Michelle Malkin Loves America More Than You
You know, I was always taught that it is better to be thought a fool than to be Michelle Malkin and remove all doubt. If this troll were not an attractive female, would she even have a forum? It's not as if she has anything useful to say. To make matters worse, now she's done gone and written herself a real live book. Gawrsh, Ma- and she shore is purty....
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CAT LITTER, WILLYA?? Singling out one or more groups for oppression in the interest of the "greater good" is not a trade-off any freedom-loving American should be willing to make- and it's just plain wrong (and then there is the whole Bill of Rights thing- or is Breathing While Arab now a crime?). Yet too many unquestioning, single-minded Bush supporters are willing to subvert the Constitution if it helps in the Moral Equivalent Of the War on terror (apologies to Jimmy Carter).
The great thing about political rant books is that you can hate them first, not read them later. And so it is with Michelle Malkin's ambitious new tome, "In Defense of Internment." Actually, the full title is "In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling,'" but that seems like overkill -- perhaps she should have taken a less inflammatory position, like, say, "In Defense of Internment: It's Not Like We Gassed Them." Oh, wait, that is her position.
According to the publisher, "'In Defense of Internment' proves that everything you've ever learned about the World War II 'internment camps' for Japanese in America is wrong," a sentence which does with a single set of scare quotes what took David Duke his entire career....
Oh, and just for the record? "Malkin is not advocating rounding up all Arabs or Muslims and tossing them into camps." [Emphasis theirs.] But we didn't think so. . . we hear it's more of a "shoving them gently into jail cells" plan. Still working out whether or not glowsticks will be involved.
Is it just me, or is it now fashionable for the Far Right Wing to endorse virtually anything short of political show trials and summary executions in defense of liberty? When we reach the point where we can justify internment camps with a straight face, something is horribly wrong with our society. And when we can discuss the virtues of racial profiling in all seriousnedd, I fear we may be far enough down the slippery slope that we may not being able to right ourselves.
Have we become so afraid of "terrorists" that we are willing to trade who and what we were so that we may once again feel "safe"? What does "safe" feel like? And don't tell me it's what we felt prior to 9.11. That feeling was simply self-delusion. Terrorism has been out there longer than most Americans are willing to admit. It just took having it visited in our front yard to open our eyes to reality.
I fear that we are well on our way to accepting far less than what we can be in order to keep the "bogeyman" at bay. How terribly sad....
