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LA Times Op-Ed Darkly Muses About Mass Muslim Internment
LA Times/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 06/16/2006 3:13:03 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

by Mark Finkelstein

June 16, 2006

As this op-ed column from today's Los Angeles Times illustrates, the MSM and the left-dominated American academy continue to side, in the name of 'human rights', against measures designed to protect us from another 9/11 and with those who might potentially do us harm.

Author David Cole, a law professor at Georgetown University and volunteer attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, was co-counsel to the plaintiffs in Turkmen vs. Ashcroft. He condemns the district court ruling in that case, which, as described in this article from Jurist, held:

"The US government can detain non-citizens indefinitely on the basis of religion, race or national origin, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying that 'the executive is free to single out 'nationals of a particular country' and focus enforcement efforts on them.'"

Back to the Cole op-ed - the good professor darkly warns that the court ruling could lead to mass Muslim internment, in the same way Japanese-Americans were interned during WWII.

But there is one major difference that Cole chooses to overlook. In WWII, the US interned US citizens. They were Japanese-Americans.

Here, the judge authorizes the focus of enforcement activity on people who not only are foreign citizens, but ones that are very likely here illegally.

Cole conveniently fails to mention that the judged ruled that the enforcement focus can only occur "only if [the aliens'] deportation is 'highly foreseeable.'" Moreover, the judge permitted to go forward those parts of the lawsuit alleging abuse while in detention.

The contrast with the WWII bogeyman Cole invokes could not be more clear. There, American citizens suspected of nothing other than being of Japanese descent were interned. Here, foreign citizens strongly suspected of being here illegally are subject to detention. And what's more, even in such circumstances, the right of such putatively illegal aliens to sue for improper detention conditions is respected.

But trust the left to side against strong security measures every time. And if the good professor had prevailed in his suit, and some day one of his clients committed a terrorist act against the US, you could count on the same left to be first in line to condemn the government - a la the Jersey Girls - for its failure to prevent the attack.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: davidcole; detention; georgetown; illegalaliens; internment; japaneseamericans; latimes

1 posted on 06/16/2006 3:13:06 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

LA Times/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 06/16/2006 3:13:58 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: All

Click on NewsBusters link for column containing links to LA Times op-ed and Jurist article describing case.


3 posted on 06/16/2006 3:17:29 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Why not? Their hero F.D.R. did it to the Japanese.


4 posted on 06/16/2006 3:21:36 AM PDT by edpc
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To: edpc

This seems to be ignored for the most part....http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1153885


5 posted on 06/16/2006 3:22:57 AM PDT by teldon30 (Far right, elitist, sexist, cynical religious bigot and looter)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

LA Times....line the parrot cage with it..........


6 posted on 06/16/2006 3:27:41 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

By funny coincidence, I will be lining my parrot cage in a few minutes. I'll be using the Ithaca Journal, though!


7 posted on 06/16/2006 3:32:20 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

L.O.L....liberal throw away rags they all be....


8 posted on 06/16/2006 3:38:49 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
FDR did it during WW2 to US Citizens..

...but of course WW2 was a liberal cause after Hitler broke his non aggression pact with the lefts darlings...the Soviets, and attacked them under Operation Barbarosa.

As a matter of fact the left in this country were in favor of Hitler while he had the non aggression pact with the Ruskies.

Liberals then and today should really be called Socialists or Communists. Calling then liberals is a misnomer and way too easy on them. They hate America and all its stands for.

I say bring back the House Committee for Un-American activities and lets ferret out the real enemies of our fair land.
9 posted on 06/16/2006 3:51:30 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

While we are putting muzzies in camps, can't we intern dims also? Hell, lets put them in the same camp and see what happens!

LLS


10 posted on 06/16/2006 4:41:16 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

David Cole is a big supporter of Lynne Stewart, who was found guilty of using her privileged position as the lawyer of the so-called "Blind Sheik," the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing She passed messages between the jailed terrorist and his terrorist followers in Egypt.

During a visit to Sheik Omar Abdel el-Rahman's cell in Minnesota in 2000, she and a translator conspired to distract prison officials in order to receive and later deliver a coded directive whose purpose was to initiate new terrorist acts in Egypt.

Stewart's conviction is a powerful reminder of an important strain on the far Left in this country and elsewhere — a set of beliefs that cast the United States as the Great Satan and lionizes anyone who declares himself America's enemy.

Guess who introduced Lynne Stewart to the client who would eventually become her terror master? None other than Ramsey Clark, the LBJ's Attorney General of the United States who is now serving as a lawyer for Saddam Hussein.


11 posted on 06/16/2006 4:42:31 AM PDT by Beckwith (The liberal media has picked sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: teldon30

Did not know this...


12 posted on 06/16/2006 5:04:11 AM PDT by true_blue_texican
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Do you miss Katy yet?


13 posted on 06/16/2006 7:59:07 AM PDT by cibco (www.streachfuelmileage.shorturl.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
... Muses About Mass Muslim Internment

Me too; musing about why the terrorists among them are still breathing!

14 posted on 06/16/2006 8:17:39 AM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional.)
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To: cibco

I'm counting on Meredith to be every bit as biased!


15 posted on 06/16/2006 5:53:32 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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