{"id":79765,"date":"2016-10-12T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/fascist-america\/"},"modified":"2016-10-12T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:35:00","slug":"fascist-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/fascist-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascist America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fascist America<\/strong>
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\nImage by Walt Jabsco<\/a><\/i>
\nThousands of U.S. troops made the ultimate sacrifice during WWII to help defeat a fascist scourge that cruelly forced Europeans of other than Aryan origin to wear special markings and carry identifying papers.<\/p>\n

More recently, an incensed global community assisted Nelson Mandela and his courageous freedom fighters in abolishing a despised apartheid system infamous for the \u201cpass books\u201d that South African blacks always had to have in their possession.<\/p>\n

Now, via the signature of Arizona\u2019s Republican governor, police in that state, where children continue to recite a flag pledge that ends with \u201cwith liberty and justice for all,\u201d will have the totalitarian authority to profile Hispanics or \u201cforeign-looking\u201d people, and demand to see their documentation, at arbitrary whim.<\/p>\n

As a 13-year-old Latino citizen from Phoenix told the Associated Press, \u201cIt\u2019s going to change our lives. We can\u2019t walk to school anymore. We can\u2019t be in the streets without the pigs thinking we\u2019re illegal immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

The measure means that countless brown-skinned souls will be politically, legally and economically discriminated against, and effectively segregated.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, this profoundly unconstitutional lurch toward tyranny will not be protested, in the least, by white Tea Party types who show up at rallies with holstered handguns and huge placards declaring \u201cDon\u2019t tread on me!\u201d<\/p>\n

Their only concern is the demented belief that freedom\u2019s erosion in this nation comes from a duly-elected President they crazily see as being either a Kenyan by birth, a Muslim, a Marxist, or the anti-christ.<\/p>\n

Stewing in unacknowledged racism, their prejudice poisonously flood the immigration issue. Totally absent from their understanding is this pivotal truth:<\/p>\n

Nearly 200 million people work outside their countries of birth, and an equal number are migrants inside their own countries. Nativists blame immigrants for flat wages, scarce jobs, and our declining labor movement. However, the responsibility lies with corporations that launched an all-out assault on wages and unions in the 1970s \u2014 well before today\u2019s wave of migration began\u2026The IMF and World Bank reproduced this scenario around the world, driving down wages and worker rights in at least 90 countries under IMF \u2019structural adjustment programs.\u2019 Immigrants aren\u2019t destroying the \u2018blue collar middle class,\u2019 corporations are. \u2014 Center for Labor Renewal Statement on Worker Migration<\/p>\n

It\u2019s in every wage-earning American\u2019s best bread-and-butter interest to make common cause with all minorities to gain the pivotal strength that, alone, will give us the united power to curb monopolies, bust trusts, and end divisive hatreds so useful to those who constantly plunder Main Street to lavish Wall Street.<\/p>\n

Terrorizing darker-skinned folks whose worst \u201ccrime\u201d might be fleeing the poverty that global economic injustice perpetuates in their places of birth \u2014 to find a dubiously better life toiling from sun to sun in dusty Southwestern farm fields \u2014 is entirely wrong, and ultimately self-defeating.<\/p>\n

It was Jesus who said, \u201cAs you do unto the least of these, so too you do unto me.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it was Martin Luther King who echoed an age-old axiom that liberty denied to some places chains around us all.<\/p>\n

Absolute clarity, and coordinated protest, are now urgently required to reverse this alarming move that comprises the most shameful, dangerous assault on our national freedom since Japanese Americans were interned in concentration camps many decades ago.<\/p>\n

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