Gore Denounces Bush Administration for Attack on Civil Liberties

AP ^ | 11/9/03 | Jennifer C. Kerr

[bonesmccoy]

MESSAGE FOR DEMOCRAT OBSERVERS OF THIS BOARD: TRY FREE REPUBLIC 1944 STYLE...

Elephants remember...

Watsonville Register-Pajaronian, April 13, 1944. p.1
ICKES BACKS WRA HANDLING OF JAPANESE
SAN FRANCISCO, (UP) - Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes Thursday denounced "professional race mongers" who oppose release of loyal Japanese-Americans from relocation camps and said that people who deny them decent treatment "don't believe in the constitution of the United States."

He promised that the War Relocation authority, the agency in charge of the camps and over which he was recently given authority by President Roosevelt, would not, "under my jurisdiction . . . be stampeded into undemocratic bestial, inhuman action and will not be converted into an instrument of revenge or racial warfare."

Ickes is here to speak before the Commonwealth club Friday. Defending the WRA's past activities which have been bitterly criticized by a (indecipherable) congressional subcommittee and by certain groups on the west coast, Ickes declared that its program has been handled with "discretion, humanity and wisdom."

"WRA did not persecute these people, and it made no attempt to punish those of a different race who were not responsible for what has been happening in the far Pacific," he said.

"The WRA -- make no mistake about it -- has been criticized for not engaging in this sort of a lynching party."

He expressed hope that the "clamor" of groups opposed to the WRA "will soon be overwhelmed by the stern remonstrances" of the overwhelming majority "who believe in fair play and decency, Christianity, in the principles of America, in the consititution of the United States.

Those Japanese Americans who were released from internment camps were permitted to leave only after intensive and thorough investigation, Ickes said, and are entitled to be treated as loyal Americans.

He recalled that he had often called for punishment of war criminals "whether they have committed their outrages under Tojo and the fiendish military caste of Japan, or under Hitler. Let us see that the guilty are made to feel the heavy hand of justice," he said. "But let us not degrade ourselves by injuring innocent, defenseless people. To do this would be to lower ourselves to the level of the fanatical nazis and Japanese war lords. Civilization expects more from us than from them."

Copyright 1944. Watsonville Register-Pajaronian. Reproduced here by permission.

[bonesmccoy]

Check this story!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnews/20031103/ts_usnews/chinadoll

[Kay Soze]

Yup and Ickes was a REPUBLICAN!

Gitmo filled with Foreign terrorists and its a huge challange to our civil rights.

But for some reason the liberals dont have any porblems with concentration camps here in the USA filled with US Citizens!

[Republican Wildcat]

Gore Denounces Bush Administration for Attack on Civil Liberties

The AP editorialized the headline to give the assumption that their are attacks on civil liberties by the Bush Administration.

[sarge4]

If this ONE WORLD DUDE woulda won the presidency we'd be fightin' this war HERE!

[bonesmccoy]

ERROR WILL ROBINSON ERROR! DO NOT call Ickes a "republican"... you are engaging in a bit of disinformation... From the "political graveyard" website: Ickes, Harold LeClair (1874-1952) -- also known as Harold L. Ickes -- of Chicago, Cook County, Ill.; Winnetka, Cook County, Ill. Nephew by marriage of John Clarence Cudahy. Born in Frankstown, Blair County, Pa., March 15, 1874. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1920; U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1933-46; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1936, 1940, 1944. Presbyterian. Member, American Civil Liberties Union. Died February 3, 1952. Burial location unknown.

[bonesmccoy]

SIR!

We ARE fighting this war here... just look at those posting by "Daleel" at the Yahoo! server hosted in San Jose, CA!

[Kay Soze]

Secretary of the Interior: Harold L. Ickes (1945 - 1946)

Harold LeClaire Ickes was born March 15, 1874 in Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1897 and returned to study the law, graduating in 1907. Ickes began his career as a reporter for the Chicago Record, eventually rising to the post of assistant political editor before returning to school and becoming an attorney. Politically, Ickes was considered an Independent Republican and was nominated to join Roosevelt's cabinet on March 4, 1933.

Also see:

Ickes, Harold LeClaire Ickes, Harold LeClaire
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.

(ik´z) (KEY) , 1874–1952, American statesman, b. Blair co., Pa. As a Chicago newspaper reporter and later as a lawyer, he became interested in local reform politics. Originally a Republican, he joined (1912) the Progressive party and became that party’s state leader, but he returned to the Republican party in 1916. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed (1933) Ickes Secretary of the Interior and also made him head of the Public Works Administration (PWA).

[Kay Soze]

Also see: Harold Ickes was born in Frankstown, Pennsylvania on 15th March, 1874. He attended the University of Chicago and after graduating in 1897 he set himself up as a lawyer. Ickes held progressive political views and often worked for causes he believed in without pay. As a young man he was deeply influenced by the politics of John Altgeld. Ickes worked for Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 presidential election. After the demise of the Progressive Party, Ickes switched to Hiram Johnson and managed his unsuccessful campaign to became a presidential candidate in 1924. Ickes became a follower of Franklin D. Roosevelt after being impressed by his progressive policies as governor of New York.

In 1932 Ickes played an important role in persuading progressive Republicans to support Roosevelt in the presidential election.

[bonesmccoy]

sounds like a person with no steady relationships, no commitment, and totally unable to have a political identity...

[Kay Soze]

Harold LeClaire Ickes (1874-1952)

Harold Ickes was born in Franklin Township, Pennsylvania, on March 15, 1874. He attended the University of Chicago, from which he received both a B.A. (1897) and an LL.D. (1907). After finishing law school, Ickes practiced in Chicago, where he also served as a Republican committeeman.

A liberal, Ickes campaigned for Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive party in 1912 and for the presidential campaigns of progressive Republicans Charles Evans Hughes (1916) and Hiram Johnson (1920).

By 1932, Ickes no longer supported Herbert Hoover and headed a committee of liberal Republicans who supported FDR. FDR rewarded his work by appointing him secretary of the interior in 1933.

[ladyinred]

HAH! Why is this loser out there mouthing off again anyway?

[Redleg Duke]

Al Who?