If there was reasonable security and intelligance information that suggested that Isalmic extremists were using the Arab commuinity in the United States to threaten the security of the nation would you support an internment of Arab-Americans similar to the Japanese internment of 1942?
2007-02-09 08:33:07 · 6 answers · asked by star runner 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Absolutely not.
The detention camps of WWII for Japanese-Americans and Italian-Americans were a terrible idea, and if we've learned our lessons at all these days, it would be even more terrible to try to do the same to Arab-Americans.
There is a HUGE difference between taking individuals into custody because they've actually done something, and placing innocent groups of people into primitive camps in the name of the nation's "safety".
2007-02-09 09:43:31 · answer #1 · answered by Tim 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gawd no! We disgraced ourselves when we did that to the Japanese-Americans in WWII. Doing something like that is guilt by association: you're descended from Arabs, therefore you're a terrorist? If you're going to do that, why not also lock up all Black Americans who are Muslim also? You can't throw American citizens in jail just because of their religion or their ethnic background. It's unConstitutional and it's just plain wrong. (By the way why did we throw the Japanese Americans into the camps and not the German-Americans and the Italian-Americans? Does it sound like racism to you? It does to me.)
2007-02-09 16:40:54 · answer #2 · answered by AnOrdinaryGuy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, there was no good evidence that interring the Japanese Americans during WW2 made us any more secure. Just screwed them
2007-02-09 16:37:42 · answer #3 · answered by meathookcook 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Will there be nude vollyball at the camp and canoing and fun and games, Free food and big screen TV's? and a swimming pool. I am half Arab and half 5th generation American, if the camp has all that I will go.
2007-02-09 16:50:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If they're criminals, send them to jail. If they're merely exercising free speech, you just have to live with them, even if you hate what they say.
There should be no internment camps for "suspects." It's jailing those who might do something wrong...which is a perversion of "innocent until proven guilty."
2007-02-09 16:40:24 · answer #5 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no
2007-02-09 17:04:11 · answer #6 · answered by Cara Arlene 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋