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Re: Internment (was Re: Lavender Brick Society
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Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:00:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> US citizens of Japanese descent were classified as POWs?
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 to go the next step and imprison them as POWs. I
think they used a more PR-friendly term (hence the reason they were in
"internment camps" instead of "POW camps), but it was pretty much understood
what they were being treated as. Canada did something similar, evacuating BC of
every J-C citizen/resident (and not allowing them to return until four years
after Japan surrendered!), and interning many of them in an actual POW camp.
> I did not know that. It's scary if true.
I think it's more scary how easily we, as a culture, keep overlooking the Allied
injustices in the face of Hitler's Jewish pogrom and the attack on Pearl Harbor.
> It also gives ammo to the Bushies and their Enemy Combatant thingie.
I'm not sure it does, or they'd probably be parading it around. Especially
given how badly the internment situation was managed, I don't think anyone would
want to hold that up in an attempt to engender support for detaining people who
actually fired weapons at our troops. I'd never really noticed this before, but
the situations are completely reversed. In WW2 we were imprisoning peaceful and
loyal citizens under the justification that they weren't really Americans. Now
we're imprisoning people who are clearly acting as enemies under the
justification that they're still technically Americans.
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| (...) There were German internment camps also. The numbers were much smaller, so they have got less exposure. (...) Except most of the "enemy combatant detainees" are not citizens. And those who are citizens should certainly have the constitution (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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