The Liberal Avenger: Executive Order 9066

A Massachusetts born and bred, Berkeley-educated, honorary Southeast Asian liberal coming to you from beautiful blue New England...

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The sordid tale of Michelle Malkin and her puppeteer husband Jesse - two voices, acting as one, wrapped up in a pretty package. Easy-to-digest racism for the masses.

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"At times, conservatives have even trod into arguing in favor of a war ethos (see, for instance the popular bumper sticker: "War Has Never Solved Anything, Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism"); at other times -- as in all the talk about "shock and awe" in the Iraq invasion -- they have even suggested there is a kind of beauty to violence, especially in the service of the imposition of American will. "

- Orcinus

"Let's do the sign of the cross. It'll make us feel real boss."

- Skafish

"Look, can we all at least agree on one thing -- if the 'I didn't do it' administration is re-coronated, that come November 3, EVERYTHING IS THEIR FUCKING FAULT."

- Atrios

"Arbolist... Look up the word. I don't now, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees."

- George W. Bush, USA Today, 08/21/2001

"There are no mirrors in Bush's church."

- Tim Appelo, Seattle Weekly, 12/08/2004

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends."

- Maya Angelou

"To those who consider the war a mistake but still fear the consequences of military withdrawal, we ask these questions: when will enough be enough? If not now, when?"

- An Appeal to Global Conscience (via j a c k *)

"How much productivity has been wasted, not reducing our dependence on oil, but to entice us to buy more that is made with, and which consumes for its continuance - oil. It would be as if a man who had been poisoned, rather than reaching for the emetic, reaches for another dose of the poison."

- Stirling Newberry, So We Want a Revolution, 03/18/2005


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Saturday, February 19, 2005

Executive Order 9066

DenverPost.com - Gil Asakawa

This "open letter" to Michelle Malkin from October from Japanese-American Gil Asakawa is the perfect read today for the 63rd anniversary of Executive Order 9066. Malkin appears to be celebrating the event today on her blog. Shame on her.

This paragraph from Asakawa's letter really resonated with me:

It’s better, right, to lock up everybody who looks like the terrorist? Who shares the culture, who maybe knows how to cook lumpia and learned to dance the Tinkling at a Filipino community center as a child, or attended church with a Filipino congregation, or who speaks Tagalog and might be making nefarious plans in a language that we “real” Americans can’t understand?

[Update: Auguste at MalkinWatch wrote one of his best posts to date (they are all "best," really - he is smarter and more even-keeled than I am) on Michelle's post.]

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Saturday, February 19, 2005

Executive Order 9066