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Mickey Z
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the Department of Homeland Security.
Monday, February 27, 2006
U.S. racism and fear at the ports: Nothing New
The recent uproar over the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Dubai Ports World demonstrates not only a woeful lack of understanding on how how U.S. ports work; it also exposes anti-Arab racism across the spectrum. Even if one accepts the presupposition that Islamic terrorists represent the most serious threat to world peace, it’s remains racist to assume guilt based on ethnicity.
Racist…but nothing new.
Two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 giving the army the unrestricted power to arrest—without warrants, indictments, or hearings—every Japanese-American on a 150-mile strip along the West Coast and transport them to internment camps in Colorado, Utah, Arkansas, and other interior states to be kept under prison conditions. This order was upheld by the Supreme Court and the prisoners remained in custody for over three years.
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Gives new meaning to the term tree-hugger...
(Thanks, MM)
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Three Big Brother-ish links I found at Guerilla News Network:
Here, here, and here.
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