Hey Larry,

Thanks for the articles. All I wanted some verifiable backup to your claims. Always check your sources they taught me in college.

A question though. Just how old are you? In the first article you supply, you are quoted as saying: "The last time I remember reading this type of language was when the Nazis were rounding these people up to throw them into ovens." You claim to have been reading that type "when" the Nazis were perpetrating genocide. That was 60 years ago my friend. Assuming you learned to read when you were about 6, you must be at least 66 years old. We've met in person and I'm sure you're not that old.

Now, I haven't studied the Irish Travelers the way you have, but the discrimination they may face here in America is not comprable to what was faced by the many millions of Jews and others who were exterminated by the Nazis.   I've not heard of any plan by the Bush Administration to round up all the Irish Travelers, turn them into slave labor and and put them to death just because they are Irish Travelers. Your overuse of such rhetoric cheapens your cause.

The language that you quote, such terms as "her kind" and "obscure clan" is mild compared to the way that many other groups have been characterized in recent years. Think of Jews in the Arab world, Arabs among the Israeli Wet Bank settlers, African and Native Americans here at home, Catholics in Northern Ireland and countless other examples.

Larry, my man, your rhetoric is so far over the top that you discredit your cause.