{"id":3667,"date":"2019-08-07T15:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T15:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/07\/i-am-not-totally-opposed-to-open-borders\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T15:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T15:20:39","slug":"i-am-not-totally-opposed-to-open-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/07\/i-am-not-totally-opposed-to-open-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not Totally Opposed to Open Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I&#39;m for&#0160;<em>half-open borders<\/em>, borders open in the outbound direction. &#0160;Anyone who wants to emigrate should be allowed to do so.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Communists need walls to keep people in; we need walls to keep them out.&#0160; Hence the rank absurdity of the comparison of a wall on our southern border to the Berlin Wall.&#0160; Now the mendacious leftists who make this comparison cannot be so historically uninformed as not to see its rank absurdity.&#0160; But they make it anyway because they will say or do anything to win.&#0160; They are out for power any way they can get it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">It is interesting that even hate-America leftists do not want to leave the United States. They talk about it, but few do it. And where do they say they will go? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Canada is high on the list. Why not Mexico? Are they perhaps&#0160;<em>racists<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m for&#0160;half-open borders, borders open in the outbound direction. &#0160;Anyone who wants to emigrate should be allowed to do so.&#0160; Communists need walls to keep people in; we need walls to keep them out.&#0160; Hence the rank absurdity of the comparison of a wall on our southern border to the Berlin Wall.&#0160; Now the mendacious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/07\/i-am-not-totally-opposed-to-open-borders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I am not Totally Opposed to Open Borders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}