The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

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Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, November 10 2014, 16:21:43 (UTC)
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"Seeking to win asylum for clients, DeKelaita used false applicant names, religions, dates of entry into the U.S., birthdays and family histories and wrote up phony accounts of rape, murder and other religious persecution at the hands of Islamic extremists in Iraq, prosecutors said."

... this is delicate stuff. No doubt things were and are horrible for his clients (and everyone else) in Iraq...but whose fault is that....Iraq's or the United States? It turns out that while as noble-sounding as it is that Robert was trying to "save" his Christians, what he was really saving them from were the results of actions of his own adopted country and NOT of the Iraqi people, or even "extremists".

...I could support lying and cheating if it indeed saved innocent people even though it might be technically illegal...after all, the entire war was illegal so let us not strike a moral pose this late in the game...but, Robert further harmed Iraq by slandering its people as a cynical means of gaining pity and entry as well....these lies we spread, like Robert's and Bet-Solomon's, do the Iraqi people great harm...as they always have; they lead the world to believe the worst of the Iraqi people and then DO the worst to them believing they are justified because Iraqis are "so bad".

A noble-sounding act, even though illegal, becomes cheap and tawdry manipulation...yet another whine.

...the good to come from this is that we have more actual evidence (not opinion) that our people spread lies about Iraqis and Muslims. If Robert's false claims had been true, he and his clients would have been home safe...but they weren't and because they weren't, because such claims AREN'T true and can't be believably manufactured, Robert got caught...and that he was burned by fellow Assyrians is the cherry to his cake.

We do this to each other all the time....and we'd do a lot worse if we had our own country.

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DeKeliata Indictment... pancho - Friday, November 7 2014, 17:50:52 (UTC)
- Chicago Tribune... pancho - 11/10 16:21

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