[1018] in peace2
Re: Fwd: Our Elected Officials...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Fabijanic)
Fri Sep 21 18:03:17 2001
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:55:32 -0400
To: Kohta Ueno <batman@flitterfly.whirpon.com>
From: Jeff Fabijanic <jeff@primordialsoft.com>
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At 4:08 PM -0400 9/21/2001, Kohta Ueno wrote:
>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.
Keep in mind that a whole lot of the adults in the US now were alive when
that happened (if not of voting age). To go from overwhelming support of
internment camps to less than 1 in 3 in a single generation may not be the
best outcome, but its still reason for hope. Of course, the fact that a
huge majority now thinks its ok for the govt to listen in on our private
communications without a warrant just freaks me the hell out again.
I also think that if there are no more attacks, and same poll is taken in a
few weeks, the numbers are going to shift downwards quite a bit. Its human
nature that when confronted with trauma a lot of people defensively
(over)react.
- j
