Interestingly, author Michelle Malkin, the daughter of Filipino immigrants, is trying to make the case FOR Racial Profiling in the so called War vs Terrorism, that others call the War of Colonialism & Imperialism.

The country will suffer if Malkin's "Martial Law" mentality succeeds, but in the process, at least she is "exposing" incomplete and distorted History.

Furthermore, Why as she states, would the Japanese Americans be OPPOSED to Justice for Italians and Germans, AND also FAIL to mention every time they speak about WWII Internment, to mention Italians or Germans???

Additionally, The Japanese Americans never mention that they requested reparations ($1.65 Billion) for those who resisted the draft, those who renounced their U.S. citizenship, and those who had gathered intelligence for Japan!

I have little empathy for those, who focus on their own pain, not only to the detriment, the exclusion, and even denial of Justice to others.

Town Hall.com
Michelle Malkin
August 11, 2004

I recently spoke with a group of bright, young law students and undergrads from the best schools in the country, including Yale, Georgetown, the University of Chicago and William and Mary. We discussed my new book, "In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror."

When I mentioned that a large number of those interned in U.S. Department of Justice camps were of European descent, the students showed surprise. "I didn't know that," someone said aloud.

Thanks to a "politically correct" teaching of World War II history, not many other Americans know about these long-forgotten internees, either.

Generations of schoolchildren have been taught to believe that our government threw only ethnic Japanese into camps because of wartime hysteria and anti-Asian bigotry. It's a convenient myth that allows today's civil liberties absolutists to guilt-trip America into opposing any use of racial, nationality or religious profiling to protect the homeland.

In fact, enemy aliens from all Axis nations -- not just Japan -- were subjected to curfews, registration, censorship, exclusion from sensitive areas and internment during World War II. Enemy aliens from Europe and their family members (many of whom were U.S.-born) made up nearly half of the total internee population.

[ Malkin goes on to profile the story of  Arthur D. Jacobs, an American-born son of German immigrants, whose entire family was resettled at the Crystal City, Texas, internment camp, until wars end, when they were repatriated to Germany, with some being confined in a German prison.

After a harrowing bureaucratic nightmare, he and an older brother, both U.S. citizens, were returned to the United States more than a year later without their parents. Jacobs enlisted in the Air Force and served honorably until 1973.

Jacobs has dedicated his retirement years to dispelling politically correct myths about the World War II internment.]

President Reagan signed a reparations law in August 1988 that awarded nearly $1.65 billion ($20,000 x 80,0000) in restitution to ethnic Japanese interned or evacuated from the West Coast.

Jacobs went to court. Motivated not by financial gain but by the drive for historical accuracy, Jacobs argued pointedly that the reparations law unconstitutionally discriminated against internees of European descent in violation of the Equal Protection Clause.

Jacobs' lawsuit was fiercely opposed by every major Japanese-American leader and group in the country.

The D.C. Court of Appeals ruled against him, and in October 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court refused without comment to hear Jacobs' appeal.

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.

Even worse, the law created a historical blind spot about the World War II internment episode in the courts and classrooms that persists today.

"Hopefully, history will overcome our nation's current obsession with the alleged victimization of racial minorities to the extent that the wartime suffering of non-minority citizens such as Arthur D. Jacobs and the thousands of others like him will finally be recognized," wrote World War II veteran and retired U.S. Naval commander William Hopwood in the afterword to Jacobs' autobiography.

"Fairness and common decency call for it, and our nation owes them no less."

Michelle Malkin is a syndicated columnist and maintains her weblog at michellemalkin.com