair of 12- to 15-foot (3.7- to 4.6-m) concrete walls studded by guard towers and gun emplacements. The walls were topped by a round tubelike structure that made it difficult to get a handhold. Some areas were strewn with land mines. Angular chunks of steel known as tank traps were placed in key areas to prevent vehicles from driving through the wall or any gates in the wall.
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Barbed wire in front of the Brandenburg Gate, circa 1962. The sign warns that if you pass this point you leave West Berlin.
Before people ever reached the wall, they first had to contend with rows of coiled barbed wire. Powerful search lights swept over the entire area, even lighting up the west side of the wall. The gap between the two walls, which was 30 to 100 yards (27 to 91 m) wide, created a no-man's land that was patrolled by tanks and soldiers. Guards marched and military vehicles drove up and down a concrete road in the "death strip," which allowed them to respond quickly to any escape attempts. To improve visibility for the guards, sand or gravel was kept neatly raked to show footprints and the wall was painted white. On the western side, West Germans could walk right up to the wall itself, and they decorated it with graffiti.
In the 1980s, advances in technology allowed for automated security systems at the wall. Some areas were trapped with trip wires. Anyone who walked into such a wire would trigger a spray of bullets from an automatic gun emplacement, or the detonation of a nearby land mine. If escapees themselves were armed, the guards could fire on them from the protection of concrete pillbox fortifications.
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(How the Berlin Wall Worked)
The pictures I took are in color much better From my personal observations it was a great deturant. Course I only spent 4 years there.
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