Tuesday, May 4, 2010

New Arizona Immigration Law

Interesting.
"Sinclair Lewis aptly predicted in It Can't Happen Here that if fascism came to America it would come wrapped in the flag and whistling The Star Spangled Banner."    Harrison Evans Salisbury
Full text:
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf
The comparison to the Nuremberg Laws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws by its opponents is hyperbole. But it is in their "spirit".
Nativism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism_(politics)
Producerism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Producerism
It will be interesting to see if the producerist view turns into our own version of  fascism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism or not.
Oh yah, online copy of Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here (1935)
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301001h.html 
Not to be confused with the Frank Zappa song of the same name.
 "...Who could imagine
That they would freak out in the suburbs!

(No no no no no no no no no no)
Man you guys are really safe
(Everything's cool)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
And they thought it couldn't happen here
(duh duh duh)..."

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