A dispatch from North America's Ministry of Truth

The May 26 WaPo featured "Borderline" by Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy, a Venezuela's former minister of industry and trade, and an associated of the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace. Here's the upshot:
...If a paranoid police state such as North Korea is incapable of controlling its borders and deterring illicit trade, there seems to be little hope for open, democratic and technologically advanced nations seeking to uphold their sovereign borders...

Yet the paradox of policing borders in a high-tech, globally integrated era is that today, less sovereignty may equal more protection. In order to reinforce national boundaries and combat terrorism, one of the most effective tools a government can deploy is collaboration with other nations -- in effect, ceding or "pooling" certain aspects of their sovereignty.
I think the Ben Franklin quote is, "Anyone who would trade their freedom for safety deserves neither freedom or safety." Surely we're a big enough country that we don't need to compromise either.
...In many quarters -- Washington and beyond -- the notion of diluting national sovereignty verges on treason...
I completely agree.

Comments

Oh God help us all. and did i read less sovereignty, hell do we have any kind of nation borders at all? and the so called world peace guys are a front for drug dealers in this so called nation, the global guys! want to sell you! on the ideals of no borders and nothing can stop that idea but people who will "see it for what it is".

la raza wants you dead. by the way jake jacobsen is right.

Hey, the Franklin quote goes thusly...

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

The words essential and temporary are the keys in my mind.

It is traitorous to want control of your country's borders to be given over to its enemy.
The government can show no alliance, and has to cover up many hostile incursions, regarding Mexico.
That hostile nation deliberately sends large numbers to plunder the net taxpayer here, and continually reasserts its hostile claims to our territory. Is war not competition for sovereignty?