Correspondence
Correspondence LOCK 'EM UP THANKS TO STEPHEN SCHWARTZ for his critique of the recent legislation calling for a Justice Department review of the alleged mistreatment of Italian Americans during...
...He was unaware of any restriction, and so was his residence hall director...
...one can disagree with the concept of cloning, and one can fear the potential for evil inherent in it...
...Schwartz correctly observes that those who now criticize our government's wartime relocation policy the most know the least about it, but in light of current events, the basic reasons behind President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 authorizing the WWII evacuation of ethnic Japanese from the West Coast deserve more emphasis...
...Whatever one thinks of West's work, it cannot be credibly asserted that he is doing that work to intentionally harm others...
...17), the Riordan conundrum for conservative Republicans is much like their conundrum over Senator John McCain...
...All scientific research has the potential to produce results that can harm the human race...
...In essence, there is not much there for conservative Republicans...
...military intercepted messages to and from Tokyo and its U.S...
...17) that alleged that Central Michigan University banned patriotic displays...
...We should trade with Russia...
...SCOTT L. SMITH JR...
...But to equate Dr...
...According to a report by the old U.S...
...attorney general has been called a member of the American Taliban...
...Los Angeles was not hammered as hard during the power blackouts as the rest of the state, but the deficits to the state budget are going to be controversial for Davis...
...The Japanese-American legislation was strongly opposed by the U.S...
...method for storing used nuclear fuel is susceptible to terrorist attack...
...Atomic Energy Commission, a cubic foot of nuclear fuel has the energy content of 7.2 million barrels of oil...
...Unfortunately, some among us continually engage in self-flagellation over the WWII Japanese relocation and attempt to exploit that episode in our history by equating it with the current detainment of resident aliens of Arab heritage or the Muslim faith...
...Riordan is tied to ineffectual police leadership at the time of the Rampart Police scandal and the current Federal Consent order (Davis is locking up all the major law enforcement endorsements...
...If advocates of anti-medicine seek to stop the dehumanization of man by cloning, do they intend to retract all the steps leading up to medicine's present...
...Moderates may back Riordan, but they do not walk precincts...
...Activists, mostly conservative ones, do...
...To imitate Cohen and Kristol's logic, the march of biological progress has slowly eroded our mortality through the machinations of such biological terrorists as Koch, Pasteur, and Salk...
...The thinking today is that the relocation involved only U.S...
...The U.S...
...College Station, TX I MUST TAKE EXCEPTION to Eric Cohen and William Kristol's linking cloning and terrorism...
...It is, however, quite another thing to actively plan, finance, and participate in the deliberate murder of thousands of innocent people each year, as osama bin Laden has been doing for many years...
...Prague, though, has not been in Czechoslovakia since January 1993, when that country was peacefully divorced and Slovakia and the Czech Republic became independent states...
...Riordan in 1992 called for gun confiscation, so the National Rifle Association will not support him...
...Although Schwartz does not mention it, it should be noted that since passage of the Italian-American bill, Senator Russ Feingold has introduced a similar piece of legislation covering the WWII treatment of German Americans, and that last January, as he has every year since 1989, Michigan representative John Conyers introduced a bill calling for a commission to consider proposals for compensating African Americans for slavery...
...West with osama bin Laden is a bit of a stretch...
...I am an NRA election volunteer coordinator in the West San Fernando Valley, and I could not sell Riordan for governor to the gun owners and conservatives I know, even if his opponent were Dianne Feinstein...
...Thank you for allowing me to be "geographically correct...
...Why are past accomplishments cheered and future possibilities chided...
...17), Noemie Emery complains about a rather unintelligent remark by Barbara Kingsolver, who compared President Bush to Osama bin Laden...
...His would-be supporters in the Los Angeles Unified School District are less than excited, because of the corruption discovered while he was mayor, and the fact that he was perfectly happy with the selection of former Colorado Democrat Roy Romer as head of the district...
...The piece made light of the fact that the U.S...
...Because of design and operating characteristics, nuclear fuel must be replaced when only a portion of the total fuel has been used...
...The Right should stop using hyperbole for its own sake...
...It's clear that, as they say in the vernacular, Ritter has some "issues," both substantial and of substance...
...I found this comparison especially disconcerting in light of Terry Eastland's "General Ashcroft" (Dec...
...Since man was instilled with the capacity for reason—his greatest asset— medicine has fought to rid humans of weakness...
...Should we declare war on Stockholm for aiding and abetting the Nobel Committee...
...Bin Laden" frighten me (Dec...
...When I first heard about this, I asked my son, who attends CMU...
...ANTHONY CANALES Granada Hills, CA RITTER CZECHS OUT ALAS, AS I SAT DOWN to read the latest issue of The Weekly Standard, I got only as far as The Scrapbook's piece on Scott Ritter (Dec...
...BRYAN KADRICH Grosse Pointe Woods, MI FLAGS "R" US I WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT the statement in Noemie Emery's "The Crybaby Left" (Dec...
...It is difficult for those of us on the Right to breathe without Peter Jennings or Susan Sontag comparing us with the Taliban...
...Two-thirds of the American citizens of Japanese ancestry affected by the relocation orders were the minor children of those enemy aliens, and at least 90 percent of those who were over the age of 17 held dual citizenship...
...Where Riordan can give Davis some trouble is in the Los Angeles area, by battling Davis for some of his own base...
...We could give them our used nuclear fuel and they could give us the energy equivalent in oil...
...consulates that suggested ongoing espionage activities organized and directed by Japanese consular officials involving the use of then-unidentified resident alien Japanese and Japanese Americans as agents...
...But they won't walk for Riordan without intervention from the White House...
...Dec...
...More than a year before Pearl Harbor, the U.S...
...Some students were asked to take down obscene displays, but that was it...
...Some had even served a tour of duty in Japan's armed forces...
...THE COMPARISONS between medicine and terrorism in Eric Cohen and William Kristol's "Dr...
...This would be a win-win situation...
...The United States considers the used fuel valueless, and the decision where to store it is currently hung up in Congress...
...government for the "racism, war hysteria, and failure of political leadership" on the part of our wartime government...
...Likewise, pro-lifers have as much heartburn as the pro-Second Amendment crowd...
...As Ritter mentions, Radio Free Europe is indeed in Prague...
...That way we can more credibly denounce the hyperbole spewing from the Left...
...Justice Department at the time and was described by then Assistant Attorney General John Bolton as "an ill-conceived precedent that would encourage other politically well-organized groups to seek similar . . . compensation for injustices, real or perceived, resulting from (past) government action...
...citizens...
...In fact, 60 percent of the adults who were relocated were Japanese nationals, enemy aliens subject to detention under long-standing U.S...
...We are rightly irritated by those comparisons, knowing as we do that it is just hyperbole...
...This may appear to be a minor point compared to the horrific attacks of September 11, but it is worth noting that the government of Slovakia, under Prime Minister Dzurinda, was among the first to offer support to the United States after the attacks...
...To these solid conservatives, there is no difference between the two...
...For our war against terrorism to be successful, we must not allow common-sense security precautions to be subverted by muddled thinkers who would gamble with the nation's defense in the guise of defending "civil liberties," which are constitutionally inapplicable to resident alien enemy sympathizers and agents...
...Apart from his troubling comments suggesting that a Radio Free Europe transmission tower might be a "legitimate" target, however, it seems he also has some problems with geography...
...Similarly, in her "Crybaby Left" (Dec...
...Thousands of them were educated in Japan...
...In a time when allies can provide important support to our global efforts, we now have two—Slovakia and the Czech Republic—where before there was only one...
...The two are not even in the same stratosphere...
...A couple of weeks ago the president of CMU sent a letter to all parents emphasizing that not only were students allowed to put up patriotic displays, they were encouraged to do so...
...and international law...
...Correspondence LOCK 'EM UP THANKS TO STEPHEN SCHWARTZ for his critique of the recent legislation calling for a Justice Department review of the alleged mistreatment of Italian Americans during World War II ("The Right Way to Lock Up Aliens," Dec...
...West and Mr...
...citizenship to fight for Hirohito) to be paid reparations of $20,000 each, along with an apology from the U.S...
...ROD ANDERSON Chelsea, MI KICKED IN THE RIORDAN AS CAN BE SEEN from Wladyslaw Pleszczynski's "How Republican is Riordan...
...JAN ERIK SUROTCHAK Chairman, Friends of Slovakia Pen Argyl, PA SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE RUSSIA IS SEEKING to import and process used nuclear fuel because it is a potential source of energy, not waste ("From Russia to Iran with Love," Eli J. Lake, Dec...
...The purpose of medicine is clear: to address humankind's greatest weakness, mortality...
...The genesis of these current review efforts can be found in the infamous Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which called for all persons of Japanese ancestry who had been evacuated, relocated, or interned during World War II (including former enemy aliens now living in Japan and Japanese Americans who renounced their U.S...
...There was much more behind FDR's relocation decision than concern over the control of Shinto temples by the Japanese government...
...This "nuclear waste" consists of enormous amounts of fuel, which can be harvested and reused...
...Instead of a centralized storage location at Yucca Mountain, we have over 100 temporary storage sites at nuclear power plants around the country...
...WILLIAM J. HOPWOOD Miami, FL OSAMA BIN WEST...
...BILL BURNS Fulton, NY THE WEEKLY STANDARD...
...At the city's Department of Water and Power, Riordan's benign (and distant) oversight did not result in either debt or blackouts...
Vol. 7 • December 2001 • No. 16
