On 08/07/2010 08:22 PM, Ross Sauer -> Jeff Binkley wrote:
 RS> "Jeff Binkley -> Bob Ackley"  wrote
in news:9469$ALL-
 RS> POLITICS{at}JamNNTPd:

 RC>>>>>> Uh, the internment of the Japanese Americans
was done at the
 RC>>>>>> behest of a Presidential Executive Order, issued by FDR.

 RS>>>>> Due to hysteria whipped up by California residents, and a
 RS>>>>> corrupt general. (The general's family got some rich land at
 RS>>>>> fire-sale price from a Japanese-American.)

 JB>>>> Wow. You can ready anything here.

 BA>>> The comment about the general is true. A lot of people made a lot
 RS> of
 BA>>> money purchasing property and businesses that Japanese-Americans
 BA>>> were forced to abandon because of that internment. It would not
 BA>>> surprise me if the general's family - or the general himself - got
 BA>>> some of the goodies. The general - whose name escapes me - was the
 BA>>> commander of the Sixth Army, headquartered at the Presidio in San
 BA>>> Francisco.

 JB>> I was commenting about the excuse that was made for the camps that FDR
 JB>> authorized.

 RS> Do you really think FDR came up with that cockamamie idea completely on
 RS> his own?

It might not have been originally his idea, but it wasn't California voters
who came up with it. It was his executive order that made it happen.

All you had to do was give a mea culpa for your silly claim that the voters
in Ca. voted for the camps.

 RS> BTW, speaking of bigotry whipped up by hysteria, one of your gurus
 RS> showed up in CT.

Good grief, here we go again...

 RS> BRIDGEPORT -- About a dozen right-wing Christians, carrying placards and
 RS> yelling "Islam is a lie," angrily confronted worshippers outside a
 RS> Fairfield Avenue mosque Friday.

 RS> "Jesus hates Muslims," they screamed at worshippers arriving at the
 RS> Masjid An-Noor mosque to prepare for the holy week of Ramadan. One
 RS> protester shoved a placard at a group of young children leaving the
 RS> mosque. "Murderers," he shouted.

 RS> Police arrived on the scene to separate the groups, but said no arrests
 RS> were made.

 RS> Flip Benham, of Dallas, Texas, organizer of the protest, was yelling at
 RS> the worshipers with a bullhorn...

 RS> http://tinyurl.com/33ghwgj

What does this have to do with anything?

Ed

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