{"id":55084,"date":"2015-09-09T12:03:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55084"},"modified":"2015-09-09T12:03:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:03:05","slug":"wages-of-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55084","title":{"rendered":"Wages Of Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of elderly Holocaust survivors assaulted<\/a> in a genuine hate crime in the Netherlands:<\/p>\n

Samuel (87) and Diana (86) Blug, two elderly Holocaust<\/span> survivors, fell\u00a0victim to\u00a0a vicious and violent anti-Semitic attack at their home in Holland\u00a0a month ago.<\/p>\n

According to a\u00a0Yedioth Ahronoth<\/em>\u00a0report<\/span> on Sunday, the couple were only able to come forward now and recount what happened to them.<\/p>\n

The Blugs say two men, who looked to be of Moroccan descent, knocked on the door to their apartment, claiming to be the police and demanding entrance.<\/p>\n

As soon as Samuel opened the door, the nightmare began. Two men dressed in black<\/span> barged into the apartment and started severely beating the couple.<\/p>\n

The assailants threw the couple on the floor, kicked them repeatedly and shouted: “Dirty Jews – from now on your property is ours.”<\/p>\n

After tying up the badly injured couple, the thieves ripped Diana’s jewelry off her body. At gunpoint, they forced the couple to tell them where the rest of the valuables in the apartment were located.<\/p>\n

Samuel was blinded in the assault and suffered a broken femur. Both he and Diana, who were living independently before the attack, are now confined<\/span> to wheelchairs at a rehabilitation center in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

“Those bastards have destroyed our lives,” Samuel said in tears to Yedioth Ahronoth<\/em>. “I have severe pain. I’m completely broken inside,” Diana added.<\/p>\n

Emmanuel, the couple’s son, has offered a prize of ten thousand euros to anyone who can provide information that will lead to the arrest of the assailants.<\/p>\n

He also circulated pictures<\/span> of the beaten Diana and Samuel, urging “the world to see what they did to my parents.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Americans are a nation of migrants and, in many cases, refugees. \u00a0We tend to be the most generous nation on earth. \u00a0Most of us – and I include myself – would\u00a0love\u00a0<\/em>to be able to help the refugees.<\/p>\n

But the stories coming from Eastern and Central Europe are in all too many cases\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>the stories of people coming to free lands for fresh starts.<\/p>\n

And before anyone says it – yep. \u00a0American natives have said the same thing about pretty much every wave of immigration i American history. \u00a0And they’ve been right, to an extent; each wave of immigration changed this country.<\/p>\n

And it’s not as if every wave of immigrants came here with clean hands and no grudges; Scots and Irish came here with bones to pick with the Brits; French and Germans came here fresh from innumerable European battlefields; Russians, Poles and Jews\u00a0–\u00a0the pogrom thrower and the pogrom victim – all came here, as did the Armenians and the Turks. \u00a0And somehow, after a generation or two, most of them pretty well fit in as Americans, and buried their squalid ancestral squabbles and hatreds, and got down to work.<\/p>\n

The difference is, every previous wave of immigrants has<\/em>, inside a generation of two, assimilated to American life.<\/p>\n

But at the same time as our government has officially switched from emphasizing assimilation in favor of integration – they’re very different things – we are faced with a wave of refugees that, as their numbers crept well out of the 1-2% range in Europe, have shown no desire to assimilate, and who seek integration on their own terms, making their neighborhoods in London and Stockholm and Paris and Hamburg effectively off-limits to the rest of society.<\/p>\n

All of them? \u00a0Certainly not. \u00a0But enough of them to where “assimilation” looks like a dim prospect, ever.<\/p>\n

And with that in mind, I think it’d be just an outstanding idea if Minnesota’s congressional delegation slowly stepped back and thought for a moment; are they being compassionate, or giving into irrational, PC exuberance<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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A couple of elderly Holocaust survivors assaulted in a genuine hate crime in the Netherlands: Samuel (87) and Diana (86) Blug, two elderly Holocaust survivors, fell\u00a0victim to\u00a0a vicious and violent anti-Semitic attack at their home in Holland\u00a0a month ago. According to a\u00a0Yedioth Ahronoth\u00a0report on Sunday, the couple were only able to come forward now and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18,9,73,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-pc","category-war-on-terror","category-western-civilization","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55086,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55084\/revisions\/55086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}