ClydeR
07-17-2014, 07:08 PM
Picture it. 1939. World war is on the horizon. Germany is growing inhospitable to its Jewish citizens. German Jews set sail to the welcoming country of Cuba on the MS St. Louis (http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005267) from Hamburg. Although they were jeered by their fellow Germans as they boarded the ship, there was great happiness during the voyage for the nearly 1,000 passengers on that ship, for they knew they had saved themselves and their families from a growing darkness in Germany. But before they arrived, Cuba changed its immigration laws and refused to admit the Jews. Recovering from the Great Depression and not wanting competitors for economic opportunity, the United States also refused admission. The captain grimly turned the St. Louis toward Florida, intending to run aground and give his passengers a chance to flee, but the US Coast Guard watched the ship too closely for that maneuver, even firing warning shots by some accounts. Eventually, the ship returned to Europe, where the passengers were dispersed among several European countries. About a quarter of the passengers died in German concentration camps.
Why do I mention this bit of history? I didn't mention it. No, not I. A Democrat did.
Governor Deval Patrick on Wednesday said he wanted to find a way for Massachusetts to help alleviate the crisis of children seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, avoiding the type of feud with the White House into which other governors have been drawn, and invoking powerful imagery as his motivation.
“My inclination is to remember what happened when a shipful of Jewish children tried to come to the United States in 1939 and the United States turned them away, and many of them went to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps,” Patrick said when a reporter asked how he viewed the border crisis. “I think we are a bigger-hearted people than that as Americans, and certainly as residents of Massachusetts.”
More... (http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/16/deval-patrick-links-southwest-border-crisis-holocaust/C30P9DSNubnqWICC0StYDI/story.html)
They made a movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075406/) about it starring Faye Dunaway.
If you mention Nazis, you automatically lose the argument. Republicans win this argument!
Why do I mention this bit of history? I didn't mention it. No, not I. A Democrat did.
Governor Deval Patrick on Wednesday said he wanted to find a way for Massachusetts to help alleviate the crisis of children seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, avoiding the type of feud with the White House into which other governors have been drawn, and invoking powerful imagery as his motivation.
“My inclination is to remember what happened when a shipful of Jewish children tried to come to the United States in 1939 and the United States turned them away, and many of them went to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps,” Patrick said when a reporter asked how he viewed the border crisis. “I think we are a bigger-hearted people than that as Americans, and certainly as residents of Massachusetts.”
More... (http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/16/deval-patrick-links-southwest-border-crisis-holocaust/C30P9DSNubnqWICC0StYDI/story.html)
They made a movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075406/) about it starring Faye Dunaway.
If you mention Nazis, you automatically lose the argument. Republicans win this argument!