thinking anything yes you are no you re lying to me no no i m not lying to you i m no knowing yes you are and tell me where you think oh my god. yes you are the second we re done and you re going straight for the come to the trinity not really going to have the what do you want to let go they know you always going he goes no you weren t christian let go no yes i m going like a child i m not letting you know like i mean like you know like let go that you look up it s going to break your did you love both to me yet. love that scene. watching it again reminds me why i love so many european films this year i mean they were films that were dealing with real life but they did it in a sort of funny or optimistic or hopeful way and that s really i think what i needed this year given that real life seems so difficult problematic absolutely i think
a group of refugees fleeing violence has faced fear and discrimination from the american public and american leaders is one that we ve sadly seen before. as the intercept points out the anti-syrian muslim refugee rhetoric we ve seen today mirrors calls to reject jewish refugees during the nazi era. when refugees were derided as communists or anarchist infiltrators intent on spreading revolution, part of a global jewish capitalist conspiracy to take control of the u.s., and nazis in disguise. and as we see with syrian refugees today, many rejected jewish refugees simply because they weren t christian. that is not the only historical parallel now being drawn. yesterday as we ve discussed on the show, the democratic mayor of roanoke, virginia david bowers explained his opposition to allowing syrian refugees in his city by pointing approvingly to the internment of japanese americans following the pearl harbor attacks when anti-japanese hysteria broke out among the american public. it was
joining me now, colonel lawrence wilkerson, former chief of staff for the state department under general colin powell. a distinguished professor of government and public policy at the college of william and mary. colonel, your reaction to the kind of rhetoric that we re hearing from the gop field. trump talking about, well, not ruling out data bases or special i.d. cards as comparison to rabid dogs, talking about only letting christian refugees in. what s your response to all that? it doesn t surprise me, chris, especially coming from the more or less right-wing palaver of the republican party and the people who are speaking to that wing. but it does disturb me. it s very dangerous talk. it s the kind of talk that surrounded the internment of the japanese, who were loyal to a fault to this country at the beginning of our participation in world war ii. we put them in concentration camps essentially. it s the kind of talk that s extremely dangerous. it s the kind of talk that plays r
in the states right now in which a group of refugees fleeing violence has faced fear and discrimination from the american public and american leaders is one that we ve sadly seen before. as the intercept points out the anti-syrian muslim refugee rhetoric we ve seen today mirrors calls to reject jewish refugees during the nazi era. when refugees were derided as communists or anarchist infiltrators intent on spreading revolution, part of a global jewish capitalist conspiracy to take control of the u.s., and nazis in disguise. and as we see with syrian refugees today, many rejected jewish refugees simply because they weren t christian. that is not the only historical parallel now being drawn. yesterday as we ve discussed on the show, the democratic mayor of roanoke, virginia david bowers explained his opposition to allowing syrian refugees in his city by pointing approvingly to the internment of japanese americans following the pearl harbor attacks when anti-japanese hysteria broke out am
refugees today, many rejected jewish refugees simply because they weren t christian. that is not the only historical parallel now being drawn. yesterday as we ve discussed on the show, the democratic mayor of roanoke, virginia david bowers explained his opposition to allowing syrian refugees in his city by pointing approvingly to the internment of japanese americans following the pearl harbor attacks when anti-japanese hysteria broke out among the american public. it was that hysteria in the months following december 7th that led to the forced evacuation of 120,000 japanese-americans and their parents from the west coast. they were ordered from their homes, sent first to assembly centers and then on to ten camps away from the coast on desolate federal lands far from military installations. 120,000 people put behind barbed wire simply because of the color of their skin and a hysteria that grew from ignorance, fear, and racism. actor george takei spent four years in the internment ca