Wesley Clark on MSNBC: We have got to identify the people who are most likely to be radicalized. We've got to cut this off at the beginning. There are always a certain number of young people who are alienated. They don't get a job, they lost a girlfriend, their family doesn't feel happy here and we can watch the signs of that. And there are members of the community who can reach out to those people and bring them back in and encourage them to look at their blessings here.
But I do think on a national policy level we need to look at what self-radicalization means because we are at war with this group of terrorists. They do have an ideology. In World War II if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn't say that was freedom of speech, we put him in a camp, they were prisoners of war.
So, if these people are radicalized and they don't support the United States and they are disloyal to the United States, as a matter of principle fine. It's their right and it's our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict. And I think we're going to have to increasingly get tough on this, not only in the United States but our allied nations like Britain, Germany and France are going to have to look at their domestic law procedures.
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"In World War II if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn't say that was freedom of speech, we put him in a camp, they were prisoners of war."
Indeed, that is unless they happened to be Mennonites living in places like Kansas. Very interesting story behind one Gerald Burton Winrod, the so called 'Jayhawk Nazi', and his following of German-speaking Mennonites. Winrod's paper, The Defender, which reproduced materials from the pro-NAZI and virulently antisemitic international Welt-Dienst/World Service news agency, was published by the Mennonite owned Herald Publishing Company. Many Mennonite precincts voted predominantly for Winrod in the 1938 Senate primary. The Mennonite cooperation and complicity with the NAZI movement in not only the US, but also Canada, Mexico, and South America, though seldom spoken of now, has been well documented. They are reputed to have given Mengele and others sanctuary in Paraguay.
All of that, and no concentration camps for them. Quite the opposite, instead we bestow upon them billions of dollars every year in farm subsidy---who do you think is planting the bulk of all that GMO corn, soy, and other stuff that keeps Cargill, ADM, et al going?
For the doubting, here's some supporting reading material to consider:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mennonites+and+the+Holocaust%3A+from+collaboration+to+perpetuation.-a0279379830
http://www.irehr.org/about-irehr/irehr-impact/459-hidden-forgotten-and-denied-racism-and-anti-semitism-in-the-state-of-kansas
http://f5paper.com/article/hate-presses
Reluctant to allow the earlier comment? Why not give these additional supporting links a view and see how you feel, then?:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/world/americas/german-outpost-born-of-racism-blends-into-paraguay.html
http://almost-amish.blogspot.com/2012/11/guest-post-reprinted-with-permission-of.html
http://ml.bethelks.edu/issue/vol-59-no-1/article/mennonitische-vergangenheitsbewaltigung-prussian-m/
http://www.jewishtribune.ca/uncategorized/2011/03/22/a-dark-secret-brought-to-light-in-paper-nazis-documentary
There exist myriad similar links originating from Mennonite universities and organizations, however one is reluctant to provide them due the tendency of such links, once exposed to the broader internet, to disappear. In authoritarian cultures one is not allowed to say the emperor has no clothes
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