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February 4, 2014

What Does He Know??

Justice Antonin Scalia Says World War II-Style Internment Camps Could Happen Again

Justice Antonin Scalia predicts that the Supreme Court will eventually authorize another a wartime abuse of civil rights such as the internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II.

"You are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again," Scalia told the University of Hawaii law school while discussing Korematsu v. United States, the ruling in which the court gave its imprimatur to the internment camps.
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4 comments:

Gorges Smythe said...

Yeah, Kid, but don't just lock 'em up; send 'em back!

Seriously, the camps already exist, they're called FEMA Camps.

Kid said...

That's fine by me.

Woodsterman (Odie) said...

Sounds like he's been watching this President.

LL said...

I think that they'd end up killing me before I made it to the gulag.