Comments on: The Wall: Lessons Lost http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/06/the-wall-lessons-lost/ Politics, Sports and Pop Culture Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:44:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: South Carolina Graduate http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/06/the-wall-lessons-lost/#comment-74742 South Carolina Graduate Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:57:32 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32806#comment-74742 Interesting commentary here. The Germans tore down their wall while the US is building up their very own wall. Is it to keep the Mexicans out or is it to keep the Americans in later as conditions worsen? Freedom in the East but the loss of it in the West. Warrantless wiretaps and extraordinary renditions are against the very freedoms the US is supposed to stand for. Due process of law used to be important, in theory, anyway. You can thank NAFTA for much of the illegal immigration from Mexico. US farmers' corn shipped down to the Mexicans has put a lot of farmers and farmworkers out of work. Problems with illegal immigration increased due to these cheap-labor treaties. Tear down that wall and tear up the free-trade treaties. ...The Spanish-American War was fought in 1898. That calculates to about 109 years ago, according to the Carolina math that was taught at the time I was in school about a hundred years ago. Interesting commentary here. The Germans tore down their wall while the US is building up their very own wall. Is it to keep the Mexicans out or is it to keep the Americans in later as conditions worsen? Freedom in the East but the loss of it in the West. Warrantless wiretaps and extraordinary renditions are against the very freedoms the US is supposed to stand for. Due process of law used to be important, in theory, anyway. You can thank NAFTA for much of the illegal immigration from Mexico. US farmers’ corn shipped down to the Mexicans has put a lot of farmers and farmworkers out of work. Problems with illegal immigration increased due to these cheap-labor treaties. Tear down that wall and tear up the free-trade treaties.

…The Spanish-American War was fought in 1898. That calculates to about 109 years ago, according to the Carolina math that was taught at the time I was in school about a hundred years ago.

]]> By: myles keogh http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/06/the-wall-lessons-lost/#comment-74562 myles keogh Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:25:35 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32806#comment-74562 By FITSNews on November 7th, 2009 at 11:26 am And if you think recent U2 is garbage, you obviously haven’t been to the 360 show. ...and you obviously are not old enough to have seen U2 back in the early to mid 80's when they were worth seeing and listening to. Sorry big stage claws, phoney visual displays and lighting are smoke and mirrors designed to do one thing and one thing only - cover up bad music. By FITSNews on November 7th, 2009 at 11:26 am

And if you think recent U2 is garbage, you obviously haven’t been to the 360 show.

…and you obviously are not old enough to have seen U2 back in the early to mid 80′s when they were worth seeing and listening to. Sorry big stage claws, phoney visual displays and lighting are smoke and mirrors designed to do one thing and one thing only – cover up bad music.

]]> By: No Way! http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/06/the-wall-lessons-lost/#comment-74560 No Way! Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:05:08 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32806#comment-74560 First, I am not surprised that boy wonder Obama decided not to go to German for this remembrance. He will be there when they rebuild the wall. His support of communism and socialist is not in the tearing down of the wall, it was in the building of the wall. The guy is a disgrace to America and the history of this country and freedom! First, I am not surprised that boy wonder Obama decided not to go to German for this remembrance. He will be there when they rebuild the wall. His support of communism and socialist is not in the tearing down of the wall, it was in the building of the wall. The guy is a disgrace to America and the history of this country and freedom!

]]> By: FITSNews http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/06/the-wall-lessons-lost/#comment-74532 FITSNews Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:26:05 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32806#comment-74532 Myles- We took a lyric from the song a juxtaposed it and based off of that you think we're saying U2 took down the wall? Please. And if you think recent U2 is garbage, you obviously haven't been to the 360 show. -FITS Myles-

We took a lyric from the song a juxtaposed it and based off of that you think we’re saying U2 took down the wall?

Please.

And if you think recent U2 is garbage, you obviously haven’t been to the 360 show.

-FITS

]]> By: memee http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/06/the-wall-lessons-lost/#comment-74529 memee Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:57:43 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32806#comment-74529 regggie most americans don't speak spanish-- it's been nearly 200 years since the spanish american war--your analogy doesn't hold water regggie
most americans don’t speak spanish– it’s been nearly 200 years since the spanish american war–your analogy doesn’t hold water

]]> By: myles keogh http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/06/the-wall-lessons-lost/#comment-74527 myles keogh Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:44:48 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32806#comment-74527 LOL...I am as big a fan of old U2 (not the garbage they have done in the last 18 years) as anyone but to link one verse from One to the fall of the wall is a stretch. Especially if you consider that if people had listened to political idiots like U2 instead of Reagan, Thatcher and John Paul II in the 1980's that damn wall would still be standing. U2 hated Reagan. The song Pride (In the Name of Love) off the Unforgettable Fire was originally conceived as an anti Reagan song. U2 viewed the US military build up in the 1980's as Reagan's military arrogance. As the song progressed and the lyrics changed it evolved into a song about MLK. LOL…I am as big a fan of old U2 (not the garbage they have done in the last 18 years) as anyone but to link one verse from One to the fall of the wall is a stretch. Especially if you consider that if people had listened to political idiots like U2 instead of Reagan, Thatcher and John Paul II in the 1980′s that damn wall would still be standing. U2 hated Reagan. The song Pride (In the Name of Love) off the Unforgettable Fire was originally conceived as an anti Reagan song. U2 viewed the US military build up in the 1980′s as Reagan’s military arrogance. As the song progressed and the lyrics changed it evolved into a song about MLK.

]]> By: Reginald http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/06/the-wall-lessons-lost/#comment-74523 Reginald Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:29:03 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32806#comment-74523 So, we can take it that you're opposed to the "Mexicans Keep Out" wall the US is spending $billions on? Or are you referring to warranless wire taps, data mining of phone records, illegal rendition, suspension of habeus corpus and torture interrogations? Those are the actions that serioulsy impacted freedom in this country and they were not initiated on the current President's watch. So, we can take it that you’re opposed to the “Mexicans Keep Out” wall the US is spending $billions on? Or are you referring to warranless wire taps, data mining of phone records, illegal rendition, suspension of habeus corpus and torture interrogations? Those are the actions that serioulsy impacted freedom in this country and they were not initiated on the current President’s watch.

]]> By: lilly http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/06/the-wall-lessons-lost/#comment-74516 lilly Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:16:36 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32806#comment-74516 Odd that Obama would insult Chancellor Merkel and refuse the invitation to commemorate the Berlin Wall's destruction. I suppose Obama just can't take credit for it, so it's not worth his time. After all, he's already won his "Nobel" PP. Maybe, he just doesn't want to offend Putin. Or Georgie Soros. Odd that Obama would insult Chancellor Merkel and refuse the invitation to commemorate the Berlin Wall’s destruction.

I suppose Obama just can’t take credit for it, so it’s not worth his time.

After all, he’s already won his “Nobel” PP.

Maybe, he just doesn’t want to offend Putin.

Or Georgie Soros.

]]> By: Jeff Duncan http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/06/the-wall-lessons-lost/#comment-74505 Jeff Duncan Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:24:05 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32806#comment-74505 Great post, Will....20 years ago this weekend - there are some great YouTube videos of the night that the wall was opened....Thanks. Great post, Will….20 years ago this weekend – there are some great YouTube videos of the night that the wall was opened….Thanks.

]]> By: OnNoNotAgain http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/06/the-wall-lessons-lost/#comment-74498 OnNoNotAgain Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:34:31 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32806#comment-74498 Yeah. And let's not be absolutely clear so we can cling to our idealized vision of conservative history. Wall came down under George H.W. Bush. And he was reaching to the guy in Moscow who was reaching out to the West. Mikhail Gorbachev. But cool tune. Yeah. And let’s not be absolutely clear so we can cling to our idealized vision of conservative history.
Wall came down under George H.W. Bush.
And he was reaching to the guy in Moscow who was reaching out to the West. Mikhail Gorbachev.
But cool tune.

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