From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Aug 03 2002 - 21:44:34 MDT
Mitch writes
> Lee stated:>If a city goes up in a nuclear blast, I'm all for interning
>the suspect populations en masse as the US did the last time,
>and [would be] sorry we [hadn't done] so preventively.>
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D. Broderick, in a humorous reply to Lee stated:
<<Provocative's right! You're telling us that the USA *interned itself* in 1945?
(I must be parsing that sentence wrongly.)
Damien Broderick >>
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I missed the humor. The "suspect population" was as you infer, the Japanese,
and of course it happened in 1942.
> Gentleman, rather then embrace the fiasco of interring loyal Japanese Americans
Fiasco? It worked splendidly. The Black Dragons never got a chance
to go into action, which, especially if there had been a Japanese
invasion, might have been crippling. Not only that, but the intense
racial hatred following Pearl Harbor among some of the white Americans
had no local outlet.
> Why not deport Jihaddis, and do not imprison anyone? No Islamist symps,
> no safe houses, no safe houses, reduced risk on nuke detonation. Thusly,
> less of an opportunity to abuse citizen rights.
I was referring to the events following a really serious terrorist
incident (unlike 9/11). No time to deport anyone. Maybe you're
talking about steps to be taken now. I think that now the US is doing
approximately the right thing: investigate and keep tabs on possible
terrorists.
Lee
> If the genuine baddies are back home in their 22 Islamic paradises,
> they can be pissed at us there. I am explicitly refering to people
> who are NOT citizens, and then people who are naturalized US citizens
> who appear to have close ties with Al Qeida and the like.
> Such an excercise need be done with considerable care and fore-thought,
> so as to not throw the wheat out with the chaff. On the other hand, what
> has government done so well, lately? But I see no other choice than to
> wait for a successful attack, and then round up people for lockup.
> I surely don't wish the USA become a 4th Reich when we can more easily
> deport the bums (assuming we can correctly identify most) and fight our
> wars on their holy soil.
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