ahousekeeper (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ahousekeeper) wrote,@ 2008-03-01 16:40:00 |
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Repressions or common sense?
During World War I, governors of four western states proposed to the federal government that members of the Industrial Workers of the World be interned for the duration of the war.
In 1939, the Hohbs "Concentration Camp" Bill, which sought to detain aliens before or instead of deporting them, passed the House by an overwhelming majority but failed in the Senate. In 1950, the McCarran Act contained provisions allowing the establishment of concentration camps for "subversives."
And through the 1960s, the FBI kept secret lists of more than two hundred thousand Americans it proposed to detain immediately upon the declaration of a national emergency.
From Bud Schultz, Ruth Schultz, IT DID HAPPEN HERE: RECOLLECTIONS OF POLITICAL REPRESSION IN AMERICA, University of California Press, 1989
Despite the explicitely negative notion attached in this text to the FBI’s approach, I think it is a very reasonable one.
