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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 01:48 PM
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Lesson of history: forcing inhuman conditions upon a people
makes it easier to regard them as less than human.



Listen for the language of hygene. Sneers about "filthy" people. It's "vermin" that is eradicated by genocide. That's how it goes down.
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 01:54 PM
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1. This is what the "eliminationist rhetoric" has come to. n/t
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wake.up.america Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 01:57 PM
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2. Nazis = Bushites Warsaw Ghetto= New Orleans
Haunting picture

How can anyone say otherwise?
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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 01:58 PM
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3. Another lesson from history from Billmon at the Whiskey Bar
April 22, 1927: The Great Flood overruns Greenville, Mississippi. Downtown Greenville is covered in 10 feet of water. For 60 miles to the east and 90 miles to the south of the Mounds Landing break, the Delta becomes a turbulent, churning inland sea, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded on rooftops and clinging to trees . . .

April 23: Over 10,000 refugees, mostly African Americans, crowd onto the narrow eight-foot-wide crown with their salvaged possessions and livestock. With the arrival of the refugees, Greenville's population almost doubles.

April 25: The situation in Greenville is dire. Thirteen thousand African Americans are stranded on the levee with nothing but blankets and makeshift tents for shelter. There is no food for them. The city's water supply is contaminated. The railway has been washed away, and sanitation is non-existent. An outbreak of cholera or typhoid is imminent . . . Boats with room for all the refugees arrive, but only 33 white women and children are allowed to board. The African American refugees are left behind, trapped on the levee.


http://billmon.org/archives/002123.html

Not much has changed in 80 years. :cry:
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