Looking for freedom

LA resident Michael Clark has responded to the pending construction of a border fence between the US and Mexico by setting up a website - www.borderdirt.com - to conduct a worldwide vote on the issue and to sell commemorative border dirt from the proposed site of the wall for $9.95. "This is world history in the making. No more open border with our friendly neighbor to the south. No more 'Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' It will be officially them and us...this wall is kind of an Anti-Statue of Liberty," says Clark.
He adds that, "On the one hand, I hate to see so many immigrants come across the borders and exploit our schools, hospitals, health care and job market without paying taxes, but on the other hand, we have to do something. The current plan just isn't working, but I don't want to live in a country that spends a billion dollars of our tax money on a wall that, by the way, has no historical precedence for working! The Great Wall of China didn't keep out the Mongols, the Berlin Wall didn't keep out the Western powers and I'm skeptical that this wall will keep out immigrants."
Clark and a group of volunteers will tally the votes in January and send the results to Presidents Bush and Calderon and every member of the US Congress.