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That is one of the most poignant sayings I have ever heard.
I see in my mind those poor people being rounded up and killed.
In England prior to WW2 my father was a stained glass artist. One of his main supliers was Berger glass in Germany and later Poland. During the 30's when the Nazis were implementing that policy they would deny assorted jobs and contracts for services in the government to Jews, Gypsies and other groups. Soon berger lost sales for glass due to this and he sold out cheap and left before the war and settled in Poland and carried on from there. During the war they escaped and abandoned everything except portable valuables and came to England as DPs(displaced persons). My father was away in Burma and the Bergers had 2 young children and their parents(6). They moved in with us and Mr Berger tried to establish his business. It was slow as stained glass was in short supply and it was unimportant to the war effort so the glass companies did not even make it. So Berger used broken bottle glass of assorted colors, melted and poured, the old way to make antique cathedral glass./ He then used powdered glass from broken neon signs of assorted colors (and powdered oxides) which he broke and powdered and painted on the glass as the "stain". This was then fired in the furnace and the colored glass melted to the bottle glass and made the artists patterns of saints etc. During the bombing huge amounts of glass was broken and most church windows were broken and the spaces boarded up. Some of those windows were remade from photos in our living room, it was the only way the bergers could eat as food was rationed and expensive so that money bought black market food from farmers to feed them. When a bomb falls and destroys 1 house it breaks a 1000 windows for a half mile around
We were eventually bombed out and the house destroyed and we moved to our country house until 1946. So from 1940 until 1946 I was brought up in a Jewish house hold and actually spoke yiddish as a child as the Berger family did and they were all there talking and I soaked it up.
To this day 50% of my friends and associates are Jewish as I am naturally friendly and no racist. In Canada in 1948(when we moved out) it was a racist society and jews were excluded from brokerages and banking by the wasp establichment. Eventually it changed.
Now it is normal on the surface, but still hidden bias exists in some areas.
So I am sensistive to Charters when he comes out with racist stuff and I chastise him whenever I see it from him, and I will not suffer it from others either.
At the same time I see value in what Charters says, as it is of value to the small investor against the internet fraud groups. the last thing the IPM/MAXAM/NAXOS/Winspear promoters want is Charters asking hard questions. they may or may not be frauds, but they must be accountable, and embarrassing questions will stop a false runup. Charters has a rare breadth of experience and if he can be controlled is an asset to SI. So ask the King of SI to give Charters back his head. the trouble is he has done this three times before, and then relapsed into his old ways. What SI needs is a graduated punishment scale. 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, etc each time you add a week, so Charters would be off for four weeks this time. Next time 5 weeks. He will learn.
Bill
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