[AlaskaErik]

"You know, putting a national lockdown, stay at home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history," Barr said as a round of applause came from the crowd.

I think formerly interned Japanese Americans would beg to differ.

[caww]

That was a horse of an entirely different color.

[rx]

My father, who spent 3+ years with the Japanese as a WWII POW, would have loved to trade places with any Japanese person interned in the US, if even for a day.

When he returned to his parents’ doorstep, he was 88 pounds of skin and bones that his family literally did not recognize.

[unixfox]

I think formerly interned Japanese Americans would beg to differ.

I think Native American Indians forced onto reservations would beg to differ.

[ichabod1]

You can quibble about the Japanese but what was done in this country this year will go down in history as the greatest travesty SINCE world war two. It’s WORSE because it was done to EVERYBODY. This business that you can tyrannize the majority as long as you coddle the minority is over. It has got to be over or we’re done. And if the public health establishment say this is how you handle a pandemic, there must be serious serious change there. Always knew there was something wrong with those people.

[boxlunch]

The difference is they were considered part of the “enemy combatants” in wartime, right or wrong. Being consigned to lockdown as a completely innocent and healthy person is having your right to move and travel, work and earn a living restricted, it is like house arrest for absolutely no crime or connection with an enemy in time of war!

So of course, the degree of persecution and hardship is not in the same category at all, but the fact that it is done completely lawlessly and putting restrictions on innocent people is what is a huge violation of civil rights.