I think what troubles many Americans on a deeper level is why some immigrants don't stay. ;-)
Harry ----- Original Message ----- From: leaking pen <itsat...@gmail.com> Date: Friday, May 1, 2009 8:26 am Subject: Re: FW: [Vo]:[OT] H1N1 Synchronicity > WOOT! I for one think that the immigration and naturalization act was > the biggest stain on the face of our constitution and declaration to > ever be passed as law. My mother immigrated legally from canada, my > fathers family came over before it WAS the united states, and they > just, came. no legal or illegal about it. So many others came through > ellis island where you told your name, drew an x, and boom, you're an > American. That is how we are SUPPOSED to be. No racism, religionism, > favoritism, paperwork, quotas and limits. Come be an American, chase > that dream, live the good life! ALL men are created equal > motherfuckers, not just the ones that got here before we decided to > bar the door and man the gates. > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:22 PM, grok <g...@resist.ca> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > As the smoke cleared, Jeff Fink <rev...@ptd.net> > > mounted the barricade and roared out: > > > >> I have a friend Jozef from Slovakia back when it was > Czechoslovakia. He was > >> in med school intending to be a doctor. He ran afoul of the > communist>> government on faith issues, was removed from med school > and assigned to be > >> an X-ray technician (no freedom of choice here). That may not > sound too bad > >> to some people on this forum, but what you don't know is that, > at that time, > >> eastern European facilities used no shielding: X-ray technician > was a death > >> sentence. (Isn't communism wonderful?) Soon after, he escaped > to freedom > >> in the US where he could be what he wanted. > > > > First thing: this was not "communism", or even "socialism". It > was what > > we call _stalinism_, for want of a better word. > > > > Second thing: I think your friend is a liar. > > > > > > > > > > > >> By the way, he immigrated legally. > >> > >> Jeff > > > > What, like cuban boat people, or pro-U.S. terrorists? > > Pfft. FUCK bourgeois "legality". I'd help a mexican sneak over > the U.S. > > border ANY day. And twice on sundays. Having been an illegal alien > > myself, for that matter. > > > > > > - -- grok. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > - -- > > Build the North America-wide General Strike. > > > > TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas. > > TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes. > > ALL power to the councils and communes. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkn6MqIACgkQXo3EtEYbt3GQ3ACgqBVSySa4uBjEBMxbQP2oJBZH > > Bo0AoJAZ3NN/pBgA3JdQhOf8N+VjPqyF > > =uEHB > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > >
