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George Takei Fears NSA Spying Will Lead to Something Much Worse
New York Magazine ^
| 6/11/2013
| Jamie Sharpe
Posted on 06/11/2013 11:02:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway
George Takei is hardly the only American concerned about the NSA's massive surveillance programs. But unlike most people, his fears are rooted in the memory of the government persecution he suffered firsthand in a Japanese internment camp.
"Due process is a pillar of our American justice system," the Star Trek star told Daily Intelligencer last night at the Eighth Annual Stella by Starlight Benefit Gala. "We were rounded up simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. And we were put in prison camps with barbed wire and machine guns pointed at us. It was a horrific violation of our Constitution."
Because of that experience, Takei is particularly wary of the government's powers being abused. "We know where this can go," he said. "We have to be ever vigilant against overstepping of the fundamental ideals of our democracy."
Takei understands that President Obama "is a person who has to deal with a lot of issues." But on the NSA spying programs, he says, "I don't agree."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: bhonsa; georgetakei; nsa; policestate; prism; russia; scottbrunton; stephencolbert; takei
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:04:10 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: nickcarraway
Maybe more libs will wake up to this, and some so called conservatives too.
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:05:58 AM PDT
by
dragonblustar
(NSA, can you here me now?)
To: nickcarraway
First they came for the Jews.......
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:06:31 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: nickcarraway
George? We already know you’re gay. No blackmail possibilities for you on that one.
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:08:04 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: nickcarraway
Do I recall correctly that his parents ended up in a Japanese internment camp?
To: nickcarraway
a. I think the NSA snooping was horrible.
B. I don’t care what George Takei thinks.
C. I imagine he doesn’t much care for what I think, either.
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:11:20 AM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
To: Vermont Lt
Takei is hugely popular online. He has over four million followers on Facebook.
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:12:47 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: null and void
Read the article, he is concerned about internment because he has experience with it.
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:13:22 AM PDT
by
svcw
(If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
To: null and void
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:14:09 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: nickcarraway
Japanese in internment camps lived in fairly comfortable billets and roamed around the Army posts, and only those with evidence of associations with Japanese government officials of the time were interned.
That said, though, anyone in favor of illegal surveillance is mentally ill.
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:16:00 AM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: nickcarraway; Bender2
Phasers on stun!
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:17:17 AM PDT
by
big'ol_freeper
("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
To: Buckeye McFrog
George Takei was in the Rhower Internment Camp, same as my mother.
To: familyop
Yeah, apart from that pesky idea of being “free to go,” the internees were ok. /s
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:17:38 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Buckeye McFrog
He was with them (born 1937). They went first to a camp in Arkansas, then one in CA (not, IIRC, the famous Manzanar).
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:18:46 AM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(It's been over 90 days; time to start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
To: familyop
I know people who were interned (they were kids then), they were not comfortable.
They were stripped of their property both real and financial (never got it back) but more importantly they were stripped of their freedom.
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:18:48 AM PDT
by
svcw
(If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
To: nickcarraway
To go a little off topic, Mr. Sulu isn’t being quite honoest here. People weren’t put into internment camps because they looked Japanese, it’s because they were in fact duel citizens of Japan and the US. They didn’t separate young children from parents however, which is probably why he was included with them.
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:19:02 AM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: null and void
He’s on the left’s “safe list”... for now.
Nothing to worry about until after the left allows the Muslims to remove Christians from America.
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:19:42 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: familyop
Japanese in internment camps lived in fairly comfortable billets and roamed around the Army postsInternment/inprisonment of any American CITIZEN without due process, during wartime or not, is an abomination.
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:22:00 AM PDT
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
To: nickcarraway
Somehow I just cannot imagine that Takei would have had such a polite reply if this had occurred under George Bush.
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posted on
06/11/2013 11:22:03 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Inside of every Liberal beats the heart of a fascist yearning to reveal their true nature.)
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