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To: OldGoatCPO
I wasn't trying to prove the internment was correct, I was trying to point out there WAS another side to the argument which is being flat out ignored by the "America is bad" crowd. Which alone ought to raise some questions here. And the fact we were, Constitutionally at war should offer at least some leeway. There were many deviations from peace time rights placed on everyone, not just the Nisei. When evaluating the internment today at least notice there was an elephant in the room and listen to what it remembers. That defense witness deserves to be heard. If you only listened to one side you'd be like Joe Biden raving at 'our side' for wanting to deport all their wonderful illegals.

There were a lot of innocent US Citizens kept from going where they wanted for a period of time, without any due process that I recall, when W closed the skies on 911. Yet officially we weren't even at war. (IMHO at the time we should and could have been in the time it took to declare it after Pearl Harbor. The unimaginative idiots in Congress who couldn't figure out how to define the "enemy" for a war declaration just needed to ask "Ways and Means" how to define them as a tax target!) At least we'd been constitutionally at war for a couple months before FDR's order. And those Nisei citizens did obtain judicial review. From FDR's order to SCOTUS ruling took 34 months. 41 months post-J6 and maybe today we'll get a SCOTUS ruling. I'm not sure but what some J6 defendants may have been held "pre-trial" without bail longer than 34 months. And although the internment conditions weren't free and ideal they were generally better than those the J6 folks have faced. Maybe the strongest connection between the Nisei and J6 is that in both cases you had Democrats questionably locking people up (Woodrow Wilson's law fare during WWI is another similar case) and Republicans (eventually Reagan in Nisei case) complaining about it.

79 posted on 06/21/2024 6:53:50 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (HoTBiden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
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To: JohnBovenmyer
I did a thesis on the internment and interviewed a former internee and a family member of a former internee. What internment did to these families cannot be ignored whether someone feels it was legal or not. I feel the same way about the J6 defendants. I firmly believe some people did commit criminal acts that day and many J6 defendants did not that should have them interned for years an abused by the priso system.

There are two sides to every story. If Presidents did not have immunity and he had not died in office FDR could have faced a plethora of charges for his time in office.

80 posted on 06/21/2024 7:11:19 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me. )
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