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Date:   Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:51:26 -0400
Reply-To:   "Cooper, Jonathan R." <cooper@MBQ.COM>
Sender:   Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:   "Cooper, Jonathan R." <cooper@MBQ.COM>
Subject:   Re: Shoddy German Workmanship / Racism (No VW content)
Comments:   To: The Bus Depot <ron@NETCARRIER.COM>
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Hear Hear! Let us hope that Arkaday is not glorifying a mass murderer and the modern father of ethnic cleansing (as shaking off the shackles of Versailles)and that he is not trying to rewrite history and deny that the holocost didn't happen. His comments otherwise would tend to demonstrate that he is saner and more intelligent than that

-----Original Message----- From: The Bus Depot [mailto:ron@NETCARRIER.COM] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 11:26 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Shoddy German Workmanship / Racism (No VW content)

Arkady Mervis wrote:

> Germany became a nation of selfmasochists ready to apologize for what happened > and mostly of what never happened at all, and kiss the ass of any jerk. > The young generation still pays billions to millions of "survivors" and > will never follow the examle of Adolf Hitler when he threw away > the Versailles Treaty shackles. > The workforce is demoralized, drinking in workplace is rampant, workers > speak all kind of languages.... > The fathers - the bearers of traditions and soldiers, the grandfathers, > all lay in graves disgraced and hated by brainwashed sons and daughters... > While German carries his groceries in a small bag - > the Turks push carts. The guests shit and piss in the streets.

As a decendant of Austrian Jews, some of whom died horribly in concentration camps that "never happened at all" in the hands of some of those "bearers of traditions and soldiers," and have been replaced in the factories by foreigners who "shit and piss in the streets", I'd suggest that there is another side to this issue. Comments like these fill me with deeply-felt anger, great sadness, and fear. There is an active KKK group in this part of Pennsylvania that hands out brochures that read almost *exactly* like the above paragraph. The group has a youth contingent in the local public schools. Some things never change. There are so many things I want to say. But this is a list about Vanagons and I will hold my tongue. I just couldn't let something like this go without saying anything at all.

- Ron Salmon The Bus Depot http://www.busdepot.com

p.s. To learn more about combatting racial hatred in America, see http://www.splcenter.org. The Bus Depot, Inc. donates a portion of its profits to this organization anually.


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