Posted by Ginger (209.214.91.174) on April 28, 2000 at 12:20:39:
In Reply to: Melvin Sembler and the ACLU posted by Wesley on April 28, 2000 at 09:35:05:
: Eleanor Randolph writing for New Times in 1974 wrote that the ACLU was investigating The Seed for the possibility of invasion of privacy"a youngster's private right to grow up in painful fits and starts." So I know that Mr. Sembler's disdain for the ACLU is deeper than just the Atlanta cut, and if he wants to make that his Red Badge of Courage, so be it. But since Mr. Sembler is Jewish and since Walter Loebenberg, who was Straight's former President is also a Jew, and since the two are on Tampa Bay's Holocaust Foundation, and since, I believe, there is a highway named after Joseph Zappala in Israel, then with all these sinces's, I wonder if Mr. Sembler also makes light of the Anti Defamation League's efforts to protect the civil rights and human dignities of Jewish boys and girls.
: Wesley
And therin lies the rub. There's a faction of the Jewish community in Miami who are flying Israli flags and protesting by the sides of their Cuban neighbors. There's another faction that is voicing outrage over US Federal agents being referred to as Gastapo because, they say, it trivializes the real suffering of the Jews in Nazi Germany. What they seem to be missing is that Naziism didn't take Germany in one day. It started sometime, somewhere and progressed. This is how we do it.