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...

Mike