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Concentration camps? Comparisons to Nazi Germany? Oh yes
Well, I’ve got to weigh in here with a repeat posting of a piece I published in October 2017 about Aristides de Sousa Mendes, because how he dealt with frantic refugees in southern France after the German invasion is pertinent … Continue reading
Posted in Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Bo Lidegaard, Border Control, concentration camps, Countrymen, Denmark and Jews in WWII, DHS, German invasion of Denmark, ICE, Maurice Papon, Nazi concentration camps, southern border refugees, US concentration camps, US southern border, Vichy France
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Homeland Security, home of America’s Maurice Papon(s)
Haitians, front page news in the Times. Two questions: Who was Maurice Papon? And when will we see an American Aristides de Sousa Mendes?
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Haitian deportations, Maurice Papon
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Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a hero for our time
Remember when Sally Yates was fired for defying a president and news media figures immediately invoked Richard Nixon’s “Saturday night massacre?” I, too, thought of Nixon, for a moment. But then it was another man, a radiant embodiment of resistance … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Austrian Hapsburg family, Bordeaux France in 1940, Border Control, Chaim Kruger, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, John Kelly, Maurice Papon, Portugal Salazar government, Portuguese consulate in Bordeaux, Robert Montgomery, Salazar's Circular 14, Sally Yates, Saturday night massacre, Trump Executive Orders, Vichy government, Yad Vashem Righteous
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