Charlie’s Wall
January 10th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Just about everything these days is made in China — now Rep. Charlie Howard (R-Sugar Land), wants to import Chinese justice when it comes to protecting our U.S. borders.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation in the throes of its two-day policy conference hosted an immigration panel Thursday morning. One of the panel speakers, Michael Flynn, director of government affairs for the Reason Foundation — a libertarian thinktank — said the idea of a border wall gave him the creeps.
“The Chinese built a wall to keep the Mongols out and it didn’t work,” Flynn opined. “No nation builds a wall out of strength. They build it out of fear.”
Too much for Rep. Howard to handle, he took to the Mic to defend the Great Wall. “The Great Wall of China was never penetrated. The only way they came in was through bribery,” he huffed.
“Well, I spent a month in China,” he told the panel matter-of factly, “And now they’ve got an electronic wall. If you even step across their border they’ll have a helicopter over you within three minutes and you are either exterminated or returned to your country.”
Flynn, speechless for a moment, responded ‘Well they’ve got a lot of things in China we probably don’t want.”
Rep. Howard did not elaborate on whether the electronic wall was made out of E-waste or laser beams.
