david vartanoff Wrote:
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> just so you understand where I come from, on my
> dad's side, he fled the Bolsheviks with a passport
> which became toilet paper while he was crossing
> the Black Sea. In a manner never explained to us
> as children, a passport was invented (perhaps with
> the aid of the Armenian Church) in Istanbul. So,
> by some definitions he entered illegally although
> he was accepted at Ellis Island. Having been
> naturalized he was a tax paying, voting citizen,
> BUT, as an Armenian, he was covenanted out of some
> neighborhoods even though a civil servant of
> DOW/DOD. As to his fear of the Bolsheviks, his
> brother-in-law was one of Stalin's millions of
> victims (arrested, secret trial, shot).
> On my mother's side,the great grandfather fled the
> potato famine. Presumably you are aware of
> anti-Irish attitudes and behavior before newer
> immigrants replaced them as targets of supposed
> "real Americans"--none of whom were invited in the
> natives/"Indians".
>
> So, should I put first the ideals of the so-called
> real Americans who dissed my ancestors on both
> sides? How different is an impoverished person
> from outside the US today fleeing violence and
> poverty from my ancestors doing the same? And as
> to money spent on healthcare, or education, unless
> you have the guts to out front call for
> exterminating those without "your" permission to
> be here, in the tenets of most religions, they
> are,like you, all members of the flock looked
> after by the deity(ies) professed for a few
> minutes each week before most go back to behaviors
> expressly prohibited in the teachings of whichever
> faith.
>
> End of rant


Thank you David. Unfortunately you're wasting your time. Keith is too far down the rabbit hole to hear you.


Hopefully it's time for him to take another time out from here so we can get a break from the hate, the anger, and the constant regurgitation of conservative media talking points.