  I can't believe how stupid Michelle Malkin is. In today's New York Post , she wrote a column on Department of Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta's "sad obsession" (a reference to the title of her sad little column and not my personal beliefs).
Since everyone thinks she's a crazy ass "aunt thomasina," she feels the need to attack anybody who experienced the Japanese American internment during World War II and thinks it was a bad idea. Malkin argues Mineta should allow the airlines to racially profile Arab and Muslim looking people (something Mineta has adamantly against). She feels that Norm Mineta is using a personal issue to get in his way professionally and that puts the country in danger.
While ostensibly defending the Bush administration's treatment of Arabs and Muslims in America, Mineta revealed his real beef: "I think we are seeing shades of what we experienced in 1942. " During World War II, Mineta was evacuated as a young boy from San Jose, Calif., to a relocation camp in Heart Mountain, Wyo. He remains deeply aggrieved about the so-called "Japanese-American internment" and his gross misunderstanding of history continues to blind him to current realities.
Mineta, like most Americans, has been brainwashed into believing that the decision to evacuate the West Coast and relocate ethnic Japanese to the interior of the country was motivated solely by racism and wartime hysteria — rather than bona fide national security concerns. This myth has served as personal catharsis for many. But in a post-9/ 11 world, we can no longer afford the abuse of history as multicultural group therapy. Malkin believes that, to win the war on terrorism, you either allow racial profiling or you support terrorism.
It must be strange to live in her psychotically pessimistic world. But, it doesn't surprise me. Conservatives will have you believe that you either wholeheartedly support the Bush Administration on everything or you're anti-American. There are no shades of gray within the mind of a right wing nutcase. Plus, Malkin concentrates too much on what she thinks people think motivated the Japanese American internment. In her mind, she doesn't think it was racist. But, what she doesn't realize is that the motivations of the internment are not important. Whether racist or for national security, it doesn't matter. The RESULTS are what are important.
Many Japanese Americans, even after the war, became targets of racism...this whole idea of "if the government can lock 'em up, there must be something wrong with 'em. " The Japanese Americans had to literally leave behind everything and carry only what they had on their backs. When they returned, many of their businesses and homes were taken over. And, while in internment, many had to live in stables and the camps were in dusty isolated places.
It is a testament to the strength of the Japanese American community that they were able to survive the experience. So, please...excuse Mr. Mineta if he doesn't want another innocent American to experience what his family had to go through. This is why we have civil rights in America. These are the same civil rights, Michelle, that protect you as a journalist of color from being able to spew your hatred. 
