“Oh, I can go? Ain’t coming back.”
Those who had someplace to go didn’t have to come back. Get your facts straight, zippy.
“Now, why did you take everything away from me and bring me here at gunpoint?”
Since you don’t like what happened, you are free to say anything you want about it without any regard for the truth.
Wait a minute. Isn’t that lying?
Guess not, when there’s an opportunity to damage the United States. If you’re trying to bring down the Constitution, it’s okay to say anything at all.
Of course the authorities could have done a better job of protecting property. And the internees should have been made whole after the war.
There’s no need to mention that the internees could take valuables like jewelry with them.
There’s no need to mention that the internees owned no land, so their losses in that area were limited to structures.
There’s no need to mention that the internees had the opportunity to stash property before they got on the busses.
There’s no need to mention that the internees recognized that their persons were at risk, and that relocation therefore made them safer. (Let’s see, get killed by a hysterical moron, or sit out the war in safety. I guess you would pick the first.)
And there is certainly no excuse for mentioning that there were spies and saboteurs among the internees. I know, I know, it looks so simple today, given the sure and certain efficiency with which customs officials pick out terrorists from among crowds of middle eastern border crashers, but in those first heady months of WWII, when we really thought we might lose, they didn’t have any reliable way of picking out the Japanese spies from among all the other people with ties to Japan.
“Oh, I have to come back? So...it’s a prison with a furlough plan. That’s a prison.”
Already dealt with that. Besides, that would mean that every dwelling occupied by anyone under the supervision of law enforcement would be a prison. That’s just stupid.
“Oh, why am I here again? color/ethnicity/birthplace/faith? the obvious vileness of that reasoning aside”
What is vile is your loathsome misrepresentation of the facts. They were there because of *ties*to*Japan*, and if you think that’s more racist than the internment of people with ties to Nazi Germany, let me ask how many non-Caucasian Nazis were detected within CONUS. It is a historical accident that the extreme racism and xenophobia of the Japanese guaranteed that Japanese spies were ethnically Japanese, just as the racism of the Nazis guaranteed that Nazi spies would be Caucasian. (There might have been a very few mercenary exceptions, but I’ve never heard of a black Nazi.)
They were interned not for color/ethnicity or/birthplace/faith, but for *ties*to*Japan* and their own safety.
And if the place of internment was a “prison,” why did other Americans of Japanese ancestry serve in the armed forces? Why weren’t they also in prison?
“I was convicted in which court for what?”
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. (Emerson.)
You remind me of the dork who wouldn’t let school busses be used to evacuate New Orleans during Katrina. Who cares if people die, as long as the paperwork is right?
In a great national emergency, a decision had to be made. The right decision was made.
“yeah, just rounded up, possessions stolen”
Oh, now somebody’s pants are on fire. They didn’t have to be rounded up, because they were frightened and/or saw the sense in it. And as for “possessions stolen,” well, when somebody lets go with a foul, stinking, slanderous lie like that, there’s just not much you can do these days.
“and stuck in a camp indefinitely - we call those “concentration camps”, even if random people don’t get starved/murdered.”
There’s a story told about Lincoln. “As the conference [with the President] continued, the President expressed his fear that the Proclamation would not amount to much of anything, and the doctor predicted great things from it. Mr. Lincoln said it reminded him of a farmer out in Illinois who asked his little boy a question in figures. “If you call a sheep’s tail a leg, how many legs will you have?” “Five,” said the boy. “No, it won’t, you fool,” said the farmer, “calling a thing so, don’t make it so!”
Call it a “concentration camp” all you like—it don’t make it so.
But I did run across a post of yours that made your agenda obvious.
And of those who said in truth “this is my home, I am guilty of no crime, I am a loyal American, no I am not obeying your orders”?
Someone comes to my home and says under color of law “you have been identified as a Tea Party type and gun owner by your own writings and registration, we unilaterally declare you and others like you a threat to the will of the people and to the preservation of the living Constitution, you have one day to get your affairs in order and report to a FEMA camp” - what am I as a loyal American to do? There are, indeed, those in power and those who support them who are speaking NOW of such actions, in growing numbers and growing severity of purpose. Do I submit, stash my belongings (as you claim could be done, which my friends’ families found otherwise) in long-term storage, leave my home, and sit with my family on a comfy bunk in a barb-wired cage?
Seems you have a reputation for rationalizing & defending the incarceration of people without adjudicated cause. Yes, I see you explain away individual points, missing the forest for the trees. Like the Left, you would talk me to death rather than recognize, much less respect & defend, my individual God-given inalienable rights. Your reasoning relies much on ad-hominem and non-sequitur attacks, just to derail those demanding their rights.
Declare a war, identify the enemy, and then we may discuss “suspension of habeas corpus”. Until then, you’re just laying the groundwork for Leftist-imposed martial law. **** ***.