[quote=paramount]scaredy: from a lawyer’s POV, what do you think about this comment Justice Scalia made a few weeks ago:
Justice Scalia: You Are ‘Kidding Yourself’ If You Think World War II-Style Internment Camps Will Never Happen Again.
And that was before Patriot Act and NDAA.
You have to know the Constitution has been all but completely destroyed.
How relevant can your legal education be with that in mind?[/quote]
You need to provide links, paramount. Otherwise, some people won’t believe you. They will continue to insist that “it can’t happen here,” and then call you a conspiracy theorist. 😉
I do find it interesting that this is being discussed far more on “alternative” news sites. Same as always, when something important is happening, like with the TPP, the sheeple are kept in the dark.
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February 5, 2014
“Justice Antonin Scalia says World War II-style internment camps could happen again.”
A headline that might seem shocking but doesn’t surprise me at all. What Scalia said is an entirely ordinary observation within the field of constitutional law (from my perspective, anyway, as someone who’s taught conlaw for 30 years):
Scalia was responding to a question about the court’s 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld the convictions of Gordon Hirabayashi and Fred Korematsu for violating an order to report to an internment camp.
“Well, of course, Korematsu was wrong. And I think we have repudiated in a later case. But you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again,” Scalia told students and faculty during a lunchtime question-and-answer session.
Scalia cited a Latin expression meaning “In times of war, the laws fall silent.”
“That’s what was going on — the panic about the war and the invasion of the Pacific and whatnot. That’s what happens. It was wrong, but I would not be surprised to see it happen again, in time of war. It’s no justification but it is the reality,” he said.
