Nice segue, E. The Japanese internment has always interested me. Since it interests you enough to bring it up out of nowhere, I would recommend two recent books: "MAGIC" by David Lowman, and "In Defense of Internment" by Michel Malkin. These books document the surprisingly extensive penetration of the west-coast Japanese-American community by Japan's military intelligence in WWII. They give persuasive arguments as to the justifications of the internment.
You should read these books with an open mind, asking yourself, "How come my forbearers in 1941 could not see the injustice of locking up these good American citizens?" These books will give you a contemporaneous insight beyond the current liberal mantras on the matter. I don't think we can or should make contemporary second-guesses on such an event when we have the benefit of knowing many facts that were not known at the time. Also a plan and its execution are two entirely different matters, as we saw with the Iraqi prisoners.
As to the bulges, yes, I see bulges. If we only have those photographs, then it falls into the category of UFO sightings. "What IS that thing in the picture?" It's gone, so we will never know. The bulge could be many things, a heat pad for example, or a dressing on a wound. Or it could be nothing, a jacket-wrinkle or an optical illusion. The questions I posed to you suggest that I find the electronic theory to be preposterous for a host of reasons.
You and others will see what you choose to see. That is not an insult, merely a fact of life. |
