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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (660606)	11/15/2004 8:36:31 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

We apologised and paid reparations to Japanese Americans in 1988. The matter should be settled. * * *

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (660606)	11/15/2004 10:35:49 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Finally I know where you are coming from on this. You believe the internment was wrong and a mistake. Fine. I don't. I believe FDR acted in good faith on the intelligence he had at the time, namely that there was a serious security threat posed by the JA communities along the West coast. I believe that under the pressure of wartime emergency, the measure was reasonable and, indeed, was his duty as CIC. The whole event was not all that different from President Bush invading Iraq because his best intelligence info indicated WMDs were there. The fact that the intelligence may have been incorrect does not make GWB "wrong," nor the invasion a "mistake." In the case of FDR, it is far from clear that the intelligence info was wrong, and to the contrary much has been revealed in subsequent years to indicate that the intelligence was right on the mark. Your arguments about Hawaii and German-Americans are just plain silly. The problem was JAs on the West coast. There were many thousands of JA's elsewhere in the USA who were not interned. Many GAs were interned, many were not. JAs in Hawaii were not interned. All that this proves is that "racism" had nothing to do with it, and security concerns had everything to do with it. Think about it. As to the reparations, this occurred under the the very liberal Carter administration. No reparations were paid to GAs or Italian-Americans who were interned. Is this reverse racism??? No reparations were asked for or paid to the families of American civilians interned or imprisoned in Japan (yes, there were many such victims). Why were the JA internees the only ones entitled to reparations? If you favor these reparations, do you favor reparations for the descendants of slaves? You are welcome to your opinion on any or all of these events and issues. Kindly don't ask me to "admit my country did something wrong," or "made a mistake" when it implemented the internment. In my opinion my country did neither.