Michelle Malkin wants to bring back internment camps

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Her columns are regularly run by the Heritage Foundation webiste www.townhall.com. This is an institution that has the ear of the Bush Admininistration, and indeed serves as a policy think tank for the White House, as well as a clearing house for people seeking employment in the Executive Branch.

This idea that WWII internment camps were aceptable CANNOT be allowed to become a part of mainstream political debate. People are free to share their opinions, but some particularly repugnant ideas must me soundly buried, lest they become a part of mainstream political debate. If some crank published a book denying the Holocaust ever happened, that would be their right under the First Amendment, but that person would be roundly denounced before the idea could become politically mainstream, and rightfully so.

I'm concerned that with this book of hers, it will start a dialogue throughout our Echo Chamber media: first on the blogs, then the radio talk shows, then the cable channels, then the morning shows, then the Sunday shows and finally the evening news. Next thing you know, the issue comes up in the presidential debates in October. And these are the kind of people that George W. Bush listens to for counsel on matters of policy.

I'm telling you folks, all it takes is one more attack, and we may very likely have internment camps for Arabs and Muslims, and if the Right really gets their way they may throw in the gays and other liberal "troublemakers" too.

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