[umgud]

Besides the PC issues, we have another problem with the muslims, specifically the Arabs, that we didn't have with the Japanese.

Oil.

[thombo]

Just 44%? Wait till terrorists start car boming malls,or maybe releasing anthrax,botulism, etc.. . What will the pc crowd say then? How about a small nuclear devise detonated in NYC, maybe in Times Square?

[sgtbono2002]

Its pretty stupid not to be watching muslims. I know I am leery of any middles easterner.

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[sheltonmac]

Okay, so rather than talk about something that happened 60 years ago, why not simply call for the internment of Muslims in the U.S. and be done with it?

... I was encouraged by a just-released Cornell University opinion survey that finds nearly half the U.S. population agreeing with this proposition. Specifically, 44 percent of Americans believe that government authorities should direct special attention toward Muslims living in America ...

Yeah, and roughly 50% of Americans support a woman's right to kill her unborn child. That doesn't make it right.

... "the survival of the nation comes first." From there, she draws the corollary that "Civil liberties are not sacrosanct."

I guess the phrase "Give me liberty, or give me death" no longer holds any meaning for mainstream "conservatives." WorldNetDaily columnist Vox Day did a credible job of debunking Malkin's ridiculous anti-freedom, anti-American arguments.

She correctly concludes that, especially in time of war, governments should take into account nationality, ethnicity, and religious affiliation in their homeland security policies and engage in what she calls "threat profiling." These steps may entail bothersome or offensive measures but, she argues, they are preferable to "being incinerated at your office desk by a flaming hijacked plane."

Typical neocon BS. In time of war, governments should take into account the right of citizens to protect themselves. Federal gun control laws were largely responsible for the tragic extent of the damage on 9/11. One or two armed passengers could have saved 3,000 lives. Why anyone would even consider trusting a government that has been systematically disarming the public is beyond my comprehension.

I will ask again: If "the survival of the nation comes first," then why don't so-called "conservatives" call for the internment of all Muslims? If doing so could save millions of American lives, isn't it worth it?

Unless, of course, the proposed threat has been somewhat exaggerated.....

[SMARTY]

Adding to the list of facts, I remember reading that:

* Most were openly and rabidly Anti-American
* Over 80% of those interned held dual citizenship.
* Most of these, at the opening of hostilities, applied for visas to return to Japan
* As this was an entirely new phenomenon, Congress had to enact regulations regarding issuance of visas during wartime.

IF YOU HATE US, YOU DON'T BELONG HERE. GO WHERE YOU ARE COMFORTABLE! NO ONE WILL STOP YOU!!!

[stopem]

"She correctly concludes that, especially in time of war, governments should take into account nationality, ethnicity, and religious affiliation in their homeland security policies and engage in what she calls "threat profiling." These steps may entail bothersome or offensive measures but, she argues, they are preferable to "being incinerated at your office desk by a flaming hijacked plane."

::::Clapping:::::::

WTG Michelle

[mrsmith]

.

How many Freepers think that if a few dozen out of the millions of American citizens who belong to a church commit crimes against the government then all it's members' weapons should be confiscated?

[pbear8]

the relocation camps for Japanese were "spartan facilities that were for the most part administered humanely."

One was administered by our great-uncle. His wife is still alive and gets angry at any suggestion that the internees (at least the ones at that camp) were treated badly.

[hchutch]

It was still wrong to intern American citizens of Japanese descent without any evidence of wrongdoing.

Congressman Billybob also wrote a book on it. I think his comments on this are well worth consideration.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1291543/posts?page=10#10

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1132301/posts?page=78#78

Michelle Malkin and Daniel Pipes are defending the indefensible in this case. There is simply no other phrase that can accurately describe it. Antonin Scalia properly placed the Korematsu ruling approving the internment next to Dred Scott in terms of bad calls.

[ZULU]

"Specifically, 44 percent of Americans believe that government authorities should direct special attention toward Muslims living in America, either by registering their whereabouts, profiling them, monitoring their mosques, or infiltrating their organizations."

Aside from Muslims themselves, the remaining 56% of Americans are either braindead or totally unfamiliar with Islam and its tenets, practises and culture.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Ironically, the Japanese internment is approached very cautiously by some conservatives because it was implemented by FDR and Earl Warren as part of "the Good War" (and it was also criticized by J. Edgar Hoover). Plus there is the "palaeoconservative" sympathy with the Axis powers.

I used to be a member of the Birch Society, and they harped on the Japanese internment the same way the liberals do.

[staytrue]

the treatment of ethnic Japanese resulted from legitimate national security concerns

The big problem with japanese internment was that the italians and germans were not interned. At the time of the internment, the was a lot of dicrimination against japanese americans. Also, at the time of internment, immigrants of all nations were welcomed except for asiatics (japan and china in particulat). Also, there was no compensation offered to long time japanese citizens who lost most all of their possessions including land bought by whites at bargain prices then, that is worth billions now.

Finally, the number a japanese spies was not any greater than the population at large as post WWII investigations later found out.

[SunkenCiv]

---

---

[PISANO]

I don't know about Internment Camps, but it is LUNACY to allow any person(s), who belong to a KNOWN group hell bent on the total annihilation of our way of life in general and Western Civilisation in particular to have FREE reign to accomplish there tasks.

I would make it virtually impossible for any Muslim with a hint of extremism in his backround to enter this country. And I would make those already here JUMP through many hoops in order to stay.

Muslims born here or naturalized citizens of our nation would or course NOT be in this catagory!!

[RWCon]

Add the War on Dugs and other crimes.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Good article. Pipes shows that the idea that the Japanese were interned solely because of their race is typical liberal BS. Liberal girly-men will whine and complain about this but never about the internment of Germans and Italians. The internment of white people never concerns them, after all, only white people can be racist.

[lainde]

bttt