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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (53447)	7/24/2002 9:04:23 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Respond to of 82486

Seems to me to be an attempt to justify what was done. Obviously people have every right to attempt to justify what was done, but trying hard to do that does agendify the whole effort. From following a few links associated with that article, my impression is that the "agenda" of these authors has mostly to do with calling attention to the internment (as well as the relocation) of the European nationals. At one point, they pointedly mention that while reparations were eventually made to the Japanese, none were offered to the Europeans. In other words, they seem primarily concerned that the impact of these programs on the Europeans has been unfairly ignored. My own belief is that in the implementation of the relocation program for Japanese, the local officials in charge may have acted too harshly and excessively and not given sufficient protection to the property rights of those affected. At the same time, it needs to be recognized that the program was carried out in the urgency of early war time, when a Japanese attack on our mainland was considered a real possibility. I also think that what has now become the standard telling of the "Internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II" contains a good degree of myth and inaccuracy.