Thursday,
September 14, 2006
The ANNOTICO
Report
It is true that
in 1942, in the US, Executive Order 9066, in conjunction with the Enemy
Alien Act, subjected Italians (600,00), German
(300,000), and Japanese-Americans (120,000), to a variety of Restrictions that
ranged from Registration, Curfews ( that put people out of work), Confiscation
of Property (like Fishing Boats), Displacement from West Coast areas,
(including a 92 yr old bed ridden Italian on a Stretcher), Jailing, and
Internment.
Much has been
made of the Japanese Story, almost nothing about the Italians and Germans
although FAR greater numbers were involved.
This was Not
The author of the
following article Ray G, did not do his research well.
Those Actions on the part of the US Government were NOT Right, and subsequent
generations have not merely sucked it up, they have shown that terrible
injustices can be wrought when Fear instead of Logic, AND our Proud
Tradition for Fairness drives us to violate our own Sacred Traditions.
Those hard fought
Liberties, that we too often take for granted,
required Great Sacrifices. and we should
Defend them well!!!!!
Ray G, on
the other hand suggests the Muslims ignore Harassment, Insults, Anti Muslims
Sentiments, and Profiling.
Instead of saying
we have come along way from Slavery, and Anti Women attitudes, he instead
cavalierly says: "It's your turn."
He also justifies
on the basis that "our country's safety is
threatened".
In WWII
He is Comparing THAT
to OUR going half way across the world to INVADE a country BY MISTAKE, turn it
into ruins, and be scared out of our wits by some guys hiding in
caves, a half a world away??????
We have Much more to fear from the 100,000 "HOME GROWN
TERRORISTS" / Gang Members in the
The only Time Ray
G. is right, is when he calls this a "crazy war". And when you
realize you were wrong about AMDs, Al Queda "connections", perhaps you should Not continue to try to WIN a WRONG War, You should Get
OUT!!!!!!!!!!!! With Apologies!!!!!!
THE JOURNAL & TOPICS NEWSPAPERS Giovannelli Central
By Ray Giovannelli
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Earlier this year
the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
claimed that Arabs and Muslims have been targeted in this country. Profiling of
Muslims is of particular concern to CAIR. This anti-Muslim sentiment is
certainly irritating and bothersome to people but I don't see it as anything
more than a sociocultural phenomenon that occurs when
our country's safety is threatened.
I'm sure that
many of you remember the backlash against German, Italian and
Japanese-Americans in the 1940s. As I recall it, those folks may have
complained about harassment, but they also openly renounced the actions of
their ancestral countries and jumped into the fight to help defeat them in a
world war.
Many ethnic
groups have taken their turn in the discrimination arena. How about African and
Jewish-Americans? Their bouts with harassment and discrimination makes other
periods of ethnocentricity seem like a walk in the park.
So to all the
law-abiding Arab and Muslim-Americans out there, I want to say that
circumstances and senseless violence have put you on center stage in the war on
terrorism.
Simply stated,
"It's your turn." So just suck up the insults and spit them back like
the rest of us have had to do -- hunker down, join the fight and let's win this
crazy war.
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