> Although dated, this story is still relevant to the hatred of
> international
> marriages by a xenophobic and paranoid Bush government.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> American NAZIs Interfere with Marriages Between US Citizens and Alien
> Spouses
>
>
> So this is the United States of America you love so dearly, right???
>
> ******
>
> This story probably will not phase you if either of the following
> is true:
>
> * you support without question---as a hardcore 30% of Americans do---
> the
> policies of this government of the United States
>
> * you think that one should not marry outside “the family”: that is,
> you
> take a dim view of American citizens who marry foreign nationals
>
> My wife, a Turk and university professor, is both spouse and mother to
> native US citizens.
>
> She lives in Turkey for the time being, and I have been trying to coax
> her
> to come to live in the U.S. since my forced return to the United
> States.
> Almost everyone who talks to her says what an excellent place the U.S.
> is
> to live, which she did not really doubt until yesterday.
>
> Last summer (2002), long after 11 September 2001, she applied for and
> received a visa to visit the United States. No hassle, no bureaucracy.
> For
> Christ’s sake, the very minute she applies, she’s eligible to receive
> a
> permanent resident visa---known popularly as a “green card” (although
> I
> don’t think it has been green in years---so why would the embassy
> hassle
> her about a non-immigrant visa for visitors?
>
> So this summer I want her to come with our child (a U.S. citizen) to
> California, flying out 12 July to San Francisco from where she is
> living in
> Ankara now.
>
> My wife goes to the embassy for the usual process of applying for the
> visa,
> but not only does she NOT get the visa straightaway, they even run her
> through some ringer really intended to intimidate terrorists.
>
> She’s told she’s going to have to wait---most likely to the Second
> Coming---for her visa, and that in the course of the interview and
> application process, if one statement is incorrect/false (knowingly?
> unknowingly?), then she will be denied a visa for her lifetime!
>
> What the hell kind of garbage is this!!???
>
> Foreign nationals who have a record of numerous, unremarkable,
> uncomplicated visits to the United States and who are furthermore
> married
> to U.S. citizens, and they are being treated like the one-eyed cousin
> of
> Osama bin Laden!!!
>
> The United States government really has no goddamned business
> interfering
> with the marriage between a U.S. citizen and a foreign national,
> especially
> when this marriage is longstanding (the wedding performed on U.S.
> soil) and
> the record of her travel back-and-forth is obvious even to the morons
> of
> the Bush administration!
>
> Now, the bastards at the State Department could say to me, her
> husband,
> “Well, you can always leave the country to be with your wife.”
>
> You’re goddamned right I could, and if that were the attitude, I’d be
> outta
> here and renouncing my native U.S. citizenship upon arrival at my
> destination faster than George W. Bush goes on vacation.
>
> Fact is, I lived in Turkey for nearly 10 years, but was forced to
> return by
> the United States government upon revocation of my passport for a
> financial
> debt. I still can’t leave this country---a country now much more now
> like
> the former Soviet Union than it’s ever been---until I get my passport
> back.
> And the United States government won’t issue one, of course (let’s
> reminisce about the Soviet Union, shall we!) What would this goddamned
> government like more? To be rid of me, whom it would no doubt
> characterize
> as a “no-account, first-class loser”? Or for me to finish off the debt
> re-
> payment and be a pain in its side so long as I stand on this soil?
>
> This government of the United States is a tyrant. And the Declaration
> of
> Independence clearly spelled out what men must do when their
> government
> becomes a tyranny. The history of the United States shows that the
> “terrorists” this government worries about do not really come from
> outside
> its borders, but more often from within. The paramilitaries in the
> backwaters of the United States (Michican, Idaho come to mind.) The
> Chicago
> Seven and the Weather Underground. The Symbionese Liberation Army.
> Even the
> Rebels in the War Between The States. Their common goal, if you
> believe it
> or not, was to oppose a government more often than not involved in the
> denial of civil liberties, or advancing an agenda of corruption.
>
> No one seriously believes for a moment that the hassle to which my
> wife is
> subject advances the national security interests of the United States
> government. None of what the embassy in Ankara does is about this at
> all.
> It is about a petty and vindictive administration that did not get its
> way
> with the Turks and countless others in its pursuit of an illegal
> invasion
> of Iraq. It is about this childishness. It is about a contemptible
> foreign
> policy.
>
> And it is about irritating an American citizen who will show this
> adminstration what open rebellion against tyranny is---they will
> call it
> “terrorism,” of course---if their intention is an in-your-face
> up-yours.
>
> I thought this administration was worried about the sanctity of
> marriage
> after the latest Supreme Court ruling. By keeping an American husband
> separated from his Turkish wife and child with this petty politics,
> how
> does this advance the sanctity of marriage?
>
> ******
>
> I guess I should not be too critical, huh?
> There are American citizens who are being arrested and held without
> trial,
> without access to a lawyer, without any civil liberties.
>
> This administration has wiped its ass-end with the Constitution, and
> the
> electorate is loving it. They cheer on the bully and brute, stiff-
> arming
> their allegiance and loyalty. If this were vintage film being watched,
> you’d swear the site was Berlin. But it’s not.
>
> Mavi Gozler
> American Patriot
>
> 3 July 2003
>
>
>
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tsk.
Shoulda paid your child support, sport.
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