What ever happened to "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..."
They came here for several centuries for the same reasons – freedom and hope -- and then a Frenchman created a statue that embodied their hopes and dreams. And it embodied America's promise as well. "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..."
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
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U.S. terror policy shuts out refugees
Dec. 22, 2006 at 9:47AM
Refugee advocates have criticized the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for refugee policies that some claim are too stringent.
Critics said the department's enforcement of laws barring admission to anyone who has provided "material support" have been expanded to include people who pose no threat to the United States, including Liberian women who were forced to cook and clean for rebels after they were raped and their family members were killed and Colombians who paid ransom demands to free kidnapped relatives, The Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
The Times said U.S. allies who worked alongside or on behalf of U.S. forces are being affected as well. Montagnards and Hmong who assisted U.S. troops in Vietnam are being denied entry into the country, as are Cubans who participated in the Bay of Pigs uprising to attempt to overthrow dictator Fidel Castro.
Terrorist organizations are defined by the United States as any group that uses a device or weapon to cause injury to person or property, regardless of organization, motive and frame of mind. Anyone who assists in such an act, regardless of whether they were forced, is considered to have provided material support to terrorism.
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"...any group that uses a device or weapon to cause injury to person or property, regardless of organization, motive and frame of mind."
Does that mean it's a war OF terror ON terror?
It depends on what your definition of 'is' is.
LANGUAGE DOES NOT LIE
During the Nazi era, Victor Klemperer, a German of Jewish heritage, chronicled in his private diary the German government’s subversion of language as a means of thought control. Yet, Klemperer importantly noted, careful reading of totalitarian language always reveals the ideology hidden within the lie. Stan Neumann’s documentary considers the importance of Klemperer’s observation and the role of the witness in such situations, and reflects on how we must vigilantly observe how those in power manipulate language.
http://www.sundancechannel.com/film/?ixFilmID=7399&rname=The+Film+Finder
Very good point, excerpt and link. Thank you very much.
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