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Re: Lavender Brick Society
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Date:
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Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:06:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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That’s why the interment of Japanese civilians was a crime...
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Since that happened well before the civil rights movement, the only applicable
legality that I can think of is the 5th Amendment (nor be deprived of life,
liberty, or property, without due process of law), but I believe they were
classified as POWs, in which case I’m not sure there was really any applicable
legality, since the Geneva Convention wasn’t enacted until shortly after WW2.
So, injustice? Absolutely. Crime? By today’s standards, certainly, but Ex
Post Facto still applies.
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Oh, absolutely, but I was giving situation-type examples, and today's racial profiling (of black drivers, of Arab airline passengers, etc.) is of the same species. And regardless of the civil rights movement, it was wrong of the government to (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | Internment (was Re: Lavender Brick Society
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| (...) US citizens of Japanese descent were classified as POWs? I did not know that. It's scary if true. It also gives ammo to the Bushies and their Enemy Combatant thingie. I hope you're wrong... I'm scared you're right. Also I thought the Geneva (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Well, just in terms of parallel evolution of ideas re: sacred v. profane. And whatever other oddity you'd care to contribute, of course. (...) I do not believe that there are any absolute standards for society, and all standards are determined (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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