Holocaust survivor gets standing ovation after taking on ICE director and sheriff at public meeting

[kpete]

Link to tweet

Here is a transcript of his remarks:

Thank you for the forum that you have here tonight.

When I was a little boy in Poland, for no other reason but for being Jewish, I was hauled off by the Nazis. And for no other reason I was picked up and separated from my family, who was exterminated in Auschwitz. And I am a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau.

I spent five and a half years in concentration camps, for one reason and one reason only—because we picked on people, and you as the sheriff, who we elected as sheriff of this county—we did not elect you for sheriff of Washington, D.C. It’s about time you side with the people here. And when this gentleman [acting ICE Director Thomas Homan] stands up there and says he doesn’t go after people, he should read today’s Bee. Because in today’s Bee, the Supreme Court Justice of California objected to ICE coming in and taking people away from the courts. Don’t tell me that this is a lie.

You stand up here Mr. Jones. Don’t forget—history is not on your side.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/03/28/holocaust-survivor-has-strong-words-for-ice-director-sheriff-at-immigration-forum/
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/29/1648316/-Holocaust-survivor-gets-standing-ovation-after-taking-on-ICE-director-and-sheriff-at-public-meeting

[chillfactor]

1. What a brave man!

Bless him!

[George II]

2. Makes you want to cry, for a couple of reasons:

1 - Getting up and taking on his "government" like that after what he's been through is unbelievable

2 - Having his decades old memories revived because of what his new government is doing to people for no other reason that they're "different.

He said "don't forget", he could just as well have said "never forget".

[Behind the Aegis]

3. K/R

Good for him putting things into perspective, though it will undoubtedly go over many a head.