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Jake is a troll's troll. There is no point whatsoever in responding to him, except to elucidate the brutal barbarity at the heart of the BushCo mind. At this point, citing Korematsu as if it were good law is morally, historically and legally but a hop-skip-and-jump away from citing Plessy or Dredd Scott.
From where I live, I can look out my windows and see Terminal Island and the Palos Verdes Penninsula, where Japanese Americans were removed from their land, which was then stolen from them by patriotic "real Americans." It's not abstract to me. I can see where it happened. And anyone at all can see how similar it was to what happened to some of my relatives at the hands of Nazis in the very same war. Oh, sure, we were much more civilized. We didn't kill them outright. But, then, we had a lot farther to fall from our high ideals than the Germans of Weimer Germany.
Jake's a troll and traitor, all right. And there's nothing the least bit academic about it.
