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Re: Internment (was Re: Lavender Brick Society
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:15:31 GMT
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Purple Dave wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > US citizens of Japanese descent were classified as POWs?
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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).
There were German internment camps also. The numbers were much smaller, so
they have got less exposure.
> 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.
Except most of the "enemy combatant detainees" are not citizens. And those
who are citizens should certainly have the constitution applied to them.
Unfortunately the precedent that is being set is that the consitiution only
applies when the president thinks it should (as long as he can point to some
kind of "war" to justify executive priviledge).
Interestingly, some of the cases that have already been through the courts
already have unravelled. Perhaps there is hope that one day we will look
back on this black time in our history and say "never again." But I fear
that hope is slim since we didn't really seem to have learned from WW II...
Frank
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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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