Wesley Clark Promotes Internment
Of 'Radicalized' US Citizens
By John Amato
He's talking about bringing back WWII Japanese style internment
camps to America
Posted July 19, 2015
I've always liked Wes Clark.
I interviewed him in 2005, when the topic of torture was new and
fresh in our minds and he told me how disappointed he was in Dick
Cheney. Our cell phone connection was horrible, but he called me
back from the airport.
I say this because when I watched this
segment I was as totally shocked as Digby was. I hope he rethinks
his position after he listens to what he actually said. He's talking
about bringing back WWII Japanese style internment camps to America,
which has always been a blight on US history. How can you catch a
person who is unhappy or depressed before they become a lone wolf?
And of course, who would decide if a person was "radicalized?" Ann
Coulter, maybe? Michelle Malkin, who wrote a sick
book defending the use of internment camps?
Digby:
Yes, Wes Clark really said what I said he said
folks
I have always liked Clark. And he said some
reasonable stuff in his
interview with Thomas Roberts this morning before he said
the following.
Roberts asked him what we needed to do about
"self-radicalization" which seems to be the short-hand for a
Muslim (as opposed to a white supremacist or a conspiracy
theorist or just some nut) who reads some crazy stuff on the
internet and decides to go out in a blaze of glory:
Clark: We have got to identify the people
who are most likely to be radicalized. We've got to cut this
off at the beginning. There are always a certain number of
young people who are alienated. They don't get a job, they
lost a girlfriend, their family doesn't feel happy here and
we can watch the signs of that. And there are members of the
community who can reach out to those people and bring them
back in and encourage them to look at their blessings here.
But I do think on a national policy level
we need to look at what self-radicalization means because we
are at war with this group of terrorists. They do have an
ideology. In World War II if someone supported Nazi Germany
at the expense of the United States, we didn't say that was
freedom of speech, we put him in a camp, they were prisoners
of war.
So, if these people are radicalized and they
don't support the United States and they are disloyal to the
United States, as a matter of principle fine. It's their right
and it's our right and obligation to segregate them from the
normal community for the duration of the conflict. And I think
we're going to have to increasingly get tough on this, not only
in the United States but our allied nations like Britain,
Germany and France are going to have to look at their domestic
law procedures.
People are arguing with me on twitter that he
couldn't have said this, but he did. If you still don't believe me
go watch
the tape yourself.
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