Timothy Birdnow

European Union President Jean-Claude Juncker tweeted the following:

‘Borders Are The Worst Invention Ever’

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So, borders are worse than concentration camps. They are worse than Marxism. They are worse than the French Reign of Terror. They are more awful than the Guillotine.
I would like to point out that most of the trouble in history is not a result of borders but a result of lack of respect for the borders of others. It is precisely Jean Claude's attitude that has been the cause of most misery in the world. The saying "good fences make good neighbors" has been doubly true in international affairs, as people who are allowed to choose their own destiny rather than have it imposed by some overlord are more peaceful and happier and cause fewer problems. Problems stem from those who would extend their reach beyond the border - as the European Union is entirelly predicated upon that very concept of overreach.

Both WorlDd Wars came about because Germany wouldn't accept the borders as drawn, but instead tried to steal territory from France and other sovereign nations. And they did that in the nineteenth century with the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine - prompting my maternal grandmother's family to leave their ancestral homeland and immigrate to Southern Illinois. The bitter taste of defeat soured the French, who wanted to get even and eventually did at Versailles in 1918, humiliating the Germans to the point that a Hitler type was inevitable, and the Second World War the result. It all goes back to Bismark and the Kaiser not respecting other people's boundaries. If Europe had a firmer grasp of the importance of national borders they would not have had this problem.

The E.U. was born from these wars. France, believing they had to weld Germany onto their own country to avoid any more bloodshed, devised a scheme of Anschluss with the German economy, creating the coal and steel market, then the common market, and eventually the European Union. It was, in a way, a kind of reverse colonialism, wich France figured would make it impossible for Germany to ever attack them again. But it was born of a disrespect for Germany - or Belgium, or Italy, or anyone else - as a sovereign nation and a definite place.

The Left has always dreamed of one world government. Theirs is the dream going all the way back to Nimrod and his Tower of Babel in the Bible. Every empire in history has been born of a dream of unification of the whole world, of a world without borders (with the imperialists as the ruling class). Modern liberals with their U.N. Agenda 21, with their Global Warming protocols, with their European Union and dreams of a North American Union, of an African Union, etc. are just the latest incarnation of the same tired thinking that has led to most wars and endless civil strife. Instead of Deutschland Uber Alles we have Europe Uber Alles, or U.N. Uber Alles. It doesn't matter; it's the uber alles part that is important. Old Jean Claude, despite his seeming ecumenticalism where peoples and nations are concerned, is the rider of the Red Horse of Revelation. When you tear down walls and erase borders you inevitably wind up with bloodshed.

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