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In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror Hardcover – July 1, 2004
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- They were not created primarily because of racism or wartime hysteria
- They did not target only those of Japanese descent
- They were not Nazi-style death camps
In her latest investigative tour-de-force, New York Times best-selling author Michelle Malkin sets the historical record straight-and debunks radical ethnic alarmists who distort history to undermine common-sense, national security profiling. The need for this myth-shattering book is vital. President Bush's opponents have attacked every homeland defense policy as tantamount to the "racist" and "unjustified" World War II internment. Bush's own transportation secretary, Norm Mineta, continues to milk his childhood experience at a relocation camp as an excuse to ban profiling at airports. Misguided guilt about the past continues to hamper our ability to prevent future terrorist attacks.
In Defense of Internment shows that the detention of enemy aliens, and the mass evacuation and relocation of ethnic Japanese from the West Coast were not the result of irrational hatred or conspiratorial bigotry. This document-packed book highlights the vast amount of intelligence, including top-secret "MAGIC" messages, which revealed the Japanese espionage threat on the West Coast.
Malkin also tells the truth about:- who resided in enemy alien internment camps (nearly half were of European ancestry)
- what the West Coast relocation centers were really like (tens of thousands of ethnic Japanese were allowed to leave; hundreds voluntarily chose to move in)
- why the $1.65 billion federal reparations law for Japanese internees and evacuees was a bipartisan disaster
- how both Japanese American and Arab/Muslim American leaders have united to undermine America's safety
With trademark fearlessness, Malkin adds desperately needed perspective to the ongoing debate about the balance between civil liberties and national security. In Defense of Internment will outrage, enlighten, and radically change the way you view the past-and the present.
- who resided in enemy alien internment camps (nearly half were of European ancestry)
- Print length376 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRegnery Publishing
- Publication dateJuly 1, 2004
- Dimensions6.25 x 1.5 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100895260514
- ISBN-13978-0895260512
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- They did not target only those of Japanese descent
- They were not Nazi-style death camps In her latest investigative tour-de-force, New York Times best-selling author Michelle Malkin sets the historical record straight-and debunks radical ethnic alarmists who distort history to undermine common-sense, national security profiling. The need for this myth-shattering book is vital. President Bush's opponents have attacked every homeland defense policy as tantamount to the "racist" and "unjustified" World War II internment. Bush's own transportation secretary, Norm Mineta, continues to milk his childhood experience at a relocation camp as an excuse to ban profiling at airports. Misguided guilt about the past continues to hamper our ability to prevent future terrorist attacks. In Defense of Internment shows that the detention of enemy aliens, and the mass evacuation and relocation of ethnic Japanese from the West Coast were not the result of irrational hatred or conspiratorial bigotry. This document-packed book highlights the vast amount of intelligence, including top-secret "MAGIC" messages, which revealed the Japanese espionage threat on the West Coast. Malkin also tells the truth about:
- who resided in enemy alien internment camps (nearly half were of European ancestry)
- what the West Coast relocation centers were really like (tens of thousands of ethnic Japanese were allowed to leave; hundreds voluntarily chose to move in)
- why the $1.65 billion federal reparations law for Japanese internees and evacuees
was a bipartisan disaster
- and how both Japanese American and Arab/Muslim American leaders have united
to undermine America's safety. With trademark fearlessness, Malkin adds desperately needed perspective to the ongoing debate about the balance between civil liberties and national security. In Defense of Internment will outrage, enlighten, and radically change the way you view the past-and the present.
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- Publisher : Regnery Publishing; First Edition (July 1, 2004)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 376 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0895260514
- ISBN-13 : 978-0895260512
- Item Weight : 1.41 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.5 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,012,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9,321 in World War II History (Books)
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Michelle Malkin is a mother, wife, blogger, conservative syndicated columnist, longtime cable TV news commentator, and best-selling author of seven books. She is host of "Sovereign Nation" on Newsmax TV. She started her newspaper journalism career at the Los Angeles Daily News in 1992, moved to the Seattle Times in 1995, and has been penning nationally syndicated newspaper columns for Creators Syndicate since 1999. She is founder of conservative Internet start-ups Hot Air and Twitchy.com. Malkin has received numerous awards for her investigative journalism, including the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL) national award for outstanding service for the cause of governmental ethics and leadership (1998), the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award for Investigative Journalism (2006), the Heritage Foundation and Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity's Breitbart Award for Excellence in Journalism (2013), the Center for Immigration Studies' Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration Award (2016), and the Manhattan Film Festival's Film Heals Award (2018). Married for 26 years and the mother of two children, she lives with her family in Colorado. Follow her at michellemalkin.com.
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Al Paulson & Ed Uyeshima don't have a clue about what are and aren't facts, just whatever their college history professor told them. Emil Sinclair (any relation to the turn-of-the-century Communist writer Upton Sinclair?) went so far as to say that after the Battle of Midway, Japan was a "greatly diminished threat". If that was so, why did Japan fight ever harder at Coral Sea, Guadalcanal, Okinawa & Iwo Jima?
The reason, Sinclair, that the US took a "Europe First" policy had nothing to do with disregarding the threat of Japan, and EVERYTHING to do with our already sworn alliance with England (who was on the verge of being crushed by Hitler), France & Russia (whom we were already invested in with the "Lend/Lease" program). With all of Europe already near total enslavement, we had much more to lose should Europe have fallen.
Emil Sinclair goes on to state that the US internment of the Japanese was "motivated by racism". Really? That sounds like the same Liberal myth that I heard written into the script of "Fat Man" (the movie that starred Paul Newman as Gen. Leslie Groves). In one scene after it was decided to drop the bomb, one member of the Commitee stepped out and said, in paraphrase, that he wondered if the bomb would be used if it were white people instead of yellow-skinned people. The script writer and Sinclair are both WRONG. No one ever said that (it wasn't recorded if they did), and it wasn't motivated by racism. Why?
In 1937, the Japanese began an open war with China, and the US soon began to help the Chinese fight the Japanese through indirect routes (money, supplies & the American Volunteer Group, aka The Flying Tigers).
Alas, the only thing Ronald Reagan ever did in his tenure in office that I completely disagreed with was the payola given to the Japanese who were interned. NEVER cover up the past OR APOLOGIZE for it!
Finally, I must say that the Japanese that were in the internment camps got much bettter treatment than our boys on Bataan! We haven't received an apology from Japan for that, have we? Ms. Malkin's book is perfect in telling the full truth that Liberals hate so much!
Here are some facts we are seldom told: Japanese and Japanese Americans did not have to move into the camps, they could have moved elsewhere. What they had to do was move from the coast. Japanese and Japanese Americans were not rounded up to a man throughout the country, as many think, and moved to a camp. In fact, they were not removed from Hawaii. How many Americans know this?
Many of the people who went to the camps considered this one more hardship of war in a country that was undergoing hardship in many ways. In a country that was losing so many of its boys in death marches, on the Normandy Beaches and elsewhere, it was viewed by many Japanese American patriots as one more sacrifice required to win the war. There are news films and articles from the time about people who looked at their evacuation as "playing their patriotic part" in the war effort.
Who knew that Japanese and Japanese Americans were allowed to leave the camps to work (unguarded) in other places? Who know that some went back to their homes to visit?
It's easy to say that the proof of Japanese espionage emanating from this country which was brought to light by the MAGIC codes has been discredited, but again, that's simply given as a fiat statement with no supportive proof.
In short, even if you didn't agree with everything Malkin wrote (and I pretty much do agree), you'll find a lot of interesting information and historical FACTS which you won't read about in many other places.







