Does this remind you of Nazi Germany or Arizona?
Because of unrest by youth in a Roma (Gypsy) community in France, amongst a group of Roma who’ve lived in France for centuries (“the Traveling People”), President Sarkozy has ordered the expulsion of Roma immigrants who had nothing to do with the events in question. During World War II the Nazi’s exterminated nearly a million Roma along with the six million Jews they killed. Roma and Jews went side by side into the gas chambers.
So, like Arizona where some immigrants from Mexico commit crimes, while the overwhelming majority are law abiding, the legislature passes the law to try to drive out decent, hard working immigrants, even though statistics in Arizona demonstrate that crime has decreased in areas where immigrants have settled.
If anybody is wondering why some people think that bigotry is at the bottom of immigration policies the world over, this is why. If anybody is wondering why I care about the Gypsies the reason is two-fold. First, I’m Jewish. Being part of the so-called “chosen people” is not an honor, it’s a burden. The meaning of being “chosen” is to do the bidding of god on Earth and establish justice in the world; it’s an obligation, not a reward. Second, by adoption into the Moshwara Tribe of the Roma people into the family of the late Duey Stevens (Rombaro or King of the Moshwara) I am Roma and proud of it.
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee…” — John Donne
