Posted on 07/18/2002 4:00:08 AM PDT by Elle Bee
I strongly suggest you look up the rules governing the internment/relocation camps the US government provide for American citizens of Japanese ancestry. First, they were not locked up there they were free to leave provided they did not enter the exclusionary zone of the West Coast states. Second, the "loss of assets issue is not entirely true due to the madated sale of assetts many lost money in the relocation and due to the inflation resulting from WWII were unable to purchase the same real estate3 they may have owned prior to internment. Real estate and operating businesses were the only true losses and the ownership of those business was compensated although clearly not sufficiently. this was not the Germans rounding up Jews for the death camps although Minetta does make it appear that way.
I am not defending the decision made by Franklin Rosevelt but I am stating that it is only by the American standard that this re-location for the wartime emergency was in any way a greivous wrong but we are in America and it clearly was wrong.
The big problem that both Ms. Coulter and I share with Mr. Minnetta's charcterization of this experience is that he likens it to the Nazi round ups or the Japanese attrocities it was not an attrocity. I note I have an aquaitance whose family is nesie whose family moved to Missouri from one of the camps in late 1942. Her has no problem with the history and his father and mother refused any repoarations. His unlce was a combat vetran his father was 4F but workrd in a defense plant as an engineer. His grand parents who were Japanese citizens were in the camps for the entire time.
In short the issue is not as black and white as sometimes depicted.
Funny you say that.
The words "Ann" or "Coulter" can hardly be mentioned on FR without multiple people posting a half dozen pictures of her. Many people do not question what she says because of her perceived beauty. She's tall and skinny, and many of us men here don't find that too attractive. Its fine if others do, but I propose its not "us" who are obsessed with her. Secondly, she is way off the mark on several issues.
Please, scroll back up. Look at the second picture. She's sitting there in a hoochie-mama skirt, flinging her hair like a flirty 16-year old. That's the epitome of womanhood that all females should admire?
It would be easy to dismiss anything Ann says if you depend on what she looks like to base your opinion on...
It is odd that those who accuse her admirers of focusing only on her looks seem to be willing to dismiss her on the same basis.
I will agree with OPH in one regard though - her looks don't really do that much for me either. But I am definitely in love with her mind.
We NEED someone who is A.) pretty enough to get on TV, unlike, say, Limbaugh, and B.) is willing to say un-PC things like matter-of-factly calling X42 a rapist. We need someone who will express a wacky "invade their countries, kill their leaders & convert them to Christianity" view so that whatever we end up doing isn't the right-most fringe idea anyone's heard.
She's our James Carville.
With that kind of bile, you neatly prove Ann's point for her. The nasty, personal, lying attacks you unload on Ann Coulter invalidate any pretense of objectivity when it comes to a conservative woman such as Ann Coulter.
If Ann Coulter pisses you off to the point where you engage in calling her names and attacking her character she must be doing something right. Truth is, the messenger isn't the problem, her message is. She ridicules liberals, gets on TV a lot and has a #1 best seller exposing liberal media bias against conservatives but your type whine about her skirt lengths and her weight. Yeah, you're a real serious type, I can see. Please. Calling Ann Coulter names doesn't cut it and won't shut her up or diminish her influence one iota, in fact, attacks seeem to strengthen her. She's a well educated woman, a constitutional attorney, as you know, and has as much credibility as anyone on Free Republic.
Keep it up, you look dumber every time you try this 'Ann's a bimbo (or worse)' routine to attack a credible source of conservative thought who gets mainstream attention for conservative values while your type shouts smarmy names at her from the sidelines. It's a losing game and Ann wins most every time.
Maybe you can attack Phyllis Schlafly next. She's getting old, maybe you can attack her age...call her senile, yeah, that's the ticket! Anything to shut up these intelligent, conservative females that just annoy you to death, especially that Coulter woman and her short skirts.
Forget it. They have the national stage and a huge audience, you have FR and your petty personal attacks. They win. Game over.
We NEED someone who is A.) pretty enough to get on TV, unlike, say, Limbaugh, and B.) is willing to say un-PC things like matter-of-factly calling X42 a rapist. We need someone who will express a wacky "invade their countries, kill their leaders & convert them to Christianity" view so that whatever we end up doing isn't the right-most fringe idea anyone's heard.
She's our James Carville.
You got that right! As David Horowitz says, Pubbies will continue to lose until they learn how to throw rocks like the Dems.
You're showing your ignorance. The reference was to the US DOJ's "Honors Program", not to Coulter's graduation with honors. The "Honors Program" is the way new attorneys get entry-level jobs with the Justice Department. It is very competitive.
And being a clerk for a judge generally involves doing a little research, making coffee, and listening to his war stories. Ask yourself how long she worked fo the Justice Department, and what her workload consisted of.
Again, you are betraying your ignorance. Law clerks to federal judges often draft the court's opinions. Like the DOJ Honors program, federal clerkships are highly coveted positions that only the best graduates can obtain.
We NEED a loud-mouthed bomb-thrower like her. Conservatives / GOPers are FAR too nice in the way we confront issues. You have Dems openly (on TV) saying that Bush allowed the 9/11 attacks to help defense contractors, or that he practically killed James Byrd himself. Nothing is too outrageous for them to allege. But what do the Republicans do? We hem and haw and twiddle our thumbs.Right on! (For the first two.)We NEED someone who is A.) pretty enough to get on TV, unlike, say, Limbaugh, and B.) is willing to say un-PC things like matter-of-factly calling X42 a rapist. We need someone who will express a wacky "invade their countries, kill their leaders & convert them to Christianity" view so that whatever we end up doing isn't the right-most fringe idea anyone's heard.
She's our James Carville.
Two out of three ain't bad. :)
See also:
Ann Coulter guest-hosts for Dennis Prager (7/18 - listen online!): LIVE DISCUSSION THREAD
www.AnnCoulter.org/events.html | Ann Coulter
Posted on 07/18/2002 8:19 AM Pacific by RonDog
BTTT
Fine with me. It is still a free country...until you liberal rumpswabs wreck it.
Don't let the door hit you in the bumm as you swish and sashay out!
Phyllis Schlafly was a couple of years ahead of me in law school in the late 1970s, so I didn't get a chance to know her while there. At that time, just about every female law student there was a rabid feminist, and they just hated her. They absolutely loathed and despised her, and they loathed and despised the one professor they considered her ideological "ally." It was quite a spectacle, but I will say Mrs. Schlafly - as you might expect - maintained her dignity while those 30 years her junior exhibited their ignorance.
And yet, her book is the best-selling book in America, and yours isn't. I've read her, and I've read you, and (though you're not bad) she's a better writer than you.
Yeah, it's the skirts.
Schlafly was remaking the Republican Party.
Phyllis, we need you again....
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