mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> 
>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>Basically, it is granting law enforcement the power and authority as well
>>>>as the hardware, to "know", instead of simply relying on what legal
>>>
>>>Cool; we can return to the days of (eg) the Jim Crow South, when cops
>>>"knew" that some "nigrahs" committed such and such an act.
>>>
>>>Or do you prefer the days of early WW II US, when west coast officials
>>>"knew" Japanese-Americans were disloyal?
> 
> 
>>Those who practiced discrimination did not have the means to know the truth.
> 
> 
> Actually, they did; the FBI kept good lists of potential trouble-makers.
> 
> Seemed to think it was OK on the East coast with the German/Italian
> Americans...

That would news to the Italian/German Americans at Fort Missoula, 
Seagoville, Kenedy, Crystal City....

-- 
Kevin
"This is the best election night in history."--Democratic National 
Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, Nov. 2, 2004, just before 8 p.m. EST