Classic knee-jerk reaction.  It wasn't a very bright idea then, and it isn't a very bright idea now.  I believe the technical term is "due process", and it's somewhere in our Bill of Rights and says,

"nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without ..."

If we do this, then we are not a nation of laws, but of a mob.  Period.

alice
> Please forgive yet another OT post.  There are many thoughtful and
> well informed people on this list who have posted a wide variety of
> positions on the current situation ... great food for thought.
>
> One of my neighbors posed the following:
>
> In early 1942 the US government rounded up and interned ALL persons
> in California (and a few other areas) of Japanese heritage; American
> citizens, non-citizen permanent residents, and visitors.  He proposed
> that within the next few days that we collect and intern all persons
> of Arabic descent.  What do you think of his proposal?
>
> My memories of the family of one of my best friends down the street
> packing a few meager belongings in suitcases ... abandoning their
> house, furniture, pets, and much of their possessions ... driving
> off into the unknown ... are still very clear almost sixty years
> later.  I never did see my friend again.
>
> I am very much against taking such action, and deplore the recent
> reports of bombings of mosques.
>
> Regards,
>   -Nick T.
>
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