(01-22-2017, 02:17 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(01-22-2017, 01:51 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:
George Takei, the guy who worships the party that unconstitutionally imprisoned his family during WWII. What a fool.
![[Image: 16142861_10208367165602015_2527868912072...e=590CE9D7]](https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p75x225/16142861_10208367165602015_2527868912072753207_n.jpg?oh=3d45d337df9a730556b6a1a3af31d081&oe=590CE9D7)
Republicans in western states also had their roles, advocating the incarceration of Japanese-Americans and legal-alien Japanese for alleged reasons of 'security' concerns. Part of the motivation was to compel such people to sell desirable property (such as farms, businesses, and houses at fire-sale prices.
Ironically, General Douglas MacArthur rejected such a proposal in Hawaii because such would disrupt the Hawaiian economy in which the Japanese-Hawaiian community played a large role. MacArthur would have stepped on any civil liberties that got in the way of his military objectives.
By the way -- he is also part of a group that has been treated roughly for no valid reason. He's gay.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.