What could possibly connect - the French, the Jews, automobiles, and the Obama administration?
Does make you wonder.
The Jews of France were required to register with their local police departments that they were in fact Jews, their addresses, names of all members of their families, and incurred restrictions on owning property and practising in certain professions. Their stores and businesses were required to be marked as being owned by Jews. By 1942, Jews were required to wear the yellow Star of David. Some Jews lost btheir citizenship if they were more recent immigrants, along with the children who may have been born in France. The French were actually quite helpful. Before the Nazis invaded France, the French decided they would help their Jewish friends by rounding them up and sending them to one of a couple concentration camps near the border of Spain until such a time as the German government might wish to exterminate them. It was easy - they had already provided all the details when they registered. The Milice would help ensure Jewish compliance, and inevitably deportation to a very bad place.
The French Jewish population was about 350,000. Of these, 65,000-76,000 were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau and Treblinka. Approximately 1 in every 7 Jews. More than 4000 were sent to Sobibor in Poland - an extermination camp. Of all those sent to that most evil of places, 2 were alive at the end of the war.
It begins with simple requests to provide details, then defining who and what you are with identification, then it becomes much worse - the potential is there for much worse.
Always for the greater good. We will round you up to protect you. We are rounding up your neighbors to protect them. We are doing this for your good. And each 'good' received has a payback at some point. If we put a speed lock on vehicles to prevent them from going over 80, think how much safer we would all be. At 80 mph, the gas to the engine would cut until the car moved back into the 70-75 mph range, and if the vehicle did this three times, the gas would shut off completely. Think how many lives we would save - all those stuck gas pedals would not cause as much damage.
The good.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief David Strickland told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the regulator is considering whether to make "black boxes" mandatory for all new vehicles.
The devices can capture data on speed, braking effort and other details which can be vital in reconstructing accidents.
Reuters, March 12, 2010.
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