Fw: Fwd: from a young 'un reading Against the Day...and what he learned about our (immigrant) history

[rich]

my relatives came over from southern italy in 1904--back then that
practically branded you as an anarchist

rich

On Feb 19, 2008 9:41 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I thought that the "Anarchist threat" was surely something Pynchon had
> brushed into the US history ATD skates through. But then I happened
> upon my grandfather's immigration papers. Just as immigrants needed to
> declare they were not communists during the cold war, and need to
> declare they are not terroritst today, in 1919 the "don't even bother
> getting off the boat" question was Are you an Anarchist?
>
>
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