Thanksgiving Is A Family Heritage

In A Too-Often Thankless World

By Yoichi Shimatsu

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11-21-24

Introduction - The impending drama of deportation aka expulsion of a horde of 12 million and possibly more illegal aliens is a long-overdue and sensible response to “uninvited guests” and the resultant financial burden on the American citizenry struggling with declining prestige worldwide along with the relentless stripping out of their domestic industries over the past half-century. Illegal migrants been necessary for unnecessary businesses like storefront diners and farm labor is an absurd argument in an economy that has been systematically stripped of once-vigorous industries from steel-making to spoon production, shipbuilding to life-jacket fabrication.

The sheer number of illegal entrants has overshadowed - and in some ways threaten - the presence of those immigrants who have legal work permits and potential citizenship status due to their much-needed labor skills (as nurses, surgeons and scientists, for instance). An invitation from any nation for talented foreigners to reside, work and benefit alongside born-citizens is a privilege extended to those with special abilities or for those who have made extraordinary achievements for the host country. During my forty-year journalism career amid national crises (the Tokyo subway gassing and Fukushima nuclear disaster) in Japan or the so-called War against Terrorism across South Asia and the Middle East, I’ve never once received an invitation to come under the citizenship umbrella of any foreign nation that I helped significantly on so many occasions as the sole voice of reason in the media wilderness against ridiculous claims of scurvy politicians followed by snide accusations from embassy staffers against my motives - as if I was on the terrorist payroll. Time and again, the foreign militants that I encountered abroad were honorable souls with understandable motives as compared with the craven official liars at home and abroad. We’re now seeing this same dichotomy of villains/heroes being played out now by craven media whores against Trump’s appointees who are desperately trying to fix a broken economy.

It was assumed by foreign officials everywhere that my career was protected by the local U.S. Embassy - which was an absurd joke indeed about truth-unfriendly American diplomatic careerists cowering to the demands of blustering fools in the White House like Clinton and Bush or their Israeli masters for that matter. The consistent preference was to stand my ground against official lies and deception, if for no reason other than to wake up the American public to the facts on the ground and also to show foreigners what it takes to be an American in one’s heart and soul: The personal ethos that it's better to die for truth than to live in falsehood.

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