On Thursday 27 March 2003 03:17 pm, you wrote:
No argument, but I don't find the general phenomenon of "borders" all that
interesting. I'm interested in the finite set of boundary "points".

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