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In your message you questioned: My dad had some scarry tales of mob violence in Houston,Tx in reaction to Pearl Harbor-thus he was of the opinion the removals were also intended to protect the Japanese-Americans. Have no idea if he was correct.

The forcible confiscation of homes, businesses, land, and family members on the basis of race is NOT justifiable under ANY circumstances. This much is clear from our President's laudable commentary in the wake of the 9-11 attacks.

Removal of Japanese-Americans was couched by the liberals in FDR's cabinet as being for "security" and "protection of the individual". However, the real truth is apparent when one does a thorough analysis of the land, business, and asset conversion following 1942. Look at who and what gained the lands on Bainbridge Island, Washington and Terminal Island, California.

You should evaluate the real economic reasons that Americans of Japanese descent were put in a concentration camp by FDR. The reasons are political and economic. Someone wanted to alter votes. Greedy others wanted the land and businesses (because they were too weak and too corrupt to actually build it themselves).

None of the confiscation & removal was based on race alone-that was an indicator-the action was based on perceived & potential threat from people who might have been agents, sympathizers or otherwise present a danger. When my father reached Ft. Bliss, El Paso, & found artillary arranged on the mountain tops overlooking the pass, my mother's uncle, base commander, told my Father, "We actually thought they might come in through California, & we planed to stop them here". This was obviously a very real threat. Sure, as I suggested, bad things also happened in the process, people & nations make awful mistakes, but please, leave the PC crap to the Left. I, & very few here, really need your admonishments against some imagined racial atrocity.

Removal of Japanese-Americans was couched by the liberals in FDR's cabinet as being for "security" and "protection of the individual". However, the real truth is apparent when one does a thorough analysis of the land, business, and asset conversion following 1942. Look at who and what gained the lands on Bainbridge Island, Washington and Terminal Island, California.

Yep. Figuring out the machinations of FDR, like those of his soulmate Billzebubba, becomes much easier when one recalls the sage advise: "Follow The Money".

In your message you questioned: My dad had some scarry tales of mob violence in Houston,Tx in reaction to Pearl Harbor-thus he was of the opinion the removals were also intended to protect the Japanese-Americans. Have no idea if he was correct. The forcible confiscation of homes, businesses, land, and family members on the basis of race is NOT justifiable under ANY circumstances. This much is clear from our President's laudable commentary in the wake of the 9-11 attacks.
Removal of Japanese-Americans was couched by the liberals in FDR's cabinet as being for "security" and "protection of the individual". However, the real truth is apparent when one does a thorough analysis of the land, business, and asset conversion following 1942. Look at who and what gained the lands on Bainbridge Island, Washington and Terminal Island, California.

I also heard a few ummm...."people" suggest that Arab-Americans should be interned after September 11 "for their own protection". Pure idiocy.

In a free society, there is no place for mob violence. The way to deal with mobs is to stop them, by whatever means are required. Not by locking up their potential victims.

-Eric