What is required of us to be loyal, patriotic Americans?
Daytona Beach News Journal
by Pierre Tristam
05/30/07
Should a devastating terrorist attack occur in the United States (a nuclear bomb, say, or a series of massive urban attacks day after day) it’s not at all far-fetched that the government will indiscriminately round up Arab Americans as security risks, whether they have citizenship or not (I have mine) — not because the government did so with Japanese-Americans during World War II, but because it already did so with thousands of loyal, law-abiding Arab-Americans in the aftermath of 9/11. As with the internment of Japanese in World War II, few voices spoke up against the round-up of Arab-Americans. It may have been the patriotic thing to do to keep quiet about it. It certainly wasn’t the loyal thing to do.Those who spoke up, the American Civil Liberties Union and a ridiculously small number of newspapers and magazines among them, were the ones being loyal to the rights and principles the government was befouling, and that blind patriots were condoning...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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by Pierre Tristam
05/30/07
Should a devastating terrorist attack occur in the United States (a nuclear bomb, say, or a series of massive urban attacks day after day) it’s not at all far-fetched that the government will indiscriminately round up Arab Americans as security risks, whether they have citizenship or not (I have mine) — not because the government did so with Japanese-Americans during World War II, but because it already did so with thousands of loyal, law-abiding Arab-Americans in the aftermath of 9/11. As with the internment of Japanese in World War II, few voices spoke up against the round-up of Arab-Americans. It may have been the patriotic thing to do to keep quiet about it. It certainly wasn’t the loyal thing to do.Those who spoke up, the American Civil Liberties Union and a ridiculously small number of newspapers and magazines among them, were the ones being loyal to the rights and principles the government was befouling, and that blind patriots were condoning...
http://tinyurl.com/yq478k
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pierre+Tristam
rudkla - 31. Mai, 13:33
