Friday, June 22, 2007

"Commission on WWII Treatment of Italian Americans" Included in Immigratuion Bill

The ANNOTICO Report

 

In the On again, Off again Immigration Bill, a "Commission on Wartime Treatment of European Americans" will be created, consisting of  “two members each representing the interests of Italian-Americans and German-Americans.”

One task of the Commission is a recommendation of appropriate remedies. This could include reparations for former German and Italian resident aliens and their relatives.

 

The author of the article below of Italian ancestry is both Heartless (being a Right Wing Republican) and Monumentally Stupid!!!!

 

He appears to be totally ignorant of "Una Storia Segreta" and appears to me unaware that:

600,000 Italian Americans, 400,00 German Italians, and 120,00 Japanese Americans were Required to Register as Enemy Aliens

Thousands of Italian and German Americans were Interred/Jailed/Imprisoned

Italian Americans were required to Evacuate the West Coastal area with No Place to Live, No Jobs, No Biz, No Nothing

Not provided with Housing, Meals, Clothing,in an Evacuation Center, with Social Activities.

Boats, Biz, Houses , Property Confiscated,

Nighttime Curfews, preventing Restaurant work, the spine of the Italian Community, Etc, Etc, Etc,

 

Fonte seems to have no problem with the $20,000 in Reparations paid to Japanese Americans, even though most refused to sign Loyalty Oaths, and only 25% of the eligible males that could serve in the US Military were willing to. They preferred the Camp.

 

On the other hand,  6-800,000 Italian Americans served in the US Military in WWII.

 

The next question is will we choose our two representatives wisely. Will they be uninformed, posturing, self aggrandizing persons, OR informed crusaders like Larry Di Stasi, whose Traveling Exhibit first informed the Public about that which was locked away in Secret Files.

 

Tony LaPiana was was energized by that Exhibit and was basically responsible for getting Congress to Pass Legislation De Classifying Information, resulting in an Apology from Congress and the President.recognizing the Travesty.

 

These are my Nominations.  Can you think of any better?

 

See: "Una Storia Segreta" :     http://www.segreta.org/

 

Raindrops Keep Falling


The amnesty bill opens the door to WI enemy-alien reparations.

 

National Review Online - New York,NY,USA
By John Font
June 21, 2007

The Senate immigration bill could mean reparations for German Nazis. No, I'm not making this up. Look at Title IX, the Study of War Time Treatment of Certain People, also cited as the Wartime Treatment Study Act, Sections 901-916, pages 409-415 available through the Heritage Foundation.

Let me offer some background: When fascist Germany and Italy declared war on the United States two days after the Pearl Harbor attack, German and Italian citizens living in the United States became enemy aliens. Likewise, American citizens living in Germany and Italy became enemy aliens. The Americans and the two Axis powers repatriated and exchanged many of each others citizens, but some enemy aliens were interned in all three countries. In the United States, the vast majority of Italian and German citizens were not interned.

The Senate immigration bill would establishes a Commission on Wartime Treatment of European Americans to investigate U.S. policies that the bill describes as devastating to the Italian American and German American communities.

Section 903 declares that, the term German Americans includes resident aliens of German ancestry who numbered about 300,000 in total. The same definition is used for the term Italia n American... 

According to the Grand Bargainers, not only were U.S. policies devastating to Italian American and German American communities, but, in addition, they tell us: The detrimental effects are still being experienced today. Nonsense. Does any serious person actually believe this? I never heard a word of this devastation from either of my grandmothers, who were both technically enemy aliens, or from scores of older Italian relatives, or from anyone in the Little Vitalizes anywhere in the U.S.

As in any government policy, there are bureaucratic mishaps and high-handedness here and there, but the language of the immigration bill (devastating, detrimental, many who suffered), implies that there were major human rights violations against American citizens of European descent during World War II. This is simply false, and is clearly different from the internment of Japanese American citizens...

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[Note: Bureaucratic mishaps and High-handedness, include the "Big Brother" of the Patriot/Fascist Act, the Abuses and Indefinite Incarcarations of Abu Magrib, and Guantanimo, Special Renditions for Torture  Purpose.

 

Then we have Inaded the wrong country, 400,000 dead, 4 million Refuges, and 36 million living in Misery. Some Mishap????]


The would-be Commission on Wartime Treatment of European Americans is to consist of two members representing the interests of Italian-Americans and two members representing the interests of German-Americans. They will, no doubt, be drawn from a tiny group of activists who have been working for the past several years to achieve the coveted status....

One task of the Commission is a recommendation of appropriate remedies. This is an open invitation for reparations for former German and Italian resident aliens and their relatives....


The commission is also called upon to provide an assessment of the continued viability of the Alien Enemies Act  ...


The bill also calls for public education programs related to the United States Governments wartime treatment of European Americans. The subtext is that our schools should recognize yet another group allegedly victimized by an American democratic regime.....

My Hudson colleague John OSullivan recently quoted the famous British historian, Louis Namier, In a drop of rain can be seen all the colors of the rainbow. Thats your immigration bill.

 John Fonte is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

 

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