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	Book defends WWII internment of Japanese Americans, racial profiling
		Malkin purports to debunk the common historical view that the internment was largely driven by wartime hysteria and racism.
		Her views on the internment represent a reversal from 2000, when she wrote that "what happened to Japanese American internees was abhorrent and wrong." She heard from veterans who urged her to take a closer look at the historical record.
		Malkin said that debunking the "myth" about the internment doesn't mean she ignores the disruption in the lives of the internees.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/185162_vcenter06.html (1079 words)

	Why Michelle Malkin is Wrong About Internment
		That is the impression this reader was left with after having read Michelle Malkin’s In Defense of Internment: The Case for ‘Racial Profiling’ in World War II and the War on Terror.
		Malkin challenges the notion that the Japanese internment was undertaken because of racism and wartime hysteria.
		She asserts that the internment was a consequence of a vast Japanese spy network on the West Coast of the United States.
	www.intellectualconservative.com /article4035.html (1271 words)

	Malkin Critique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By June 1942, this entire population was incarcerated in temporary camps near their homes, and then transferred to one of ten permanent “relocation centers” in desolate locations in the interior of the West (except for two camps in Arkansas) where more than half of the original population still remained at the end of the war.
		What analysts such as the Army’s official historian of the internment, Stetson Conn, do not agree with the assertion that the cables were the basis, the causal factor, the inspiration for the decision to forcibly remove Americans of Japanese ancestry from their homes in 1942.
		Malkin’s In Defense of Internment has not made the case that the1942 exclusion of Americans of Japanese ancestry was based on the MAGIC diplomatic intercepts and therefore justified.
	www.colonelandthepacifist.com /research.htm (2863 words)

	Julie Leung: Seedlings & Sprouts: In Defense of Internment by Michelle Malkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As I said I would earlier this year, I read Michelle Malkin's book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror, as soon as it arrived for me at the library last month.
		Forgotten history lessons Indefinite internment of prisoners of war is an invitation to abuse and humiliation.
		Internment was really nothing more than xenophobia and racism: as noted, German-Americans and Italian-Americans were not interned and Nisei soldiers fought as bravely as any for the Allied side.
	www.julieleung.com /archives/001525.html (2288 words)

	The Seattle Times: Books: "In Defense of Internment": In denial of role of race, paranoia
		Michelle Malkin argues in "In Defense of Internment" that the World War II imprisonment of 112,000 ethnic Japanese, 70 percent of them citizens, was done out of military necessity.
		President Roosevelt ordered the internment of Japanese Americans here, on the West Coast — because it was wanted by the military commander here and by most of the public here.
		Malkin denies that the internment occurred because of war paranoia and racial fear.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/books/2002038689_malkin19.html (843 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Editorial
		This question is raised by columnist Michelle Malkin's book "In Defense of Internment," and was the subject of her Aug.
		Michelle Malkin's comments reveal that she is out of step by six decades on the internment issue, as she is unwilling to accept the role that racism played in the internment.
		Internment: Excesses are be expected during the mass anxiety of wartime, but Michelle Malkin makes a good case for the objective evidence that supported the internment decision.
	starbulletin.com /2004/08/15/editorial/special.html (3204 words)

	Japanese Internment: Why Daniel Pipes Is Wrong
		Michelle Malkin’s In Defense of Internment : The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror (Regnery, 2004) challenges the civil libertarian orthodoxy by means of a revisionist thesis about Japanese internment.
		There is also his suggestion that opposition to internment is nothing more than a hobbyhorse of “the victimization lobby,” a term that not only suggests that Japanese Americans weren’t victimized, but suggests that those opposing internment have nothing worthwhile to say in criticism of it.
		Having defended Japanese-American internment, having described Muslim-Americans as a threat on par with Japanese-Americans during World War II, and having denied that the civil liberties of either group were or are “sacrosanct,” Pipes is no longer logically in a position to reject internment, whether he wants to or not.
	hnn.us /articles/9512.html (2123 words)

	IN DEFENSE OF INTERNMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Internment sure beats a Nazi bomb on the head, and both Coventry and internment were justified, in order to protect the broken codes, shorten the war by years, and save millions of lives.
		Their internment could be excused for security reasons, the confiscation of their properties can not be excused at all.
		Without commenting on whether internment was right or wrong, as one who watched every blessed minute of last week's demcon, I found it interesting that two speakers chose to decry the internment of the Japanese during WWII and both managed to not mention "FDR" or that it happened under a democrat president.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1184110/posts (5815 words)

	Michelle Malkin - About In Defense of Internment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Defense of Internment provides a radical departure from the predominant literature of civil liberties absolutism.
		It offers a defense of the most reviled wartime policies in American history: the evacuation, relocation, and internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II (three separate actions which are commonly lumped under the umbrella term “internment”).
		My book is also a defense of racial, ethnic, religious, and nationality profiling (widely differing measures that are commonly lumped under the umbrella term “racial profiling”) now being taken or contemplated during today’s War on Terror.
	michellemalkin.com /aboutidoi.htm (293 words)

	JunkYardBlog: Comment on BOOK REVIEW: IN DEFENSE OF INTERNMENT
		Internment probably didn’t contribute much to winning the war, but we don’t really know that it didn’t contribute anything because we can’t know what free disloyal Isei and Nisei might have done if they had had the chance.
		Her point with the book is essentially that most of what you know about internment, thanks to public education, is wrong, and that today’s opposition to any kind of racial profiling in the war on jihad is based in part on that wrongheaded view of internment.
		Whether or not internment “won the war” or was even the right policy really isn’t the point of her book or my review.
	junkyardblog.net /scgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=3542 (1304 words)

	Conservative Book Club: In Defense of Internment by Michelle Malkin
		In her provocative new book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror, she explains why, contrary to the short-sighted propaganda of self-anointed "civil libertarians," civil liberties are not sacrosanct.
		In Defense of Internment offers a ringing justification for the most reviled wartime policies in American history: the evacuation, relocation, and internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II.
		A must read to really understand the full story regarding the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII and how similar it was to the situation we face as a nation today.
	www.conservativebookclub.com /Join/JoinBookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6528 (2156 words)

	Reason Magazine - Defending Repression
		So it takes some nerve to pen a defense of this reviled policy -- which is exactly what the author and syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin did recently, in a new book titled In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror.
		Inevitably, critics have raised the Japanese internment as an extreme case of racial profiling gone awry.
		Responding to critics on her blog, she suggests she didn't need to address the issue of racism because her whole point was to disprove the "myth" that it was a dominant factor in the internment.
	www.reason.com /news/show/29291.html (1027 words)

	Internment camps revisited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Michelle Malkin has quietly written a book that re-examines the WWII internment of everyone of Japanese ancestry in certain West Coast areas, and looks at the implications for dealing with the Islamist threat today.
		She wrote "In Defense Of Internment" to ask the un-askable, and she will undoubtedly ignite a firestorm of controversy:
		And before you accuse me of overstating the threat from muslims, consider the fact that there are potentially 270 million suicide bombers out there gunning for us.
	www.brainshavings.com /2004/08/internment_camps_revisited.html (323 words)

	The Redhunter: Book Review: In Defense of Internment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of the most controversial books to come out in the past year was Michelle Malkin's In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror.
		Malkin points out that internment was the norm around the world at the time, and we're talking about our allies.
		Another is to explain complicated historical events in terms of modern racial ideas, and to write off internment as "racial hysteria." Given what policy-makers knew at the time, I can't blame them for taking the decision they did.
	theredhunter.com /2005/03/book_review_in_defense_of_internment.php (1594 words)

	A Guide to Asian American Empowerment - In Defense of Internment Scholarship:
		This leaves her in the position of asserting that the essential reflection and decision was made by those three figures, and the reasons of motivations of any other actors were irrelevant.
		However, the record amply demonstrates that West Coast Defense Commander General John DeWitt (and his assistant Karl Bendetsen) were largely responsible for making the case for evacuation, and that their judgment of the situation and their recommendation for mass evacuation overcame the initial opposition of McCloy and Stimson.
		Malkin not only refuses to question the military's judgment (even in retrospect) but stresses that their roundup of all Japanese Americans of all ages was untainted by racial sentiment-the removal of children being founded in the need to assure that they were properly cared for.
	modelminority.com /printout849.html (3247 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Forgotten WWII Internees by Michelle Malkin
		Michelle Malkin's new book In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror is available from the FrontPage Magazine Bookstore for $19.95.
		In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror
		The apology and reparations for ethnic Japanese (including those born in the camps, those who resisted the draft, those who renounced their U.S. citizenship and those who had gathered intelligence for Japan) perpetuated anger and frustration among European internees and their families, none of whom received an apology or compensation.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14603 (647 words)

	No Case for Internment by Vox Day
		Malkin appears to have done copious research with regard to the bureaucratic justifications for the internment, she also reveals her utter ignorance of military history and strategic logistics.
		This is a rather serious flaw, as her entire case rests upon the flimsy and ultimately unsupportable notion of the military necessity for the federal government to violate the life, liberty and property rights of 120,000 individuals of Japanese descent, many of them American citizens.
		It is fortunate that In Defense of Internment has some heft to it.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig5/day1.html (745 words)

	Book Details - In Defense of Internment
		President Bush’s opponents have attacked every homeland defense policy as tantamount to the “racist” and “unjustified” World War II internment.
		In Defense of Internment shows that the detention of enemy aliens, and the mass evacuation and relocation of ethnic Japanese from the West Coast were not the result of irrational hatred or conspiratorial bigotry.
		In Defense of Internment will outrage, enlighten, and radically change the way you view the past—and the present.
	www.regnery.com /books/indefenseofintern.html (297 words)

	In Defense of Internment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror (ISBN 0-89526-051-4) is a 2004 book written by American conservative columnist, blogger, and pundit Michelle Malkin.
		In the book Michelle Malkin discusses the circumstances behind US President Franklin Roosevelt's decision for the Japanese internment in the United States during World War II.
		There was considerable media interest in the book especially on the West Coast of the US and Hawaii where the impact of internment in World War II was greatest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/In_Defense_of_Internment (396 words)

	Matt Margolis » Blog Archive » In Defense of Internment
		Despite being imprisoned in an internment camp as a very young boy, Bob always had hope in the promise of America — taking from his experience empathy for others, a belief in civil rights, and a passion for excellence which was expressed in his public service.
		An obituary to Matsuit would mention internment, given that he spent the first 3 1/2 years of his life in an internment camp, and that he spent a great deal of his life speaking out about it.
		Though it may seem that Dred Scott, and abortion, and internment, and guns rights are unrelated, they are exactly related in that they all depend on the definition of a single word or understanding.
	www.mattmargolis.com /blog/archives/2005/01/02/in-defense-of-internment (1789 words)

	American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee: Michelle Malkin's book seems to urge discrimination in US against Arabs, ...
		However, given her full-throated defense of the wartime imprisonment of tens of thousands of Japanese-American men, women and children on the supposition that their ethnicity made them a security threat, her book does seem to constitute the brief for the potential internment of Arab- and Muslim-Americans.
		Malkin says she was drawn to the subject because critics of post-Sept. 11 profiling persistently cited the Japanese internment as an example of the logical conclusion of security measures based on ethnic stereotyping.
		Her book presents no new information regarding the World War II internments and relies heavily on a set of decrypted cables, which indicate that the Japanese government intended to establish a spy network in the US in the buildup to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
	www.adc.org /index.php?id=2316 (782 words)

	Indefensible internment: there was no good reason for the mass internment of Japanese Americans during WWII Reason - ...
		Supporters of profiling have a reasonable response to this comparison with what we've come to call the Japanese-American internment: There is a big difference between asking Arab male airline passengers some extra security questions and forcing American citizens behind barbed wire in the high desert for three years.
		As obvious as that answer might seem, it is not the answer that conservative columnist Michelle Malkin gives in her book In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror.
		Over the last several decades, historians have shown that the chief causes of the Japanese American internment were ingrained anti-Asian racism, nativist and economic pressures from groups in California that had long wanted the Japanese gone, and the panic of wartime hysteria.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_7_36/ai_n7584305 (632 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Malkin: In defense of internment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She chose the World War II internment issue, I think, because she believes our national perception of it shapes our current attitude toward important security measures in the War on Terror.
		Her main thesis is that evacuation and relocation of ethnic Japanese from the West Coast, and also of enemy aliens of any ethnicity during World War II, was not a despicable, irrational, xenophobic act driven by the racism or "wartime hysteria" of American leaders.
		I've just scratched the surface here, but after making her strong case for World War II internment, Michelle ties the subject to the present, expressing her indignation that "civil liberties absolutists" have used revisionism to attack today's homeland security initiatives.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40119 (731 words)

	Defending repression: why are conservatives trying to rehabilitate McCarthyism and the Japanese internment? Reason - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		So it takes some nerve to pen a defense of this reviled policy--which is exactly what the author and syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin did recently, in a new book titled In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror.
		The truth, Malkin contends, is that the U.S. leadership had ample reason to fear sabotage and espionage by ethnic Japanese--particularly on the basis of intelligence data declassified years after the war, from decoded Japanese diplomatic communications--and didn't have the ability or the resources to assess individual risk.
		As historical revisionism, In Defense of Internment largely falls flat.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_6_36/ai_n6343973 (698 words)

	Dangerous Revisionist History: Reviving the "Military Necessity" Argument
		In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror argues that Roosevelt's correct "close call" was not racist, but was justified by intercepted intelligence about a West Coast spy network.
		In Defense of Internment is published by Regnery Publishing, also the source of such titles as Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry; At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election; and The Bible Is History.
		"In Defense of Internment takes a few small slices of fact, removes them from their larger context or distorts their significance, embellishes them with non-facts, either sneeringly dismisses or utterly ignores an entire ocean of contravening evidence, and then pronounces the whole enterprise history.
	www.densho.org /about/revisionism.asp (2281 words)

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