[fabsroman]

Billy, like Val, I am sorry to hear about your eye and I don't mean to piss you off or hurt your feelings, but I am the kind of person to write/speak my mind. I don't consider myself racist or prejudiced. I have black friends, asian friends, Jewish friends, Christian friends, Arab friends, etc. Of course, I do not hang out with a lot of those friends on an on going basis because of my work and my hobbies. Those two things keep me pretty busy. Heck, I don't hang out with a lot of people at all unless they are clients.

I did know about Christ being the king of the jews. If I am not mistaken, Pilot asked him about it and he never denied it. If I am not mistaken, the Jews were the ones asking Pilot to punish/crucify Christ because he claimed to be the king of the jews. So, I don't put all the blame in Pilot's hands. Am I correct that the Jews were the ones that asked Pilot to kill Christ?

Anyway, that is enough of religious history. I am at the point where I don't think previous actions/atrocities against any race/religion justify anything that we are going now. So what, the blacks were enslaved over 100 years ago. Does that mean they should get preferntial treatment over me? My parents weren't even here then and they had nothing to do with it. Is it fair that a friend of mine with the same GPA and LSAT score got into Cornell and I could not? Is it fair that this same guy's parents were actually foreigners that came to the US, his dad was a CPA while my dad was a construction worker, and this kid was allowed the advantage of affirmative action.

For the same reason, I could care less about previous things that happened to the Jews to justify what they are doing today. Yeah, they had a tough time in World War II, but so did others. They had a tough time throughout history at certain points, but so have others. I am sure that the Arabs lost plenty of people during the Crusades. As I posted above, there were many other people killed in World War II other than just Jews. I think one of the reasons that Hitler kept Jews in camps instead of killing them right out is because he was using them to create certain things for him. Did you know that Hitler had a bunch of Jews working on creating counterfeit money from all the Allies, which the Jews did for him, and if the war had continued on for a while he would have been able to use that counterfeit money to obtain things and cause huge inflation in the Allied countries. I believe the Jews also helped him with other things related to the war, but the specifics escape my memory right now. Granted, the Jews did this not because they wanted to, but because their life depended on it. So, by helping the Nazi's with this stuff, how many American lives were lost. Luckily, the war turned out the way it did, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation.

At the end of the day, I just do not want to hear that the Jews can do whatever they want just because of the previous atrocities that they have endured. Every race/religion has endured something or another over the years, so if we all employed that thinking we could all do whatever we wanted.

Okay, I am going to get back to the Tour de France.