Could Arab American families be rounded up?

[L K Day]

"If there is an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney, it threatens my civil liberties. It is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper, it is that fundamental belief that makes this country work."
- Senator Barack Obama

Obama: Arab-American Families Being Rounded Up? By Lance Fairchok

In a televised twelve-second campaign spot aired in Texas, Senator Obama gives a stirring speech to a standing ovation. It is the predictable litany of American faults he will miraculously correct: literacy, expensive prescription drugs and insufficient civil liberties. However, he seems particularly concerned for Arab-Americans. "If there is an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney, it threatens my civil liberties."

This was an astonishing statement, an infuriating statement and a statement that speaks volumes to Obama's ideology.

Arab-American families being rounded up would not only threaten all our civil liberties, it would raise such a universal outcry, it could not long endure. Even the suggestion it could occur is a profound insult to our nation and our citizenry. It is an image of the gulag, the death camp, the dictatorship, and so inappropriate in any discussion about America, it is beneath our contempt.

You might want to read the whole thing. Here's the link. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2008/03/ ... -does.html
Warning! For any antisemites, the blog is JEWISH.

[Josephine]

Arab-American families being rounded up would not only threaten all our civil liberties, it would raise such a universal outcry, it could not long endure. Even the suggestion it could occur is a profound insult to our nation and our citizenry.

really?

but hasn't our nation rounded up groups of people we don't like multiple times? various indian tribes, japaneese, "suspected terrorists." (i'm not a history buff or i'm sure i could add a bunch more to the list).

I'm not sure how "the suggestion it could occur" would be an insult to our nation. of course it could occur. it has occured. multiple times.

[anticlmber]

just use tape to make their eyes slant back and call them japs and nobody will care.

[L K Day]

You don't think this country has changed that much in the last 60 years? Really?

[anticlmber]

so because of his "background" he's a towel-head terrorist.
if hillary said something about women we'd know her "background" and you wouldn't agree with it either.

so only if it's some old white fuddy-duddy man do you agree with them huh Day??
no wonder things stay the same.

[L Day]

I think the suggestion that there is ANY risk of a round-up of Arab-American families is only slightly less ridiculus than to suggest that African-American families could be rounded up and sold back into slavery.

[Josephine]

You don't think this country has changed that much in the last 60 years? Really?

changed yes. changed enough so history is CERTAIN to never repeat itself. no.

[caribe]

Larry: do the Arab-like-me thing. Disguise yourself for a while and let us know what kind of backlash you get from your own neighbors. People are being detained without access to lawyers right now by this rotten administration. These fuckers are torturing people.

[anticlmber]

You don't think this country has changed that much in the last 60 years? Really?

food becomes shit. that is a change, is it for the better??? depends on if you like shit or not.

just because things are different does not mean the are for the better. this country hasn't changed. just the people that say they want to grow up and see a change.

[Toy]

I think the suggestion that there is ANY risk of a round-up of Arab-American families is only slightly less ridiculus than to suggest that African-American families could be rounded up and sold back into slavery.

Exactly. Just about as ridiculous as holding "prisoners" for monthes on end without being charged formally........oh wait, bad example. OK, how about just as ridiculous as unfettered/unrestricted phone tapping without proba......dang if I didn't do it again.

20 years ago, both of these scenarios would have been unthinkable. Day, we have changed in the past 60 years. We've simply regressed in the past 8