Daily Archive for February 10th, 2003

Thank goodness we are so much more advanced in our thinking than our parents and grandparents, who lived in a much more racist time. We’ve learned from experience so the horrors and injustices of WWII could never happen today…

Oops, is that sarcasm dripping out of my pores?

North Carolina Republican congressman Howard Coble is the point person on legislation to expand surveillance and curb privacy protections, as chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. He is also the man who, in reference to the incarceration/internment of Japanese-Americans, said he agreed with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to put 120,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II.

For the record, there was never evidence of disloyalty among Japanese-Americans. For another thing, the “explanation” that it was dangerous for Japanese-Americans to be in the streets was (and still is) a total sham. It was an excuse that the government used to “justify” the evacuation and incarceration of an entire group of innocent Americans. If putting people in camps was for their own protection, why were all the machine guns pointed inside and not outside the camps?

For an interesting editorial piece from the Mercury News, click here.

Even more laughable is Coble’s “explanation” of his comments by his spokesperson (note, he did not have the balls to address this himself… only through a “spokesperson” was a statement made. Also note that he does not make any apologies).

Can we soon expect innocent Arab-Americans to be ‘locked up for their own protection?’