I'm under 18. Of course I'm still living at home.
Then you know nothing about real life.
Note that almost all of said illegals are from Cuba or Mexico. Two rather poor countries that are very very close to the U.S. I think that the fact that the U.S. is a wealthy country that's very close to them is the main factor.
We get a lot of European immigrants too. And Asian!!! All looking for a better life.
I'm not a hypocrite.
Yes you are. You always trash your country. And gush all over its enemies.
I don't think Japan and France are better (although Japan's gun control laws do help their crime rates alot more than ours). I just don't think the U.S. is the single greatest place on the planet. I still like it here, for the most part.
Yeah...I bet you do. The word is called freedom. The other is capitalism. Hypocrite.
No, I do think I might live in Japan for a while. Although the fact that I don't speak the language would be a problem.
You ain't going anywhere.
I only complain when I see bull**** going on. I see some serious bull**** going on right now.
No...you like to complain period. And follow me around.
And yet the rest of us are having problems to. They're putting survailence cameras on street corners all over New York. They're listening in on our conversations and looking through our things. You know that the patriot act makes it legal for government officials to take someone, try them, and exicute them on a boat offshore without anyone ever hearing about it? You know there have been incidents where agents of the government broke into people's houses, searched through their things, and then left and put everything back together before they got home. All of this is a severe infringement on our right to privacy and in the boat case, a right to a fair trial by a jury of our peers. Rights are being trampled on. It may not seem like a big deal, but it is. We allow the government to trample on smaller rights, and that leaves the door open for them to mess with the bigger ones.
Cry me a river. Have we seen anyone done this way in the news?? All these urban myths need to stop.
You think he wouldn't have stoped using his phone eventually anyway? The guy, obviously, isn't an idiot. Criminals will always figure out how to get around the system. The only way to create a system where they can't is to create a world as presented in 1984.
Maybe he would have stopped. But I guess we'll never know now, huh?? 
But people are advocating giving too much.
Nope.
FDR put American citizens of Japanese descent into camps. From what I understand, they were treated like crap by the gaurds. They went too far. I will admit that FDR, while a smart man, went too far in protecting the nation and ended up trampling over people's rights.
We won the war.
IN DEFENSE OF INTERNMENT
By Michelle Malkin · August 03, 2004 06:44 AM
The word is out about my new book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror. I've been keeping it under wraps over the past year as I quietly toiled away in the wee hours of the morning, but since Instapundit kindly mentioned receiving the book yesterday, I am delighted now to share a few more details with you.
The official launch is Monday, August 9. Please check my books page for more info (including documents, bibliography, resources, errata, etc.) and notices of upcoming appearances, speeches, and book signings. For those of you in the Seattle area, I shall return to the Pacific Northwest this Friday, Aug. 6, for a speech sponsored by my friends at KVI-AM. It's at 7 pm at Cedar Park Church in Bothell. More info is here. Hope you can make it.
My aim is to kick off a vigorous national debate on what has been one of the most undebatable subjects in Amerian history and law: President Franklin Roosevelt's homeland security policies that led to the evacuation and relocation of 112,000 ethnic Japanese on the West Coast, as well as the internment of tens of thousands of enemy aliens from Japan, Germany, Italy, and other Axis nations. I think it's vitally important to get the history right because the WWII experience is often invoked by opponents of common-sense national security profiling and other necessary homeland security measures today.
A few things compelled me to write the book. Ever since I questioned President Clinton's decision to award the Congressional Medal of Honor to Japanese-American soldiers based primarly on claims of racial discrimination in 2000, several readers have urged me to research the topic of the "Japanese-American internment." World War II veterans wrote to say they agreed with my assessment of Clinton's naked politicization of the medals, but disagreed with my unequivocal statement that the internment of ethnic Japanese was "was abhorrent and wrong." They urged me to delve into the history and the intelligence leading to the decision before making up my mind.
I was further inspired by some intriguing blog debates last year between Sparkey at Sgt. Stryker and Is That Legal?. After reading a book by former National Security Agency official David Lowman called MAGIC: The untold story of U.S. Intelligence and the evacuation of Japanese residents from the West Coast during WWII, published posthumously by Athena Press Inc., I contacted publisher Lee Allen, who generously agreed to share many new sources and resources as I sought the truth.
The constant alarmism from Bush-bashers who argue that every counter-terror measure in America is tantamount to the internment was the final straw. The result is a book that I hope changes the way readers view both America's past and its present.
If you are a history buff, you will undoubtedly enjoy reading the book as much as I enjoyed researching and writing it. There are some incredible stories of untold courage and patriotism, as well as espionage and disloyalty, that have been buried in the mainstream WWII literature. If you are a parent with kids in high school, college, or law school, I hope you buy the book for your students or their teachers. And if you are simply an informed citizen, seeking answers about why we have failed to do what's necessary to combat our enemies on American soil (e.g., airport profiling, immigration enforcement, heightened scrutiny of Muslim chaplains and soldiers, etc.), I hope you buy the book to help gain intellectual ammunition and insights on our politically correct paralysis.
Liberal critics always ask if I've ever changed my mind about anything. Yes, I take back what I wrote in 2000; I have radically changed my mind about FDR's actions to protect the homeland. And I hope to persuade you all to do the same.
It's a daunting task, I know. This issue is fraught with emotion. Already, the first two reviews at Amazon.com have been posted--one on either side of the debate
by individuals who have obviously not read a single page of the book. Another individual, who also admits she hasn't read the book, e-mailed the following to me today with the subject headline, "Shame on you:"
I have been a fan of yours since spotting you a while ago on FOX news?and I often agree with your views. I'm therefore appalled to read on Instapundit that you have published a book which endorses the internment of Americans of Japanese descent during WWII...I'm shocked that you would use Michael Moore-ish "truth-telling" to make the case for the internment camps. My parents' families were interned in the middle of the desert in Arizona, and it was far from the summer-camp-like experience your publisher describes on Amazon.com. You apparently note the many "amenities" in the camps---sounds almost like Moore's depiction of pre-OIF days in Iraq.
Geez, Louise. She compares me to Michael Moore without having read a single sentence of the actual book.
Neither has Eric Muller, who runs the blog Is That Legal? that I mentioned earlier. (He is also mentioned in my book on p. 352.) Yet, based on the book cover and publisher's description alone, he comments that they do "not inspire confidence that Ms. Malkin is going to be giving us history that is Fair and Balanced." He complains that the cover unfairly likened "a Japanese-American man to Mohammed Atta"--but he does so without bothering to find out who the man on the cover is. He is Richard Kotoshirodo, a Japanese-American man who by his own admission assisted the Honolulu-based spy ring that fed intelligence to Tokyo that was key to the design of the Pearl Harbor attack. Every scholar and student who writes about Roosevelt's decision to evacuate the West Coast should know his name and story.
I expect much more emotion-driven criticism like this in days and weeks to come. And I look forward to whatever substantive debate the other side can muster up.
All that said, the fact that the book is being published at all is what made all the hard work of the past year--and the harsh ad hominem attacks sure to come--worth it. Most publishers wouldn't touch this with a 100-foot pole, and I am grateful to Regnery Publishing for fully embracing my idea. Everything else is icing on the cake (though it would be nice to outsell fluffball Maureen Dowd).
So, stay tuned. I think we are in for a wild but very necessary and educational ride.
You give them too much power, and they'll hold themselves above accountability.
He didnt hide it from us like this Administration is hiding this program. You keep using the excuse about us complaining saying this: "If you aren't having discussions with Hakim on blowing up the Capitol, you got nothing to fear from Uncle Sam!" Youre right, we have nothing to hide, but why does the Administration find it necessary to hide this program? These are questions you need to ask yourself. If its helping us and the country why hide it? im sure we would all love to see how theyre "protecting" us. If it isnt such a bad thing, why the necessity to deny/hide this program?
You know it's true. What took you so long??
