Peter Schweizer: New York State COVID-19 Law Is Moving in Direction of WWII Internment of Japanese AmericansRobert Kraychik 21 Dec 2021
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers — president and vice president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), respectively — reflected on the federal government’s internment of Japanese Americans following Japan’s attack of Pearl Harbor while discussing legislative measures proposed in New York to detain those the governor deemed “potentially dangerous to public health.”
Schweizer and Eggers examined government policies marketed as “public health” while guest-hosting Sean Hannity’s eponymous radio show on Monday.
New York state’s Assembly Bill A416 — legislation ostensibly proposed for purposes of “public health” — would empower the governor to detain any individual deemed “a threat to the public health.” The bill’s summary describes the legislation as “[relating] to the removal of cases, contacts and carriers of communicable diseases that are potentially dangerous to the public health.”
Schweizer described government power as “a blunt force instrument” while reflecting on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese Americans. He said the White House sold its internment policy as protective of both Japanese Americans and Americans, more broadly.
“Let’s go back in history a little bit and talk about a comparison,” he stated. “It’s not a perfect comparison, but I think it’s a powerful one. … The United States was taken by surprise at Pearl Harbor,” he said. “It was a catastrophic intelligence failure by that administration. So … they said, ‘We are going to start interning in internment camps Japanese Americans,’ and the argument was, ‘We’re going to do this to protect Americans. We’re also going to do this to protect Japanese Americans.'”
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