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Last night watched CBS evening news. All about walls! Yup. Discussed Berlin Wall. Great wall of China and of course Trump's wall. Here is the catcher.
All but ONE wall was to keep people out!
But the ONE wall they showed the most attention to was the wall that kept people IN!
Last family to escape across Berlin Wall reflects on its meaning
By MARK PHILLIPS CBS NEWS January 1, 2018, 6:43 PM
If anybody knows anything about walls, it's probably Hans-Peter Spitzner. The first time Spitzner was at the famous Checkpoint Charlie crossing point on the Berlin Wall, he and his daughter Peggy were becoming the last people to escape across the wall before it fell.
The Spitzners have strong views about walls, and not just about the Berlin Wall, which is now a living history lesson.
Whether it's the security barrier the Israelis have built between them and the Palestinians, or going back to the Great Wall of China, they see all walls as monuments to political failure.
The Berlin Wall was different than all the others, since they were designed to keep people out and Berlin's was designed to keep them in. However, there is one thing they have in common.
Critics will tell you that when governments build walls, it's a sign that something else isn't working.
"It's always to keep someone in, to keep someone out, to keep someone from doing something," said Peggy Spitzner.
"So it's always a bad thing really and it's always a monument of a problem."
A monument, Hans-Peter Spitzner says, that with a will, can always be overcome.
Last family to escape across Berlin Wall reflects on its meaning
Do you all understand how totally STUPID this biased MSM CBS News report was?
The Israel wall works!
The Great Wall of China worked!
The Vatican wall works!
All but ONE wall was to keep people out!
But the ONE wall they showed the most attention to was the wall that kept people IN!
Last family to escape across Berlin Wall reflects on its meaning
By MARK PHILLIPS CBS NEWS January 1, 2018, 6:43 PM
If anybody knows anything about walls, it's probably Hans-Peter Spitzner. The first time Spitzner was at the famous Checkpoint Charlie crossing point on the Berlin Wall, he and his daughter Peggy were becoming the last people to escape across the wall before it fell.
The Spitzners have strong views about walls, and not just about the Berlin Wall, which is now a living history lesson.
Whether it's the security barrier the Israelis have built between them and the Palestinians, or going back to the Great Wall of China, they see all walls as monuments to political failure.
The Berlin Wall was different than all the others, since they were designed to keep people out and Berlin's was designed to keep them in. However, there is one thing they have in common.
Critics will tell you that when governments build walls, it's a sign that something else isn't working.
"It's always to keep someone in, to keep someone out, to keep someone from doing something," said Peggy Spitzner.
"So it's always a bad thing really and it's always a monument of a problem."
A monument, Hans-Peter Spitzner says, that with a will, can always be overcome.
Last family to escape across Berlin Wall reflects on its meaning
Do you all understand how totally STUPID this biased MSM CBS News report was?
The Israel wall works!
The Great Wall of China worked!
The Vatican wall works!