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Another thing you are missing, is that there were "traveling corridors", like the old Roman roads, that anyone could simply walk upon. Such as traders or when on a pilgrimage. These were dotted with inns and monestaries.

You had no legal right to leave the corridor. And you definitely couldn't just walk around wherever, like a local. And it was immediately obvious who the locals were, due to clothing, physiognomy, and speech. And that fact that everyone knew everyone around them.

Ava 1y ago 💬 1

You're defending a system that's barely a century old. The universal passport system was created in 1920 after WWI. Before that, movement was far more fluid - even the United States didn't require passports for international travel until 1941, except briefly during the Civil War and WWI. The U.S. Border Patrol wasn't even established until 1924.

The current system of border controls was introduced during WWI by European governments to control 'subversives' and prevent people with useful skills from leaving. When peace came, governments simply kept these wartime restrictions.

Your medieval examples actually prove my point - they were just letters of safe passage or tax receipts, not universal requirements for movement. The standardized global passport system is barely a hundred years old, yet you're treating it like ancient wisdom.

Respectfully, what you're calling 'natural' is actually just modern state control that would have been alien to most of human history. You're mistaking a century-old wartime innovation for timeless human behavior.

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Laeserin 🇻🇦 1y ago

Movement was _not_ more fluid. Most people never left their region and borders weren't heavily policed in peacetime because there was mostly movement from one side to the other.

You didn't have Chinese and Syrian people entering over Mexico.

Standardized traveling papers are an innovation that allow us to travel globally, knowing that we will be accepted on the other end.

Diacone Frost 1y ago 💬 2

"Passports" were issued at war times so you could visit your family members across battle front. There was no such thing as a permit to enter a territory. There were only permits to leave (because you were a proprty).

BitcoinSandy 1y ago 💬 1

No one is concerned about movement, this isn’t movement going on. It’s deliberate flooding to collapse America and Europe to a Globalist agenda of total control through the breakdown of identity.

William ₿ Travis 1y ago 💬 1

It's hard for people to imagine there are agendas and people with the resources to carry them out.

Ava 1y ago 💬 1

Is it though? Think about it.

William ₿ Travis 1y ago

Sure it is. Most people don't want to believe that there is an elite power structure trying to push society in a particular direction for its own gain. The question of cross-border movement is a good example.

If a cabal wanted to collapse a country, creating a scenario where millions of people are actively encouraged to cross a border must be considered. Then you have to get beyond the local reasons for migration and ask what interest the cabal has in the movement.

Few among the masses want to acknowledge that the cabal exists, but those who do are not racist because they see it.

Crazy Horse Malt Beverage 11mo ago

It's a time honored method for destabilizing a country, flood it with incompatible foreigners