Freedom is indivisable
published on 2009-11-09 00:00:00 by juergen in english.
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Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.
(John F. Kennedy, 26 June 1963, Berlin, [2])

No, they have not, but now, 20 years after this wall fell, so called democratic states go on building walls. Nowadays we use to prevent people from joining us rather than from leaving. And nowadays most of the walls are not made out of stone, but no less unsurmountable[1], this way or the other, as long as we have to build walls to keep our system running, be it Communism, Capitalism or whatever, an be it concrete walls or invisible ones, built up by xenophobic and overall anxious legislation; as long as we keep going that way these walls will always be "the most obvious and vivid demonstration[s] of the failures of the (...) system, for all the world to see, we take no satisfaction in it, for it is (...) an offence not only against history but an offense against humanity" (ibid., [2]).

So let's these days not only commemorate this wall that fell back in 1989, but think about all the walls that stand or even are to be built now, in 2009, considering once again the words of this promising man said in this hopeful speech:

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Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.
(ibid., [2])

[1]Although there are concrete walls too, the Israeli West Bank barrier, the Mexico - United States barrier, the Ceuta border fence or the Melilla border fence and that's jusst a few, Wikipedia provides a long list, even with eight under construction and two proposed, so there seems no ending in sight.

[2]Text out of the speech, held by Kennedy on 26 June 1963 in West Berlin, transcription here.

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