[John H K]

There were quite a few terrorist bombings around the turn of the century in the US, and the assassination of President McKinley (and other world leaders), done by Anarchists, and many of the anarchists were recent immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe...Poles, Italians, etc. or the sons of recent immigrants (like McKinley's assassin) who were flooding the country at the time, much to the dismay of WASP Protestants who felt it was flushing the country down the toilet.

There was one excellent article on the web (can't remember where) that pointed out how similar the turn of the century anarchist movement was to both Al Queda and the recent Anti-Globalist protests and such.

I'm descended from Slovak immigrants who were (thankfully) not anarchists. I wonder how many of the ten thousand or so FReepers spouting the "intern all the ragheads" nonsense are descended from Eastern and Southern Europeans.

[Clinton's a rapist]

So it appears that the suspicion and hostility towards unassimilated immigrants at that time was justified, and proved functional in their subsequent, successful assimilation into American society.

[Gumption]

I'm getting really sick of the same footage of house burning of FOX News. They should at least say "taped earlier" or something.

[dtom]

try this one?

Ashcroft Raid

[eno_]

I am descended from Eastern European refugees. I say deport all Arabs. Here's why that's not hypocrisy: Of the many millions of Easter European immigrants, only a tiny handful were Anarchist trouble-makers. MOST of the mosques in the U.S. are radical. At least 15% of Arabs in the U.S. support bin Laden. ZERO Arab organizations are actively campaigning against radicalism. MANY middle-class educated Arabs, such university professors, have become radicalized. This is a cultural and widespread phenomenon, not a handful of nuts. Cancel the visas and green cards of every Arab that does not look squeaky-clean, and monitor the ones that do.