Justice Antonin Scalia says World War II-style internment camps could happen again

[SheriffJoe]

Justice Antonin Scalia says World War II-style internment camps could happen again

BY JOEL GEHRKE | FEBRUARY 4, 2014 AT 1:57 PM

TOPICS: BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL SUPREME COURT ANTONIN SCALIA



Justice Antonin Scalia predicts that the Supreme Court will eventually authorize another a...Justice Antonin Scalia predicts that the Supreme Court will eventually authorize another a wartime abuse of civil rights such as the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II.
"You are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again," Scalia told the University of Hawaii law school while discussing Korematsu v. United States, the ruling in which the court gave its imprimatur to the internment camps.

The local Associated Press report quotes Scalia as using a Latin phrase that means "in times of war, the laws fall silent," to explain why the court erred in that decision and will do so again.

"That's what was going on — the panic about the war and the invasion of the Pacific and whatnot," Scalia said. "That's what happens. It was wrong, but I would not be surprised to see it happen again, in time of war. It's no justification but it is the reality."

The late U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, who was Japanese-American, was not among those sent to the camps but was declared an "enemy alien." When he got the chance to fight for his country in World War II, he jumped at it, eventually earning a Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry" near San Terenzo, Italy, in 1945. "I was angered to realize that my government thought that I was disloyal and part of the enemy, and I wanted to be able to demonstrate not only to my government but to my neighbors that I was a good American," Inouye told Ken Burns in "The War," as quoted by Reuters.

You should read his Medal of Honor citation here.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

So, who's going to the internment camps first, the Teaparty or Congress?

 

[The Guesser]

Idiots like this never learn. In this particular case, the term Dimocrap applies. They just want to repeat the atrocities of the past. Of course the sick Terrorist Supporting POS above, who was aghast at Internment camps if the Tea Baggers were rounded up, will be all for them when they round up the Muslims.

 

[superbeets]

 

[roadreeler57]

There is supposed to be 1 family arriving to my City today......Of course this wasnt mentioned before our recent Mayoral election here...I voted for somebody else anyway so its not on me...

 

[The Guesser]

There is supposed to be 1 family arriving to my City today......Of course this wasnt mentioned before our recent Mayoral election here...I voted for somebody else anyway so its not on me...

Maybe you could take them to a Toledo Football or basketball game, or a Toledo Mud Hen baseball game next year RR, show them American Culture and Hospitality.

 

[The Guesser]

Yep, The Clinton campaign most certainly did Nail it. Threw this Bum off Her Campaign Team. Good job HRC team!!!!


Statement on Syrian refugees gets Roanoke mayor booted from Clinton campaign team

By Kelly Riddell and Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times - Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Roanoke Mayor David Bowers said Thursday he has been asked to step down from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's leadership team in Virginia for voicing his support for halting the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the U.S. by apparently endorsing the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
"Secretary Clinton has to do whatever she thinks is right, and I have to do what I believe is right," Mr. Bowers told The Washington Times. "I was more supportive of the president's foreign policy when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, and I still support her candidacy. I hope she wins, and I believe she will win."
On Wednesday, Mr. Bowers joined 26 governors from across the country in rejecting President Obama's plan to resettle as many as 10,000 refugees from war-torn Syria in the United States next year.
In a written statement, Mr. Bowers said he was "reminded that Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and it appears that the threat of harm to America from [the Islamic State] now is just as real and serious as that from our enemies then."
Shortly after his letter was released, Mr. Bowers was asked to leave the Clinton campaign's Virginia Leadership Council.
"The internment of people of Japanese descent is a dark cloud on our nation's history and to suggest that it is anything but a horrible moment in our past is outrageous," Clinton campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin said late Wednesday.
The Roanoke mayor's comments also drew pointed criticism from former "Star Trek" star George Takei, a Japanese-American who was born in Los Angeles and was sent to an internment camp with his family in 1942.
Mr. Takei, 78, took Mr. Bowers to task in a widely circulated Facebook posting.
"The internment (not a 'sequester') was not of Japanese 'foreign nationals,' but of Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens. I was one of them, and my family and I spent 4 years in prison camps because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. It is my life's mission to never let such a thing happen again in America," Mr. Takei wrote on his Facebook page.
"There never was any proven incident of espionage or sabotage from the suspected 'enemies' then, just as there has been no act of terrorism from any of the 1,854 Syrian refugees the U.S. already has accepted. We were judged based on who we looked like, and that is about as un-American as it gets," he wrote. "If you are attempting to compare the actual threat of harm from the 120,000 of us who were interned then to the Syrian situation now, the simple answer is this: There was no threat. We loved America. We were decent, honest, hard-working folks. Tens of thousands of lives were ruined, over nothing."
The actor's Facebook post has been "liked" by more than 91,000 people and shared nearly 43,000 times.
Mr. Takei, who currently is starring in the Broadway show "Allegiance," concluded his post by inviting Mr. Bowers to be his guest at an upcoming performance.
"Perhaps you, too, will come away with more compassion and understanding," he wrote.

 

[roadreeler57]

Maybe you could take them to a Toledo Football or basketball game, or a Toledo Mud Hen baseball game next year RR, show them American Culture and Hospitality.

Somebody from the Islamic center will probably do that...

 

[superbeets]

 

[ScottL]

Maybe you could take them to a Toledo Football or basketball game, or a Toledo Mud Hen baseball game next year RR, show them American Culture and Hospitality.

Toledo? Syria? 6 of 1.......