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Internment (was Re: Lavender Brick Society
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:08:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> > 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.
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 Convention was enacted prior to WW II.. Or at least
had some force of tradition, there are things known as the "Geneva Convention"
that seem to trace back to 1864. There seems to be one specific to POW treatment
that dates to 1929, not sure who the signatories are to that one.
http://www.redcross.lv/en/conventions.htm
http://www.globalissuesgroup.com/geneva/history.html
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/party_gc
The current Geneva Convention was enacted in 1949, as you say, shortly after WW
II.
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| (...) Officially all J-A citizens/residents were termed "dangerous enemy aliens" (technically, so were all German- and Italian-Americans, but everyone collectively turned a blind eye to them). Once you've classified them as enemies, it's pretty easy (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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