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Mira

(22,378 posts)
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 10:36 PM Jan 2017

The Anne Frank Center Responded To Trumps Wall Order

The Anne Frank Center Responded To Trump’s Wall Order
By Colin Taylor

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/01/25/trump-just-ended-refugee-program-anne-frank-centers-response-perfect/

As President Donald Trump unveils a stunning bundle of unconstitutional and discriminatory executive orders – a registry on Muslim visitors to the United States, a moratorium on visas for citizens from eight Muslim nations, a weekly list of crimes committed by “removable aliens,” a reinstatement of the torture program, to name a few – he was met with a horrified response from Steven Goldstein, Executive Director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect.

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who famously kept a diary as she and her family hid from the Nazis before being caught. She later died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, most likely of typhus. The steps that Donald Trump is taking to discriminate and dehumanize Muslims and illegal immigrants mirror the early actions that the Nazi Party took to isolate and dehumanize European Jews, paving the way for mass complicity in the systematic extermination of six million innocent people.

Goldstein, writing from the Anne Frank Center For Mutual Respect’s Facebook page, blasted Trump’s shocking orders with this painful condemnation.



THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WEEPS
AS PRESIDENT TRUMP TARGETS
MEXICANS AND MUSLIMS

Statement of Steven Goldstein, Executive Director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, the U.S. civil and human rights organization among Anne Frank organizations worldwide:

As President Trump prepares orders to wall out Mexicans and shut out refugees from America, today marks one of the most hateful days in our nation’s history. Donald Trump is retracting the promise of American freedom to an extent we have not seen from a President since Franklin Roosevelt forced Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II. Today the Statue of Liberty weeps over President Trump’s discrimination.

President Trump is beyond the wrong side of history. He is driving our nation off a moral cliff.

When President Trump uses national security as a guise for racism, he doesn’t strengthen our national security. He compromises our national security by engendering disrespect for America by people around the world.

Make no mistake, suspending visas for citizens of Middle Eastern and African countries is not called national security. It’s called prejudice.

President Trump is now exacerbating the largest global refugee crisis in history. His slamming America’s doors on the starving, the wounded and the abused is a grotesque blot on our nation’s history of freedom. The President’s actions are an embarrassment to the timeless vision of America as inscribed by Emma Lazarus to “give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

Demonizing refugees and immigrants, and spending billions of taxpayer dollars to keep them out of our nation, will go down in American history as one of the most tragic deviations from our national conscience.

Mr. Goldstein summarized what we’re facing perfectly. Donald Trump’s actions are a despicable affront to the values of tolerance, diversity, and religious pluralism that our nation was founded on. Our Founding Fathers will be rolling in their graves tonight as Trump’s reckless string of executive actions shames our nation before the world and unleashes the darkest demons of the human spirit.



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The Anne Frank Center Responded To Trumps Wall Order (Original Post) Mira Jan 2017 OP
I was subbing in a class last week and one students asked me to read a book about Anne Frank kimbutgar Jan 2017 #1
K&R !!! CountAllVotes Jan 2017 #2
Homosexuals & the Holocaust: TexasProgresive Jan 2017 #5
German Catholics CountAllVotes Jan 2017 #8
K & R 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2017 #3
Yup. This hasn't made us safer. In fact it's made things worse. Initech Jan 2017 #4
oh yes he has bdamomma Jan 2017 #7
And Bannon and Pence should both get one way tickets to Super Max. Initech Jan 2017 #9
K&R Solly Mack Jan 2017 #6

kimbutgar

(20,882 posts)
1. I was subbing in a class last week and one students asked me to read a book about Anne Frank
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 10:38 PM
Jan 2017

As I was reading it I was struck at the similarities from then to now in since January 20th and I got choked up and had to stop reading.

CountAllVotes

(20,854 posts)
2. K&R !!!
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 10:54 PM
Jan 2017

How have we come to this horrific place esp. in lieu of the story of Anne Frank -- just one of ...

Although the exact figure will never be known, here are estimates:

* The figure of 11 million people dead is often given but it is completely unclear where this figure comes from, and how it is calculated. It is far too low. One also encounters the range 11-17 million.

* 6 million of these were Jewish (close to two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population) and about one-quarter of these were children under 15.

* Up to 270,000 were Roma/Sinti (Gypsies).

This is not what America is all about; well I hope not!!



TexasProgresive

(12,148 posts)
5. Homosexuals & the Holocaust:
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 11:18 PM
Jan 2017
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-of-homosexuals-in-the-holocaust
snip:
The Extermination of Homosexuals in the Death Camps

Precise figures on the number of homosexuals exterminated in Nazi Death camps have never been established. Estimates range from 10,000 to 15,000. It does not appear that the Nazis ever set it as their goal to completely eradicate all homosexuals. Rather, it seems, the official policy was to either re-educate those homosexuals who were "behaviorally" and only occasionally homosexual and to block those who were "incurable" homosexuals through castration, extreme intimidation, or both. For a fascinating empirical sociological examination of this idea, the reader is referred to the work of Reudiger Lautmann. Nor does it appear that their efforts extended beyond Germany itself to the occupied territories.

However, the numerous testimonies by homosexuals who survived the camp experience suggest that the SS had a much less tolerant view. Those who wore the pink triangle were brutally treated by camp guards and other categories of inmates, particularly those who wore the green (criminals), red (political criminals) and black (asocials) triangles. The following testimony by survivor, Heinz Heger, provides a dramatic illustration:

CountAllVotes

(20,854 posts)
8. German Catholics
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 11:35 PM
Jan 2017

Many of them died in Hitler's ovens.

No wonder Pence is "born again" rather than "Catholic" dare one suggest.

How does he fare on homosexuality. Does it matter at this point? HELL YES.





bdamomma

(63,654 posts)
7. oh yes he has
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 11:25 PM
Jan 2017

saying Christians are welcomed first in America, this sick despicable man needs to go to nice isolated room.

Initech

(99,914 posts)
9. And Bannon and Pence should both get one way tickets to Super Max.
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 11:52 PM
Jan 2017

This is treason plain and simple.

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