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To: dsc
dsc: "So, those who provided intelligence before Pearl Harbor get a pass? FDR should have just trusted them not to do it again?"

In other words, just like everyone else, you have no real evidence of Japanese civilians spying for Japan during the war -- certainly not enough to justify putting over 100,000 in internment camps for the duration, or letting their property be confiscated.

Of course, President Roosevelt felt justified -- Democrats are all about feeeeeeeeeeeelings, doncha know?
FDR thought they might be dangerous, and that was enough for him.
Turns out, they weren't, and so the courts later decided they must be at least partially compensated.

By the way, in case you've never considered it: this precisely is among the reasons why the government didn't just round up all Muslims after 9/11/01, or for that matter all illegal aliens despite high crime rates amongst them.
These days, we don't punish a whole group for the crimes (real or imagined) of a few.

(Of course, ironically, we happily punish ourselves -- i.e., increased airport security -- every time some bad-guy figures out a new way to destroy an airplane, but that's another matter...)

22 posted on 04/18/2014 2:51:44 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: BroJoeK

“In other words, just like everyone else, you have no real evidence of Japanese civilians spying for Japan during the war”

The fact that I, in my old age, cannot immediately put my finger on it, does not mean that it does not exist, nor that I have not seen it.

But what the hell, go ahead and close your mind. Nobody can stop you.


23 posted on 04/18/2014 11:48:51 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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