Jim,
The stupid Japanese idea of floating incendiary balloons to set forest fires in the U.S. was, with one exception, a laughable failure, but it was brought about by the severe shortage of petroleum (read "The Prize") which doomed the Japanese war effort almost from the start. The one exception was a balloon which landed near some picnickers in Bly, Oregon and which, the paterfamilias (a Darwin Award Candidate, no doubt) decided they should carry out of the woods. It exploded, killing all 6. Those, along with the 48 or so civilians killed by munitions explosions, were the sum total of land based U.S. civilians as far as I know.
As for the Japanese internment, it scarcely matters all the emotions which went into the decision, or even how bad the Japanese Americans felt about it. Wars are extreme times, as we are learning now. The point is, the Japanese Americans interned escaped the war years without being massacred, as did the Chinese-Ams, the Korean-Ams and all the other XXX-Ams who might have been mistaken for the Japanese. There was absolute hatred of the Japanese on the West Coast, there were subs in the water and people feared not only an attack from the seas, but a fifth column movement on shore. When the trains filled with the internees rolled through cities on the West Coast, people had to be restrained from throwing rocks at the cars as they went past.
And your history is more than a little fuzzy on European Americans as well:
<<Thousands of German Americans, Italian Americans and other European Americans were unfairly arrested, detained, interned or relocated by the U.S. government, some remaining in custody long after World War II had ended.>>
feingold.senate.gov
As for Lucky Lindbergh, it is not clear that he was an avowed Nazi sympathizer (whatever that means), but rather that he opposed entry into war with the Germans. That generally falls under the category of free speech, even in times of war, without rating a posthumous libel from you.
And, although his baby was kidnapped and killed by a German, he himself was not of German blood but rather Swedish:
supremecourtus.gov
As for the rest of your post, I suggest you read more of what I have posted here and less of what Dale suggests that I have posted (police state, destroy the Constitution crapola).
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