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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (660639)	11/16/2004 1:13:27 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

If Congress passed a law making being a Democratic a crime punishable by imprisonment (since it is essentially only they that show up at anti-Iraq War rallies) and trhe USSC upheld it, would you also call that legal and Constitutuional? The JAs were not interned in Hawaii because the Hawaiian economy was to dependent on them. It would grind to a halt without them. In CA, imprisoning them presented many roundeyes with a great opportunity for legal theft and was politically popular. Your arguments about Hawaii and German-Americans are just plain silly. So it is your argument that NO German-Americans were in positions where they could perform sabotage or espionage? If the loyalty of JAs was doubtful for reasons of ancestry, why not they? There were many thousands of JA's elsewhere in the USA who were not interned. Where? What did they own? 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??? I never said I approved of reparations. No reparations were asked for or paid to the families of American civilians interned or imprisoned in Japan (yes, there were many such victims). Undoubtedly. Matched by Japanese, Italian, and German citizens imprisoned in the US and Britain. It is common, accepted practice to imprison enemy nationals at the outbreak of war. 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? Again, when did I say I favored reparatrions? 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. What legal authority do you cite allowing you to imprison indefinitely American citizens who have committed no crime?