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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (282099)	7/30/2002 11:36:25 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769667

AN ADMINISTRATION BASED ON "misinformation, fraud and the deliberate suppression, alteration and destruction of evidence." The above description, is of one of the worst decisions the Supreme In-Justices ever made. Not quite as vulgarly reprehensible as their idiotic and partisan call in Bush v. Gore, but certainly in the same league as Dred Scott...... How Bush stuffed the Civil Rights Commission with a grossly inappropriate lunatic: sfgate.com <Snip> The civil rights community wants Peter Kirsanow's head. Kirsanow, an ultraconservative African-American lawyer with a clean-shaven pate and a waxed mustache, could be Ward Connerly's evil twin. That is, if Connerly had a distinguishable good side and a bit more mustache wax. But Kirsanow is his own man. Except that he got a major push from George Bush to be the president's right-wing hammer on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Bush's pet commissioner, therefore, can be considered somewhat of a White House mouthpiece on civil rights issues. So you can understand why the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee are calling for Kirsanow's resignation after remarks he made July 19 at a commission hearing in Detroit. Speaking on homeland security and the administration's call for tougher measures, Kirsanow did not beat around the bush. "If there's another terrorist attack, and if it's from a certain ethnic community or certain ethnicities that the terrorists are from, you can forget civil rights in this country," said Kirsanow. Heard enough? There's more. "Not too many people will be crying in their beer if there are more detentions, more stops and more profiling," said Kirsanow. Comforting words from a man appointed to uphold your civil rights in America. To be fair (oh, why not), Kirsanow apologized last week for his outburst and said his comments were taken out of context. He doesn't believe in detention camps, he insisted, nor should the Bush administration consider them. So was his outburst just some irresponsible trial balloon? Or a cruel ethnic joke? What bothers me is that Kirsanow's original remarks contained a qualifying phrase that indicated he really does mean business. Said Kirsanow at the July 19 meeting, "I think we will have a return to Korematsu." A return to Korematsu? What's that? Some hot tourist spot in Asia, a sushi bar in Japantown or some all-star relief pitcher? No. The name refers to Fred Korematsu, one of three men who stood up to government orders and refused to enter internment camps in the 1940s. Korematsu challenged the United States in a lawsuit that went straight to the U.S. Supreme Court, but, ultimately, the court upheld the government's decision to detain 120,000 Japanese Americans. The case law still exists. But it's not what it appears to be. San Francisco lawyer Dale Minami is incensed when the Kirsanows of the world stop at the first case and don't go further to what Minami calls "Korematsu II." "Korematsu should not be cited as a precedent to justify minority groups being taken away en masse," Minami told me in an interview. "The second case, 40 years later, discredited the Supreme Court's decision and showed that it was a decision based on misinformation, fraud and the deliberate suppression, alteration and destruction of evidence." <Continues online.......> Some have said that Bush has reversed 40 years of progress in civil rights in 18 months. A powerful and dangerous villain in our midst. -Ray