To: tejek who wrote (276058 ) 2/23/2006 4:43:14 AM From: GUSTAVE JAEGER Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578131 Re: As for why it may not be such a great idea has to do with the fact that the UAE company is state owned and relations between the US and the Muslim world are not at an all time high. Whether that will impact the management of the ports, I don't know, but its something that needs to be considered. Indeed. Time for the US House and Senate to pass an Aryanization Act as a long overdue follow-up to the Patriot Act. Below is a historical prequel that might prove a useful guide to help US Congressmen draft their own Aryanization laws --just replace "Jew" with "Muslim" and "Nazi Germany" with "Judeofascist America":Aryanization (Arisierung ), the transfer of Jewish-owned businesses to German ownership throughout Germany and German-occupied countries. The Aryanization process included two stages: from 1933–1938 the Jews were gradually removed from German economic life, termed by the Nazis as "voluntary" exclusion; after 1938, Jewish businesses and property were forcibly confiscated by the Nazis. Before the Nazis rose to power in January 1933, Jews owned 100,000 businesses in Germany, including stores, factories, publishing houses, newspapers, and private professional practices. Soon after taking over the German government, the Nazis imposed unofficial economic boycotts on the Jews (...). They first targeted stores and then the professions. The Nazis tried to intimidate Jews into selling their businesses by publishing advertisements that denounced Germans who bought from Jews. Uniformed guards were posted outside Jewish businesses to harass customers, and public institutions were forbidden to patronize them. Thus, Jewish businesses either went under, or were forced into being sold for a fraction of their value. Of the 50,000 Jewish-owned stores that existed in 1933, only 9,000 remained in 1938. Aryanization was organized by government economic counselors within each district in order to ensure that the best businesses were given to longstanding Nazi Party members. In some cases, Jewish business owners were jailed until they agreed to give up their ownership; in others, the government just confiscated the businesses. After the 1936 Olympics Aryanization was intensified. During the summer of 1938 Jewish professionals were banned from their jobs. After the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938, the Nazis legalized forced Aryanization—allowing the forcible confiscation of Jewish property. The German Jewish community had to pay a fine of one billion reichsmarks for the damage inflicted upon them during the pogrom. Jewish businesses not yet sold were put under government trusteeship, and Jews were forced to register all their property with the Nazis. Their money was put into blocked accounts from which they could only draw small amounts each month. Jews who emigrated had to leave most of their valuables behind. Those Jews deported to Theresienstadt had to sign away their property. Eventually, all Jewish money and property was confiscated by the Nazis and used to finance the deportation of the Jews.www1.yadvashem.org THE NUREMBERG LAWSBen S. Austin The Congress of the National Socialist Workers' Party (NAZI) convened in Nuremburg, Germany on September 10, 1935. Among the many items of business on the Nazi agenda was the passage of a series of laws designed (a) to clarify the requirements of citizenship in the Third Reich, (b) to assure the purity of German blood and German honor and (b) to clarify the position of Jews in the Reich. These three laws, passed on September 15, 1935, and the numerous auxillary laws which followed them are called the Nuremberg Laws . They are reprinted here in their entirety. Please take special note of the similarity between these laws and the Jim Crow Laws which were passed in the United States following the Compromise of 1877, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy vs Ferguson (1896) and remained in effect until the court reversed the "separate but equal" doctrine in Brown vs the Board of Education of Topeka (1954). It is clear that Hitler used the Jim Crow segregation statutes as his model for defining Jews in the Third Reich.mtsu.edu From Jim Crow to Nuremberg and back! The feedback loop between American racism and German Nazism is truly fascinating, isn't it?