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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: E who wrote (645657)10/15/2004 6:29:09 PM
From: J. C. Dithers  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
E, I offer another comment on the internment.

Your stubborn insistence that there was never a case of a J/A engaging in espionage or sabotage is so absurd on its face that it discourages serous discussion of a complex event.

The west coast J/A population was huge, a hundred thousand or more. Many were born in Japan. Many were recent arrivals. Common sense would dictate that a significant number sympathized with the homeland and the Emperor. Among that subset, it is common sense that a significant number were willing to actively support the homeland in one subversive way or another if given the opportunity.

Such was true among the German Bunds (sp.?) in the U.S. There were spies and actual or potential saboteurs.

This is not a matter requiring research or proof. It flies in the face of logic to stonewall that all J/As, of all generations, were 100% loyal to their new country after war broke out. Consider the fanticism of the Japanese military as well as civilians in the homeland.

If you are going to debate the internment (with someone, not me) you would better establish your credibility, and your openness to give and take, if you conceded this point and moved on from there. The fact that there was a genuine threat of uncertain magnitude does not diminish the grounds for debate about what should (or should not) have been done about it.
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