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Wesley Clark Calls for Internment Camps for “Radicalized” Americans

Retired general and former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark on Friday called for World War II-style internment camps to be revived for “disloyal Americans.” In an interview with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts in the wake of the mass shooting in Chatanooga, Tennessee, Clark said that during World War II, “if someone supported Nazi Germany at the…

Retired general and former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark on Friday called for World War II-style internment camps to be revived for “disloyal Americans.” In an interview with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts in the wake of the mass shooting in Chatanooga, Tennessee, Clark said that during World War II, “if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn’t say that was freedom of speech, we put him in a camp, they were prisoners of war.”

He called for a revival of internment camps to help combat Muslim extremism, saying, “If these people are radicalized and they don’t support the United States and they are disloyal to the United States as a matter of principle, fine. It’s their right and it’s our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict.”

via Wesley Clark Calls for Internment Camps for “Radicalized” Americans.

There’s a sad strain of senior officers that forget that the constraints on liberty imposed by the military life  do not, and should not, translate into civil society.  GEN Clark has never seemed to grasp that. His call for camps for the radicalized flies in the face of the principles of the Republic. Of course, it also complies nicely with the totalitarian strain of the Democratic party, such as the draconian restrictions imposed on freedoms by Wilson during World War I and the Roosevelt internment camps of World War II. *

Do we have a problem with radicalized Muslims in America? Yes, yes we do. But as awful as the recent slaughter in Chattanooga was, and the related attacks and attempts in the years since 9/11 have been, we must also recognize that it is in fact, a fairly small problem.

That is not to say that we must ignore the threat of these Sudden Jihad Syndrome attacks. But dealing with the issue doesn’t call for the round up large swaths of the Muslim population, either.  Indeed, it would seem to us that such an attempt would likely serve as a catalyst to actually radicalize any number of young Muslim men.

The very best thing Clark could do to salvage his reputation is to fade into obscurity. And maybe read the Constitution for once.

 

*Granted, the GOP wasn’t without sin in those cases, but nor did they lead the charge.

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  1. PatG

    Stop talking sense.

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  2. Cotton Boll Conspiracy

    Nice job, Gen. Clark. Way to play right into the militants’ hands.

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  3. Quartermaster

    The best thing that could be done is nix further Muslim immigration. Then watch a good bit of their clergy and deport them when they start preaching jihad. We have no obligations to immigrants that refuse to assimilate and strongly advocate for our destruction instead.

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  4. SFC Dunlap 173d RVN

    For myself I feel more and more a vision of ocean liners lined up at the port of Detroit…closest port to Dearborn. Yes Clark’s statement (and my thought), are draconian and thus the question remains when does the tipping point happen. I took the Jihadi point not on 9/11 but rather the first time they hijacked multiple airliners in a 24 hr. timeframe, the Munich Olympics, the FIRST time the Twin Towers had explosives detonated et al. Protect THEM with the Constitution…I think not. If circumventing the vaunted document worked for Old Abe…

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  5. timactual

    Islam is incompatible with our culture and our form of government. Like strychnine or curare the system can tolerate it in small doses, but large amounts are fatal.

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  6. obsidian53

    Sure thang Bubba, and the camps will fill with conservatives, Christian’s, veterans and republican voters.
    Shut up idiot.

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  7. Stormy

    Clark is a DEMOCRAT. I’m wholly concerned with his ability to correctly identify friend from foe. I’m sure he’ll use the SPLC definition to determine “fanatics”– which pretty much puts everyone aside from Atheists and Secular Humanists into his camps.

    First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Socialist.

    Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Jew.

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

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  8. LT Rusty

    Excuse me, please don’t lump atheists and secular humanists into that definition. There are plenty of us that are SPLC – and Clark – “fanatics.” And there are plenty who meet his definition that are NOT atheists or secular humanists.

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