The Visitor, why do we have borders?

What a beautiful movie. It makes me angry to realize that the borders we have in our world are only there to protect the interest of a few. In a world where borders only disappear when you have money, the asking why stops so easy. Today we, in the western world, live in a vacuum that lacks civilization. With political figures like Geert Weelders, R.I.P Jorg Hyder and many others playing with the electorate by placing a mirror of fear in front of those that stopped asking why long time ago. Especially the people that believe that aliens take our jobs, our wives, our dignity deserve to suffer as much as all those in deportation centers, border camps etc. Why do we have our borders and why do we keep people out that are seeking for a better life and are willing to work hard to make that happen? I hope one day we will let go of our fears and open up our world so it is safe to 'travel and be' for every living creature, including the people that come from places where life is dark. (Sorry for this illegal copy, but no alternative available. Please buy the DVD, I watched it on Demand@UPC)

Comments

[john miltom]

We have borders because we don’t have guts and our leading politicians don't want to look at the Big Picture. It is a matter of fact they are wrongly called leaders of the country they govern for the only thing they all are good at is leading us with abuse to enrich themselves and their political supporters. Borders exist because we collectively failed to look at the real world, because we refused to engage in a North South dialogue and define a viable investment policy. We turned our heads away from the economic and social reality instead. For the countries that had them, we left the old colonies in the 60's and only looked into opportunities to enrich ourselves further through establishing and maintaining a corruptive and corrupted system. But as this form of exploitation and abuse had led the West into the severe financial crisis we enjoy now, our lack of vision and elementary feeling of social responsibility generates a migration tsunami. As the lack of maintenance (read adequate political priority) led to the break of the levies in New Orleans with the micro disaster that followed, the head-in-the-sand politic of our leaders both political and industrial generates even a worst situation. In 1995 during the 27th Summit of the Organization of African Unity held in Nigeria, the then President of Senegal Abdou Diouf said in an interview with the Parisian newspaper Le Figaro " ...you take the risk to be invaded tomorrow by multitudes of Africans who, driven by poverty, surging massively onto the North, defying the best possible laws against immigration you designed as an ultimate barrier, but you will not be able to stop this flow because one cannot stop the sea with one’s arms ... It will be like the hordes you have known in the Middle Ages ... The population of North and South America live in the same global village. The interest of the West is to help Africa to develop ... Here in Africa you must help our human bodies and souls to shoot new and solid roots for a new economic development”. But we looked away instead and that is he reason why we still have borders.