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Know-Nothing Movement, a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850's. It was organized to oppose the great wave of immigrants who entered the United States after 1846. Know-Nothings claimed that the immigrants—who were principally Irish and Roman Catholic threatened to destroy the American experiment. The Roman Catholic church, they charged, was subservient to a foreign prince (the pope), it was growing in power, and it potentially could exert political control over a large group of people. Such nativist sentiments had long existed among many Americans, but they had never before been expressed in such powerful form.
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Originally posted by ivanhoeThis is nothing as compared to the Bund. The Bund was the nazi movement that made great headway into american life from 1933 to 1941, culminating in the 1939 Madison Square Garden rally that seated 2,000 persons. During the speach of the leader of the nazi party at the time... I forget his name... A Jewish protestor jumped onto the stage and screamed at the nazi's. He was roundly beaten and then arrested by New Yorks finest. They have not changed much have they? But what do you expect for a 100% democratic gang of thugs?
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Know-Nothing Movement, a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850's. It was organized to oppose the great wave of immigrants who entered the United States after ...[text shortened]...
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When the war started... Dec 7, 1941 for the US... 7,000 nazi party members were arrested within ten days and spent the rest of the war in Crystal City, Texas as 'guests' of the US government, along with many Italian and Japanese nationals. Japanese Americans were never held in the same camps as these nazi's. Even in prison.... and this is important for our European freinds to know... the nazi's were allowed to hold their nazi meetings and rallies. They were totally free to spew their anti-jewish hatred. Then when the war ended... they were sent home. Is there a message about the US in that?
<edit> Yes. We are not afraid of those who speak evil. But we will kill those who do it.