More lameduck: Congress saves internment camps
Disaster averted! Congress voted yesterday to save the internment camps where Japanese-Americans were kept during World War II. Says this ABC news lede that is either dripping with irony or rancid with stupidity:
Notorious internment camps where Japanese-Americans were kept behind barbed wire during World War II will be preserved as stark reminders of how the United States turned on some of its citizens in a time of fear.
Yes, we’re certain that these camps are being preserved as a “stark reminder” of a shameful time. Not because, you know, we may want to use them again. Oh, how far we’ve come, America!
