This is what
President Obama proclaimed in Berlin earlier today. But, judging from the spooky
televised images from his speech, bulletproof glass, and police cordons and
snipers very much belong to the present – and probably to the foreseeable future; to say
nothing of the big data state he has midwifed. Ironically, the fact that "the wall," indeed, belongs to the past, may partly account for this unfortunate turn of events...
