In Defense of Internment Quotes

“David Lowman, a former National Security Agency official who participated in the declassification of MAGIC and wrote a groundbreaking book on the subject, noted, “Seldom has any major event in U.S. history been as misrepresented as has U.S. intelligence related to the evacuation. It has been twisted, distorted, misquoted, misunderstood, ignored, and deliberately falsified by otherwise honorable people... The United States did not act shamefully, dishonorably, and without cause or reason as charged.”
― Michelle Malkin, In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror

“Leading critics of the World War II evacuation and relocation don’t just argue that the military rationale for Roosevelt’s actions was insufficient. They make the extremely radical and historically dishonest argument that there was no military justification whatsoever for evacuation, relocation, or internment—and that America’s top political and military leaders knew this at the time.”
― Michelle Malkin, In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror

“Mike Masaoka, the national secretary of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), the preeminent Japanese American organization, at the time understood and embraced the wartime imperative to put national security first. Explaining why his organization supported the West Coast evacuation of people of Japanese descent and other related military regulations, Masaoka announced in an April 1942 JACL bulletin: “Our primary consideration as good Americans is the total war effort . . . We may be temporarily suspending or sacrificing some of our privileges and rights of citizenship in the greater aim of protecting them for all time to come and to defeat those powers which seek to destroy them.”7”
― Michelle Malkin, In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror

“The “unalienable rights” that our Founding Fathers articulated in the Declaration of Independence do not appear in random order: Liberty and the pursuit of happiness cannot be secured and protected without securing and protecting life first.”
― Michelle Malkin, In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror

“When most scholars, legal analysts, and political commentators speak of the need to “balance civil liberties and national security,” they don’t mean that at all. What they really mean is: civil liberties always and at all times outweigh national security,”
― Michelle Malkin, In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror