mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>
>>>Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> 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....
> 
> 
> You mean, they evacuated the East Coast of German/Italian-Americans?

They evacuted the East Coast of the same number of German, Italian, and 
Japanese-Americans. Oh! Let's not forget Hawaii.

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