8.15.04
More on the internment book. The author was on Real Time with Bill Maher last night. First impressions on the TV is that she has a kind of mean look to her, both in facial expression and tone of voice. They didn’t focus on her book save one comment from Maher, in which she was very defensive, I almost wonder what she expects/or does she just like the attention. Lucky for her Maher actually agrees with the idea of looking at certain types of people more closely in the airport security lines, although I’d be very surprised if he’d agree with her in terms of internment, or that the Japanese internment was based on sound intel.
Been digging up a bit of other blogger’s commentary on the book, came up with some pretty good sites of commentary and response. I still have yet to find a pro-internment opinion that was really sound. I guess maybe the book is all a bunch of anti-Japanese rhetoric anyhow. Not planning on buying it, maybe just read some of it when I go to borders or something. I’m sure that it’ll show up in a used bookstore later.
Its strange how somebody can claim to be so patriotic and pro-american and then be so quick to demonize a group based on affiliation or religious belief. I guess they really don’t value American freedoms, or maybe at the very least have a different view of what this country should be.