Speech #970227569

In our era. the McCarthy era of the 1950s. we were swept off our feet by the fear of communism. at a time when Congress came close to violating the constitutional rights of many citizens in this country. and did violate the constitutional rights of a few. the Watergate era. clearly an effort by the Presidency to violate the constitutional rights of our citizens with acts of search and seizure that certainly bordered on unconstitutionality. taken by an administration because. of course. they knew they were right. and when you know you are right. when God speaks to you and says. "I know you are right. I am going to tell you what to do." then. of course. it is clear that those who disagree must be wrong. and if the Constitution stands in the way of correcting the actions or the thoughts of those who are wrong. forget the Constitution a little bit. Perhaps the worst violation. however. at least in our era. was the internment of the nativeborn Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Interestingly. these were not Immigrants. These were not aliens. There were nativeborn American citizens of Japanese ancestry.