Pipes, Board of US Institute of Peace, Favors Concentration Camps

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Bear in mind as you read this

During August recess 2003, President Bush bypassed the Senate and appointed Pipes,
over the objections of Democrats and others,
to the board of the United States Institute of Peace.
The appointment won't be valid until the next Congress is sworn in, in January 2005. <1> (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/08/20030822-7.html)


Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion

Juan Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan

Pipes Favors Concentration Camps
Friday, December 31, 2004

That the Revisionist-Zionist extremist Daniel Pipes has fond visions of rounding up Muslim Americans and putting them in concentration camps isn't a big surprise. That a mainstream American newspaper would publish this David-Dukeian evil is. Of course, this is also a man that President Bush appointed to a temporary vacancy at the United States Institute of Peace, after the Senate understandably balked at a regular appointment for him.

Pipes's little project requires him to attempt to justify the internment of American citizens (of Japanese ancestry) during World War II, a violation on several grounds of the Bill of Rights. I hope Asian-Americans realize that a key wing of the Republican Party, i.e. the Neoconservatives, wishes them ill.

If the American yahoos ever start putting people in concentration camps, I think we may be assured that they won't stop with the Muslims or the Asians, and Mr. Pipes will come to have reason to regret his imprudence and, frankly, his demonic implication.

posted by Juan @ 12/31/2004 06:25:13 AM

((Cole's post reprinted with permission))

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Why the Japanese Internment Still Matters
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
December 28, 2004

For years, it has been my position that the threat of radical Islam implies an imperative to focus security measures on Muslims. If searching for rapists, one looks only at the male population. Similarly, if searching for Islamists (adherents of radical Islam), one looks at the Muslim population.

(snip)

Also encouraging, the survey finds the more people follow TV news, the more likely they are to support these common-sense steps. Those who are best informed about current issues, in other words, are also the most sensible about adopting self-evident defensive measures.

That's the good news; the bad news is the near-universal disapproval of this realism. Leftist and Islamist organizations have so successfully intimidated public opinion that polite society shies away from endorsing a focus on Muslims.

(snip)

Fortunately, the intrepid Ms. Malkin, a columnist and specialist on immigration issues, has re-opened the internment file. Her recently published book, bearing the provocative title In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror (Regnery), starts with the unarguable premise that in time of war, "the survival of the nation comes first." From there, she draws the corollary that "Civil liberties are not sacrosanct."

(snip)

She correctly concludes that, especially in time of war, governments should take into account nationality, ethnicity, and religious affiliation in their homeland security policies and engage in what she calls "threat profiling." These steps may entail bothersome or offensive measures but, she argues, they are preferable to "being incinerated at your office desk by a flaming hijacked plane."


http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2309

You can read more about this gift from the bowels of hell here: http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Daniel_Pipes

Someone here has a thread to the effect that when they start registering Muslims, he/she will register too. We have no choice.



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