Intelligence indicated that they were a risk near our critical industrial centers, due to the efforts the Japanese Empire had made to encourage the loyalty of ex-pats AND ethnic Japanese people to the home country. Magic intelligence indicated Japanese attempts to seek out spies from among Issei. This does not justify excluding all people of Japanese from the West Coast.
I didn't say that half the country - in this study - wants internment, but that half the country wants some civil liberties restrictions on Muslims.
The same study also said that 44% of those surveyed believed that the right to criticize the government should be curtailed. So if 44% want to curtail the civil liberties of people with different religious beliefs, 43% want to curtail civil liberties in general.
there's nothing particularly "religious" about the goal of Islam.
Are you suggesting, as your intellecutal forbears did, that there exist some Protocols of certain Elders who are bent on world domination and organize under the guise of faith?
If anything, I would trust converts like Ellison even less than I'd trust someone who grew up with it. In fact, FAR LESS.
Interesting. I tend to distrust unabashed opponents of the Constitution and the country, such as people who regularly advocate concentration camps for Americans with different religious beliefs.
If you visit my links, you'll see a defense of Powell and his so-called "rivers of blood" speech from the Jewish World Review. You might learn something.
Believe me, I have. The eulogy (if it can be called that) prattles on about the dangers of dusky immigrants at our shores almost more than it discusses Powell himself. It underscores my belief that, while Powell may have been misunderstood, his modern-day supporters have a disturbing fixation on the idea of national purity. I'll add that the piece was written by Don Feder, who believes that Katrina was God's punishment for Bush's support for Sharon's Gaza withdrawl. (www.donfeder.com/filecabinet/09192005.doc) With friends like that...
"Magic intelligence indicated Japanese attempts to seek out spies from among Issei. This does not justify excluding all people of Japanese from the West Coast. "
At the time, it did.
"Are you suggesting, as your intellecutal forbears did, that there exist some Protocols of certain Elders who are bent on world domination and organize under the guise of faith? "
Oh, please.
Read the Koran. Islam IS proto-Nazism.
"Interesting. I tend to distrust unabashed opponents of the Constitution and the country, such as people who regularly advocate concentration camps for Americans with different religious beliefs. "
I'm not the opponent of the Constitution here, zimdog. You'd sooner see it abolished and replaced with Sharia than inconvenience a few people until the war is over.
"It underscores my belief that, while Powell may have been misunderstood, his modern-day supporters have a disturbing fixation on the idea of national purity."
Conservatives seek to "conserve" something. What do you think that is in the United States? AMERICAN culture. We - conservatives - oppose the imposition on us by force, money, or a lack of assimilation of a culture alien to ours. Take Britain for an example. The Sikhs, Hindus, and ethnic Asians (by American definition of the word) that have settled in Britain over the years... well, they're BRITISH now. They have assimilated into the larger culture and identify with it over the culture - that they still recognize - their ancestors originated from. However, the MASSIVE immigration from the 3rd world that Powell warned about does not allow that assimilation process. In short, he was right. The liberals were wrong - YET AGAIN. We see the same problem that Powell warned his country of in our own South West. Large numbers of 3rd worlders demanding we change or culture to suit them.
"With friends like that..."
More guilt by association.... Yet you decry the guilt by association that is part and parcel with the side you have taken in this fight.
Liberal.