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To: longnshort who wrote (272863)	2/8/2006 11:32:57 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574685

"People today don't seem to have any perspective on our nation's history." What a BS article. Comparing the "war on terrorism" to WWII is total nonsense. The comparison is about as brainless as you are. This is yet another feeble attempt to distract from the issues at hand with some mumbo jumbo, cobbled together history that tries to conflate various totally different issues. "All Japanese-Americans were placed in internment camps while their property was confiscated. " We are rounding up people and confining them with no access to the legal system in various places scattered throughout the world. Some based strictly on appearance, others because they have a similar name. How many? We don't know. Where are they being held? The same. Now it is probably true that the scale of the Japanese roundup was larger, but we don't really know. "Newspaper accounts of the war were censored as well as all correspondence between our military personnel and the folks back home." This is happening too. The degree might be different, but the impulses are the same. "German saboteurs who came ashore in the United States were rounded up and tried by a military tribunal and immediately executed." That is true. I suspect if some Arabs were to pull up on shore near a large city, make their way to the local authorities and one or more volunteers that they were dropped there to try to cripple the US infrastructure, something similar would happen to them. Just a guess until it happens. "African-Americans fought in segregated units." They were in separate units before the war. I fail to see how there was any freedom lost. They didn't have it before. "Rationing of gasoline, meat, shoes and tires were commonplace." This is where it veers off into complete, lns-style stupidity in trying to obscure the issue. Rationing was because of the extent of the war. It had absolutely nothing to do with the government taking freedoms aware. The amount of resources were finite, the war demands were high enough so that resources had to be allocated. "Air raid alerts were routine where entire cities were blacked out." Instead we have this silly, color-coded system that seems to go into high alert right before an election and then, for the most part, drops off totally afterwards. What we didn't have during WWII was the wholesale monitoring of telephone calls and other communications between the US and other countries and ever growing evidence that solely US communications are monitored also. Nor were we contemplating a national ID system for everyone in the country. The government didn't see the need to monitor what books we bought or checked out of libraries. Now one country did engage in the stuff of the above paragraph. The Soviet Union.