Is That Legal?

Masugi's argument that the actions of a Hawaiian couple reflect the attitudes of other Japanese-Americans was addressed here and thoroughly demolished as anecdotal and based a hasty generalization. Instead of addressing the weaknesses of his argument, he attacked, rather incoherently, and left.

If he were interested in truth, and not in creating propaganda (for a living), he would have realized the obvious error in his line of reasoning and would have corrected it.

But he has not.

Apparently he thinks that if he repeats something enough, it will become true.

But it will not.

(sarcasm on) Speaking of being aware of your history, perhaps Ken would like to consider starting another group similar to the American Protective League during WWI.

He could get junior G-man badges for himself and his flunkies. He could then sweep in using conservative vigilantism and find all the traitors.

I am sure civil rights would be violated and several innocent people would be killed but hey allowances must be made when preserving freedom.

"Freedom insured through freedoms violated" could be their motto.

Yeah baby, nothing like a little property confiscation, beatings, and murder to flush out the disloyal.

I agree, and only wish he's finished the thought. Show trials? Purges? Dude, we totally need to get us some of those Gulag things.

Who is this Ken Masugi? One must assume from his name he is Japanese American, but he seems to be one of those self-hating individuals who finds solace in seeing Japanese and Japanese Americans in the worst possible light. That he finds "power and truth" in Michelle Malkin's fraudulent piece of right-wing chicanery is truly appalling. As a nisei, who experienced the mass incarceration and spent World War II in an American concentration camp, I am saddened that a Japanese American should identify himself with the sort of bigotry and racism that we should be struggling to eliminate. At a time in our history when we are once again threatened by politically manipulative demagoguery as represented by Malkin and her ilk, it is even more important to think clearly and to maintain our objectivity and sense of fairness.
If I could reach Mr. Matugi, I would beg him to step out of the lunatic fringe in which he appears to be ensconced and to join those of us who are trying to understand and come to grips with our wartime trauma in a contructive and positive way.
If someone could forward these comments to Mr. Masugi, I would be grateful.
Gene Oishi (gyoishi@msn.com)

Mr. Masugi is at a far right-wing think tank called the Claremont Institute, located, I think, at Claremont-McKenna College. The org has a blog. You MAY find his email address there.

He is not the one who necessarily welcomes comments (the blog does not even have a place for feedback). Good luck finding his email address.

Mr. Masugi is one of the most ardent defenders of the policy which incarcerated the Japanese during WW2. This despite the fact that several members of Mr. Masugi's family were incarcerated for simply being Japanese. One can only wonder what kind of twisted mind would think this way. Mr. Masugi also thinks that lawyers and scientists need to be controlled(to restore law and order of course). As far as comments at claremont -a few months ago comments were open. They Mr. Masugi was demolished by one of the comments in response to his post on intelligent design. All Mr. Masugi could come up with was the accusation that everyone was misreading his article(.."an egregious misreading "). Same way he responded here. After that the comments disappeared at claremont. Just a coincidence of course.

I am not surprised that Masugi was demolished on his own blog. Frankly, he embarrassed himself here.

I wish he'd return.