OT: Here we go again ...

[Philip J. Koenig]

On 20 Sep 2003 at 11:37, dep boldly uttered: 

> for a touch of perspective:
> 
> http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeser/cst-edt-roes20.html


I found little of interest in that article.  Lots of accusations and 
name-calling, an attempt to compare it to the FDR administration's 
(probably misguided) act of instituting Japanese internment camps, as 
if this was the only thing that has happened in the 20th century to 
violate US citizen's constitutional rights.  Almost nothing on 
specifics.

There are reasons why people have widely criticized the parrot act, 
and that article does nothing to refute the criticisms specifically, 
simply creates a "scorecard" based on some group of "complaints" 
(who's in charge of deeming which "complaints" are "official" 
anyway?) and proclaiming that most of them were "not credible".

Yawn.


(BTW - despite your previous attempt to deny my assertion that the 
internment camps were considered one of the dark days in US history, 
the article you referenced [because it was using this point to take a 
dig at "liberal" criticizers of the parrot act, of course] had to say 
about that event "As we know, the low point in civil liberties in the 
20th century was when FDR's attorney general, Francis Biddle, ordered 
the internment of 112,000 Japanese Americans.")

Make up your mind dep.



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