Some destructive forces never rest. When they directly affect us, we can treat and
remove them, but still we must stay on our guard. They'll be back. Consider the activity of rust and road salt
which devour metal and the undersides of cars, and even the droppings of city pigeons
which slowly corrode stone structures. There
are pesky problems in the garden, too.
One is bindweed, bits of whose roots can live underground for fifty
years or more. When bindweed grows, it wraps
itself around 
other plants. Mosquitoes
seem to love it. In human society, tenacious
weeds also exist. Their easily
splintered roots divide and grow, often underground, then surface and thrive if
left undisturbed. With false appeals to a
single group's "pride" in race and religion, these parasites easily strangle
weak minds. They entice men, and women,
to band together to support a lame cause disguised as a Brotherhood, an
assembly of Knights, or a National Association. This post was inspired by a piece of news
published in early December, 2013. A white
supremacist from the state of Louisiana in the USA has just been expelled from
Italy by a Venetian court after having lived for a year and a half in a town close
to Belluno, a city in Venice's Alps or the 
Dolomites. His excuse for being in Italy had to do with
book research, he claimed. Having already
been expelled from Switzerland and the Schengen Treaty states in 2009 for
publicly denying the Holocaust inside the Czech Republic, this man, whose
initials are DD, managed to sneak back into the EU via Malta. He gave a clerk at the Italian embassy in
Malta only his middle name, thus disguising his identity. The trick was discovered later. A police official in the city of Belluno told
a British tabloid, "We consider him a highly dangerous individual due to
his infamous racist theories." According
to one journalist, he had been going back and forth between Italy and Austria,
and also making incursions into Alto Adige, Italy's German-speaking region. Surely, he was doing more than researching. This bad actor, now in his early sixties, has
been the Grand Wizard of a notorious hate group, the Klan, founded at the end of
the American Civil War. Its 
members tortured
and killed blacks as well as compassionate whites in the defeated South. Since then, this same group has also turned
against immigrants, especially Southern European Catholics and Jews. Now they rail against Muslims, homosexuals
and liberals as well. The ex-Wizard has tried
several times without success to enter mainstream American politics. The Anti-Defamation League calls him
"America's most well-known racist and anti-Semite." The recent expulsion order issued by an
Italian court said that ". . . reliable and official sources have
indicated him as someone having the clear intention of creating in Europe an organization
which has as its objective the elimination of the black and Jewish races." Obviously, he's an incorrigible hatemonger. People who obsessively project their inner
demons onto others, in this case anyone who is not a straight, white, ultra-conservative
"Christian," are as hard to get rid of as bindweed. Their tenacious roots are easily propagated. Today there is a deep economic crisis in
Italy and in most other parts of Europe.
Too many young Italians are milling around without a proper education,
much less gainful employment. Poor
immigrants are pouring into Europe via Italy, many of them dark skinned non-Christians. The white supremacists of America have
already joined forces with Western European Neo-Nazis and corresponding hate groups
in Eastern Europe. They want to target
the new immigrants. The unemployed white
youth of Europe are potential members for their gangs. What can concerned onlookers do? How about not being complacent the next time
somebody makes a nasty remark based on racial stereotypes? Defending human rights in the place where we
live is an ongoing task, generation after generation. Let's not be indifferent to the bindweeds growing
under our noses. By way of example, I'll
conclude this post simply by suggesting that the next time someone makes an anti-Semitic
remark in front of us, especially if it's someone who claims to be a Christian,
let's at least have the presence of mind to remind them, for starters, that
Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew. There's
nothing as mind-opening as truth.
UN’AMERICANA A VENEZIA
other plants. Mosquitoes
seem to love it. In human society, tenacious
weeds also exist. Their easily
splintered roots divide and grow, often underground, then surface and thrive if
left undisturbed. With false appeals to a
single group's "pride" in race and religion, these parasites easily strangle
weak minds. They entice men, and women,
to band together to support a lame cause disguised as a Brotherhood, an
assembly of Knights, or a National Association. This post was inspired by a piece of news
published in early December, 2013. A white
supremacist from the state of Louisiana in the USA has just been expelled from
Italy by a Venetian court after having lived for a year and a half in a town close
to Belluno, a city in Venice's Alps or the 
Dolomites. His excuse for being in Italy had to do with
book research, he claimed. Having already
been expelled from Switzerland and the Schengen Treaty states in 2009 for
publicly denying the Holocaust inside the Czech Republic, this man, whose
initials are DD, managed to sneak back into the EU via Malta. He gave a clerk at the Italian embassy in
Malta only his middle name, thus disguising his identity. The trick was discovered later. A police official in the city of Belluno told
a British tabloid, "We consider him a highly dangerous individual due to
his infamous racist theories." According
to one journalist, he had been going back and forth between Italy and Austria,
and also making incursions into Alto Adige, Italy's German-speaking region. Surely, he was doing more than researching. This bad actor, now in his early sixties, has
been the Grand Wizard of a notorious hate group, the Klan, founded at the end of
the American Civil War. Its 
members tortured
and killed blacks as well as compassionate whites in the defeated South. Since then, this same group has also turned
against immigrants, especially Southern European Catholics and Jews. Now they rail against Muslims, homosexuals
and liberals as well. The ex-Wizard has tried
several times without success to enter mainstream American politics. The Anti-Defamation League calls him
"America's most well-known racist and anti-Semite." The recent expulsion order issued by an
Italian court said that ". . . reliable and official sources have
indicated him as someone having the clear intention of creating in Europe an organization
which has as its objective the elimination of the black and Jewish races." Obviously, he's an incorrigible hatemonger. People who obsessively project their inner
demons onto others, in this case anyone who is not a straight, white, ultra-conservative
"Christian," are as hard to get rid of as bindweed. Their tenacious roots are easily propagated. Today there is a deep economic crisis in
Italy and in most other parts of Europe.
Too many young Italians are milling around without a proper education,
much less gainful employment. Poor
immigrants are pouring into Europe via Italy, many of them dark skinned non-Christians. The white supremacists of America have
already joined forces with Western European Neo-Nazis and corresponding hate groups
in Eastern Europe. They want to target
the new immigrants. The unemployed white
youth of Europe are potential members for their gangs. What can concerned onlookers do? How about not being complacent the next time
somebody makes a nasty remark based on racial stereotypes? Defending human rights in the place where we
live is an ongoing task, generation after generation. Let's not be indifferent to the bindweeds growing
under our noses. By way of example, I'll
conclude this post simply by suggesting that the next time someone makes an anti-Semitic
remark in front of us, especially if it's someone who claims to be a Christian,
let's at least have the presence of mind to remind them, for starters, that
Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew. There's
nothing as mind-opening as truth.
UN’AMERICANA A VENEZIA
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