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Re: Lavender Brick Society
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:04:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:
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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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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 imprison innocent civilians in the name of xenophobic national
defense.
Uber-loony Michelle Malkin notwithstanding, profiling based on race or culture
is wrong, IMO.
Dave!
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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