A lesson for the simpleton

From MyWestTexas.com:

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev compared the United States' proposed 700-mile wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to the Berlin Wall during a Tuesday visit to Midland.

Addressing a Tuesday news conference at UTPB's Center for Energy and Economic Diversification, the JBS Public Leadership Institute Distinguished Lecture Series speaker was by turns serious and flippant prior to a reception with more than 100 people.

"You remember President Reagan standing in Berlin and saying, 'This wall should be torn down,'" said the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner. "Now the United States seems to be building almost the Wall of China between itself and this other nation with which it has been associated for many decades and has had cooperation and interaction with.

Another bit of evidence, if one was needed, that the non-science Nobel Prizes are worthless.

Ok, I'll make this simple since Mr. Gorbachev is evidently mildly retarded. The Berlin Wall was built by an illegitimate regime to keep people who had a basic human right to leave in. The soon-to-be-built (hopefully) wall between the US and Mexico is going to be there to keep a legitimate government from being swamped by people with no right to be here.

The two walls do have one thing in common, however. They are/were both necessary to the survival of the nations who built them. Communist East Germany could not survive when anyone who wanted to leave was able to do so and the United States cannot survive if anyone who wishes to enter may do so.