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To: John Lacelle who wrote (15066)	10/25/1999 12:50:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Hi John, Do you belong to that crazy mob of Southern paranoids who're expecting a UN-led invasion of the USA any day?? As far as Swiss elections are concerned, it was never an issue of "surrendering Swizterland's sovereignty to the UN"!! BTW, Swizterland already hosts several UN facilities.... Even within the European Union, member countries do keep the upper hand over sensitive matters such as immigration, residency/work permits, voting rights (in general, municipal,.... elections), access to public posts (EU countries may restrict police/military jobs to nationals only). In Belgium, for instance, even other EU citizens are denied the right to vote in Belgium's general poll because the Flemish bourgeoisie fears that allowing fellow EU residents in belgium to vote would tip the 'linguistic balance' in froggie parties's favour.... Besides, I think that, back in the 1930s, the US was a favorite destination for most deprived Italians, Poles, and other Germans who sought their fortune abroad. At that time, the US didn't fear to become a 'refugee swamp'. Actually, this whole far-right issue is more nasty than one might think at first sight: John, you're dealing with countries as if they could be managed like gated communities! It may be OK for a bunch of wealthy American retirees to fence themselves off in several of these golden cities --granted with their own internal rules-- that have mushroomed all over the most gorgeous estates but such a mirador-based isolation just does not fit the political decency that is expected from most democratic countries. It's impossible to circle the whole of Europe with high-voltage barbed wire fences. True, there're gonna be a lot more civil wars in the years ahead.... However, I don't think that Europe was confronted to massive arrivals of Indonesians or East-Timoreses, for example. Yet, Europe does have a geopolitical responsibility when it comes to her immediate environs --such as the Balkans. The fact is that Europe still nurture a 'colonial' relationship with most of her underdeveloped Hinterland --especially in Northern/subsaharan Africa. But then the issue for Europe is either to allow African (and Central European) countries to participate in a genuine, lasting economic development --preventing their destitute populace to seek fortune in fortress Europe-- or to keep them in the current vicious circle of underdevelopment AND allowing a fraction of their idle workforce to jump ship.... towards Europe. Gus.

To: John Lacelle who wrote (15066)	10/26/1999 5:48:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

The browning of America.... a whole'nother greaseball game indeed! "Mutt" America, The Religio-Racist Right, and Genocide in the Balkans Michael Sells July 8, 1999 In Illinois and Indiana, a racist goes on a terror spree, shooting blacks, Jews, and Asians in a declared effort to free White, Christian America from the "mud people" (non-white, non-Christian peoples). In Kosovo, peacekeepers are coming across the horror of the wells: wells in which the bodies of Kosovar Albanian women and girls, who had been held, raped for days or weeks, and tortured by Serb police and paramilitaries, had been thrown. In some cases, forensics experts have shown that the victims were alive when then were thrown into the wells and either drowned or were killed after grenades were thrown in on top of them. The numbers of atrocity sites in Kosovo run into many hundreds, perhaps thousands, and the war-crimes investigators can only selectively choose certain sites. This is the continuation of a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" that began in 1992 in Bosnia and lasted in that country for three years. In the areas controlled by the Serbian army every mosque and every trace of Bosnian Muslim civilization was eradicated, including hundreds of mosques and monuments and manuscripts dating to the 15th and 16th century and recognized as masterworks of southeast european architecture and heritage. Those responsible for such atrocities have ingested one of the most virulent forms of racial and religious bigotry I have ever investigated, an ideology that equates both Bosnian Muslims and Kosovar Albanians with Christ-killers, race-traitors, and genetic deformation. I have spent years studying this this ideology of ethnic and religious extermination and how it is based on the manipulation of the mythology of Kosovo /1/. While anyone with a sense of humanity understands that these two incidents, in Kosovo and in the American mid-west, are intimately related, and that any murder of a person out of ethnic or religious bigotry is a murder of all humanity, the ties between U.S. racist and Christianist groups (those that believe the U.S. is by nature and must always remain a Christian state) and the Belgrade proponents of "ethnic cleansing" are now become increasingly strong. In the U.S., supporters of Serb nationalist "ethnic cleansers" are writing that the effort to liberate White, Christian America from the the "browning of America" are like the effort of a courageous Christian Serb nation to liberate itself from the bastarization brought by Albanian Muslims. [...] haverford.edu