There is dangerous talk these days by those who have the ear of some at the highest levels of government. Earlier this week, Carl Higbie, an outspoken Trump surrogate and co-chair of Great America PAC, gave an interview with Megyn Kelly of Fox News. They were discussing the notion of a national Muslim registry, a controversial part of the Trump administrationâ??s national security plans, when Higbie dropped a bombshell: â??We did it during World War II with Japanese, which, you know, call it what you will,â? he said. Was he really citing the Japanese American internment, Kelly wanted to know, as grounds for treating Muslims the same way today? Higbie responded that he wasnâ??t saying we should return to putting people in camps. But then he added, â??There is precedent for it.â?
Stop and consider these words. The internment was a dark chapter of American history, in which 120,000 people, including me and my family, lost our homes, our livelihoods, and our freedoms because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. Higbie speaks of the internment in the abstract, as a â??precedentâ? or a policy, ignoring the true human tragedy that occurred.
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