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MONEY VS. VOTES
By Contributor on July 17, 2014
Dear Editor:
Please permit me to use your pages to inform your readers of a very
important matter.
The Republican-controlled legislature of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania voted into law a Genocide Education measure that
specifically ignores the Armenian Genocide.
The law, sadly, goes into effect in the Commonwealth's high schools
in 2015--the year of the Centenary of the start of the Armenian
Genocide--and is designed to teach the youngsters the evil and the
horrors of genocides.
Reference to the Armenian Genocide was in the original draft, but was
eliminated after a campaign by the Turks. Efforts to get the reference
to the Armenian Genocide back into the bill received promises from
many sides, including the leader of the Republican Party. However,
when it came to the crunch, the reference to the Armenian Genocide
was not included in the final measure, which did include constant
references to "Holocaust" and "other genocides" and which specifically
also included the Rwandan Genocide.
Therefore, I urge all readers to vote against the Republican Party
in the forthcoming elections. This is not to say that the Democrat
Party candidate is the better candidate, but it is to say that the
Republican Party candidate is the inferior.
I urge all your readers who are not residents of Pennsylvania but
who have relatives and friends in the Commonwealth to contact them
and spread this message.
The lesson the politicians must be taught is that the Turks may have
the money but the Armenians have the votes.
Avedis Kevorkian
Philadelphia, Pa.
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2014/07/17/letter-money-vs-votes/
By Contributor on July 17, 2014
Dear Editor:
Please permit me to use your pages to inform your readers of a very
important matter.
The Republican-controlled legislature of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania voted into law a Genocide Education measure that
specifically ignores the Armenian Genocide.
The law, sadly, goes into effect in the Commonwealth's high schools
in 2015--the year of the Centenary of the start of the Armenian
Genocide--and is designed to teach the youngsters the evil and the
horrors of genocides.
Reference to the Armenian Genocide was in the original draft, but was
eliminated after a campaign by the Turks. Efforts to get the reference
to the Armenian Genocide back into the bill received promises from
many sides, including the leader of the Republican Party. However,
when it came to the crunch, the reference to the Armenian Genocide
was not included in the final measure, which did include constant
references to "Holocaust" and "other genocides" and which specifically
also included the Rwandan Genocide.
Therefore, I urge all readers to vote against the Republican Party
in the forthcoming elections. This is not to say that the Democrat
Party candidate is the better candidate, but it is to say that the
Republican Party candidate is the inferior.
I urge all your readers who are not residents of Pennsylvania but
who have relatives and friends in the Commonwealth to contact them
and spread this message.
The lesson the politicians must be taught is that the Turks may have
the money but the Armenians have the votes.
Avedis Kevorkian
Philadelphia, Pa.
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2014/07/17/letter-money-vs-votes/