Posted on 06/16/2006 2:24:14 PM PDT by ozzymandus
Wow, we had concentration camps during WWII? I must have missed that. How many hundreds of thousands died there? How many were tortured? How many were starved to death in forced labor?
Would be fascinated to see your references for this. If, for some reason, you were talking about internment camps, and I don't see how you could be, you might want to look them up and check out how many died.
Otherwise your comments are a bit on the liberal/hysterical side.
You avoided anything I wrote. I never said one word about them being citizens or noncitizens. As a matter of fact, I didn't say I agreed with it. I merely said what Michelle Malkin wrote did not mean mean she supported the holocaust, and that the United States practices in World War II were not as evil as Nazi Germany's.
Too high a standard?
Then, how about 50,000, or maybe just 10,000.
Maybe it was your mother and father and it was only 20 or so that were murdered in the camp?
How about 6?
If 6 people died unjustly in a concentration camp would that make it acceptable?
You be the judge.
Get back to me with a number, too, and let me know what you'd think about your mother or father dieing while incarcerated.
Please elaborate. My post was dispassionate. I quite clearly said I was not commenting on whether detainment was a wrong or right. I merely said using the term "concentration camp" the way you did was misleading. Please point out what I said that was "historically innacurate," especially since I didn't even mention historical facts.
BTW, when you lock up American citizens you can't really say you are running an "internment camp" can you.
Every American citizen should. She believes that the imprisonment of Japanese American citizens behind razor wire was a good thing, and should serve as a model for the eventual detainment of American Muslim citizens in similar camps.
Reagan had the decency to apologize to those still living and their survivors, and provide reparations.
Forcibly detaining American citizens who are guilty of nothing but having a Japanese heritage was one of the two worst things FDR ever did.
The other was turning aside ships full of Jews, forcing them to return to their countries and dooming the refugees to certain death.
I think the Brits knew what the name meant so don't be so readily misled by the German misuse of the term.
Now give us an evaluation of your post.
Gee whiz, I've interviewed hundreds of people who were incarcerated in those camps. That's pretty much the worldview of the inmates.
History is not something to support or not. It is something to understand and learn from. It is done. Ann Coulter is talking about now. The present is our popint of power, not the past.
I never defended the practice. But I am asking, do you think the United States' practices in World War II were as evil as Nazi Germany's? Simple question.
So if nobody dies, it's OK to force American citizens of certain ethnicities or religions into internment camps, to be held for an indeterminate period of time?
Oh, and these American citizens are guilty of what?
I am aware of the history of the term. However, I think you know how inflammatory the term is today.
Is this paper from North West Kansas?
How original this paper is! Why they managed to object to the same sentence as Hillary Clinton. I wonder who organized and ginned up this phoney outrage? Ann is laughing all the way to the bank.
I thought the worst thing FDR ever did included having Communists in his inner circle, like Hiss.
That was the worst.
Kindda reminds me when USA Today dropped Coulter in 04 because they "didn't get it." Yet they had Michael Moore writing columns on their payroll.
Oh the hypocrisy of the liberal media...
BTW, even if we neglect to count the deaths, the people still die. It's one of the consequences of taking the very young, and the very old, away from the familiar surroundings of their homes and their living families.
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