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Old January 8th 12, 10:17 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.europe
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Default Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could ithappen here...??

On 08/01/2012 21:14, Alistair Gunn wrote:
In uk.railway Lüko Willms twisted the electrons to say:
Today the
outside border of Fortress Europe is as strongly guarded as the GDR-FRG
border was before, but with more deaths caused than in the four decades
of the division of Germany (organised by the capitalist class and their
foreign allies).


Oh really? Can you tell us the locations on the borders of the EU where
the minefields, spring-guns and watchtowers manned by rifle toting border
guards with orders to shoot-to-kill are?


They might have gone, but Greece had mines
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3149744.stm

There is tight security on the bits of Spain physically situated in
Africa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla_border_fence

These are to keep people out, rather than in.

The Finnish border had a cleared strip and fences when I passed, I
suspect there might be tight security there?

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK