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[David Harvey]

All these young fit men fleeing from persecution??

I seem to remember, during WW2 young fit men fleeing from Nazi persecution
from Poland, Belgium, France, Holland, Norway etc. and then joining the
armed forces to help fight the persecutors. I see no enthusiasm amongst
those fleeing "persecution" today to fight the good fight.

Dave


On 31 October 2010 18:14, FS <franka at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>  Hugh,
> We are not allowed to call our boat people illegal immigrants but rather
> asylum seekers, While I wouldn't like to see what happened to the Jewish
> people repeated, I do think most of them are economic migrants which again
> would be halfway expectable if it was family's with children who showed up
> instead of boatload after boatload of young fit men who don't like us any
> way.
> I'm sure Colin will be able to tell us about the Mexican situation
> frank
>
>
> On 10/31/2010 4:29 PM, HUGH wrote:
>
> Frank,
>
> I had already noticed that about "illegal immigrants".  In the US it's an
> anagram of "illegals", though I recall it used to be the phrase you quoted
> with Mexicans inserted ad lib.   Did they invade Mexico?  I can't recall
> that far back - maybe they did.
>
> While on anagrams, "twelve plus one" is an anagram of "eleven plus two".
> This comes of reading Colin Dexter's books about Inspector Morse.
>
> Hugh.
>
>
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