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| DATE | 2017-01-29 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Holo-who?
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I wrote:
> Here, let me help you rationalize that, Ruben! Let me show you how it's
> done:
>
> Hey, let's be fair to Orange-Americans, here. Trump's statement _did_
> refer to Jews, because it talks about 'depravity and horror inflicted on
> innocent people'. Most of those innocent people were Jews, and clearly
> Trump is aware of this. You're making far too much of a mere accident
> of word choice.
They _could_ have used this excuse, but (as it turns out) White House
chief of staff Reince Priebus and White house spokeswoman Hope Hicks
doubled-down and confirmed that they _intentionally_ used a classic
Holocaust-denier technique.
What might have been seen as an oversight was confirmed by White House
spokeswoman Hope Hicks to have been an intentional decision.
“Despite what the media reports, we are an incredibly inclusive group
and we took into account all of those who suffered,” Hicks told CNN on
Saturday.
On Sunday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) sharply criticized the White House for
deploying a well-known tactic of Holocaust deniers.
“This is what Holocaust denial is,” Kaine said on NBC. “It’s either to
deny that it happened or many Holocaust deniers acknowledge, ‘Oh yeah
people were killed, but it was a lot of innocent people; Jews weren’t
targets.’ ”
Conservative commentator John Podhoretz slammed the White House’s
defense of its actions in a column on Saturday, noting that Nazi
ideology rested on the aim of exterminating Jewish people from the face
of earth.
“The Nazis killed an astonishing number of people in monstrous ways and
targeted certain groups — Gypsies, the mentally challenged, and open
homosexuals, among others,” Podhoretz wrote. “But the Final Solution was
aimed solely at the Jews. The Holocaust was about the Jews.
“There is no ‘proud’ way to offer a remembrance of the Holocaust that
does not reflect that simple, awful, world-historical fact,” he added.
“To universalize it to ‘all those who suffered’ is to scrub the
Holocaust of its meaning.”
In fact, the United Nations created the International Holocaust
Remembrance Day in 2005 in part to combat a growing wave of
anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial worldwide.
In a speech on Friday in Washington, the Israeli ambassador to the
United States warned against separating the history of the Holocaust
from the Jewish people.
“For many, the Holocaust is primarily a universal story about man’s
inhumanity to man, about the evils of racism and xenophobia, about how
even the most enlightened societies can descend into darkness and
barbarism,” said Ambassador Ron Dermer. “But if this noble universal
vision is not firmly rooted in an appreciation that the Holocaust is
first and foremost a Jewish story, it can become not only dangerous but
even immoral.”
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/28/politics/white-house-holocaust-memorial-day/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/facing-criticism-trump-administration-has-no-regrets-about-leaving-out-jews-in-holocaust-statement/2017/01/29/64852c70-e641-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html
This infamous and disreputable tactic has been _most_ associated with
white-nationalist fringers such as National Front in France and, er,
the sort of people Mr. Steve Bannon works with.
That would be Big Data financier Steve Bannon who was just elevated to
the National Security Council while the Dhairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff and the Director of National Intelligence were at the same time
downgraded off the NSC. Because, gosh, why would the Nation's Slumlord
ever need competent expert advice on military and intelligence matters?
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/29/trump-needs-a-strong-nsc-it-doesnt-look-like-he-wants-one-immigration-muslim-ban/
Meanwhile, Customs and Border Patrol officials at a few (but not many
other) airports, notably Dulles International, have been defying Federal
court orders to allow detained Green Card holders access to legal
counsel, and illegally holding resident aliens in detention without
charge or access to their Constitutional rights. They _literally_ are
refusing to comply with Federal court orders requiring access to
lawyers.
In response to which, the court ordered compliance _and_ ordered the
United States Marshals Services to enforce the court order. So,
apparently now we're going to have the US Marshals, who are the
enforcement arm of the Federal courts, arresting CBP, who are under the
Executive Branch.
https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/darweesh-v-trump-decision-and-order
This is one of _several_ Federal court orders putting on hold aspects
of Trump's executive order as probably unconstitutional, but is the
specific one Dulles International CBP have been intentionally defying
today.
CBP claim that the Federal Courts have no authority over people detained
at Dulles because they (1) claim those people are not actually detained,
just in CBP 'custody', and (2) claim that Dulles international's arivals
area isn't in the United States, ergo the Federal court system can go
fish. (Good luck with that, CBP. Hope you enjoy Harshalls Service jail
cells.)
Gosh, only nine days in office, and Trumpenführer has already found a
way to create a Constitutional crisis.
In the event the Groper-in-Chief manages to trigger a second civil war,
I'll be on the side of my country and the Constitution.
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