{"id":18455,"date":"2015-07-23T20:18:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=18455"},"modified":"2015-07-23T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:21:31","slug":"18455","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=18455","title":{"rendered":"Did Retired US General Just Call For Internment Camps For &#8216;Incorrigible&#8217; Americans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"article__heading\">Ex-NATO commander suggests WWII-style camps for radicalized Americans<\/h1>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18457\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/55adf27dc361887a3a8b4596.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18457\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18457\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/55adf27dc361887a3a8b4596.jpg\" alt=\"Military photo portrait of Wesley Clark. \u00a9 Wikipedia\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/55adf27dc361887a3a8b4596.jpg 900w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/55adf27dc361887a3a8b4596-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Military photo portrait of Wesley Clark. \u00a9 Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>Retired US General Wesley Clark suggested that radicalized youth in America and other Western nations should be segregated the way Nazi sympathizers were held in camps during World War II.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>America and its allies need to get tougher on young men, who may become radical Islamists, said Clark, who is best known for leading NATO troops during the Kosovo war. The former Democratic presidential candidate made the comments in an interview on MSNBC in response to the shooting at a recruitment camp in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that left four Marines killed.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe have got to identify the people who are most likely to be radicalized. We\u2019ve got to cut this off at the beginning,\u201d<\/em> the retired general said. <em>\u201cI do think on a national policy level we need to look at what self-radicalization means because we are at war with this group of terrorists.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn World War II, if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn\u2019t say that was freedom of speech, we put him in a camp, they were prisoners of war,\u201d<\/em> he said.<em> \u201cIf these people are radicalized and they don\u2019t support the United States and they are disloyal to the United States as a matter of principle, fine, that\u2019s their right. And it\u2019s our right and our obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eaPwqokBn9M\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Clark added that <em>\u201cnot only the United States but our allied nations like Britain, Germany and France are going to have to look at their domestic law procedures.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\" data-twttr-id=\"twttr-sandbox-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.15.54-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18459\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.15.54-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-07-23 at 4.15.54 PM\" width=\"509\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.15.54-PM.png 509w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.15.54-PM-300x126.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The suggested heavy-handed solution that implies punishing people not for criminal acts but for upholding radical beliefs came in contrast to Clark\u2019s earlier criticisms of the excesses of the Bush administration response to the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, such as the torture of terror suspects.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/215698807&amp;color=00cc11&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>He also spoke against \u201cthe politics of fear\u201d in dealing with the threat of foreign fighters coming home from Middle East conflicts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\" data-twttr-id=\"twttr-sandbox-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.16.34-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18460\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.16.34-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-07-23 at 4.16.34 PM\" width=\"508\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.16.34-PM.png 508w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.16.34-PM-277x300.png 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The interview sparked outrage on social media, which the former general called \u201cblogosteria\u201d on his Twitter account. He reiterated that \u201cUS Citz who choose #ISIS are spies, enemy combatants or both. Govt should separate them from the rest of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\" data-twttr-id=\"twttr-sandbox-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.17.48-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18461\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.17.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-07-23 at 4.17.48 PM\" width=\"512\" height=\"846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.17.48-PM.png 512w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.17.48-PM-182x300.png 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\" data-twttr-id=\"twttr-sandbox-3\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\" data-twttr-id=\"twttr-sandbox-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.18.30-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18462\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.18.30-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-07-23 at 4.18.30 PM\" width=\"509\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.18.30-PM.png 509w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-23-at-4.18.30-PM-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__share\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-NATO commander suggests WWII-style camps for radicalized Americans RT.com Retired US General Wesley Clark suggested that radicalized youth in America and other Western nations should be segregated the way Nazi sympathizers were held in camps during World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}