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To: Michael M who wrote (911)	3/22/2001 4:11:07 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Re: Just curious -- do you favor barring all Jews from sensitive national security posts? Nope. I think that Jews, just like any other minority, participate in a power quest game within the US body politic.... However, I favor a check-and-balance of sorts whereby other interest groups/minorities advance their own agendas. Actually, I see this whole power struggle involving WASPs, Jews, Blacks, Latinos, Chinese, etc. as a sociopolitical kriegspiel, that is, as a game that's open to ALL participants. Therefore my reasoning doesn't call for terminating one of the players --whereas anti-Semites and racists do. For instance, Europe's neofascists don't want their political gameboard open to "alien" players (such as Jews, Africans, Muslims and the like). Hence their tactics boils down to ELIMINATING some (would-be) players. I for one am ready to "play" with everybody... we're all political players, yet, I don't want to lose and get kicked out of the game after round #1.... Gus.

To: Michael M who wrote (911)	3/22/2001 4:59:23 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Footnote.... TIME EUROPE October 30, 2000, Vol. 156 No. 18 Defender of the Faith Bologna's controversial Cardinal Biffi says Italy should favor Catholic over Muslim immigrants By GREG BURKE Rome If opposites attract, then it makes perfect sense that Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, one of the most conservative members of the Italian Catholic hierarchy, should be based in Bologna, traditionally a leftist stronghold in northern Italy. The iconoclastic Archbishop has been accused of a host of sins by his secular critics. They say he's intransigent, sexist and living in the past. His latest cause célèbre, a suggestion that the government's immigration policy should favor Catholics over Muslims, drew criticism from church and lay leaders alike. But Biffi thrives on conflict. He even repeated his proposal at a conference on immigration last month, charging that "the vast majority of Muslims come here intent on remaining outside our humanity as well as the most essential and non-negotiable aspects of our secular identity." [snip] time.com Well, I guess it's time for us to sort out the Cardinals who'll elect Mgr J-M Lustiger as the next Pope.... Italy's Biffi and Belgium's Léonard (archbishop of Namur) come first, your picks?