SheenaKite275
Through the years, every wave of immigration into the United States Of America has faced fear and hatred, particularly during times of economic hardship, political turmoil, or war:
-- In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act[1], one of America's first immigration laws, to keep out everyone of Chinese origin.
-- During the "Red Scare"[2] of the 1920's, a large number of foreign-born people suspected of political radicalism were arrested and brutal...
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Through the years, every wave of immigration into the United States Of America has faced hostility and fear, particularly during times of economic difficulty, political turmoil, or war:
-- In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act[1], one of America's first immigration laws, to keep out everyone of Chinese origin.
-- During the "Red Scare"[2] of the 1920's, thousands of foreign-born people thought of political radicalism were arrested and brutalized; many were deported without a hearing.
-- In 1942, 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry were interned in camps[3] until the end of World War II....Prompting the following: In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment with respect to the U.S. government. The regulation stated that government actions were centered on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and failing of political leadership," and starting in 1990, reparations were paid by the government to surviving internees.
-- Today, immigrants particularly those of Latino descent are increasingly being lambasted and labeled as thieves, crooks and illegal "disease carriers."
-- Even more disturbing is that some black Americans have joined the bandwagon of "Dixie White America" in incessantly using concern and misinformation, which instigates hate crimes against immigrants.
The "Immigrant" is almost as frightened as was the "Negro" throughout the peak years of racial segregation in The Usa. Police raids are sending ripples of concern throughout immigrant towns all over the United States. Vigilantism by racist groups such as the "Minutemen," is on the rise. Families are being torn apart haphazardly, and futures are being destroyed senselessly.
This anti-immigrant plan is very just like that done against Jews by Dr. Joseph Goebbels[4] "Minister for Public Enlightenment & Propaganda in Nazi Germany."
Think about the following scenarios:
1. In Nazi Germany Jews were scapegoated because the way to obtain Germany's economic woes. In the Usa, Lou Dobbs has insinuated again and again that the economic difficulties of the "middle class" is a direct results of U.S. jobs being exported overseas and that immigrants are sometimes taking jobs from Americans and/or driving down wages. There is some reality in the "wage" element of this record, but without bothering to explain the "mechanics" of this claim, Lou's over simplification benefits in "uninformed" contempt by his visitors of immigrants generally speaking.
2. In Nazi Germany, viewers were frequently reminded of the battle of the Nazi Party and Germany against foreign enemies and internal enemies, particularly Jews. In the present United States, Lou Dobbs often reminds his audience, that countless foreigners and criminal illegal immigrants are running rampant in the United States, quite contrary to official data. "white-supremacists"[5] and demagogue politicians are often invited by him from racially intolerant constituencies, as experts and experts in his shows -- while denouncing civil rights groups such as the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center as "despicable" and "reprehensible." The few pro-immigrant guests invited to Mr. Dobbs' shows are consistently scolded and lambasted because of their stance. To stir the pot further, Mr. Dobbs' always concludes his SHOWS with un-scientific impromptu forms, that are always skewed and possibly doctored -- maliciously shown as the view of the majority.
3. Propagandists lauded Germany because the main defender of what they called "Western European culture" against the "Bolshevist hordes( Russians )." In this town hall meeting and as in previous ones, the problem of English as an official language came up -- the fear that English will soon be "replaced," by the Spanish language [...a subliminal insinuation that the white Anglo-Saxon culture in being contaminated] has been used regularly by Lou Dobbs and co., to drive fear up the spines of Americans.
4. Jews in Nazi Germany were printed as disease carriers, pollutants of the pure German race -- recently Lou Dobbs and despite being met with undisputed evidence to the contrary, maintained his declare that there has been 7,000 new instances of leprosy[6] in the U.S. in recent years attributing the raise to "unscreened illegal immigrants." Such irresponsible utterances in mainstream media, only help embolden dislike groups -- who get frequently to keep the 'Cradle of the Confederacy' secure from leprosy, pedophiles, Spanish and wild godlessness[7].
In 2007, history is repeating it self.
Lou Dobbs along with a swarm of significant right-wing commentators, buoyed by bad politicians like Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado and Duncan Hunter of California, are playing a major part in fomenting anti-immigrant anxiety -- patting the fires of racist extremism and fueling an extraordinary development in hate groups.
This YouTube.com video[8] demonstrates how inflammatory speech on public airwaves builds hate and intolerance.
In the 1920's Nazi Science had just created the "Magneto phone," the first tape recorder, which meant that their propaganda could possibly be time-delayed, allowing them to tailor their message of hate for local consumption -- 87 years later, Lou Dobbs has usage of CNN's state of art propaganda gear -- I bet Dr. Goebbels is turning in his grave with affection.
In terms of I am concerned, any person who has lived in the United States for many years, has participated fully in the device, and has no felonious mis-deeds, belongs here and should really be treated with some regard -- the firm stand -- "depot them all," "we are a country of laws" -- is just a smokescreen for -- "we hope this good old fashioned USA was one hundred thousand lily white." ...a convenient tool for extortion. It is not just inhuman but in addition bigoted to the key.
The racist and vicious history with this state relates.
The U.S. Constitution does not give the proper to foreigners to enter the U.S. But once here, it shields them from discrimination centered on race and national origin and from arbitrary treatment by the government.
Immigrants spend and work taxes; legal immigrants are subject to the military draft. Many immigrants have lived in this country for ages, married U.S. citizens, and raised their U.S.-citizen kids. Laws that punish them violate their fundamental directly to equal and fair treatment.
By "stroking and massaging" the dormant "hate genes" residing within the "nativists," Lou Dobbs and other right-wing demagogues are making the method of legislating the immigration issue greatly torturous, or even impossible.
It's for that reason my estimation that, Lou Dobbs is just a tactical propagandist worse than Dr. Joseph Goebbels[9] "Minister for Public Enlightenment & Propaganda in Nazi Germany." There could be no stoves or death camps to fully cement my assessment -- however the many components of Nazism are abundantly clear.
When Lou Dobbs entirely ignores the "positives" and as an alternative inflames and distorts the "negatives," he's criminally inciting the people -- a number of who are ready to actually eliminate anyone they can classify as an "illegal immigrant."
In a where racism is held back in check by a of laws (which are not always uniformly and fairly used), I submit that this "distortionist" venture which CNN and Lou Dobbs are engaged in, isn't only very dangerous, but negates any development this country has manufactured in race relations, and diminishes America's status as symbolic of justice world wide.
This "town hall" gathering so far as I'm involved, was a hate meeting" -- skillfully woven to the fabric of mainstream media for profit and to market racial team -- a pattern perfected by Fox News, the "UnFair and Totally UnBalanced" trash news station.
There's a need to look at this problem intelligently, humanely and with equity, for no body really wants to be struck by Osama Bin Laden and his cohorts -- secure the borders, but let those who have been living in the shadows turn out and be counted. It is possible to guess the legal ones may continue hiding, nevertheless the hard working immigrants who have roots in this country should be permitted to fulfill their dreams.
Getting immigrants who're here unlawfully to the open is definitely an essential process in the war against Terrorism. They will be driven by scare tactics further underground -- making it harder to find and monitor the hard-core legal ones, who I send don't belong in just about any community.
America is a nation of immigrants -- the stream of immigrants must be controlled and regulated, but we mustn't permit the issue to be hijacked and used to transport the racist agenda of the "propagandist extortionists" like Lou Dobbs, right wing political demagogues and risky Neo-Nazi bigots to whom Lou Dobbs has turned into a hero.
A bold first step have been taken by the United States Senate, and they are applauded by me. Ideally a reasoned and enduring comprehensive solution will undoubtedly be arrived at in due course.
END -- Part 2 of 2
[Sources Quoted in Article]
[1] -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Nathan Thornburgh, Examines: The Case for Amnesty: Just as Governor Wilson's anti-immigrant plans turned California into the bluest of Blue States, the furious, racist and xenophobic rhetoric coming from the Republican right is turning the fastest-growing voting bloc in America against the GOP -- Writes Eleanor Clift: Video -- Leslie Stahl grills Lou Dobbs on his Fear Mongering Distortions: America the Generous: A Lost Story of Citizenship. Just what a young, comfortable state did for immigration -- By Lawrence Downes: Spreading Hysteria -- CNN's Lou Dobbs develops anti-immigrant lies: Truth, Fiction and Lou Dobbs: billig a-kasse site
