Feb

Tradition

Categories : Asheville City Council, LGBT issues, Popular Culture, Satire

11 Comments

Michael Muller
February 10th, 2010 at 8:59 pm

I just received this email from local GOP leader and Carolina Stomper Zora Hays. It was sent out to her list of good Republican friends:

From: Zora Hays
Subject: Fw: RE: What did Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower have in common?
Date: February 10, 2010 7:59:08 PM EST

What did Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower have in common?

Here is something that should be of great interest for you to pass around. I didn’t know of this until it was pointed out to me.

Back during The Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed that work.

Harry Truman deported over two million Illegal’s after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans.

And then again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexican Nationals! The program was called ‘Operation Wetback’. It was done so WWII and Korean Veterans would have a better chance at jobs. It took 2 Years, but they deported them!

Now… if they could deport the illegal’s back then – they could sure do it today?

lf you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation Wetback into your favorite search engine and confirm it for yourself.

Reminder now: Don’t forget to pay your taxes…12+ million Illegal Aliens are depending on you!

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shadmarsh
February 10th, 2010 at 9:19 pm

wouldn’t it be cheaper and easier to build some sort of camps and concentrate them all there?

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Tom Buckner
February 10th, 2010 at 9:27 pm

Who gets to decide what timeframe to use for what is traditional? If traditional means what was done by the greatest number for the longest time…

Traditionally, there is no such thing as family. Everybody usually reproduces by dividing though it is also traditional to incorporate any random loose scraps of DNA plasmids into your nucleus. Traditionally there is no such thing as sex, though sometimes two organisms will exchange genetic material with all the emotional attachment of a car backing over a garbage can. Traditionally, parents have had little responsibility or contact over the course of an average day with their millions of offspring and descendants. Cannibalism has traditionally been a lifestyle for many. Traditional culture really does resemble yogurt.

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Jim Reeves
February 10th, 2010 at 10:06 pm

Repatriation American (and British) style… http://www.fff.org/freedom/0495a.asp

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Matt
February 10th, 2010 at 10:26 pm

Shadmarsh, you’re frightfully close. It was a Republican (Hoover) who created the first “Concentration camps” for Americians in 1927.

If that clip had been shown at the “tea party convention” I suspect they’d have taken it seriously and applauded.

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diogenes
February 10th, 2010 at 10:36 pm

Plagiarized from Snopes. Word for word.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/wetback.asp

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Tom Sullivan
February 10th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

Use caution when handling such e-mails and wear the proper PPE (personal protective equipment). Exposure can have cognitive effects similar to mercury poisoning.

I myself immediately store those I receive in a hermetically sealed folder labeled “Spam – Right Wing.” I have somewhere over a hundred. I have a “Spam – Left Wing” folder as well. It’s all but empty. Sending propaganda to family and friends seems to be pretty much a right-wing phenomenon.

They often arrive after multiple forwards and come with as many as seventy-five addresses attached, free for the taking. Using blind copy must be French or something.

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Joe Minicozzi
February 11th, 2010 at 10:36 am

Found this interesting note from Thomas Jefferson:

Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church and State (Letter to the Danbury Baptists, 1802).

More here:
http://candst.tripod.com/tnppage/qjeffson.htm

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Tom Buckner
February 11th, 2010 at 6:03 pm

I’ve read that Baptists were strong supporters of separation of church and state in the early days of the US. They were a small, weak denomination then; more recently Baptists have grown in numbers and political clout and are now include some of the loudest voices for knocking down the wall.

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Barry Summers
February 11th, 2010 at 8:33 pm

It’s worth noting that like all denominations, there are factions and differences and shifting affiliations. The Baptist church I grew up in in St. Louis Mo. was a part of the Southern Baptist Convention, but long after I left, they went through a huge internal struggle and left the SBC. Like many other Baptists, that community rejected the politicization and conservatism that most people today associate with ‘Baptists’. As much as I no longer think of myself as a Christian, there are still many people who identify themselves that way who are genuinely striving to be Christ-like and I admire them for that…

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