The religious right news service, AgapePress, has jumped on the bandwagon trying to whitewash the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. It's clear from this clip from AgapePress, which presents NO OPPOSING VIEW, that the religious right is passing this info along in an effort to side with the thesis of the author, that internment wasn't really that bad.
Oh, but please don't compare this administration's actions to any of the evils during WWI, that would simply be beyond the pale and ridiculous, really, I mean it.
A best-selling author and syndicated columnist hopes her new book will debunk a 60-year-old myth about the internment of people of Japanese lineage during World War II. That myth, according to Michelle Malkin, is being used to paralyze America's efforts to win the war against Islamic terrorism. Malkin's book is entitled In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror. She says it is "simply untrue" that the internment policy was driven by solely by hysteria and racism. The columnist explains that historical records show Japan, in fact, had established an extensive espionage network within the United States. But she says the American Civil Liberties Union and other liberal groups have used the internment myth to impede the current U.S. security efforts. "We've been guilt-tripped into avoiding any use of race, ethnicity, religion, or nationality to protect the homeland now," Malkin says. "I think that is very perilous thinking, and I think it's a mindset that we really need to correct if we are going to win the current war on terror." Malkin says profiling is and always has been a legitimate national security policy.
