[Arleigh]

"I hope the same thing doesn't happen to the Middle Easterners," said Dave Tatsuno, whose family was forced to sell their store's merchandise and move to Topaz in the Utah desert. "Most of them are innocent like we were. The country has to be careful to never again fall into the trap of condemning a people due to ancestry."

This relentless barrage of news stories to make us feel empathy for Middle Easterners is starting to reek of a premeditated, government-instigated propaganda campaign.

Am I the only person who's feeling a trifle manipulated?

[07055]

Am I the only person who's feeling a trifle manipulated?

You may be right about it being an organized campaign---but I don't think it is coming from the government.

The issue of Japanese internees is one of those things that the media never seems to tire of covering. It's in the same class as "blacklisting victims from the McCarthy Era."

The media never seems to find space to tell us about the Bataan Death March, the Japanese POW camps, or the communists who really were in the goverment---but they always have room for stories about pitiful Japanese internees and "victims of McCarthyism."

[F16Fighter]

"Am I the only person who's feeling a trifle manipulated?

Talk about "manipulated" -- has everyone been bludgeoned enough by those sickening 'AD COUNCIL' TV ads, "I am an American", starring various "people of color"?

Maybe the AD should continue: "Despite our questionable U.S. citizenship status, our allegiance is still with any Muslim country of choice...