Urumqi residents on Monday walked past burned cars. The government sent police officers into the city after deadly fighting.
BY EDWARD WONG
Published: July 6, 2009
URUMQI, China — The Chinese government locked down this regional capital of 2.3 million people and other cities across its western desert region on Monday and early Tuesday, imposing curfews, cutting off cellphone and Internet services and sending armed police officers into neighborhoods after clashes erupted here on Sunday evening between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese. The fighting left at least 156 people dead and more than 1,000 injured, according to the state news agency.
But hundreds of Uighur protesters defied the police again on Tuesday morning, crashing a state-run tour of the riot scene for foreign and Chinese journalists. A wailing crowd of women, joined later by scores of Uighur men, marched down a wide avenue with raised fists and tearfully demanded that the police release Uighur men who they said had been seized from their homes after the violence. Some women waved the identification cards of men who had been detained.
As journalists watched, the demonstrators smashed the windshield of a police car and several police officers drew their pistols before the entire crowd was encircled by officers and paramilitary troops in riot gear...(read the rest of this article by clicking on the link in the title above.)
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Michelle Malkin’s In Defense of Internment
Michelle Malkin’s In Defense of Internment
Breaking News: Japan, Not America, Guilty of War Crimes 60 Years Ago
By Steve Sailer
For decades, the public considered the central event in America's 20th Century history to be the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Countless movies included a scene where swing music emanating from a wood-sided radio is replaced by a breathless announcer saying, "We interrupt this broadcast …"
In recent years, however, merely drawing attention to Japan's aggression has come to be seen as a little racially insensitive, something that nice white people just don't do. Thus the Holocaust, a much safer topic, is increasingly portrayed as the most important occurrence in last century's American history.
With the crimes of the Japanese militarists fading into the blur of Things We're Not Supposed to Think About, the bushido mindset, which inflicted so many atrocities on the world, is now considered cool. Recent Hollywood movies, such as Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" and Tom Cruise's " The Last Samurai," are full of Shinto.
However, some non-Japanese Asian-American writers are still inclined to raise unfashionable historical issues due to their relatives' victimization by Imperial Japan, and are well positioned to survive charges of racism. For example, Iris Chang's aptly-titled 1998 book The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II was a surprise bestseller. (If you read even a few of its 449 reviews on Amazon, you'll see that Japanese hypernationalism is far from dead.)
For those in the educational and cultural establishments who believe that only whites can be racist, the reality that America, and much of Asia and the Pacific, was brutalized by fanatically racist nonwhites is profoundly inconvenient.
Fortunately for their peace of mind, the crimes of Imperial Japan can be nicely balanced off against an alleged American crime: the internment of Japanese Americans after the outbreak of Pearl Harbor.
Michelle Malkin, whose parents were born in the Philippines, bravely takes on the internment industry in her new book In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror. It's a daring and powerfully argued, if perhaps not wholly convincing, effort. Most importantly, it restores some three-dimensional perspective to a complex event.
I must say I have no idea how Michelle can write a serious work of polemical history, while keeping up her popular column, and having a new baby, but she's done it. [VDARE.COM NOTE: And even found time occasionally to go fishing.]
In Defense of Internment is timely because the taxpayer-funded effort to demonize the memory of all the public servants responsible for the evacuation of the West Coast Japanese has left our airport security system a sick joke.
Nobody, including Michelle, is arguing for interning all Arab Muslims in the U.S. But the "Slippery Slope to the Manzanar Concentration Camp" argument is repeatedly trotted out these days to render unthinkable even the most narrowly-tailored racial profiling.
Underperformin' Norman—Mineta, the Secretary of Transportation—has repeatedly declaimed that, because he was interned with his family during WWII, the Transportation Security Administration must continue its dysfunctional system of randomly searching, say, Navajo grandmothers, rather than (for shame!) focusing on Arab Muslims.
Still, Michelle could have noted that Mineta, the only Democrat in the Cabinet, didn't initiate his anti-profiling policy. Instead, George W. Bush denounced profiling of Arabs back during his second debate with Al Gore in 2000—as part of a plan hatched by Grover Norquist and Karl Rove to win the Muslim vote.
Michelle's book raises a series of difficult questions to which I'll give my answers.
Was the internment the result of wartime hysteria and racism?
No doubt overexcitement played a role. My grandfather, for example, became convinced that a Japanese farmer who owned a sloping field above Pismo Beach had planted his crops in a coded pattern conveying secret information to submarines lurking offshore. That seems like the lowest bandwidth communication medium imaginable. But, I am told, there was no arguing with the old boy.
And there were also many threats of mob violence against the Japanese, with Filipinos being especially angry.
Still, the Japanese weren't the only ones to be evacuated or suffer other restrictions on their freedoms. In 1941, America's most popular athlete, Joe DiMaggio, famously hit in 56 games straight. Yet, the next year, his father, a San Francisco crab fisherman, was grounded for the duration to prevent him from, I guess, rendezvousing in the fog beyond the Golden Gate Bridge with Mussolini's invasion fleet.
Italy, of course, had no navy to speak of, and Il Duce's subjects showed negligible enthusiasm for the war. Indeed, when Patton's army landed in Sicily in 1943, the Italian soldiers put down their guns, ran down on the beach, and helped the Americans unload.
In Germany, warlust was running much higher, but Hitler never finished building any aircraft carriers so he was never a credible threat to strike land targets in America. Moreover, the loyalty of German-Americans had been fully tested in World War I, when expressions of pride in German culture in the U.S. had been crushed during the anti-German kulturkampf.
Our current fetish with Nazi Germany disguises the fact Japan was much more objectively worrisome to West Coasters in early 1942. In Japan, fanaticism was strongest of all.
And the Japanese surface fleet was world-beating. It boasted eleven battleships, compared to the zero we had left afloat after their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and ten aircraft carriers (six full-sized), while the U.S. could seldom put more than three flattops to sea in the Pacific. These aircraft carriers had revolutionized warfare, raiding Hawaii, Australia, and Ceylon, spanning 65 degrees of longitude, between December and April.
Secretary of War Henry Stimson argued that hit-and-run raids on the West Coast were "not only possible, but probable in the first months of the war, and it was quite impossible to be sure that the raiders would not receive important help from individuals of Japanese origin."
Was this worry strategically plausible or a figment generated by fear?
Worries about Japanese attacks were not simply a rationalization to drive out the Japanese Americans. Serious decisions were based on these concerns. For instance, the huge Kaiser steel mill, where the Liberty boats were to be built, was situated well inland in Fontana, California, precisely to be out of range of Japanese battleships.
Arguably, incursions on California made no long-term strategic sense for the Japanese and were thus unlikely. The problem with trying to judge how rationally Americans responded, however, is that the Tokyo high command, while tactically brilliant, was strategically nuts, with a pronounced tendency toward what Paul Johnson in Modern Times called "rational hysteria." For years, fierce young Japanese Army officers had been assassinating moderate statesmen skeptical of their demands for war. For Japanese, openly discussing the risks inherent in attacking the much bigger country of America could be a death sentence.
Having started a war it didn't know how to end, attacks on West Coast ports to disable the U.S. Navy made about as much strategic sense as anything else the Japanese did.
With hindsight, we know that the Japanese chose instead to drive south and east, conquering Guam, Wake Island, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, and Burma. By May of 1942, the Japanese had conquered one-eighth of the Earth's surface.
Finally, in June, Japan's mighty First Air Fleet turned back east, toward Midway Island, as the initial step toward Admiral Yamamoto's goal of conquering Hawaii and holding the population hostage until America agreed to end the war.
This was yet another strategic misjudgment. If Admiral Yamamoto had succeeded in capturing Oahu, and the Japanese had treated Americans the way they treated the Filipinos, the U.S. would never have negotiated. It would probably have taken until about 1946 or 1947 for the U.S. to fight its way back within bombing range of the Japanese mainland. But then, instead of atom-bombing just two Japanese cities, we probably would have annihilated a couple of dozen.
Fortunately, the Japanese were spared the full wrath of which America was capable by the U.S. Navy's extraordinary victory at Midway on June 4th, 1942. After that, the threat of raids on the mainland diminished sharply.
But by then, the evacuation from the West Coast of about 112,000 ethnic Japanese, about one-third of the adults being citizens, had been underway for months. (Japanese American citizens outside of the Coastal region were left alone.)
Were fears of disloyalty wholly hallucinatory?
Japanese immigrants in Southeast Asia had aided the invaders. But that doesn't prove than many in America would have helped temporary raiders. For one thing, any such traitors would have been left behind to face the wrath of the American survivors.
But the precision of the Pearl Harbor attacks did show that the Japanese had a spy ring operating on Oahu. It included one American-born citizen, Richard Kotoshirodo.
And top Roosevelt administration officials were hungrily reading decodings of Japanese diplomatic cryptograms, some of which recounted spy surveillance of mainland ports. The Japanese government would have preferred to use whites and blacks as its spies, but racist regimes have a much harder time recruiting Benedict Arnolds from other ethnic groups than do communist dictatorships. There's no evidence that the Japanese state progressed beyond organizing espionage to arranging sabotage, although suicide bombings would have been a logical step for the government that invented the kamikaze.
Unfortunately, the first two Japanese American citizens to have their loyalty spontaneously tested by a Japanese incursion … flunked. A Japanese pilot returning from shooting up Pearl Harbor crash-landed on Niihau, the privately-owned ranching island that serves as a cultural preserve for Native Hawaiians. The two American-born citizens of Japanese descent on Niihau collaborated with the pilot and briefly took over the island, until a wounded Hawaiian killed the aviator with his bare hands. One of the quislings then shot himself.
How severe was the risk?
On Hawaii, the Japanese ethnic group made up such a large fraction of the workforce that mass evacuation was impractical. Instead, the territory came under martial law. Few problems were observed. But then, the Japanese Navy never made it back.
Let it be noted that sabotage was more of a left-of-center fear at that time. Stalin had denounced "wreckers" at his show trials, and the international left had become obsessed by fascist "fifth columnists" during the Spanish Civil War. So evacuation of the Japanese from the West Coast was supported somewhat more by liberals than by conservatives. The most notable public spokesman against mass evacuations was Republican Senator Robert Taft—and the leading dissenter within the Roosevelt Administration was FBI supremo J. Edgar Hoover.
It should also be noted that the 1924 shutdown of immigration did much to cut down on the threat of disloyalty. All the Japanese-born noncitizens had been in the U.S. for at least 18 years. Even if they hadn't grown fond of America, they had at least gotten old enough that militancy wouldn't be as fun-sounding as it once might have seemed. The American citizens had all been born in this country and, typically, educated in assimilationist public schools.
But thousands of American-born citizens, such as Kotoshirodo, had been sent to Japan for their education, where they'd caught the militarist virus.
Everyone has heard, repeatedly, of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was formed in the camps and went on to set records for medals won while fighting in Italy.
We don’t hear, however, of the fact that over a quarter (28%) of the young male citizens in the camps refused to swear allegiance to the U.S. Presumably, many had been alienated by their experiences, but it shows that stories about complete loyalty among the internees are myths. Ultimately, 5,589 individuals even renounced their citizenship.
How bad was the treatment of internees?
By WWII standards, not all that bad, at least after the initial chaos. The worst injustices were that many evacuees had to sell their property at fire sale prices. In particular, many farmers in Los Angeles County would have made a fortune if they had been able to hold on to their land until the housing boom after the war. Some compensation for property losses was voted by Congress in 1948, but it wasn't enough.
Luckily, Japanese Americans are a hard working and enterprising people, so most got back on their feet relatively quickly after the war. In the 1970s, Senator S. I. Hayakawa argued that by breaking the authority of the older generation, internment enabled the younger people to adapt to the American economy better and make more money after the war than they would have otherwise.
Physical conditions in the camps were spartan, but not much worse than those experienced by draftees who remained stateside. And, of course, lots of draftees ended up in much worse places, such as Guadalcanal or, worst of all, a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
Workers in the relocation camps were paid, although the maximum wage was limited to that of an Army private's. Eventually, tens of thousands were allowed out to take jobs or attend colleges away from the West Coast.
Still, there was a significant psychological difference between being drafted and being interned. This must have been especially painful to the status-sensitive Japanese. Also, this complete disruption of life would be easier for a young draftee to endure than an elderly evacuee.
In summary, I would agree with Michelle that based on what policy makers knew in the desperate month of February 1942, mass evacuation of the Coast was certainly defensible.
I would add, though, that it seems less than optimal. Hoover's proposal for rounding up suspicious characters and removing Japanese ethnics from around just the most militarily crucial locations in Seattle and San Diego sounds far better both from the standpoints of protecting personal liberty and justice and of maintaining wartime production.
Unlike Michelle Malkin, I approve of the 1988 payment of $20,000 to each internee. The U.S. is a rich country and can afford to pay off at leisure for decisions that need to be made in haste.
That's a much better practice than our current tendency to immediately get bogged down interminably by half-remembered half-truths.
[Steve Sailer [email him] is founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute and movie critic for The American Conservative. His website www.iSteve.blogspot.com features his daily blog.]
Breaking News: Japan, Not America, Guilty of War Crimes 60 Years Ago
By Steve Sailer
For decades, the public considered the central event in America's 20th Century history to be the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Countless movies included a scene where swing music emanating from a wood-sided radio is replaced by a breathless announcer saying, "We interrupt this broadcast …"
In recent years, however, merely drawing attention to Japan's aggression has come to be seen as a little racially insensitive, something that nice white people just don't do. Thus the Holocaust, a much safer topic, is increasingly portrayed as the most important occurrence in last century's American history.
With the crimes of the Japanese militarists fading into the blur of Things We're Not Supposed to Think About, the bushido mindset, which inflicted so many atrocities on the world, is now considered cool. Recent Hollywood movies, such as Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" and Tom Cruise's " The Last Samurai," are full of Shinto.
However, some non-Japanese Asian-American writers are still inclined to raise unfashionable historical issues due to their relatives' victimization by Imperial Japan, and are well positioned to survive charges of racism. For example, Iris Chang's aptly-titled 1998 book The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II was a surprise bestseller. (If you read even a few of its 449 reviews on Amazon, you'll see that Japanese hypernationalism is far from dead.)
For those in the educational and cultural establishments who believe that only whites can be racist, the reality that America, and much of Asia and the Pacific, was brutalized by fanatically racist nonwhites is profoundly inconvenient.
Fortunately for their peace of mind, the crimes of Imperial Japan can be nicely balanced off against an alleged American crime: the internment of Japanese Americans after the outbreak of Pearl Harbor.
Michelle Malkin, whose parents were born in the Philippines, bravely takes on the internment industry in her new book In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror. It's a daring and powerfully argued, if perhaps not wholly convincing, effort. Most importantly, it restores some three-dimensional perspective to a complex event.
I must say I have no idea how Michelle can write a serious work of polemical history, while keeping up her popular column, and having a new baby, but she's done it. [VDARE.COM NOTE: And even found time occasionally to go fishing.]
In Defense of Internment is timely because the taxpayer-funded effort to demonize the memory of all the public servants responsible for the evacuation of the West Coast Japanese has left our airport security system a sick joke.
Nobody, including Michelle, is arguing for interning all Arab Muslims in the U.S. But the "Slippery Slope to the Manzanar Concentration Camp" argument is repeatedly trotted out these days to render unthinkable even the most narrowly-tailored racial profiling.
Underperformin' Norman—Mineta, the Secretary of Transportation—has repeatedly declaimed that, because he was interned with his family during WWII, the Transportation Security Administration must continue its dysfunctional system of randomly searching, say, Navajo grandmothers, rather than (for shame!) focusing on Arab Muslims.
Still, Michelle could have noted that Mineta, the only Democrat in the Cabinet, didn't initiate his anti-profiling policy. Instead, George W. Bush denounced profiling of Arabs back during his second debate with Al Gore in 2000—as part of a plan hatched by Grover Norquist and Karl Rove to win the Muslim vote.
Michelle's book raises a series of difficult questions to which I'll give my answers.
Was the internment the result of wartime hysteria and racism?
No doubt overexcitement played a role. My grandfather, for example, became convinced that a Japanese farmer who owned a sloping field above Pismo Beach had planted his crops in a coded pattern conveying secret information to submarines lurking offshore. That seems like the lowest bandwidth communication medium imaginable. But, I am told, there was no arguing with the old boy.
And there were also many threats of mob violence against the Japanese, with Filipinos being especially angry.
Still, the Japanese weren't the only ones to be evacuated or suffer other restrictions on their freedoms. In 1941, America's most popular athlete, Joe DiMaggio, famously hit in 56 games straight. Yet, the next year, his father, a San Francisco crab fisherman, was grounded for the duration to prevent him from, I guess, rendezvousing in the fog beyond the Golden Gate Bridge with Mussolini's invasion fleet.
Italy, of course, had no navy to speak of, and Il Duce's subjects showed negligible enthusiasm for the war. Indeed, when Patton's army landed in Sicily in 1943, the Italian soldiers put down their guns, ran down on the beach, and helped the Americans unload.
In Germany, warlust was running much higher, but Hitler never finished building any aircraft carriers so he was never a credible threat to strike land targets in America. Moreover, the loyalty of German-Americans had been fully tested in World War I, when expressions of pride in German culture in the U.S. had been crushed during the anti-German kulturkampf.
Our current fetish with Nazi Germany disguises the fact Japan was much more objectively worrisome to West Coasters in early 1942. In Japan, fanaticism was strongest of all.
And the Japanese surface fleet was world-beating. It boasted eleven battleships, compared to the zero we had left afloat after their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and ten aircraft carriers (six full-sized), while the U.S. could seldom put more than three flattops to sea in the Pacific. These aircraft carriers had revolutionized warfare, raiding Hawaii, Australia, and Ceylon, spanning 65 degrees of longitude, between December and April.
Secretary of War Henry Stimson argued that hit-and-run raids on the West Coast were "not only possible, but probable in the first months of the war, and it was quite impossible to be sure that the raiders would not receive important help from individuals of Japanese origin."
Was this worry strategically plausible or a figment generated by fear?
Worries about Japanese attacks were not simply a rationalization to drive out the Japanese Americans. Serious decisions were based on these concerns. For instance, the huge Kaiser steel mill, where the Liberty boats were to be built, was situated well inland in Fontana, California, precisely to be out of range of Japanese battleships.
Arguably, incursions on California made no long-term strategic sense for the Japanese and were thus unlikely. The problem with trying to judge how rationally Americans responded, however, is that the Tokyo high command, while tactically brilliant, was strategically nuts, with a pronounced tendency toward what Paul Johnson in Modern Times called "rational hysteria." For years, fierce young Japanese Army officers had been assassinating moderate statesmen skeptical of their demands for war. For Japanese, openly discussing the risks inherent in attacking the much bigger country of America could be a death sentence.
Having started a war it didn't know how to end, attacks on West Coast ports to disable the U.S. Navy made about as much strategic sense as anything else the Japanese did.
With hindsight, we know that the Japanese chose instead to drive south and east, conquering Guam, Wake Island, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, and Burma. By May of 1942, the Japanese had conquered one-eighth of the Earth's surface.
Finally, in June, Japan's mighty First Air Fleet turned back east, toward Midway Island, as the initial step toward Admiral Yamamoto's goal of conquering Hawaii and holding the population hostage until America agreed to end the war.
This was yet another strategic misjudgment. If Admiral Yamamoto had succeeded in capturing Oahu, and the Japanese had treated Americans the way they treated the Filipinos, the U.S. would never have negotiated. It would probably have taken until about 1946 or 1947 for the U.S. to fight its way back within bombing range of the Japanese mainland. But then, instead of atom-bombing just two Japanese cities, we probably would have annihilated a couple of dozen.
Fortunately, the Japanese were spared the full wrath of which America was capable by the U.S. Navy's extraordinary victory at Midway on June 4th, 1942. After that, the threat of raids on the mainland diminished sharply.
But by then, the evacuation from the West Coast of about 112,000 ethnic Japanese, about one-third of the adults being citizens, had been underway for months. (Japanese American citizens outside of the Coastal region were left alone.)
Were fears of disloyalty wholly hallucinatory?
Japanese immigrants in Southeast Asia had aided the invaders. But that doesn't prove than many in America would have helped temporary raiders. For one thing, any such traitors would have been left behind to face the wrath of the American survivors.
But the precision of the Pearl Harbor attacks did show that the Japanese had a spy ring operating on Oahu. It included one American-born citizen, Richard Kotoshirodo.
And top Roosevelt administration officials were hungrily reading decodings of Japanese diplomatic cryptograms, some of which recounted spy surveillance of mainland ports. The Japanese government would have preferred to use whites and blacks as its spies, but racist regimes have a much harder time recruiting Benedict Arnolds from other ethnic groups than do communist dictatorships. There's no evidence that the Japanese state progressed beyond organizing espionage to arranging sabotage, although suicide bombings would have been a logical step for the government that invented the kamikaze.
Unfortunately, the first two Japanese American citizens to have their loyalty spontaneously tested by a Japanese incursion … flunked. A Japanese pilot returning from shooting up Pearl Harbor crash-landed on Niihau, the privately-owned ranching island that serves as a cultural preserve for Native Hawaiians. The two American-born citizens of Japanese descent on Niihau collaborated with the pilot and briefly took over the island, until a wounded Hawaiian killed the aviator with his bare hands. One of the quislings then shot himself.
How severe was the risk?
On Hawaii, the Japanese ethnic group made up such a large fraction of the workforce that mass evacuation was impractical. Instead, the territory came under martial law. Few problems were observed. But then, the Japanese Navy never made it back.
Let it be noted that sabotage was more of a left-of-center fear at that time. Stalin had denounced "wreckers" at his show trials, and the international left had become obsessed by fascist "fifth columnists" during the Spanish Civil War. So evacuation of the Japanese from the West Coast was supported somewhat more by liberals than by conservatives. The most notable public spokesman against mass evacuations was Republican Senator Robert Taft—and the leading dissenter within the Roosevelt Administration was FBI supremo J. Edgar Hoover.
It should also be noted that the 1924 shutdown of immigration did much to cut down on the threat of disloyalty. All the Japanese-born noncitizens had been in the U.S. for at least 18 years. Even if they hadn't grown fond of America, they had at least gotten old enough that militancy wouldn't be as fun-sounding as it once might have seemed. The American citizens had all been born in this country and, typically, educated in assimilationist public schools.
But thousands of American-born citizens, such as Kotoshirodo, had been sent to Japan for their education, where they'd caught the militarist virus.
Everyone has heard, repeatedly, of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was formed in the camps and went on to set records for medals won while fighting in Italy.
We don’t hear, however, of the fact that over a quarter (28%) of the young male citizens in the camps refused to swear allegiance to the U.S. Presumably, many had been alienated by their experiences, but it shows that stories about complete loyalty among the internees are myths. Ultimately, 5,589 individuals even renounced their citizenship.
How bad was the treatment of internees?
By WWII standards, not all that bad, at least after the initial chaos. The worst injustices were that many evacuees had to sell their property at fire sale prices. In particular, many farmers in Los Angeles County would have made a fortune if they had been able to hold on to their land until the housing boom after the war. Some compensation for property losses was voted by Congress in 1948, but it wasn't enough.
Luckily, Japanese Americans are a hard working and enterprising people, so most got back on their feet relatively quickly after the war. In the 1970s, Senator S. I. Hayakawa argued that by breaking the authority of the older generation, internment enabled the younger people to adapt to the American economy better and make more money after the war than they would have otherwise.
Physical conditions in the camps were spartan, but not much worse than those experienced by draftees who remained stateside. And, of course, lots of draftees ended up in much worse places, such as Guadalcanal or, worst of all, a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
Workers in the relocation camps were paid, although the maximum wage was limited to that of an Army private's. Eventually, tens of thousands were allowed out to take jobs or attend colleges away from the West Coast.
Still, there was a significant psychological difference between being drafted and being interned. This must have been especially painful to the status-sensitive Japanese. Also, this complete disruption of life would be easier for a young draftee to endure than an elderly evacuee.
In summary, I would agree with Michelle that based on what policy makers knew in the desperate month of February 1942, mass evacuation of the Coast was certainly defensible.
I would add, though, that it seems less than optimal. Hoover's proposal for rounding up suspicious characters and removing Japanese ethnics from around just the most militarily crucial locations in Seattle and San Diego sounds far better both from the standpoints of protecting personal liberty and justice and of maintaining wartime production.
Unlike Michelle Malkin, I approve of the 1988 payment of $20,000 to each internee. The U.S. is a rich country and can afford to pay off at leisure for decisions that need to be made in haste.
That's a much better practice than our current tendency to immediately get bogged down interminably by half-remembered half-truths.
[Steve Sailer [email him] is founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute and movie critic for The American Conservative. His website www.iSteve.blogspot.com features his daily blog.]
Are there FEMA concentration camps?
Well, I don' t know. And we don't know. I would think it is an attempt to help disaster victims, and that is what President Obama signed into existence. But yes, they are outfitted for Martial Law, maybe thanks to the lovely "troublemakers." But during the last crisis of Hurrican Katrina, nothing seemed to much happen along the lines of rioting and killing people.
So I am hoping the FEMA camps will work out somehow, but their main problem seems to be lack of adequate funding or the capacity to build people superior housing they can escape to during a major disaster. What shall be done given the current economic crises does not look "pretty" to a journalist like me from here.
We can only hope for the sake of disaster victims that there will be no more such New World Order, Rex 84 or whatever such plans to "assist" disaster victims by housing them in concentration camps as before has been done - so many hideous and perverted times. We can only hope and vote, as Osama Bin Laden once put it himself, strangely enough, that our votes will somehow matter.
I wish I could offer you, Dear Readers, a way out of this crisis. We voted for President Obama, and I am dearly hoping that all will work out eventually in the end. Meanwhile, yes, don't let them come and take you away somewhere for no good reason at all. It would be for the best to not do so, although I deeply suspect the first such victims will be people that the authorities take away for some legal reason matter or another, such as illegal alien status, under President Schwarzenegger. I would suggest never voting for such a man as President.
The link in the title above leads to an Arnold Schwarzenegger page I can no longer work on, probably due to a computer malfunction that I will eventually fix, if it comes to pass that I am able to fix it. However, it is tempting to think that some sort of conspiracy is involved. I doubt it seriously, but anyway I am currently unable to add news about California Governor Arnold Schwarznegger. Chances are, it is indeed a computer malfunction that is "in the way."
His father was SS personnel during the Holocaust. At least "our Arnie" admits the Holocaust happened. At least, there is hope if he is elected that he will not make Hitler's mistakes, and somehow all will work out. But I think we are better off with a two term President Obama who is trying to help disaster victims. Potential President Schwarzenegger is someone I cannot reliably trust yet, unless he mends his racist ways completely and does not send Mexican-Americans to concentration camps. Also, Obama could use the time to figure it all out, and 8 years at least gives him something in the way of time to help him do so.
We are not Mexican-Americans, but I have friends in that community, and I would be very sad to see them come after me right after they came after them, as one thing could simply lead straightways to the other. Even the Nazis admitted they did not know really for sure at all times what was going on. They only did what they did due to War, Deprivation, and Poverty - and maybe even overpopulation. I have read their stuff, and they were human either, but you know.
Anyway, I hope we do not end up in concentration camps.......
.....again.
So I am hoping the FEMA camps will work out somehow, but their main problem seems to be lack of adequate funding or the capacity to build people superior housing they can escape to during a major disaster. What shall be done given the current economic crises does not look "pretty" to a journalist like me from here.
We can only hope for the sake of disaster victims that there will be no more such New World Order, Rex 84 or whatever such plans to "assist" disaster victims by housing them in concentration camps as before has been done - so many hideous and perverted times. We can only hope and vote, as Osama Bin Laden once put it himself, strangely enough, that our votes will somehow matter.
I wish I could offer you, Dear Readers, a way out of this crisis. We voted for President Obama, and I am dearly hoping that all will work out eventually in the end. Meanwhile, yes, don't let them come and take you away somewhere for no good reason at all. It would be for the best to not do so, although I deeply suspect the first such victims will be people that the authorities take away for some legal reason matter or another, such as illegal alien status, under President Schwarzenegger. I would suggest never voting for such a man as President.
The link in the title above leads to an Arnold Schwarzenegger page I can no longer work on, probably due to a computer malfunction that I will eventually fix, if it comes to pass that I am able to fix it. However, it is tempting to think that some sort of conspiracy is involved. I doubt it seriously, but anyway I am currently unable to add news about California Governor Arnold Schwarznegger. Chances are, it is indeed a computer malfunction that is "in the way."
His father was SS personnel during the Holocaust. At least "our Arnie" admits the Holocaust happened. At least, there is hope if he is elected that he will not make Hitler's mistakes, and somehow all will work out. But I think we are better off with a two term President Obama who is trying to help disaster victims. Potential President Schwarzenegger is someone I cannot reliably trust yet, unless he mends his racist ways completely and does not send Mexican-Americans to concentration camps. Also, Obama could use the time to figure it all out, and 8 years at least gives him something in the way of time to help him do so.
We are not Mexican-Americans, but I have friends in that community, and I would be very sad to see them come after me right after they came after them, as one thing could simply lead straightways to the other. Even the Nazis admitted they did not know really for sure at all times what was going on. They only did what they did due to War, Deprivation, and Poverty - and maybe even overpopulation. I have read their stuff, and they were human either, but you know.
Anyway, I hope we do not end up in concentration camps.......
.....again.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
AMERICAN HOLOCAUST and The Coming NEW WORLD ORDER
Monday, June 22, 2009
The FEMA Deathcamp of the MOJAVE DESERT in CALIFORNIA
Several years ago, I interviewed former Rothschild Illuminati member Doc Marquis about what he knew about he NWO agenda for America. He used to work hard for this Illuminati agenda in the past, including working at FORT LEWIS to recruit into the Illuminati NWO agenda. Then he became a Christian and began exposing the NWO agenda through "Christians Exposing The Occult." (At least, we HOPE he has fully come out! I give him the benefit of the doubt...otherwise with HIS Rothschild Illuminati background, I would not want to meet him in a dark alley.)
Doc knew that the modern GUILLOTINES were present then at Fort Lewis, as my later reporting has confirmed. Yes, Doc HAS handled the modern guillotines! He even participated in Rothschild Illuminati rituals in which they were used...testing the waters ahead of time so to speak. I asked him, "well, how did they work?" He replied, "oh, they worked just fine!" That's what I was afraid of.....(Thank you Jacob Rothschild and Illuminati family and Lubavitch Chabad's NOAHIDE LAWS for the GUILLOTINE AGENDA...pardon my sarcasm. I am sure your people love to read my reports! Lot's of free publicity, eh?)
THE FEMA DEATH CAMP OF THE MOJAVE is a full gassing/cremating DEATH CAMP, dedicated to the TERMINATION OF ALL ON FEMA’S "RED/BLUE LIST" (plus MANY other lists) UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
I have previously documented this horrific death camp, and documented the eyewitness accounts of several former NWO supporters who were flown out there. My friends, DOC MARQUIS (Illuminati) and ELAINE KNOST (CIA/Luciferian), formerly high level Illuminati Luciferians but now Christians for many years, were both flown separately to this facility in the Mojave Desert of California.
It boasts a landing strip. According to even another contact, a DEA agent I met in California at the GRENADA FORUM,who personally investigated this FEMA facility, it was recently DOUBLED IN SIZE TO INCREASE KILLING CAPACITY.
People have asked me, "WHY don't you go out there to that place and get photographs for documentation...???" How foolish to even think about it! The level security around such facilities is incredible!
Such detention camp facilities are meant to be isolated and out of sight from general public viewing. Also they are remote to make escape or entrance to rescue victims an impossibility. Professional military grade motion detection devices, remote cameras, ground sensors, all play a role in keeping away intruders or investigators.
Once the plane lands, Doc explained, you travel by jeep about 14 miles to an area enclosed in desert mountains.
It is fully staffed. All staff members WEAR BLACK SWAT TEAM UNIFORMS. When I asked Doc Marquis what his sentiments were, back when he was a member of the Illuminati and given a tour of this killing facility, his reply was, “SHEER JOY! I REJOICED at the thought of CHRISTIANS BEING TERMINATED IN THIS PLACE!” A chilling response, but typical of this nation’s Satanists/Illuminists and NWO supporters! (And sadly, as one Messianic Jewish friend admitted, typical of some in the Jewish communities in America who believe that "...it is the CHRISTIANS' turn to go to the camps now." How sad...)
This FEMA death camp was shown off as something the NWO and FEMA was literally PROUD OF!!! And there are MANY more FEMA/Homeland Security detention camps whose ultimate purpose under MARTIAL LAW is NOT TO SAVE LIFE, but to TERMINATE HUMAN LIVES DEEMED UNWORTHY OF ENTERING INTO THE DAWNING OF LUCIFER’S NEW WORLD ORDER. KNOW THE COLD HARD FACTS ABOUT FEMA!
So please, think TWICE before surrendering and going meekly to such camps under a STATE OF MARTIAL LAW in YOUR region.
-Pamela Schuffert
The FEMA Deathcamp of the MOJAVE DESERT in CALIFORNIA
Several years ago, I interviewed former Rothschild Illuminati member Doc Marquis about what he knew about he NWO agenda for America. He used to work hard for this Illuminati agenda in the past, including working at FORT LEWIS to recruit into the Illuminati NWO agenda. Then he became a Christian and began exposing the NWO agenda through "Christians Exposing The Occult." (At least, we HOPE he has fully come out! I give him the benefit of the doubt...otherwise with HIS Rothschild Illuminati background, I would not want to meet him in a dark alley.)
Doc knew that the modern GUILLOTINES were present then at Fort Lewis, as my later reporting has confirmed. Yes, Doc HAS handled the modern guillotines! He even participated in Rothschild Illuminati rituals in which they were used...testing the waters ahead of time so to speak. I asked him, "well, how did they work?" He replied, "oh, they worked just fine!" That's what I was afraid of.....(Thank you Jacob Rothschild and Illuminati family and Lubavitch Chabad's NOAHIDE LAWS for the GUILLOTINE AGENDA...pardon my sarcasm. I am sure your people love to read my reports! Lot's of free publicity, eh?)
THE FEMA DEATH CAMP OF THE MOJAVE is a full gassing/cremating DEATH CAMP, dedicated to the TERMINATION OF ALL ON FEMA’S "RED/BLUE LIST" (plus MANY other lists) UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
I have previously documented this horrific death camp, and documented the eyewitness accounts of several former NWO supporters who were flown out there. My friends, DOC MARQUIS (Illuminati) and ELAINE KNOST (CIA/Luciferian), formerly high level Illuminati Luciferians but now Christians for many years, were both flown separately to this facility in the Mojave Desert of California.
It boasts a landing strip. According to even another contact, a DEA agent I met in California at the GRENADA FORUM,who personally investigated this FEMA facility, it was recently DOUBLED IN SIZE TO INCREASE KILLING CAPACITY.
People have asked me, "WHY don't you go out there to that place and get photographs for documentation...???" How foolish to even think about it! The level security around such facilities is incredible!
Such detention camp facilities are meant to be isolated and out of sight from general public viewing. Also they are remote to make escape or entrance to rescue victims an impossibility. Professional military grade motion detection devices, remote cameras, ground sensors, all play a role in keeping away intruders or investigators.
Once the plane lands, Doc explained, you travel by jeep about 14 miles to an area enclosed in desert mountains.
It is fully staffed. All staff members WEAR BLACK SWAT TEAM UNIFORMS. When I asked Doc Marquis what his sentiments were, back when he was a member of the Illuminati and given a tour of this killing facility, his reply was, “SHEER JOY! I REJOICED at the thought of CHRISTIANS BEING TERMINATED IN THIS PLACE!” A chilling response, but typical of this nation’s Satanists/Illuminists and NWO supporters! (And sadly, as one Messianic Jewish friend admitted, typical of some in the Jewish communities in America who believe that "...it is the CHRISTIANS' turn to go to the camps now." How sad...)
This FEMA death camp was shown off as something the NWO and FEMA was literally PROUD OF!!! And there are MANY more FEMA/Homeland Security detention camps whose ultimate purpose under MARTIAL LAW is NOT TO SAVE LIFE, but to TERMINATE HUMAN LIVES DEEMED UNWORTHY OF ENTERING INTO THE DAWNING OF LUCIFER’S NEW WORLD ORDER. KNOW THE COLD HARD FACTS ABOUT FEMA!
So please, think TWICE before surrendering and going meekly to such camps under a STATE OF MARTIAL LAW in YOUR region.
-Pamela Schuffert
Sunday, June 28, 2009
What is "Our" Obama Doing Exactly, Now?
Well, I hate to break this to anyone, but I heard a rumor that President Obama signed an executive order putting those facilities into place as potential concentration camps. Down the road apiece, but when we do not know.
I suppose he decided that since there will be disaster victims - there will need to be housing for them, thus the FEMA camps. But what ARE the FEMA camps? And where are all those "illegal" Mexicans going, to Hitler island?
I hope to God that he wasn't also thinking of overpopulation in the cities and towns and villages of the United States. Nor, the townships. I'm trying to have a sense of humor here, I guess. Anyway, all I can say, President Obama, is will it be Mexicans first, or disaster victims who pave such a lovely way?
Who will take down those gun turrets and nicety other ways to keep the camp population in line? Who will keep those gun turrets there and shoot disaster victims with no other place to go? IS THERE A REASON TO SHOOT DISASTER VICTIMS WITH NO OTHER PLACE TO GO? Maybe they could at least hit bathrooms in the surrounding woods before somebody comes along and says, "Come back here, Schnell!"
Are you reading this blog, President Obama? You're human, so I sincerely doubt your capacity to do so. The many issues you have to face have surely left you high and dry as to what to do. I just hope to God you know anything about crowd control and how to manage large groups of people who suddenly have no home.
As for me...I will keep on keeping tabs on these things. I just sincerely hope I'm not somehow causing them all to happen...through heavy breathing.
I'm human, we're human, and we all make mistakes, but what exactly is our liberal Obama, alias Gerorge Bush II, doing, me wonders, me wonders.
Yrs,
Karen Cole Peralta
I suppose he decided that since there will be disaster victims - there will need to be housing for them, thus the FEMA camps. But what ARE the FEMA camps? And where are all those "illegal" Mexicans going, to Hitler island?
I hope to God that he wasn't also thinking of overpopulation in the cities and towns and villages of the United States. Nor, the townships. I'm trying to have a sense of humor here, I guess. Anyway, all I can say, President Obama, is will it be Mexicans first, or disaster victims who pave such a lovely way?
Who will take down those gun turrets and nicety other ways to keep the camp population in line? Who will keep those gun turrets there and shoot disaster victims with no other place to go? IS THERE A REASON TO SHOOT DISASTER VICTIMS WITH NO OTHER PLACE TO GO? Maybe they could at least hit bathrooms in the surrounding woods before somebody comes along and says, "Come back here, Schnell!"
Are you reading this blog, President Obama? You're human, so I sincerely doubt your capacity to do so. The many issues you have to face have surely left you high and dry as to what to do. I just hope to God you know anything about crowd control and how to manage large groups of people who suddenly have no home.
As for me...I will keep on keeping tabs on these things. I just sincerely hope I'm not somehow causing them all to happen...through heavy breathing.
I'm human, we're human, and we all make mistakes, but what exactly is our liberal Obama, alias Gerorge Bush II, doing, me wonders, me wonders.
Yrs,
Karen Cole Peralta
Saturday, June 13, 2009
AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS
FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders
They're over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached. Ask yourself if you really want to be on Ashcroft's list.
The Rex 84 Program was established on the reasoning that if a "mass exodus" of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA. Rex 84 allowed many military bases to be closed down and to be turned into prisons.
Operation Cable Splicer and Garden Plot are the two sub programs which will be implemented once the Rex 84 program is initiated for its proper purpose. Garden Plot is the program to control the population. Cable Splicer is the program for an orderly takeover of the state and local governments by the federal government. FEMA is the executive arm of the coming police state and thus will head up all operations. The Presidential Executive Orders already listed on the Federal Register also are part of the legal framework for this operation.
The camps all have railroad facilities as well as roads leading to and from the detention facilities. Many also have an airport nearby. The majority of the camps can house a population of 20,000 prisoners. Currently, the largest of these facilities is just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a massive mental health facility and can hold approximately 2 million people.
Now let's review the justification for any actions taken...
They're over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached. Ask yourself if you really want to be on Ashcroft's list.
The Rex 84 Program was established on the reasoning that if a "mass exodus" of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA. Rex 84 allowed many military bases to be closed down and to be turned into prisons.
Operation Cable Splicer and Garden Plot are the two sub programs which will be implemented once the Rex 84 program is initiated for its proper purpose. Garden Plot is the program to control the population. Cable Splicer is the program for an orderly takeover of the state and local governments by the federal government. FEMA is the executive arm of the coming police state and thus will head up all operations. The Presidential Executive Orders already listed on the Federal Register also are part of the legal framework for this operation.
The camps all have railroad facilities as well as roads leading to and from the detention facilities. Many also have an airport nearby. The majority of the camps can house a population of 20,000 prisoners. Currently, the largest of these facilities is just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a massive mental health facility and can hold approximately 2 million people.
Now let's review the justification for any actions taken...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Guard Killed In Holocaust Museum Shooting
Suspect, Reportedly An Elderly White Supremacist, In Critical Condition
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10, 2009
(CBS/AP) CBS News has learned that a security guard was killed when a man with a rifle, reportedly an 88-year-old white supremacist, opened fire at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Wednesday.
The assailant was in critical condition, said Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty. Another security guard may have been injured.
Police Chief Kathy Lanier said the gunman appeared to have acted alone. He was "engaged by security guards immediately after entering the door" with a rifle, she said, but "the second he stepped into the building he began firing."
The shooter has been tentatively identified as James von Brunn - allegedly affiliated with white supremacist Web sites, law enforcement officials told CBS News correspondent Bob Orr.
Authorities told the Associated Press von Brunn’s van was located around the museum and was tested for explosives...
(For the rest of this article, click on the link in the title above.)
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10, 2009
(CBS/AP) CBS News has learned that a security guard was killed when a man with a rifle, reportedly an 88-year-old white supremacist, opened fire at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Wednesday.
The assailant was in critical condition, said Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty. Another security guard may have been injured.
Police Chief Kathy Lanier said the gunman appeared to have acted alone. He was "engaged by security guards immediately after entering the door" with a rifle, she said, but "the second he stepped into the building he began firing."
The shooter has been tentatively identified as James von Brunn - allegedly affiliated with white supremacist Web sites, law enforcement officials told CBS News correspondent Bob Orr.
Authorities told the Associated Press von Brunn’s van was located around the museum and was tested for explosives...
(For the rest of this article, click on the link in the title above.)
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