In defense of internment : the case for "racial profiling" in World War II and the war on terror / Michelle Malkin

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Contents: A note to the reader -- Introduction: A time to discriminate -- The turncoats on Niihau Island -- The threat of the rising sun -- Sympathizers and subversives -- Spies like us -- The MAGIC revelations -- The internment of enemy aliens -- The rationale for evacuation -- Executive order 9066 -- The myth of the American "concentration camp" -- Reparations, revisionism, and the race card -- The "Puffery" defense -- Damning America -- 12/7, 9/11, and beyond -- Appendix A: Richard Kotoshirodo -- Appendix B: MAGIC cables -- Appendix C: Intelligence memos -- Appendix D: The Kenji Ito case -- Appendix E: The Coram Nobis cases -- Appendix F: The camps and centers
Summary: Argues that the internment of ethnic Japanese during World War II was the result of real national security concerns, just as the Bush administration's moves to interrogate, track, and deport suspected terrorists is moderate and restrained.

2004

C2004

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Topic: Racial profiling in law enforcement; Law enforcement; Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009