A Spartan's guide to Border Security

Both King Leonidas, pictured above rallying his doomed men, and Lycurgus, the legendary lawgiver of Sparta, knew a thing or two about defending their homeland from invasion. We'd do well to listen to what they had to say, because our border security efforts leave much to be desired.

For example, there's been much fuss about speeding up construction on a defensive wall on the Mexican border. It's supposedly being built under the watchful eye of the Department of Homeland Surveillance Security. Proponents imagine this will magically protect our nation from determined Latinos. Can a people really depend on a wall to preserve their culture, economy, and security from invaders? When Lycurgus was confronted by demands to build a defensive wall around Sparta, he famously replied, "A city is well-fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick."

Exactly. Has anyone ever wondered how America remained a Christian, Western nation for so long without border fences? What preserved us was our shared sense of who we are, an identity based on a long, common history. More important, we were proud of that identity, and were determined to preserve it. But today, the ruling elites wage perpetual war against that identity. America, they constantly lecture, must transform itself into a globalist democracy, thereby fulfilling the glorious ideal of a proposition nation. That means we must not only permit, but embrace, floodtide immigration. Those who object to this recipe for cultural suicide are demonized as racist.

So the real answer comes from Leonidas, who chose to die defending his people against Asian invaders. He also knew a wall didn't enable a people to endure assaults on their way of life. Only a profound sense of who you are, coupled with the courage to fight to preserve it, no matter the personal risk, can do that.

Anything less is a dodge.