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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (8061)	12/1/2001 11:50:13 AM
From: Angler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

jt: I like your way of thinking. We are not that far apart but somewhere in the middle wondering which way the fates will lead. As to the Japanese internment, it came so suddenly that nobody had a chance to object. I recall that sitting right behind me in high school was Frank S. - a humor loving Japanese boy that I admired with affection. Suddenly, he was gone and others like him. The removal was done so quickly that nobody else had a chance to think about it - at least our elder adults. Days later on the highway quickly passing the Tanforan Race track enclosure (near S.F. - an assembly point)in my Dad's car, I noticed Japanese Kids hanging on to the wire fence looking out at the passing vehicles. And I wondered if my friend Frank was one of them. What seemed hard to understand by many knowledgeable citizens gossip was the fact that Hawaii had more Japanese residents than most and no roundup happened there after Pearl Harbor. The rumor was that Governor Warren had made the decision later regretted when he finally turned the Justice system upside down during his tenure as Chief Justice. He broke down the Civil Rights barriers with his Miranda decisions and so on to do penance for earlier acts even when he was the State's Chief Attorney General? This is the way I remember it, and I may have some of the sequences wrong. I believe that the lessons of history will preclude our doing anything stupid in the future. But the Government's first duty is to protect its CITIZENS. Otherwise we can all join the militias. Angler

To: jttmab who wrote (8061)	12/1/2001 12:04:48 PM
From: Angler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

jt: A few more words in response to yours: Land mines are horrible. I have never seen a worse casualty than a G.I. who stepped on one and lived. No descriptions needed. But they are the sinister weapon that protects defenders and are left like graffiti but hidden. I don't know how they're ever going to get rid of all the minefields laid in third world places by reckless combatants. Cleaning up the battlefields by the losers should be an international requirement. In North Africa the colonials ran herds of camels over suspected fields in advance of the sappers blowing up the animals instead of the troops. Princess Dianne was a great supporter of mine eradication, but she's gone too. It's a vast problem. Angler