But Frank Kitamoto, president of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community who was in an internment camp at age 2½ , said Malkin's assertions can never excuse the internment.
"Even if it was true, even if there were 100 [spies], there was, by the Bill of Rights, no reason to lock up a hundred thousand people," he said. "When Oklahoma City happened, they should have arrested all Caucasian males by that logic."
Ah, but if you read Jayna Davis's writing you will be led to believe, as I do, that Arabs were involved in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Completely inaccurate. I was there.
I have to disagree with Michelle on this one.
Michelle is an incredibly courageous young woman, and a true patriot. Like her grandfather who marched alongside the Americans he fought with in the Bataan death march, she is willing to endure the most hateful and viscious attacks from the enemy to make a stand for liberty.
Her new book undermines one of the great myths constructed by the left in the past three decades. Needless to say, they're livid.
Sophistry. If Caucasian males declared war on all Americans, had a long history of killing Americans just for being American, and a large network of them crashed passenger jets into buildings in order to kill as many people as possible, that might be an issue. But that's not what's happening.
Her case defending internment rested on the vulnerability of yet-uncommitted civilians to be swayed by the influences of consanguinity and common culture to betray their adopted country, as some demonstably did, her evidence in that regard being, IMHO, persuasive, and consisting of postwar testimony and MAGIC decrypts that were only declassified in 1977. A second theme was that in time of war, where the existence of the state is threatened, civil liberties are not an absolute value, but must be balanced against the survival of the state charged with guaranteeing them. Lincoln's suspension of habeus corpus was one such example.
Where I demur is that the survival of the state is not threatened, or at least not to a credible degree, with respect to radical Islam. Moreover, we are not in a state of declared war, which may be not much more than a legal nicety - 2750 dead New Yorkers would attest to that - but is still, to my mind, a cogent objection. And Malkin recognizes that the parallel is incomplete. She does not recommend the internment of Middle Eastern males, for example, only the use of profiling to increase surveillance of those presenting other reasons for suspicion, such as flight lessons that omit the superfluities of learning to land. Thus far I also agree with her.
In all, a wonderful, thought-provoking presentation. I am definitely going to purchase the book.
One of the huge fabrications of the left about internment is the pretense that only the Japanese were interned. This is not true. Germans were also interned. Only the Japanese were paid for the experience..
One thing that is also never mentioned, is the grave concerns posed by the Japanese was dual citizenship. Even though they may have become naturalized citizens, they did not surrender their citizenship to Japan.