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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (660220)	11/14/2004 5:04:35 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

There was no justification for FDR's action in imprisoning patriotic japanese american citizens.

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (660220)	11/15/2004 7:03:27 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

If all Americans were imprisoned and kept in steel cages, the crime rate in the US would drop to zero, correct? So if "The fact that little or no such incidents occurred after the internment is the best proof of its effectiveness" is sufficient justification for internment of all most JA's, isn't the above justification for that step? THe largest concentration of JAs was in the Hawaiian Islands. Yet they were not interned there. Why not? On 12/11/1941 Germany declared war on the US. Why were all German Americans not interned at that point? It can hardly be said there were no Nazi sympathizers among them. Remember the German-American Bund? While we're on the subject, what happened to Amendment XIV Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.