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Originally posted by Lanny_MacDonald+Sep 7 2004, 03:24 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Lanny_MacDonald @ Sep 7 2004, 03:24 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Cowperson@Sep 7 2004, 03:05 AM
I don't see someone on the USA campaign trail yelling from the rafters that Muslim-Americans need to be rounded up in the middle of the night and put in concentration camps in Nevada!!
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I also don't think that saying the Bush Administartions actions of late are comparable to that of the Nazis in the mid 30's as saying that Bush wants to round up all Muslims, imprison them in concentration camps and perform mass murder (hell do that using percission munnitions!). I know when I say that I see parrallels I refer to the militaristic buildup, the exportation of ideology and the nationalistic furor that the Republicans are using to their advantage. The minute the Bush administration starts rounding up Muslims and putting them into camps in Nevada is the day he and his cronies get gunned down. Americans are slow on the up take when whipped into a patriotic frenzy, but even that would be extreme to them and would require action on their part. As I've repeatedly said, Americans are great people, its their government that needs its head examined at the moment. [/b][/quote]
Now Cow, you know your history better than that. Hitler did not round up the Jews until after he was elected and was then on his way to getting WWII started.
I said in my post:
I don't see someone on the USA campaign trail yelling from the rafters that Muslim-Americans need to be rounded up in the middle of the night and put in concentration camps in Nevada!!
As you will note, I said there was no one on the campaign trail calling for it as part of an election platform. I wasn't referring to a fait accompli.
Also, I was referring to the rounding up of Japanese-Americans in World War II.
Would a candidate appealing for similar treatment of Muslim Americans find broad appeal with a position like that? Or would he/she quickly slip into Ralph Nader territory?
Cowperson