Digital News Report – Senator Sam Aanestad (R-Grass Valley) issued a dramatic show of support for recent legislative efforts in Arizona to enforce federal immigration law – stating his overwhelming support for SB 1070. The Senator issued the following statement during a debate over the merits of Senate Joint Resolution 26 – which seeks to designate April 24, 2010, as California Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923.
Senator Aanestad took offense when the genocide resolution was compared to Arizona’s SB 1070 – and issued the following statement on the Senate Floor:
“I’m somewhat offended to bring Senate Bill 1070 in Arizona into a discussion that we all agree on – the subject of genocide. I would suggest that you read the bill. I would suggest that you go to the internet and read the 14-pages that basically mimics federal law. It reinstates for the State of Arizona what federal law has already stated for the past 50-years.
There’s nothing new in there. What we’re seeing is a very popular reaction of ignorance to a sincere attempt to control a serious problem in the United States: the problem of illegal immigration.
You can’t hide from it. Because those people who are going to leave Arizona are going to come to California. And this Senate will be forced to face the question – sooner or later – of what are you going to do to stem the tide of illegal immigration and the huge costs to the people of the State of California.
The people of Arizona have spoken. They have reiterated a law that says the federal government has not done its duties to protect our borders. So now we are instructing our state agencies to enforce the law that federal agencies refuse to enforce. The feds are not doing their duty – so now the state has to do it.
Sooner or later – this Senate will have to face the same responsibility. People in the State of California are asking you for a solution to this problem. For you to blindly say – or equate – SB 1070 in Arizona with the genocide question is hypocrisy in the highest – and worse yet – is plain untruthful.
So – let’s keep this debate to the Armenian Genocide resolution – which we can all agree on. But let’s not bring in the State of Arizona and the good people’s intent to solve a problem that the federal government continues to ignore.”
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Let us evaluate why the Armenians urge politicians and school boards to use the word genocide’, while vehemently rejecting to present their thesis in scholar and judicial platforms from a different perspective:
Armenia’s attitude towards Turkey’s land integrity: Article 13 (second paragraph) of Armenian constitution declares the ‘Ağrı Mountain’ in the Eastern Anatolia of Turkey, as the state symbol of Armenia . Article 11 of the Armenian Declaration of Independence of August 23, 1990; refers to Eastern Anatolia of Turkey as Western Armenia and as such beholds that this area is part of Armenia. Since the Armenian constitution recognizes as a basis “the fundamental principles of the Armenian statehood and national aspirations engraved in the Declaration of Independence of Armenia”, it likewise accepts the characterization of Eastern Anatolia as Western Armenia and this, albeit indirectly, translates into the advancement of territorial claims.
The Armenian politicians and school books call Eastern Anatolia of Turkey, ‘invaded mother land of Armenia’ and in Armenia the school children are being grown up being conditioned to be patriots to rescue their invaded land. Even the marches they sing are about this condition.
The Armenians claim and write in such blogs that the Eastern Anatolia cities do not belong to Turkey, as if the present Eastern boundaries of Turkey was not determined by treaties of Gumru (1920), Moscow (1921) and the whole boundaries by Lausanne (1923) Treaties; after the Turkish Freedom War.
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Armen Aivazyan, Director of Ararat Center of Strategic Studies, told a news conference that Armenia must never renounce its territorial claims to Turkey http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=28877
Additionally Armenia refused Turkey’s recurrent offers to commit an agreement declaring that each country recognizes the other country’s land integrity, in 1992 and later.
‘It is necessary to stress that we wish to open a road between Armenia and Turkey, not the border, since who said that the existing line is the true boundary between the two countries?”, Galust Saakyan, the head of the parliamentary fraction of the Republican Party of Armenia told a press conference on 24 July 2009 (Panarmenian).
‘Western Armenian lands must be returned to Armenia, said Armenia’s Ambassador to Switzerland, famous singer Charles Aznavour in an interview with Italian RIA3 television channel. ‘When I was born, in 1924, [they] promised Armenia the return of lands. I am 85 years old and I cannot wait much longer, said Aznavour’. In 1924, Stalin promised Armenia the return of Erzeroum, Erzngan, Sebastia, Kharpert, Dikranagert, Bitlis, Van, Moush⦠The Wilsonian Armenia also included regions of Trabizon, Erzeroum, Van and Bitlis (November 3, 2009;Asbarez Staff)
In reply to the question ‘What does Western Armenia mean to Dashnaktsutyun – a geographical area or a historical homeland? , ARMEN ROUSTAMYAN, representative of the ARFD Supreme Body in Armenia and Head of the NA Committee on Foreign Relations replied: “For us, Armenia is Armenia in its integrity, including all its parts: northern, southern, eastern and western. The Armenia we imagine begins from the Armenian-Turkish border which was once clearly demarcated by US President Mr. Wilson. And when we say our goal is to create a free, independent and united Armenia, we mean the Armenia I just spoke about.” http://armenians-1915.blogspot.com/2008/09/2581-armenia-turkey-match-news.html
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Why do the Armenians force Turkey to accept a genocide? The answer is hidden in a speech of the chief of Dashnak Party Hrant Markaryan who told that their efforts for the recognition of Armenian (so-called) genocide was not an isolated purpose but it was a part of the struggle for rescue of the West Armenia (Armenian Forum Vol2 No 4; Armenian Weekly On-line, 18 June, 4 July 2003). The Armenian then prime minister Andranik Markaryan told that the internationally recognition of (so called) Armenian genocide and demanding land from Ankara as ‘compensation’ was possible only after Armenia had strengthened and the Armenians should not have told that they demanded land from Ankara loudly and everywhere (Arminfo 26 May 2004). On one occasion President Kocharian stated that since today’s Armenia does not have the clout to advance such demands, doing so should be left to future generations at a time when conditions would hopefully be better suited to this end’.
A poll taken in Armenia revealed that almost all youngsters in the Republic of Armenia wished to follow up with land claims from Turkey and 90% of them said Turkey must unequivocally accept genocide allegations (Milliyet – April 11, 2006).
The world should not forget that Germany’s claim on Zudetland and Gdansk just because they were its historical lands caused burst of World War II!
Yet, there are obvious evidences showing that the Armenians did not constitute the majority of the population in neither of the Ottoman provinces which the Armenians call Western Armenia and the Muslim population was 3 to 8 times more than that of the Armenian’s (Ottoman Population Statistics 1890 and 1914).
If an item like the aforementioned Armenian item were present in the lawbook of Mexico claiming that Texas, Arizonna, New Mexico and California which were historical lands of Mexico, belonged to Mexico but invaded, would the American tolerate it?
Therefore the world should not overlook Armenia’s aggressivity, which is hidden behind their role of victim and should think about the price of their support to the Armenians very well.
So, the most important question which should be asked now is whether the world politicians, journalists and supporters of human rights will go on falling within the scope of Armenian propagandists and go on being major advocates of Armenian aggressivity, while pursuing humanist missions or not!