© Martin Divíšek/EPACzech President Petr Pavel - a retired general and former senior Nato commander
Pavel made his case in an interview with the US government-funded outlet Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Thursday.
"When there is an ongoing war, the security measures related to Russian nationals should be stricter than in normal times," he said. "All Russians living in Western countries should be monitored much more than in the past."
The Czech leader drew a comparison to the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II, which he described as a "strict monitoring regime" and "scrutiny of security services."
"That's simply the cost of war," Pavel declared.
As tensions between the US and Imperial Japan grew, there was a growing suspicion of disloyalty in American society directed against ethnic Japanese. The mistrust was fueled by historic anti-Asian sentiment on the West Coast.
Two months after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order, under which at least 125,000 such people, most of them US nationals, were forced to live in dozens of detention facilities around the country. The policy remained in place until 1946.
President Jimmy Carter authorized a commission to review the controversial decision and its effect on national security and advise on how to redress its victims. Its report, which was released in 1983, said the order was not justified by military necessity and rooted in racial prejudices and war hysteria.
"A grave injustice was done to Americans and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry who, without individual review or any probative evidence against them, were excluded, removed and detained by the United States during World War II," the document said.
The conclusions were disputed by some media. A 1983 Washington Post article stated that a "significant number" of Japanese spies were living on the West Coast, giving Roosevelt a reason to act the way he did.
Reader Comments
I'm sure he will forget if anyone asks him about the Czech president's suggestion. Though, I'd pay good money to run a focus group on the Japanese response if he tried to walk that back to justify doing the same to Russians.
Are you sure it isn't the other way around and that it is US citizens that do not also have Israeli citizenship that will be banned from government offices
Though I am not surprised - he is a politician after all.
The sad thing is, Europe must burn to be reborn from the ashes - like Phoenix.
Or so it seems.
This seems to apply to most kids really, but they could just be stupid. But stupidity leads to aggression, paranoia, concentration camps. Screen time leads to complacency, which by default means complicity, and isn't that a form of programming?
I was watching an old video the other day which just happened to be of a public access program at the University of Illinois from 1983. I grew up about 30 miles from there. What struck me (other than the much lower quality of commercial talent and the direct marketing of sugar to kids during the program) were the public service announcements during the commercial breaks and the segment at the end where kids sent in their questions which were then answered by a 15-16 year old. The questions and answers centered around respecting others and one's parents, and I wondered if the absence of this and similar programs is a major reason why kids no longer have respect for one another, their parents, or authority in general.
Check it out. It's terrible audio/video quality, but notice how when they talk to the cast of Annie and the special Olympics participants, they talk to everyone and not just the "star". You can't do that today because you literally have to cram in about 7 more minutes of commercials to be a viable program. (It's also one of the earliest appearances of Alison Krauss in public, whose music I love.) [Link] The bit with the Q&A is at the end if you don't want to suffer through the quality of the rest of the episode.
I may not get around to videos. Take no offense as this is true in general.
I do believe older generations pass on (or teach) some detrimental programming. I don't know the extent. Passing on something better is a good idea; I don't have the solution, but videos like you offered should probably work well enough.