Here I am trying to post only on Spier-man and then this thing comes along. Laurent, it is a piece of racist trash.
I can select any grouping of things that I wish to "build" a "case" to "profile" any category of peoples that I want., This email that you forwarded is exactly the same type of racist trash that was and is distrubuted by the Klan, or any number of white Christian supremist organizations, to "prove" that African Americans and Jews are whatever they want to say that African Americans and Jews are. It is easy: jusy select the "facts" to "prove" your "case" and just like the email that you forwarded, the defense is always, "it is the truth, man, look at the facts." For years I used to read this shit growing up about blacks and Jews - racist literature abounds with things like this. South African apartheid defenders used the same type of "reasoning." Now it is directed against Muslim males of a certain age, as in South African, it was used against blacks, colored, and Asians to justify pro-filing, which they were honest enough to call apartheid. And you know what this reminds of most? I posted a few days ago how Holocaust (Shoah) was at the root of everything that I believe and teach and preach. The reason is, because people of my faith and ethnic backgrounds perpetrated the Holocaust - now there is a group to profile, Laurent, white Europeans. After all, no one comes close to white Europeans in the ability to kill 6 million people and inflcit terror. Relatives of Timothy McVeigh, the Unibomber, Milosevic. Anyway I pledged my life to make sure that if I ever saw signs of Holocaust again, I would raise my voice before it happened, when the warning signs were there, because that is one thing (of many) that we owe to the 6 million. And what this profiling email reminds me of is the anti-Semitic propaganda of the Nazis. This is just a cyber version of the Elders of the Protocols of Zion, which was also filled with "facts" and "dates" and even pictures of the "Jewish conspirators" and which was defended as being 'the facts, man, look at it, it is all right here.' And then the Nazis added, Who burned the Reichstag? A legally convicted Jew! And they added whatever other facts they had to prove that the Jews needed to be profiled, looked at closely, and subject to profiling by the authorities -- so Stars of David and ther word "Juden" were painted on their stores (damn Jews, they are everywhere, have to identify them) a nd you had to profile them when they traveled so mark their passports with the phrase "Juden" because we could not travel safely unless we could identify the Jews and watch them, and then of course to make profiling easier, Jews had to wear the Star of David. A Jew traveling had to be searched, they were smuggling, they were stealing, they were a threat to our safety and security. Then of coursed they had to be kept separate from us, put them in the ghetto. Anytime, from anyone, I see this type of profiling racist trash being passed around, I will protest, and I don't care who is passing it out or what the ramifications are, or who the victims are of the trash that is being distributed. Let me clear: you said you passed this on, you did not write it, but you disseminatted racist filth in doing so, and any moral authority you claim so far is now gone in my opinion. I don't give a damn what you think about me, but then again, I will not be silent in the face of this. I am not a Jew. I am not an Arab. I am a Christian., And people ion the name of my faith have done terrible thinsg by keeping silent. When I was ordained into my church as a member of the clergy, the following was very much in the theology of every one who took part in that service: First they came for the Communists, and I didnt speak up, because I wasnt a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didnt speak up, because I wasnt a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didnt speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me. by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945, survivor of Dachau, imprisoned 1937-1945 in fact because he did speak out, one of the few pastors of the Confessing Church who was not killed by the Nazis. I don't know that I could survicve Dachau for 8 years, but I can survive being flamed in the JMDL, so go to it, but that profiling thing is racist and filth of the lowest order. (the Rev) Vince
