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Comment #26

justxploring — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:48:00 GMT

True, Rick. How do we really know he's still alive? Maybe he died a few years ago. I mean, it would make no sense to hunt for a dead guy, right?

Comment #25

Rick G — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:18:11 GMT

Yes, we've been insulted. John Walsh should do an episode on bin Laden. Maybe someone in this country will do something to catch the criminal. He seems to get results.

Comment #24

justxploring — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:58:04 GMT

This should probably be another blog entry, and maybe when it gets closer to election day I'll post again, but since "Elections" were brought up, I want to remark how shocked I am to meet people all the time who openly admit "I never vote." Just today someone said that to me. I know for a fact that some of my neighbors are liars because they didn't know where people in my district vote and it's right on the voter's registration card. Also, this year they asked for a photo ID and nobody seemed to know that. I guess I shouldn't knock those who admit to never voting. At least they're not pretending they're good Americans. Maybe I should give the confused people I talked to the benefit of the doubt. They were probably thinking about that election in Bosnia or Iraq they voted in. For God's sake everyone - no matter how lousy the choices are, there's got to me someone you like better than the other guy! Voting is what people have died for, so it's our duty and responsibility.... [ More ]

Comment #23

Todd — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:16:22 GMT

I'm not sure why you would post something and say "don't respond." Are you saying that your opinion is so right and so final that mine is unimportant to you? Luckierlady, I don't need a dictionary to tell me that this country was given thew ultimate insult on 9/11, but the fact that even your dictionary definition states it makes your point incomprehensible. What part of "To make attack on" don't you understand??? Jack, Interesting and strange at the same time that... [ More ]

Comment #22

luckierlady — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:32:07 GMT

To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness. b. To affront or demean: an absurd speech that insulted the intelligence of the audience. 2. Obsolete To make an attack on. v.intr. Archaic 1. To behave arrogantly. 2. To give offense; offend: a speech that was intended to insult. I just jumped into this, thinking it might be interesting to read blogs here besides Rip Snorter's. Based on the above definition, I don't think the word... [ More ]

Comment #21

Rip Snorter — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:28:59 GMT

Feel free to continue this on my blog if you wish to continue it. No point belaboring this one. I'm as good an American as you, amigo. As wise, as savvy, as fair, and with at least as much concern for what direction the country takes as you are. The fact we disagree is allowable. It's that kind of country. Thanks for the link, but I honestly don't need to be told by someone, be it George Soros, wossname, Russ Limabugh, anyone, what I ought to think.<br... [ More ]

Comment #20

Todd — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:02:58 GMT

I do not ever equate any American action with Nazis, just as I don't equate any American action with the fascist Muslim terrorists. I stand by my assertion that you have done that. Here's a link about George Soros (although it does go very light on his fringe radical liberalism): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros. You SHOULD care, if you care about geopolitical matters.

Comment #19

Rip Snorter — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:44:29 GMT

Firstly: Elections? Two choices with ready-made platforms. That might seem to you to be a way of finding out what Americans think. It probably seems less so to me. Second: You've misquoted me. I didn't say the difference between Americans and Nazis is 'nuance'. I said the difference in the herding folks off to ethnic concentration camps, and the degree to which they're mistreated from that point forward is nuance. Degree. Once the process begins the issue of how far it... [ More ]

Comment #18

four4me — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:38:17 GMT

As for the other stuff on this blog who's to say what was right or wrong things were done in the name of national security back then because of the FBI's. influence over the conveying authority. then the cia stepped in were in a world war and did what we had to in order to preserve our way of life.

Comment #17

Todd — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:14:14 GMT

Wow, really seems the longer things go on the more I disagree with you. First, we DO know how the majority of Americans think. It is called "elections". As flawed as they are, they are the best way to know how people really think. (As opposed to what the polls or the pundits think.) Second, you are way off-base saying that the difference between Americans and Nazis is "nuance". I'm not even going to bother getting into detail because it's a rather insulting propos... [ More ]

Comment #16

Rip Snorter — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:58:17 GMT

You were factual. The single criterion used to decide who was rounded up and put into camps involved the national origins of the parents or grandparents of the 'detainees'. The questions orbiting that fundamental fact can be argued, but the basic fact cannot. The related question of whether something similar is happening in America today isn't influenced by what clearly did happen then. And the fact we had no ovens and gas chambers is more a matter akin to the old s... [ More ]

Comment #15

justxploring — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:50:26 GMT

I agree with this statement to a point. Some people compare it with Nazi Concentration Camps, and we didn't murder or torture the Japanese in the internment camps. It was a measure to contain them. However, it was still wrong in my opinion. These were United States citizens with homes and businesses and sons, fathers and husbands fighting in Europe defending us. Yes, I know about Reagan & Mineta, etc. I was commenting on how fear and hysteria and racial profiling can cause a kind and c... [ More ]

Comment #14

Rick G — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:00:46 GMT

I only have two comments. What we are doing in Guantanamo is morally and ethically wrong and it is not the United States that I've known, with it's insistence on freedom and justice. It does remind one of the Japanese internment camps. And I agree with Todd, Ronald Reagan was one of the best presidents we've ever had.

Comment #13

Rip Snorter — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:53:17 GMT

I've just posted a blog entry in an attempt to explain myself better. Maybe that will be easier to understand. The view that there's 'plenty of self-examination' happening in America is one that easily fits those who happen to agree with the policies being applied. Those who disagree would argue otherwise. The question is, do you, do I, does anyone, whether they agree or disagree, have any idea where the majority of the American people stand on these issues and the... [ More ]

Comment #12

Todd — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:51:12 GMT

Perhaps your statement is just so nuanced that I don't understand it, or maybe it's just my own failing. I see some thoughts, but having a bit of trouble seeing the opinion or thrust. With the issue of self-examination, I don't think there is any shortage of that happening in America. In fact, I don't think anyone could argue that there are any more self-introspective countries in the world than America and Britain. Rather than requiring more self-examination (which... [ More ]

Comment #11

Rip Snorter — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:05:56 GMT

Maybe the issue isn't so much whether we as a nation make more, or fewer mistakes than other nations make, or have made in the past. Maybe it's more a matter of recognizing the moral and ethical responsibilities we have as a nation to examine our behavior in the present in an attempt to catch our mistakes before we make them, instead of having to make reparations 40 years later after a lot of the people who experienced the mistake are dead. Seems to me our reluctanc... [ More ]

Comment #10

Todd — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:23:03 GMT

However, people using this bad incident as a moral equivalent to the atrocities of other countries are obviously looking for ways to over-emphasize our mistakes. As far as I know there has never been a perfect regime on the face of the Earth. But the United States is the closest thing to it, and constantly looking to its darkest moments is something best left to her enemies. By the way Jack, one of our greatest presidents ever, Ronald Wilson Reagan, pushed through reparations... [ More ]

Comment #9

Rip Snorter — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:31:21 GMT

Pro-American, I suppose, would mean the leader was in favor of having his country bombed the bejesus out of and invaded, whereas, anti-American leaders would be opposed to such a thing happening, and probably figure there's a chance of it. The ones who are neither anti- nor pro- probably figure it's best to stay in the shadows and hope someone else gets to be anti-American, or they've already been and are scared to get back into the limelight. J... [ More ]

Comment #8

justxploring — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:41:01 GMT

Interesting that we were writing about the 442nd at the same exact moment 12:27am. Your comment about the deposit of oil reserves is some food for thought. I just looked up the population of Arab-Americans in Michigan and 50% or more are Christian.

Comment #7

Rip Snorter — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:27:24 GMT

The 442nd was made up of Japanese American citizen soldiers recruited from the camps. Fought all across Europe as one of the most highly decorated US military units of the war. Rounding those folks up might have been racism, or it might just have been opportunism. Many lost valuable homes and property and never got them back, never were compensated in any way. Racism has a way of paying off by sleight of hand. For instance, ain't it handy all those Muslims are sitt... [ More ]

Comment #6

justxploring — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:27:03 GMT

The only reason I have been saying "I'm not a writer" might be out of my own insecurities. I wasn't talking about professional writers anyway. It was my way of saying "excuse me if I don't use the proper sentence structure, grammar or even say something that makes no sense to you." That's all.

Comment #5

justxploring — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:19:50 GMT

Tenaj, over 62% of them were U.S. Citizens. Germans were also put into War Camps. It was justified as a way to protect our national security, but I think it was due to fear and racism. Their homes were taken away from them, along with their dignity. People hear about the Japanese invasion but few ever remember the Japanese-American Soldiers who defended their country, which was the United States of America. While these brave soldiers were fighting the Nazis to defend our freedom, their families were being herded like cattle into internment camps because they had slanted eyes.... [ More ]

Comment #4

Rip Snorter — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:14:18 GMT

Seems to me profiling's something we all do, one way or the other. I've seen you do it on some of your forum entries, and I certainly do it. It just happens the way you might do it, or I might do it, is okay with you for yours and me for mine. For instance, I tend to like Christians okay as individuals, many, many of them. But as a generic group, or institutionally, I'm scared to death of them, mistrust them, expect them to attempt to be willing to kill, jail, persecute anyon... [ More ]

Comment #3

Tenaj — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:01:26 GMT

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the US ran them out, rounded them up and put them in concentration camps.

Comment #2

emilyg — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:46:59 GMT

truecritic - ga., too.

Comment #1

truecritic — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:36:16 GMT

Michigan has the largest Arab population in the US. We are not running from them, we visit them regularly. They run convenience stores and gas stations. 8>)

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