Who are we? Really?

So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren't being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.

Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented. Some would even get
down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.

They had waved good-bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.

Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out. My father fought alongside men whose parents had come straight over from Germany, Italy, France and Japan. None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan. They were defending the United States of America as one people.

When we liberated France, no one in those villages were looking for the French-American or the German-American or the Irish-American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl.

And here we are with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I'm sorry, that's not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.

And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty, it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn't start talking about dismantling the United States just yet.

A Jewish Boycott

    A Jewish Boycott

A short time ago, Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khomenei urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with the Jewish people.

In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the
kindness of his heart, offered to assist them in their
boycott as follows:

"Any Muslim who has Syphilis must not be cured by
Salvarsan discovered by a Jew, Dr. Ehrlich.  He should
not even try to find out whether he has Syphilis, because
the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew.  If a
Muslim suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek
diagnosis, because he will be using the method of a Jew
named Neissner.

"A Muslim who has heart disease must not use Digitalis,
a discovery by a Jew, Ludwig Traube.

Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use
Novocaine, a discovery of the Jews, Widal and Weil.

If a Muslim has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the
result of research by Minkowsky, a Jew.  If one has a
headache, he must shun Pyramidon and Antypyrin, due to the
Jews, Spiro and Ellege.

Muslims with convulsions must put up with them because it
was a Jew, Oscar Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral
Hydrate.

Arabs must do likewise with their psychic ailments because
Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew.

Should a Muslim child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from
the “Schick" reaction which was invented by the Jew,
Bella Schick.

"Muslims should be ready to die in great numbers and
must not permit treatment of ear and brain damage, work of
Jewish Nobel Prize winner, Robert Baram.

They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile
Paralysis because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine
is a Jew, Jonas Salk.

"Muslims must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue
to die of Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman,
invented the wonder drug against this killing disease.

Muslim doctors must discard all discoveries and improvements
by dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung
specialist, Frawnkel, and of many other world renowned
Jewish scientists and medical experts.

"In short, good and loyal Muslims properly and
fittingly should remain afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea,
Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus, Diabetes, Mental
Disorders, Polio Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be proud
to obey the Islamic boycott."

Oh, and by the way, don't call for a doctor on your cell
phone because the cell phone was invented in Israel by a
Jewish engineer.

Meanwhile I ask, what medical contributions to the world
have the Muslims made?"

The Global Islamic population is approximately
1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or
20% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1990 - Elias James Corey
1994 - Yaser Arafat:
1999 - Ahmed Zewai

Economics:
(zero)

Physics:
(zero)

Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad

TOTAL: 7 SEVEN

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000;
that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's
population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis
1996- Lu RoseIacovino

TOTAL: 129!

The Jews are NOT promoting brainwashing children in military
training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and
cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims.

The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the
Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants.

There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church.

There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing
people.  The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have
leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.

Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing
more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for
all their problems.

Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind'
before they demand that humankind respects them.

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel
and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe
there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the
following two sentences really say it all:

'If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would
be no more violence.  If the Jews put down their
weapons today, there would be no more Israel."

Benjamin Netanyahu:  General Eisenhower warned
us.  It is a matter of history that when the Supreme
Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower,
found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible
photographs to be taken, and for the German people from
surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and
even made to bury the dead.

He did this because he said in words to this effect:
'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the
witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some
bastard will get up and say that this never happened'

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust
from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the
Muslim population which claims it never occurred.

It is not removed as yet.  However, this is a
frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world
and how easily each country is giving into it.

It is now more than 65 years after the Second World War in
Europe ended.

Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the
Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make
sure the world never forgets.

This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people.
Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this
around the world.

How many years will it be before the attack on the World
Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends
some Muslim in the United States ?