Wednesday, December 28, 2005

The Huffington Post:CIA Probing Potentially "Erroneous Renditions"...

I was schooled as an anthropologist (not an apologist) and one of my professors was Marvin K. Opler, Ph.D., then involved in the trans-cultural psychiatry and the "Mid-Manhattan Project" (how do we statistically define "mental fitness" for military duty?) and an honorary Navaho. I learned he had a brother, Morris Opler, also an anthropologist. Morris Opler was recently written about in the "American Anthropologist." His doctoral thesis, was on the long distance kinship relations of the Apache, native "Americans". He, apparently, like his brother Marvin Opler, served in the Japanese-American internments in the West in WWII. Morris Opler wrote three legal briefs on behalf of the rights of Americans in internment camps, two of which were heard by the US Supreme Court. I have a vague feeling the third one was over the seizure of "Japanese" in seventeen (17) other countries, forced into internment camps in the U.S. and never recompensed as were U.S. citizens (~ $25k) under the Presidential War Powers Act. Those, then children, are still waiting for a settlement of the government's admittance of "racism". Someone out there want to rebring the briefs?

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