Antonement or warning?
(from iWon; bold as original; footnotes by Dennis)
(quote)-----------------------
A Gesture Of Atonement
November 10, 2000 9:15 am EST
Govt. To Preserve Japanese-American Internment Sites (4)
WASHINGTON, NOV. 9, 2000 (CBS News) - President Clinton announced a
plan Thursday to preserve sites of camps where the U.S. government
interned 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Americans, he said, must "never forget this sad chapter in our
history." (1)
One of the camps is Heart Mountain, between Powell and Cody in northern
Wyoming, where more than 12,000 Japanese-Americans were relocated.
"We are diminished when any American is targeted unfairly because of his
or her heritage,"(2) Mr. Clinton said in a letter read at the dedication of
a memorial to those interned and to the 33,000 Japanese-Americans who
fought for the United States in the war.
"This memorial and the internment sites are powerful reminders that
stereotyping, discrimination, hatred and racism have no place in this
country." (2)
Attorney General Janet Reno, who represented the president at the
ceremony, said the Interior Department is acquiring land and protecting the
sites in Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Arkansas.
"This nation is at a moment in its history that will be recorded in the
history books for years to come," she said. "It is a great nation
because we have learned from our past and experience." (3)
The memorial near the Capitol is due to be completed in the spring, with
stone panels devoted to each of the 10 camps.
Reno noted that Mr. Clinton recently presented the Medal of Honor to 19 of
the Japanese-Americans, some of whom took part in Thursday's ceremony.
Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta, the first Asian-American member of
the Cabinet, was interned with his California family when he was 10. In a
speech, he recalled that Dec. 7, 1941, the day that Japan attacked the
United States at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, was the first time he heard his
father cry.
"He was filled with grief at the knowledge that the land of his birth had
attacked the land of his heart," he said.
SOURCES: ©2000 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material
may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
(unquote)------------------------
1) President Clinton is correct when he says we must never forget the
unconstitutional (therefore “illegal”) and immoral internment of
Japanese-Americans. But many of our current laws assume we are guilty of
transgressions or unworthy of trust. Gun laws are a perfect example.
2) President Clinton also is correct when he says we are diminished as a
nation and as Americans whenever any American is targeted unfairly
because of his or her heritage. He is correct a third time when he says
stereotyping, discrimination, hatred and racism have no place in America.
Yet the government empowers stereotyping, discrimination, and hatred of
our heritage and freedom and liberty are disparaged by our rulers.
3) Furthermore, President Clinton and Janet Reno are poor choices to
represent integrity, freedom, or opposition and horror concerning the
outlandish, illegal, and immoral actions of anyone - citizen or government.
Setting aside their personal lives, let’s look at their actions as our
“representatives”:
Each and every day our federal government violates 9 of the 10 bill of Rights
amendments. Examples include:
- The outlawing of prayer or even a moment of silence at many public
gatherings.
- Preventing redress against federal crimes by employing federal
“sovereignty” and forbidding lawsuits against federal offices.
- Declaring at will, any demonstration to be unlawful or forcing
demonstrators to stay far away from an appropriate demonstration site - all
in the name of preserving the peace.
- Using the IRS and FBI as weapons against political opponents or to induce
compliance from less-dedicated political allies.
- The federal War on the Second Amendment. What better example of
widespread government “stereotyping, discrimination, hatred” and illegal use
of power can there be?
- The unconstitutional search and seizures by the ATF, DEA and other
agencies to support the war on the Second Amendment and the so-called
War on Drugs. (Note nearly all our “illegal drugs” used to be legal and
seldom abused).
- Violations of the Fifth Amendment by granting limited “amnesty” in return
for plea bargains or to incriminate frequently innocent defendants.
- Forcing testimony from unwilling witnesses or defendants by threat of
contempt of court and incarceration without indictment, without trial,
without sentencing, and without limited term of (unjustified) incarceration.
- The effective (if not stated) elimination of jury nullification as a check on
unconstitutional laws.
- A legal system viable only for the rich, famous and powerful.
- Permitting “secret” witnesses, protecting their identity “for their
protection”.
- Destroying the Constitutional protection against double jeopardy by
encouraging multiple charges in various courts (criminal, civil, local, state,
and federal) for the same act! The intent of the prosecution being to wear
the citizen down, destroy his reputation, family, and wealth and exhausting
his ability to resist until he capitulates and has no choice but to accept some
form of punishment. Among other violations, this constitutes cruel and
unusual punishment against which citizens have no defense. This is blatant
terrorism by the government against individual citizens.
- Millions of federal violations of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments by
imposing federal law, federal policy, and/or federal will against both the
various states and American citizens. Frequently the power of withholding
federal funds (gathered by federal force or threat of force from citizens) is
used to punish states who mistakenly believe in the Ninth and Tenth
amendments.
The list of federal atrocities and violations grows daily. It approaches a
similar list documented in our Declaration of Independence.
Blatant, violent, and frequently public murders, attempted murders, and
other felonies such as those of Waco and Ruby Ridge abound.
When will it be enough? When and how will it ever stop?
So long as Americans continue to support the current politicians, the
infringements upon, and de facto elimination of our
Constitutionally-protected Rights will continue. We are being reduced from
Americans and citizens to mere “subjects” - grist for the government mill -
relegated to sub-human consideration. So it began with the Jews in the
1930s.
Those so naive to believe it can not happen here should learn from the past.
Who are Clinton and Reno to “atone” for the mistakes of their predecessors?
We should note that when hypocrites and unindicted criminals such as
Clinton and Reno preserve internment sites, it may be more a reminder of
federal power or a harbinger of the future than an acknowledgement of past
transgressions. It would be foolhardy indeed to consider such “memorials”
to be a promise to improve the integrity or to reduce the ever-increasing
power of our immoral, unconstitutional, and un-American elitist oligarchy.
“... I know of no way to predict the future but by the past....”
-- Patrick Henry
[This message has been edited by Dennis (edited November 10, 2000).]
(from iWon; bold as original; footnotes by Dennis)
(quote)-----------------------
A Gesture Of Atonement
November 10, 2000 9:15 am EST
Govt. To Preserve Japanese-American Internment Sites (4)
WASHINGTON, NOV. 9, 2000 (CBS News) - President Clinton announced a
plan Thursday to preserve sites of camps where the U.S. government
interned 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Americans, he said, must "never forget this sad chapter in our
history." (1)
One of the camps is Heart Mountain, between Powell and Cody in northern
Wyoming, where more than 12,000 Japanese-Americans were relocated.
"We are diminished when any American is targeted unfairly because of his
or her heritage,"(2) Mr. Clinton said in a letter read at the dedication of
a memorial to those interned and to the 33,000 Japanese-Americans who
fought for the United States in the war.
"This memorial and the internment sites are powerful reminders that
stereotyping, discrimination, hatred and racism have no place in this
country." (2)
Attorney General Janet Reno, who represented the president at the
ceremony, said the Interior Department is acquiring land and protecting the
sites in Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Arkansas.
"This nation is at a moment in its history that will be recorded in the
history books for years to come," she said. "It is a great nation
because we have learned from our past and experience." (3)
The memorial near the Capitol is due to be completed in the spring, with
stone panels devoted to each of the 10 camps.
Reno noted that Mr. Clinton recently presented the Medal of Honor to 19 of
the Japanese-Americans, some of whom took part in Thursday's ceremony.
Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta, the first Asian-American member of
the Cabinet, was interned with his California family when he was 10. In a
speech, he recalled that Dec. 7, 1941, the day that Japan attacked the
United States at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, was the first time he heard his
father cry.
"He was filled with grief at the knowledge that the land of his birth had
attacked the land of his heart," he said.
SOURCES: ©2000 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material
may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
(unquote)------------------------
1) President Clinton is correct when he says we must never forget the
unconstitutional (therefore “illegal”) and immoral internment of
Japanese-Americans. But many of our current laws assume we are guilty of
transgressions or unworthy of trust. Gun laws are a perfect example.
2) President Clinton also is correct when he says we are diminished as a
nation and as Americans whenever any American is targeted unfairly
because of his or her heritage. He is correct a third time when he says
stereotyping, discrimination, hatred and racism have no place in America.
Yet the government empowers stereotyping, discrimination, and hatred of
our heritage and freedom and liberty are disparaged by our rulers.
3) Furthermore, President Clinton and Janet Reno are poor choices to
represent integrity, freedom, or opposition and horror concerning the
outlandish, illegal, and immoral actions of anyone - citizen or government.
Setting aside their personal lives, let’s look at their actions as our
“representatives”:
Each and every day our federal government violates 9 of the 10 bill of Rights
amendments. Examples include:
- The outlawing of prayer or even a moment of silence at many public
gatherings.
- Preventing redress against federal crimes by employing federal
“sovereignty” and forbidding lawsuits against federal offices.
- Declaring at will, any demonstration to be unlawful or forcing
demonstrators to stay far away from an appropriate demonstration site - all
in the name of preserving the peace.
- Using the IRS and FBI as weapons against political opponents or to induce
compliance from less-dedicated political allies.
- The federal War on the Second Amendment. What better example of
widespread government “stereotyping, discrimination, hatred” and illegal use
of power can there be?
- The unconstitutional search and seizures by the ATF, DEA and other
agencies to support the war on the Second Amendment and the so-called
War on Drugs. (Note nearly all our “illegal drugs” used to be legal and
seldom abused).
- Violations of the Fifth Amendment by granting limited “amnesty” in return
for plea bargains or to incriminate frequently innocent defendants.
- Forcing testimony from unwilling witnesses or defendants by threat of
contempt of court and incarceration without indictment, without trial,
without sentencing, and without limited term of (unjustified) incarceration.
- The effective (if not stated) elimination of jury nullification as a check on
unconstitutional laws.
- A legal system viable only for the rich, famous and powerful.
- Permitting “secret” witnesses, protecting their identity “for their
protection”.
- Destroying the Constitutional protection against double jeopardy by
encouraging multiple charges in various courts (criminal, civil, local, state,
and federal) for the same act! The intent of the prosecution being to wear
the citizen down, destroy his reputation, family, and wealth and exhausting
his ability to resist until he capitulates and has no choice but to accept some
form of punishment. Among other violations, this constitutes cruel and
unusual punishment against which citizens have no defense. This is blatant
terrorism by the government against individual citizens.
- Millions of federal violations of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments by
imposing federal law, federal policy, and/or federal will against both the
various states and American citizens. Frequently the power of withholding
federal funds (gathered by federal force or threat of force from citizens) is
used to punish states who mistakenly believe in the Ninth and Tenth
amendments.
The list of federal atrocities and violations grows daily. It approaches a
similar list documented in our Declaration of Independence.
Blatant, violent, and frequently public murders, attempted murders, and
other felonies such as those of Waco and Ruby Ridge abound.
When will it be enough? When and how will it ever stop?
So long as Americans continue to support the current politicians, the
infringements upon, and de facto elimination of our
Constitutionally-protected Rights will continue. We are being reduced from
Americans and citizens to mere “subjects” - grist for the government mill -
relegated to sub-human consideration. So it began with the Jews in the
1930s.
Those so naive to believe it can not happen here should learn from the past.
Who are Clinton and Reno to “atone” for the mistakes of their predecessors?
We should note that when hypocrites and unindicted criminals such as
Clinton and Reno preserve internment sites, it may be more a reminder of
federal power or a harbinger of the future than an acknowledgement of past
transgressions. It would be foolhardy indeed to consider such “memorials”
to be a promise to improve the integrity or to reduce the ever-increasing
power of our immoral, unconstitutional, and un-American elitist oligarchy.
“... I know of no way to predict the future but by the past....”
-- Patrick Henry
[This message has been edited by Dennis (edited November 10, 2000).]