RE: [Leica] Terror

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen2001@yahoo.ca>]

Amen on this point, Alexey! The internment - shipping
to clean concentration camps - of the Japanese
Americans is one of the most shameful chapters in
American history, ranking 2nd or third to slavery. It
was a racist, reactionary, trampling on the liberty of
Americans whose only crime was the fold of their
eyelids. We did NOTHING about those "Americans" who
belonged to the German American Bund. We did nothing
about Italian supporters of Musilini (sp). Why?
Because they were "white" and therefore must not have
been a threat to America.

B. D.

P.S. As if the Japanese wouldn't have been smart
enough to recruit as spys Japanese Americans from
other parts of the country...as Homer Simpson would
say...DOH!
- --- "Alexey J. Merz" <alexey@webcom.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, September 12, 2001, at 11:03 , Leica
> Users digest wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 19:55:32 -0400
> > From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Terror
> > Message-ID:
>
<NABBLIJOIFAICKBIEPJJGEAPLJAA.darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
> > References:
> >
> >> And the US imprisoned Americans of Japanese
> extraction.
> >
> > So?  At the time, that was probably a very smart
> thing to do.  Easy to
> > second guess at this point in time.
> 
> Sorry to respond in such a way at such a time, but
> that's bullshit.
> 
> Did we imprison and steal the properties, funds, and
> liberty of first- 
> and second-generation GERMANS at the same time?
> 
> These were *precisely* the sorts of retrograde
> actions that we must be 
> vigilant to prevent now. When we deny the
> fundamental liberties to any 
> sector of our population we betray the ideals that
> are the bedrock of 
> our freedom and the foundation of our democracy.
> 
> -Aex Merz
> 
> ps-
> By the way, the quote in my signature below was
> written by the great 
> French historian Marc Bloch. Bloch wrote it while he
> languished in a 
> Nazi prison, where he was held for his role in the
> French Resistance, 
> and where he would die in captivity before the war's
> end. Bloch 
> understood that liberty has a price, and that it is
> often more important 
> to pay that price than to void our claim to liberty.
>
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> Alexey Merz • alexey@webcom.com •
> alexey@dartmouth.edu • 603/464-6840 
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> 
>               A democracy becomes hopelessly weak,
> and the general good
>               suffers accordingly, if its higher
> officials, bred up to
>               despise it, and necessarily drawn from
> those very classes
>               the dominance of which it is pledged
> to destroy, serve it
>               only half-heartedly.   - Marc Bloch,
> _Strange Defeat_, 1940
> 
> 


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