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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

by Michelle Malkin (Author)

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Everything you've been taught about the World War II "internment camps" in America is wrong:

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.

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Everything you've been taught about the World War II "internment camps" in America is wrong: - 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
- 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.

About the Author

Malkin, former editorial writer for the Seattle Times and the Los Angeles Daily News, writes a nationally syndicated column for Creators Syndicate.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 376 pages
Publisher: Regnery Publishing; First edition. edition (July 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0895260514
ISBN-13: 978-0895260512
Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 6.2 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (192 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #434,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4457 in Books > History > Military > World War II

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Do we really need to relearn the lessons of Japanese America

By FDb77 on September 26, 2004

Format: Hardcover

Do we really need to relearn the lessons of Japanese American internment?

Fred Korematsu

In 1942, I was arrested and convicted for being a Japanese American trying to live here in the Bay Area. The day after my arrest a newspaper headline declared, "Jap Spy Arrested in San Leandro."

Of course, I was no spy. The government never charged me with being a spy. I was a U.S. citizen born and raised in Oakland. I even tried to enlist in the Coast Guard (they didn't take me because of my race). But my citizenship and my loyalty did not matter to the federal government. On Feb. 19, 1942, anyone of Japanese heritage was ordered excluded from the West Coast. I was charged and convicted of being a Japanese American living in an area in which all people of my ancestry had been ordered to be interned.

I fought my conviction at that time. My case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, but in 1944 my efforts to seek protection under the Constitution were rejected.

After I was released in 1945, my criminal record continued to affect my life. It was hard to find work. I was considered to be a criminal. It took almost 40 years and the efforts of many people to reopen my case. In 1983, a federal court judge found that the government had hidden evidence and lied to the Supreme Court during my appeal. The judge found that Japanese Americans were not the threat that the government publicly claimed. My criminal record was removed.

As my case was being reconsidered by the courts, again as a result of the efforts of many people across the country, Congress created a commission to study the exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans.Read more ›

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Loyalty of Japanese Americans during WWII going unheeded

By Brian Tada on September 6, 2004

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As a conservative, pro-life, "traditional family values" Republican third generation American of Japanese ancestry, I was shocked and saddened by the gross inaccuracies in Malkin's book.

For example, the book purports one of the basic, underlying reasons for internment was the Japanese espionage "threat" on the West Coast. However, Japanese Americans during WWII were among the most loyal to America, and many served valiantly for the U.S. during the war.

According to the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in a report entitled, "Personal Justice Denied", it stated that "not a single documented act of espionage, sabatoge or fifth column activity on the mainland was committed by an American citizen of Japanese ancestry or by a resident Japanese alien on the West Coast." This view has been substantiated consistently by independent scholars and researchers for almost 50 years since WWII.

Two of my uncles, although interned, volunteered to enlist in the U.S. Army in the 442nd Regimental Combat Unit. One of my uncles in the unit earned a REAL Purple Heart after he sustained extensive damage to his ear when an enemy grenade exploded near his head while fighting for the U.S. in Europe during the war.

The 442nd suffered huge numbers of casualties and is the most decorated combat unit in American history. They were credited for saving a Texas unit trapped behind Nazi lines, although a significantly larger number of Japanese American U.S. soldiers lost their lives rescuing them than the total number of soldiers that were in the Texas unit.

My mom, a U.S.-born American citizen, was also interned during the war. She felt as if she were without a country.Read more ›

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On her use of MAGIC decrypts...

By Brian D. Gray on July 15, 2010

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Ok Miss Malkin says that going by MAGIC decrypts during the war the US was justified in interning Japanese along the West Coast however even though MAGIC does show reports on shipo sailings,troop movements and the such it must be taken in context as in my following parts 1 & 2. My points 3 & 4 pertain to the internment issue generally.
1. The sailings reported were in cities/ports where Japanese Consulates were located while in peacetime. It was very easy for a consulate member to arrange to get info by just going to said harbor and watch the goings on for that matter just going to a local store they could hear scuttlebutt. This happened with other countries also. Remember the Japanese while building the Yamato had to arrange for a huge curtain to conceal details of her construction from foriegn observers? What happened pre-war with Japanese Consulates reporting ship movements which could be easily observed,aircraft manufactorers reporting renovations which probably were in the papers or talked about freely in public , troop movements which were reported freely in the papers or talked about openly in public is hardly surprising. Now what happens in wartime? Those embassies & consulate get shut down but more importantly their powerful radio transmitters are silenced so what then? Well the Japanese wanted to establish operations in Central or South America when their consulates were closed however as MAGIC shows there were a host of problems for one theose governments under pressure from the US were making it difficult for the Japanese to operate there ,for instance Mexico basically started preventing Japanese,Germans and Italians from crossing & re-crossing it's border with the US that would make it extremely difficult for the Japanese to base out of there.Read more ›

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this book struck a big, fat nerve ...

From reading Ms. Malkin's book I learned about the role top-secret MAGIC decrypts played in the decision to evacuate the ethnic Japanese (citizens and non-citizens) from the West... Read more

Published 4 months ago by Epops

Absence of profiling caused 9/11

To demonstrate how profoundly PC this country is, almost fifteen years after 9/11 the left adamantly refuses to recognize that fear of profiling directly caused 9/11 and its... Read more

Published 5 months ago by spencer c. warren

There are HUMAN BEINGS and FAMILIES even in 'racial profiling'.

During World War II, Japanese-Americans were not sent to Internment Camps. They were sent to CONCENTRATION CAMPS in the middle of the desert, and the government, and DeWitt, were... Read more

Published 5 months ago by Hiroman

GREAT BOOK - EYE OPENING

Eye opening. Everyone needs to read this.

Published 6 months ago by Tom W.

Malkin is a provacative writer,

Malkin is a provacative writer, well worth reading

Published 7 months ago by Capr

Five Stars

As are most of her books, this is a must read!

Published 12 months ago by J S

The negative posters have no clue

I did not read the whole book, only the pages on this website, however I can add a useful observation to this discussion, having lived next door to a Japanese family for several... Read more

Published 13 months ago by Amazon Customer

Falsehoods galore.

If I could give this book a minus million, I would. Her lack of research skills is so obvious it hurts. Malkin uses outdated and false information to make her case. Read more

Published 13 months ago by L. Card

Completely accurate. My uncle was killed at Pearl Harbor ...

Completely accurate. My uncle was killed at Pearl Harbor and we have yet to receive any form of "reparations".

Published 13 months ago by Amazon Customer

Internment

This book details information about the camp everyone went to. Primary source material such as executive orders are included. Excellent.

Published 14 months ago by tom bacon