Reply to Eric Muller

Eric Muller has called for the banning of Michelle Malkin's book from a government bookstore at the site of a historic landmark, the major interment camp during WWII for Japanese Americans. While the book attempts to explain the reasoning for the internment, each American has to make up their own mind about the situation. On to Mr. Muller.
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I am often astounded these days by the hypocritical nature of the progressive/liberal flag burners. Bill Clinton and his "self loathing" speech about a homosexual man who dared to say anything against his wife. California Democrats producing bobble-head dolls and posters of Arnold wearing a pink dress. Democratic "bully" squads going around beating up Republican volunteers, slashing tires of get out the vote cars, shooting at Republican local headquarters, breaking in and trashing such headquarters, and stealing the equipment during last fall’s election. Then there are all of these attacks on conservative speakers on college campuses, the last "bastion of free speech" or so we are led to believe by the Main Stream Media.

I am getting the impression that progressive/liberal thinkers do not practice what they preach. Now they want the government to be in the business of banning books. Should we become "brown shirts" and have book-burning rallies next? Historical hindsight is a wonderful thing to progressive/liberal pundits, but only if one agrees that everything the United States has ever done is wrong. The one exception seems to be Social Security.

Mr. Muller, you have the right to express your ideas and I would die defending that right. However, you do not have the right to attempt to silence ideas you find unacceptable, not progressive. Malkin’s book is well written and documented with historical facts. The conclusions she reaches are not all acceptable to me, however I can not dispute the scholarship that was put into the book. I find it interesting that you can not either. You just want it banned because it offends your self absorbed, self-serving nature. They also sell Bibles in bookstores, the Koran, the Torah, and other writings of that nature. (The pocket New Testament is sold in the bookstore in question.) I would guess that the only one you would find objectionable would be the Bible. After all, the current progressive/liberal view is that it teaches violence and hatred.

As for your drawing a comparison between the holocaust and the subject internment, aren’t there some things missing? My thought would be gas chambers, mass graves, slave labor, starvation, medical experiments, tattooed numbers and forcing people to wear the Star of David come to mind. It seems to come very easily these days for progressive/liberal thinkers to compare any ideas or events they don’t like to Nazi like elements or leadership. Mr. Muller, do you want to start seeing your work compared/supplemental to Churchill of Colorado University fame? See how easy it would be?