Proud publishers of Women in the Military: Flirting with Disaster

Regnery also published “In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror by Michelle Malkin.

Here's what Regnery says about the book:http://www.regnery.c...

  Everything you’ve been taught about the World War II “internment camps” in America is wrong * * *
The need for this myth-shattering book is vital. President Bush’s opponents have attacked every homeland defense policy as tantamount to the “racist” and “unjustified” World War II internment. Bush’s own transportation secretary, Norm Mineta, continues to milk his childhood experience at a relocation camp as an excuse to ban profiling at airports.

This reviewer nails its bigotry:

Malkin, an Ann Coulter wannabe who admittedly tries to be provocative to sell her book (p. xi), argues that the internment of Japanese Americans was justified because there was a spy network of Japanese Americans working for Japan here in the continental United States during World War II. The Answer? Evict and intern EVERY single Japanese American in the coastal areas of the Western United States--even those who were LOYAL, INNOCENT American CITIZENS. Their crime? The color of their skin, their race. Malkin believes that one should be judged by the color of their skin, not the content of their character.

This book is quite simple. She spends the largest portion of her book cataloguing evidence showing that the Japanese had a spy ring in the United States. She spends just one and a half pages attempting to justify the eviction and internment policy. (Pages 78-79.) That's it for her great rationalization of the internment of tens of thousands of innocent, patriotic Americans.

Here are some tidbits from this author who proudly boasts in her "Note to the Reader" (page xii) that she is no historian:

It is a "great myth" that the Japanese Interment was "unjustified." (page xii)

The Japanese American agents working for Japan numbered in the "dozens" or "hundreds." (pages 31, 132.) A classified ONI memo "named dozens" of Japanese agents. ( p. 34.) Since we knew their "names," we presumably could have taken action with respect to them, and not all the innocents.

In spite of the barbed wire, armed guards, floodlights and watchtowers of the camps (p. 100), conditions really were not so bad after all, and the barbed wire was "more symbolic than practical."(p. 108.) And the internment was good for the second generation Nisei--who were American citizens. (p. 108.) Sounds like a Nineteenth Century argument in favor of slavery.

Our country should not have "unwarranted guilt" over the internment. (p. 115.)

The reparations bill to compensate Japanese Americans for the internment was the result of the 1960s and 1970s "antiwar agitation and ethnic politics." (p. 116.) Ronald Reagan made a mistake in signing the bill. (p. 119.) Wow, Reagan was a bleeding heart liberal, a radical anti-war activist from the 1960s!

The injustice of the interment was only "perceived." (p. 131.)

Top secret MAGIC (intelligence) memos that were kept from the public for many years and ignored by historians show that the internment was justified. (p. 129.) These MAGIC memos discussed Nisei and Issei (first and second generation Japanese Americans) "by name." (p. 132.) So, we knew who they were, but we had to evict and incarcerate all 112,000 just for good measure.

How many MAGIC memos mentioned Japanese Americans as possible intelligence sources? Six. (p. 135.)

Of the 19 suspects convicted of committing acts of espionage just before and during World War II, how many had Japanese names? None. (p. 138.)

Malkin's conclusion for our current war on terror:
"[W]e must steel ourselves for the possibility of a long-lasting reduction in the overall level of individual liberty we have heretofore possessed." (p. 165.)