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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] Or so said Peter Kirsanow, a Bush appointee to the Civil Rights Commission no less. Kirsanow made the statement during the Commission's monthly meeting which was held at the Omni Hotel in Detroit. The Commissioners heard testimony from the Arab American community relating its experiences following the Sept. 11 but instead heard Kirsanow bring up the idea of detention camps. [QUOTE]Kirsanow raised the possibility of internment camps for the mass detention of Arab Americans at a Commission hearing in Detroit on July 19. He did not condemn this idea, but raised it as a serious and reasonable possibility in the event of future terrorist attacks against the United States. He also stated that if the perpetrators of any such attack "come from the same ethnic group that attacked the World Trade Center, you can forget about civil rights." [URL=http://www.civilrights.org/library/detail.cfm?id=9680]LCCR Joins ADC in Asking Bush to Remove Civil Rights Commissioner[/URL] [/QUOTE]The Detroit Free Press reports further: [QUOTE]If there's another attack by Arabs on U.S. soil, "not too many people will be crying in their beer if there are more detentions, more stops, more profiling," Kirsanow said. "There will be a groundswell of public opinion to banish civil rights. So the best thing we can do to preserve them is by keeping the country safe."[/QUOTE][URL=http://www.freep.com/news/metro/civil20_20020720.htm]Arabs in U.S. could be held, official warns[/URL] - Detroit Free Press [URL=http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/23/national/23RIGH.html?pagewanted=print&position=top]Civil Rights Commissioner Under Fire for Comments on Arabs[/URL] - New York Times [URL=http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=404]American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Calls for the Removal of U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner[/URL] - American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee [URL=http://www.civilrights.org/library/detail.cfm?id=9680]Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Joins ADC in Asking Bush to Remove Civil Rights Commissioner[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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