Michelle Malkin has recently given out more information regarding her latest book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror, on her site and it's a dousy. The book, as evidenced by the title, deals with the subject of the Japanese interment camps and how that applies to today's War on Terror. Now I cannot agree or disagree with Malkin's asserstions that the internment camps were indeed needed as I have not read her book, but I plan to. I don't find Malkin t0o be any kind of xenophobic person from what I have read of her writings so I am more inclined to give this subject matter some research and thought before I come out against (or for) her arguement. In today's PC age I would not be surprised to see many things we've been taught since middle school to be somewhat skewered to view such matters as flat out wrong. But history shows us desperate measures have been taken in times of war (read up of the criticisms of Lincoln suspension of certain liberties during the Civil war) and yet here we are, our freedoms still abundant and available to all Americans.
I personally see this as a very taboo subject. Those things we are forced to accept because to speak out contrary to how things are presently viewed would be social suicide. That's why I think to publish (let alone write) this book is a gutsy manuever and one worth giving some time to.
UPDATE: Let me add one more thing though. Thinking about it I will say that the taking of property and businesses by the government at that time was a wrong thing to do and has no place in today unless the person actually is involved with terrorists. Also I do not believe Malkin is making the point for internment camps to be used today but simply that racial profiling does indeed have a purpose. It wasn't a German grandmother flying planes into buildings and nor was it a South Korean immigrant. Once again though to make an informed descision regarding this issue I still must read the book because I don't know what Malkin's argument ultimately is.
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