First came the Crusades between 1095 and 1291 against the Muslims in their territories in and around the Holy Lands.

Then came the kidnapping of Africans to start the slave trade. It slowly expanded to the new American colonies. In the United States, the African slaves were held against their will in concentration camps called plantations. They were worked, whipped, killed, beaten, raped and treated like subhumans.

Then came the native Americans who had lived on the land in the United States for centuries. They were finally defeated after the Civil War, which was fought over slavery. They were moved to concentration camps called reservations. The reservations consisted of arid, non-game land, and the native Americans led subsistence lives depending upon the government for their welfare, much as it is today.

Next, were the Japanese immigrants and their children born in America, Japanese American citizens. Those on the West Coast after Pearl Harbor were detained and shipped to tarpaper buildings in concentration camps called “relocation centers.” They were surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by American soldiers and machine gun towers. The vast majority of the Japanese Americans on the East Coast were not detained. When we needed more soldiers, we recruited the Japanese American citizens into the armed forces and sent them to fight for the country that had their families in concentration camps. The first generation German and Italians were not treated like the Japanese Americans. The Germans were white and the Italians were close enough. We even brought German POW’s here to work on farms and they were treated better than the Japanese American citizens in the “relocation centers.”

The Nazis did this, and more. They found groups of people that the majority of the non-thinking populace could hate and then went after them - the gypsies, Romanians, mentally disturbed, disabled, the educated, the professors, and the Jews. They were herded into cattle cars and taken to concentration/extermination/work camps where millions were murdered or worked to death.

At this point in our history, blacks are still mistreated, but the politicians need their votes. The murders by the ICE assassins of Americans were not worth any quota of Hispanics deported. Our politicians have made Hispanic immigration an issue over the last several years, and we have the foot soldiers of ICE, armed, their faces hidden by masks, in black or camouflaged uniforms without name tags, taking Hispanic immigrants - men, women and children - and putting them in cages without due process and deporting them to prisons in and out of the United States. Some will say that is what immigrants who have no criminal record and are doing well in school or who work every day, deserve. No one has any quarrel with prosecuting or deporting members of drug cartels, felons, or dangerous individuals prone to criminal activity. But, when you look around, who are the hardest working people you see? Hispanic men, women and children, who are not criminals, who seek a better life and education for their children and who want a clear path to citizenship.

So, to take the media away from the destruction of the West Wing, the ballroom, the Epstein files, and Minneapolis, we have clandestinely attacked, without Congressional approval, Iran with the Israelis, just like the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor. Those in power in Washington are thinking what General Yamamoto was thinking after Pearl Harbor: “We have awakened a sleeping giant.”

There is a pattern here. Domination or attempted domination by white nationalists of darker skinned peoples who they demonize. The attack on Iran by those in power in the US and by the IDF is just an extension of the genocide of the Palestinians and Lebanese. EXCEPT...Iran has the capacity, the will, a well-educated population, and the resources to resist our aggression. In fact, they now control the world economy.

 

- David O. Smith