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To: mlbford2
"Internment camps in the US for Muslims is only a matter of time."

Concen-...er, internment camps in the U.S. for American citizens are on the way too. Google on "Unicor", "Operation Cablesplicer" and "Garden Plot" to see what the feds have in mind for non-Muslim America.

47 posted on 06/15/2004 7:43:36 AM PDT by Middle Man
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To: Middle Man
. . . see what the feds have in mind for non-Muslim America."

You don't quite seem to understand. When push comes to shove and the SHTF, we are all feds. When it comes time for cleansing our country and removing the threat, we will all be involved. If America falls, the world falls, for America is the only country that knows the true meaning of freedom and the only nation having the will and resources to eliminate the threat against that freedom within its own borders. If we cannot preserve that freedom and safety here as a nation, what business or qualifications do we have trying to export freedom elsewhere in the world?

53 posted on 06/15/2004 8:09:19 AM PDT by Eastbound
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To: Middle Man

Take a break from the paranoids for a moment and remember:

The Constitution is not a suicide pact. There is no virtue in protecting the civil rights of an enemy force who is trying to kill you. It's called self defense, and this country's survival is more important than the possible inconveniences to a few.

Every war has collateral damage, civilians and innocents suffer. That's life in a crappy world. Get used to it, because we are at war, and it's going to get worse before it gets better.

There's no use pretending it's still peacetime, with peacetime norms. The longer we do that, the greater the risk of catastrophic loss of life here at home.

Read the Constitution. The Congress has power to suspend Habeas Corpus in times of insurrection or invasion. That's why Hugo Black of the US Supreme Court reviewed and denied the appeal of the Japanese-Americans in WW II. He perceived, correctly, that there was a "clear and present danger" of insurrection and/or invasion. The internment of potential (and as it turned out, many actual) spies and saboteurs was justified by the greater good of protecting the Republic.

We were able to review and make reparations where called for, at our leisure after the war was won. Did it suck to be a loyal Japanese-American in those days? Yes. It also sucked to be in the Army and Marines in the South Pacific, eating dirt and dying on one godforsaken island after another. It also sucked not being able to buy butter and sugar for your kids at home, or having to work the night shift at a defense plant, all the while worrying whether your loved one was lying dead in some European mudhole.

It hasn't happened yet, but my guess is that before this is all over we all will be required to sacrifice, in various ways. If not by our weaselly politicians, then by the cruel master, Reality.



91 posted on 06/16/2004 8:49:51 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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