Posted on 02/04/2014 2:11:03 PM PST by ColdOne
Justice Antonin Scalia predicts that the Supreme Court will eventually authorize another a wartime abuse of civil rights such as the internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II.
"You are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again," Scalia told the University of Hawaii law school while discussing Korematsu v. United States, the ruling in which the court gave its imprimatur to the internment camps.
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“Better not be the armed citizens of the USA because it will be the biggest mistake the government ever made!”
I’d think so because Americans have enough ammo to shoot every DHS employee who goes Nazi 45,672 times. Then again, they’re liberals and probably can’t count past 3.
What do you think would have happened had the Japanese-Americans of the time used armed force to resist internment? Thus confirming in the minds of all other Americans that they were disloyal and bent on armed subversion of the government?>
Can you say mass mob attacks, probably backed up by local National Guard and military units?
While there is certainly a place for armed resistance to government over-reach, there are also (many) times where this particular tactic would simply make things much worse.
I don’t know if Scalia is right (I hope he’s wrong), but any attempt at new internment camps would be a very bloody affair. No group of Americans will passively be put in such camps. Such an attempt could easily lead to civil war or revolution.
“———we only interned Italian and German nationals, where with Japan we apparently interned Japanese that had already obtained citizenship-——”
The nisei,or American born Japanese, were also detained-—they didn’t obtain citizenship,they were citizens at birth. Then we turned around and drafted them,for heaven’s sake.An absolute disgrace.
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Put “war on” in the title pretext and you can get the sheeple to believe anything.
Since its clear you have lots of free time why don’t you create a chart showing acts of disloyalty by both Japanese Americans of the forties vs. Dearborn muslims today?
Thought so
Come on people, we have to win the War on Liberty!!
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I heard Affleck said he couldn’t stand to watch a republican actor. The communist who should have been jailed in the fifties are now running the show.
The differences I was highlighting include the reaction to resistance by your neighbors vs the insular Japanese Americans of the forties. When and if the people that make up the average Americans begin being rounded up and those average Americans possess modern arms. I think there will be a different outcome.
The Statists are winning.
Hard to argue against that.
And after all, isn’t it just an expansion of the already demanded right to abort in the fourth trimester?
Except they’ll do it city by city. They’ll pour in massive man-power to get it done. The good citizens will be powerless no matter how armed they are.
They can take out any problematic home they want from 10,000+ feet, and how many miles...
The government could not intern the Japanese Americans in Hawaii because they were high percentage of the population. It was not too hard to round up the Japanese Americans in California. My father watched them getting loaded onto trucks on Rodeo Boulevard in Los Angeles with one suitcase per person. It really bothered my father, and he was no liberal.
Yeah, I know. :(
Indeed. And the reverse McCarthyism is in full throat.
Sorry, that is BS. My father went to dental school with a guy whose family was interred. His father was a nobody - just a dentist, and they were interred for the duration. Oh, and they (citizens all) had to sell all of their belongings in 3 days - you can imagine the price they got compared to actual value.
These people were completely loyal, and they were royally screwed over because of their looks. One of the worst injustices ever perpetrated in this country by the government (treatment of the various Indian tribes being far worse, and over a far longer period of time) - and Scalia is right, it'll likely happen again. Except that this time it won't be an ethnic group, it'll be those that dare to oppose tyranny even by uttering the word "Constitution" at the wrong time. I, for example, will likely be on the list just for my tagline (and I'm sure that there are more reasons, but that alone will likely be enough).
For those that condemn Scalia for mentioning this, consider that maybe he was warning us. Consider also that if he is still alive at the time of such an event, he'll likely be killed, imprisoned or forced to resign because of "bad health" (which is to say that his family will be threatened). The good Justice knows which way the wind is blowing, and he wants to be remembered for being out there with his middle finger proudly raised.
OK. I’ll buy that.
So, basically Scalia is admitting that “rule of law” and the whole notion of “constittutional rights” are fiction, that the government can do whatever it wants when it wants.
He’s not saying that is the right course; he’s only saying that it is the way things really are.
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