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Once again Inouye misses the point. Not all the JAs went to the concentration camps. For example, virtually no Hawaiian Japanese went. On the other hand, some Japanese went straight to jail, both from Hawaii and from Continental US areas (and some of them were comparable to the guys just now picked up in this INS action).

All JAs West of the Mississippi River were dragged off to concentration camps by the Democratic Party. Their property was then sold at tax auctions to "insiders". Some believe that was the whole purpose of the exercise.

Now, when it comes to the Iranians, there are 600,000 of them in California alone (according to news reports). Less than 1/6 of 1% were arrested. This is in no way comparable to the 100% of JAs West of the Mississippi! None of the JAs who were sent to camps were lawbreakers either, unlike the Iranians and other Middle-Easterners INS picked up. The JA community has always been the most lawabiding in American history. For a number of decades there were no JAs who had even been charged with a felony, and few with a misdemeanor.

Neither Inouye nor his Moslem buddies there have the slightest understanding of the enormity of the crime committed by the US government against the Japanese-Americans in CONUS West of the Mississippi. Else they would not compare the plight of Iranian lawbreakers to that of young children shipped off to Roosevelt's concentration camps.

The Senator can talk the JA talk, but he didn't walk the JA walk. Folks should honor his service during WWII, but his current allegiances raise serious questions about the soundness of his mind.

"People are selected on the basis of their ethnicity without regard to any particular crime being committed," Ken Inouye of the Japanese American Citizens League said Friday.

I'm personally acquainted with more than a few Japanese Americans who are disgusted with what the JACL has become-- a mouthpiece of the ulraleft.

Also, I hate to break Mr. Inouye's bubble, but maybe he ought to take a trip back to his anscestral homeland and see how the immigration service there operated. Every foreign national, other than those on short-term visitor's visas, is required to register and carry an ID card. Those overstaying their visas are subject to fine, imprisonment and/or immediate deportation whether or not they've committed other crimes. Profiling is prevalent. A white engineer from the west, for example, get through an airport line much faster than one from the Middle East. A Taiwanese girl with 200,000 yen in traveler's checks get through a line a lot quicker than a Thai girl with 40,000 yen in cash.

One visible result of this policy is that you can still show up to an airport 20 minutes before a flight and get on it.