Thursday December 29. 2005

I've Been Thinking:

It has taken years, too many years, but it looks as if - finally - John Demjanjuk, the Nazi death camp guard is about to be deported.

John Demjanjuk has one last appeal before he is deported from his adopted American home in Cleveland back to his true home, the Ukraine.

Israeli courts tried Demjanjuk, but could not convict him as Ivan The Terrible. His defense was that he was not a guard at Treblinka, but a guard at Sobibor, another death camp. So they let him return, with his family, to Cleveland. Demjanjuk thought he was free. But he lied on his US immigration forms and that, too, is a crime.

Today, John Demjanjuk is 85 years old. He is claiming that deportation will endanger his life. The US Court, however, is not considering chronic back pain to be a significant issue. So the deportation was upheld and now Demjanjuk has 30 days to make his last and final appeal.

International mass murderers and collaborators must not be allowed to gain sanctuary in the great United States.
John Demjanjuk does not deserve to call the United States his home.