What's not appreciate is that while the SJC has repudiated it's fateful decision to uphold the WWII era interment camps, it never overturned this decision.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/11/roanoke_mayor_on_refugees_and_japanese_internment_camps.html
Scalia, in February, 2014 had a hauntingly perspicacious observation.
"The Supreme Court has also effectively repudiated its decision, albeit without technically overturning it. “A Korematsu-type classification…will never again survive scrutiny,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg declared in a 1998 dissent. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in a recent book that the decision was “thoroughly discredited.” Justice Antonin Scalia, who previously compared it to Dred Scott, said during a speech last year that Korematsu was unequivocally “wrong.” But he also warned about repeating the same mistake in the future."
“But you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again,” he said.
"He used a Latin expression to explain why. “Inter arma enim silent leges … In times of war, the laws fall silent.”
“That’s what was going on—the panic about the war and the invasion of the Pacific and whatnot,” Scalia said. “That’s what happens. It was wrong, but I would not be surprised to see it happen again—in time of war. It’s no justification but it is the reality.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-shadow-of-korematsu/416634/
We always get all this quibbling from the GOP about words. They want Obama to say Islamic terrorism. That we are at war. But by saying we're at war the law, immediately begins to fall silent.
And that's what's a little scary. We weren't the ones attacked last Friday and you already see the impact of the law falling silent. We have 47 Democrats side with the GOP against Syrian refugees yesterday just like what happened to the Jewish refugees of the Reich in the 30s.
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/19/9760060/refugees-history-holocaust
Already talk of interment camps has been seriously suggested. Even Trump probably doesn't end up endorsing a Muslim ID system pre Friday in Paris.
This is what war talk does. It immediately makes the law silent. Right away you begun to notice that the pundits and journalists were talking in a new bellicosity. We start hearing that the only thing that matters is 'keeping us safe' at all costs.
What might we not do if we really were under present attack? Not so pleasant a thing to countenance.
In this sense, Hollande is an inspriation who actually increases refugees in response rather than the reverse.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hollande-france-plans-to-take-in-30000-refugees-over-two-years_564c78bae4b06037734bb934
But this doesn't mean that all his countrymen agree. The Right-La Pen, etc-isn't happy and there are upcoming elections. This might show Hollande's courage but he may pay a price for it.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/19/francois-hollande-shows-true-grit-on-refugees.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/11/roanoke_mayor_on_refugees_and_japanese_internment_camps.html
Scalia, in February, 2014 had a hauntingly perspicacious observation.
"The Supreme Court has also effectively repudiated its decision, albeit without technically overturning it. “A Korematsu-type classification…will never again survive scrutiny,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg declared in a 1998 dissent. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in a recent book that the decision was “thoroughly discredited.” Justice Antonin Scalia, who previously compared it to Dred Scott, said during a speech last year that Korematsu was unequivocally “wrong.” But he also warned about repeating the same mistake in the future."
“But you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again,” he said.
"He used a Latin expression to explain why. “Inter arma enim silent leges … In times of war, the laws fall silent.”
“That’s what was going on—the panic about the war and the invasion of the Pacific and whatnot,” Scalia said. “That’s what happens. It was wrong, but I would not be surprised to see it happen again—in time of war. It’s no justification but it is the reality.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-shadow-of-korematsu/416634/
We always get all this quibbling from the GOP about words. They want Obama to say Islamic terrorism. That we are at war. But by saying we're at war the law, immediately begins to fall silent.
And that's what's a little scary. We weren't the ones attacked last Friday and you already see the impact of the law falling silent. We have 47 Democrats side with the GOP against Syrian refugees yesterday just like what happened to the Jewish refugees of the Reich in the 30s.
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/19/9760060/refugees-history-holocaust
Already talk of interment camps has been seriously suggested. Even Trump probably doesn't end up endorsing a Muslim ID system pre Friday in Paris.
This is what war talk does. It immediately makes the law silent. Right away you begun to notice that the pundits and journalists were talking in a new bellicosity. We start hearing that the only thing that matters is 'keeping us safe' at all costs.
What might we not do if we really were under present attack? Not so pleasant a thing to countenance.
In this sense, Hollande is an inspriation who actually increases refugees in response rather than the reverse.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hollande-france-plans-to-take-in-30000-refugees-over-two-years_564c78bae4b06037734bb934
But this doesn't mean that all his countrymen agree. The Right-La Pen, etc-isn't happy and there are upcoming elections. This might show Hollande's courage but he may pay a price for it.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/19/francois-hollande-shows-true-grit-on-refugees.html
Scalia said there's no justification? So he's a far left communist that hates America then. Clearly. Trump should blast him for being a traitor and threaten to deport him.
ReplyDeleteTrump should propose the green crescent (mandatory for Muslims to wear), interment camps, shutting down mosques and all non-Christian religious radicals (and maybe suggest that Mormons and Jehova's witnesses and Catholics and SDAists aren't real Christians (actually he's done that with SDAists already! Ha!... and Coulter has recently done the same with Catholics)).
He should propose that people with foreign sounding accents or who look "swarthy" should also be forced to register and perhaps live in ghettos.
I think the base would go crazy with wild enthusiasm. And if we're attacked, he could actually win the general on that platform.
Funny thing on Hardball yesterday... somebody pointed out that the NRA is against restricting gun rights to people on the FBI's watch list for Islamic terror. This has the possibility of creating further division on the right. Imagine Trump giving a speech trying to maximize paranoia, but this time folding in concerns about access to guns that "those people" have. Hahaha! A test for being a "religious radical" before you can buy a gun. That would be an awesome suggestion, no? Lol.
You asked about Jennifer Rubin... here's her thoughts today regarding Trump:
"Who follows Donald Trump’s plunge into totalitarianism? First, it was rounding up illegal aliens and their children. Then it was closing mosques and “registering” Muslims. It’s enough to make one’s blood run cold, but who, other than Bush, will condemn this? Evangelicals, if they think for only a moment about this, are likely to see how this is a barbaric violation of religious liberty. We’ll see whether Ben Carson, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla) or others try to drive that point home. Even Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who has been genuflecting toward Trump, said he is not a “fan” of government registries."
Totalitarianism? Strong words. Not that different than "Nazi" really is it?
I think Jennifer misjudges a significant proportion of Evangelicals out there... I think some of them dream of theocracy for America, with their particular brand of Protestantism being the "state religion" ... and rewriting all the science and history books accordingly.
DeleteShe's right though that this should make our "blood run cold."
If Trump gets the nomination, it'll be interesting to see if Jennifer supports the "Totalitarian" or HRC.
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