Beyond the Pale’: Unacceptable; outside agreed standards of decency.The paling fence is significant as the term 'pale' came to mean the area enclosed by such a fence and later just figuratively 'the area that is enclosed and safe'. So to be 'beyond the pale' was to be outside the area accepted as ‘home'.
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by Ronald Reagan, in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. The wall came tumbling down and Reagan took the credit. "A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.” Ronald Reagan, denying the Iran-Contra Affair, November 1986 The Iran-Contra Affair: involved a secret foreign policy operation directed by White House officials in the national security council (NSC) under President Ronald Reagan. The operation had two goals: first, to sell arms to Iran in the hope of winning the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon, and second, to illegally divert profits from these sales to the Contra rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Discovery of the secret operation, in 1986, triggered a legal and political uproar that rocked the Reagan administration. The numerous related investigations and indictments did not end until 1993 and even then questions remained about the roles of senior White House officials in this arms-for-hostages deal. The Republicans still adore Ronald Reagan, as if he, and he had been one of the Founding Fathers of this nation. The Republican’s ALSO, loved the idea of knocking the Communists on their heads, showcasing the vibrancy, and evolved aspect of Democracy. The Republicans used to insist, while Jimmy Carter was president, that the USA would NEVER be blackmailed, trading money for the release of hostages. The Republicans were pissed that Reagan had done so, and had he not been found to be a lying politician, Reagan had a few more dollars at the ready to pay more blackmail. Ronald Reagan, many historians now write, describe him of suffering from a form of dementia all the way back to 1987, but he WAS the president, and NO average American citizen had the right, to know how mentally or physically unstable the a president might be.
2017, the official functioning of the US Government may be shut down because Donald Trump, insists on building a Wall, one which he promised during his Putin run campaign, would be paid in full by the Mexican Government. 2017, Donald Trump is immersed in at least a half dozen illegal and treasonous scandals involving Vladimir Putin/Russian Oligarchs/ Rosneft, an integrated oil company majority owned by the Government of Russia. 2017, and the Republican Party has decided, due to severe blackmail circumstances and a distaste for the parts of Democracy that permit you and I to be equal persons as are Corporations, to build a new Wall, and to embrace the Communists…All of this while current historians are quite concerned about the mental and physical state of the Guy sitting in the Oval Office. We learn nothing from history. As if history is Beyond the Pale’.
