Without politics we wouldn't have any borders at all, except geographical borders - and those are rarely discussed here.

Jesper

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From: Doug Murray

To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:12 PM

Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] CA-US: News story on double stop system

How does the political pressures behind borders (as much about politics as geography) not fall into discussing borders.
I fail to see the connection, or the problem.

On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 10:41 AM, Brian J. Butler wrote:

On Thursday 27 March 2003 01:29 pm, you wrote: Please get back to dicussing borders or start a separate political discussion group. Thanks. BJB > Doug, > > >The grumpy, short sighted "no" crowd seems to see this as a loss of > >sovereignty. > > Well I guess it's the typical reaction of politicians who feel they must be > seen to be doing something to 'protect our borders'. > > >Does the EU make Germany less sovereign? > > Err, well it does in practice, but I take your point. I think travel in > Europe would be pretty difficult if all the countries adopted US-style > border controls. > > Cheers, > > Kevin Meynell > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Brian J. Butler BJB Software, Inc. 508-429-1441 bjbutler@... http://www.bjbsoftware.com
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