My LttE re Shrub's militarization of the (Southern only) border

In an election year instant, decades of cultural diversity are suddenly being blitzed into oblivion with English-only, fences at the (Southern only) border, and militarization of the (Southern only) border, with even more threats looming, such as mass deportations.

Paul Johnson, a British conservative historian, wrote in A History of the Jews: “The Russians always treated Jews as unacceptable aliens. The regime began to refer to it as ‘the Jewish problem,’ to be ‘solved,’ either by assimilation or by expulsion.”

Regarding assimilation, Texas elementary schools taught Hispanic children in the 1950s and '60s how Davy Crockett was their role model. And expulsion is what the current undocumented immigrants will likely face if they don’t comply with Bush’s plan. But further on down the long road of history, we have seen that a third and final solution emerges: Extermination.

Now, many Americans today would say that including extermination in this scenario is rabble rousing. I submit that many Germans in the 1920s would have said the same thing. We know that the Minutemen, Michelle Malkin, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and U.S. Representatives Tancredo and Sensenbrenner are outraged that Bush has not gone far enough with his border problem’s solutions.

How far would these Far Rightwingers go if they had the full power and if they thought they could get away with it? We know that the Minutemen claim to screen out overt racists, but we also know that their far more numerous, unofficial supporters are overwhelmingly and openly racist. So, if they thought they could get away with it, extermination of undocumented or even U.S. citizen Hispanics just might be on their list: Assimilation, expulsion, extermination (is how it goes).

(Though I fully expect to get flamed on OTHER grounds.)

Somebody here educated me about JOHNSON's wingnuttiness. I won't be reading his U.S. history that demeans FDR and deifies RAYGUN and sez Tricky Dick was witchhunted. But the wingnuttiness didn't interfere much in the History of the Jews. He WAS demeaning to FDR, but this was like 4 sentences and one paragraph out of a tome covering 4,000 years, and I badly needed knowledge of this book's subject.

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http://www.salon.com/media/1998/05/28media.html


T H E_.R I S E_.A N D_.F A L L_.O F
_______Paul "Spanker" Johnson

THE RIGHT-WING HISTORIAN'S LONGTIME MISTRESS DEALS HIM THE UNKINDEST WHACK OF ALL.

.... So it was decidedly invigorating to learn, in the dog days of mid-May, that he had been exposed by his mistress of 11 years, the writer Gloria Stewart, as a spankee:

"Paul loved to be spanked and it was a big part of our relationship. I had to tell him he was a very naughty boy." ....

Stewart unmasked Spanker Johnson to the tabloids because she could not bear to read another word of his "family values" tripe in the press. As recently as March, interviewed by Jacob Weisberg for the New York Times Magazine, he had claimed to be an advisor to the late Princess Diana. "Don't commit adultery," he said, was his "chief advice" to the divine one. When various Tory MPs were found in a trouser-free condition not long ago, Johnson predicted the ruin of the state and said that adultery, especially when committed by those who opposed it in public, should be severely punished.

But here's the bizarre thing. Johnson is not just a cult figure wherever two or three spankers are gathered together. He is an adored object of the American Right. Norman Podhoretz loved "Intellectuals." Nixon used to send out Johnson volumes for Christmas. Oliver North was once overcome with admiration at seeing William Casey read a whole Johnson on a plane flight. Dan Quayle kept a copy of Johnson's awful "Modern Times" by him, and employed it as a prop against those who accused him of being no great reader. (When pressed for an exegesis of its content, he announced contentedly that it was "a very good historical book about history.")... ....

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