[Congressman Billybob]

Your comment on the internment of the Japanese-Americans was factually inaccurate and bigoted. NONE of the Japanese- Americans were arrested as a result of any "evidence presented to a judge." By contrast, ALL of the people currently detained in the US are there because a presentation to a judge provided sufficient basis to hold them individually.

NO Japanese-Americans were convicted of domestic espionage in WW II, despite the fact that all who were East of the Mississippi, and those in Hawaii (for particular reasons I describe in my book on the subject) were not detained.

On the other hand, dozens of German-Americans and Italian-Americans were convicted of such espionage.

If you are seriously interested in this subject, you should read a thorough and accurate account of these events. You could do worse than to start with my book, Manzanar, published by the Times Books Division of Random House.

Either learn about the subject, or leave it alone. Do not contribute further ignorance to this important issue.

Congressman Billybob

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[Poohbah]

OK. I stand corrected in that regard. My (obviously erroneous) understanding was that there were a very few (as in two or three) arrests based on something resembling probable cause.