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Re: Fwd: Our Elected Officials...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kohta Ueno)
Fri Sep 21 16:09:03 2001

Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:08:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kohta Ueno <batman@flitterfly.whirpon.com>
To: Jeff Fabijanic <jeff@primordialsoft.com>
cc: Marc Rios <mrios@mit.edu>, <eit@tep.org>, <peace-list@mit.edu>
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Just got around to reading this message all the way to the end:

> The Pew Center poll shows just 29% of Americans in support of allowing
> the United States government to take legal immigrants from unfriendly
> countries to internment camps, as was done with Japanese-Americans
> during World War II.

Yikes. 'Just' 29%?  Only about a third of the country is in favor of a
type of action that the government is currently apologizing and paying
reparations for.  Hm.

They didn't give a statistic, though, for the fraction of Americans who
think this should be done with naturalized and natural born citizens of
unfriendly countries.

-Bats

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