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Reign of Fear: The Unnecessary Price of Democracy

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor, with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.' — Gen. Douglas MacArthur For the past ...Read More

Endgame

Earlier this year there was an Internet blog report claiming that the Bush Administration had given a single-bid contract to Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build secret detention centers around the country under the aegis of the Department of Homeland Security under the codename "Endgame." Because I tend to be skeptical ab...Read More

Liberty and Justice … for Whom?

Before the House of Representatives adjourned for its long election-year recess for re-election campaigning, Congressman Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., successfully managed a house resolution calling for an apology for slavery. It'll be interesting to see what impact that resolution has because it called for an apology but no monetary consideration. In tod...Read More

Time to Pass the Mantel

This year's convention was interesting, not for breaking new ground on issues but because it held out new prospects, new promises. National Director Floyd Mori tried something new (who says you can't teach old dogs new tricks?!) and included a youth conference that ran parallel to the national council confab. What that seemed to do was brin...Read More

A Historic Return

In July, the JACL returns to Salt Lake City for its convention. It's a historic return, one which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Liberties Act. It's also the 30th anniversary of the historic launching of the JACL's redress campaign, which was launched from the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City in 1978, beginning a...Read More