Re: Not quite kosher

[kolnidre]

I recently read the book Postville, by Stephen G. Bloom. It goes pretty deeply into the Rubaskin family's scorn for gentile society and even the Jewish author's generally secular lifestyle. At the time the book was written Agriprocessors was mostly employing white Eastern Europeans among the non-Jews there, but in his afterword he touched upon the influx of Latin Americans at the plant. I'm not against immigration, but I am against exploitation of human beings and illegality. It seems to me that Agriprocessors tapped in to some kind of illegal immigration conveyor belt pouring exploited laborers straight in to the grinder. Investigation into this type of underground railroad would likely reveal quite a bit about who is running at least one of these operations. Somehow I don't think the "authorities'" investigations will go beyond the forgery of documents in Iowa, though.

Anyway, I predict Aaron and Shalom will flee to Israel before a trial ever gets underway. That's the whole purpose of that SLC in the first place, as an amnesty zone for criminality.

[kolnidre]

To follow up, here's a quote from Postville recounting the author's first conversation with Shalom Rubashkin:

We are the Chosen People. That's what the Bible says, even the Bible they read. We have stayed on this planet longer than anyone because we believe our way is the right way. You start slipping, making changes here and there, and then you have nothing. We live by our own rules here and they've (them being Postville locals) got to understand that!"

In some fashion I suspect the Lubavitchers have such tunnel vision that they aren't really cognisant of laws outside their own Mosaic laws and the dictates of "the Rebbe" (the wonderful gentile lover that he was).

I respect their desire to live their own way and preserve what they have. That's why the double standard of "multiculturalism," which tends to Balkanize society rather than harmonize it, gets so many people's goat when it's so highly promoted by people from the same community that in some cases refers to intermarriage and assimilation as "genocide" and "terrorism."

I recommend the book Postville so highly because it is so highly nuanced and, dare I say, balanced, and it's a colorful and entertaining read at the same time.

[high_treason]

I noticed more and more Jewish writers are talking about that, Israel Shahak 'Jewish history, Jewish religion' has a great deal of information regarding the talmud and the racism inherent in it.