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To: Road Walker who wrote (181280)	1/21/2004 7:34:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573746

I've always thought that conservatives and liberals both have some very good principles. Bush represents the worst of both sides. He's the worst of my lifetime. John, I agree. I have wondered for some time why he's so popular but then today the teacher in whose class I am student teaching showed her class one of those old newsreels from WW II. I think they would put them on just before a feature film. This newsreel was about the Japanese American internment during WW II that happened on the west coast. Jap./Americans were uprooted and moved to internment camps in the desert. It was an embarrassing time in our history, one for which reparations were made in the late '80s. In any case, the narrator is going on and on about the relocation process as if he was talking about sending the Jap/Amer. to summer camp. How happy the Jap/Americans were to be making this sacrifice for their country bla bla bla. In the background, they are playing this happy music like it was a wonderful walk in the park. The truth was that the Jap/Americans were devastated. They were herded onto buses and trains much like the Germans herded the Jews. Instead of Stars of David, they wore white tags. They had lost their property and their businesses. They were kept in the camps for nearly 5 years behind barbed wire and guard towers. They were humiliated. Here in WA state, the soldiers boarding the Jap/Americans started to cry because they knew what they were doing. They knew they were doing a bad thing. And yet mainstream America essentially bought what the gov't told them and did not object much like the Germans did not object to the Jews being sent to the camps. Flash forward 50 years and the same thing happened to the Arabs after 9/11. A Syrian woman from Seattle who was 21 and had come to the US when she was 11 told how after 9/11, FBI agents and US military broke into her house at 6 AM and took her family to prison. They spent 9 months in prison without any legal recourse thanks to the Patriot Act. She spoke and acted like a typical American woman. As it turned out, her family was innocent of all charges and were released. However, they had lost nearly a year of their life. And yet no one said anything. I have concluded that the American public is so fearful of another terrorist attack, they don't want to know about how horrific a president Bush is. They either ignore the facts, or like DR, fill themselves with fantasy versions of Bush. Like anything else, you can only get away with this dysfunctional behavior for so long and then the schiesse will hit the fan. I hope we don't pay too steep a price. ted