Former Reagan advisor compares Bush to Hitler

In the 1940's more than 100,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were stripped of their right to reside in the homes that they paid for, their right to work, their right to be American citizens. They were ordered to report to internment camps and ordered to sell their property if they could. They were held as prisoners despite their absence of being accused of committing a crime or even a due process hearing for individual circumstances.

An outraged member of this targeted group sued for his right to liberty. His name was Koramatsu. It went to the Supreme Court.

And up there with Dred Scott and the decision to allow state-sponsored sterilization of the "feeble-minded", the Court made a decision unworthy of its prestige. It said that because of the ongoing war, the federal government had the right to intern any citizen it deemed dangerous to the country at large.

Thus, we have precedence that "war" allows the government to overstep, ignore, run roughshod, destroy liberties because of the exigent circumstances. This case has not been overruled or overturned.

Suppose * keeps the "war" perpetually? There go any or all of our rights unless the Supreme Court makes an exception. Which I doubt.

That is the difference. The Cold War wouldn't have qualified either.

Don

when "war" is used euphemistically, we're in even bigger trouble.

There are some sort of fuzzy proclamations...
but I don't remember congress passing a Declaration of War.

And remind me..who are we at war against??
Oh yeah.. the evil doers

I don't think so. The IWR IS NOT a "Declaration of War."

them rule on what legally defines a "war". That might be a good thing as it would be a ruling that truly illegitimizes this campaign and make the WH call it what it is: an invasion.

How about during the "War on Poverty"?

We are NOT at war!!
We invaded a sovereign nation - unprovoked and unthreated - and defeated them in less than two months!
We are now occupying that nation - brutally and oppressively - killing over 100,000 of their citizens at a cost of about 2,000 lives of our troops. That's about a 50-to-1 kill ratio.

seems to be.

overly concerned with questions about racial differences -- reminds me of topics from the reagan/bush years, immigration, etc.

while i'm glad he/she opposes bush -- this character{a loon?} is friend to liberals.

celebrate and financially support any who are discovered to have revealed Bush's treason.... or that of any of his neocon collaborators. These are all people whom history will look upon as having deserved the hang man's noose. That is where I sincerely hope they will end up. Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Wolfie and the rest of the bastards. They have killed enough innocents to deserve hanging many times over.