That really turned me off - coming from a woman with no children.
This is all Coulter wrote on that subject:
Mineta obstinately refused to consider a relevant airport screening procedure on the grounds that fifty years earlier another Democrat had put him in and internment camp. "I remember on the 19th of May 1941"--note that he remembers that day--"when we boarded the trains in San Jose under armed guard, the military guard. I was in my Cub Scout uniform carrying a baseball, baseball glove and a baseball bat. And as I boarded the train, the MPs confiscated the bat on the basis it could be used as a lethal weapon." A guard took Mineta's baseball bat as a child, and as a result he was subjecting all of America to the Bataan Death March. Someone should have sent him a baseball bat.There was no principled basis for opposition to using Arab appearance as a factor in airport screening procedures. The whole country knew that goosing little old ladies boarding planes was not making us any safer.
Treason page 264
I think Ann could empathize with Mineta! As I recall she told a story of while being processed by airport security, she had a charm necklace (bracelet) confiscated from her, as it had a bullet charm on it. (It could be used as a weapon, dontcha know)