Posted on 02/04/2014 2:11:03 PM PST by ColdOne
Justice Antonin Scalia predicts that the Supreme Court will eventually authorize another a wartime abuse of civil rights such as the internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II.
"You are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again," Scalia told the University of Hawaii law school while discussing Korematsu v. United States, the ruling in which the court gave its imprimatur to the internment camps.
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“D@mn straight it was racial, we were attacked by the most racist society on the planet. “
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That may be true,but two wrongs don’t make a right.
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Thank you for stating the truth so well. My compliments.
Mom loves that term. She always voted democrat.
The detainees were not at war and were not combatants. They were victims of an out-of-control leftist government.
And if there’s a civil war??
I asked Mom one time why she voted democrat and that was what she told me ... two wrongs don't make a right. Am still confused and now Mom doesn't explain anything. She just beats me up and everyone around her. Dang, Mom. Wish I could make her understand that two wrong votes don't make a right.
Well since your sentence structure indicates that you think it was the Japanese Americans that attacked Pearl Harbor you’re already far enough out of the box for both of us.
I Love Japan. They be the only ones keeping china in check mate.
One more yard?
On the other hand, the guy who was actually in charge of domestic security and counter-espionage wrote regarding Japanese-Americans:
“Every complaint in this regard has been investigated, but in no case has any information been obtained which would substantiate the allegation.”
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover has been accused of a lot of things, but he was never accused of being a softy when it came to national security. And Hoover opposed mass incarceration in concentration camps. The sentiment of people at the time reflects how traumatic Pearl Harbor was, how atrocious the behavior of the Japanese military government was, how effective war propaganda was, and how bad race relations were. Popular sentiment was not informed by the actual threat of sabotage or espionage by fellow citizens. There simply wasn’t any tangible evidence nor were there any instances of sabotage or espionage.
Our side won't intern anyone because we are too nice. But their side will intern the heck out of us, when they don't kill us outright. We'll write sternly worded letters about it that won't be reported by the press.
“Where were the German and Italian internment camps?”
What is this, did you just re-watch Animal House?
The Japanese were the ones who bonbed Pearl Harbor and threatened an invasion of the west coast like they’d done successfully throughout the Pacific.
That was all too typical. A few of the older Japanese supported Japan but very few of the American born did. We had a neighbor who served in the 442nd. His parents lost everything.
What obviously concerns me is just who the progressives would inter. I’d expect a few high profile arrests for “treason”. Cruz, Lee, Limbaugh. Then when there were a number of protests, agents of the government would provoke violence and there you go. In rounding up the guns, a lot of deaths. JMO
I know patriots will be interred and terrorists will be out waling around, if the Hero of Benghazi had his way.
There is a real important aspect of the WW II internments that has been mostly forgotten but was relevant in the extreme at the time. The Japanese internees were corralled by and large for their own protection. Many were not rounded up particularly if they had a farm, were more or less rural, and the neighbors vouched for them as being productive. I saw the protection aspect in my own family. While she had no grief with Japanese in particular my Chicksaw Grandmother would have killed the next one she saw if anything had happened to one of my uncles who were serving in the Pacific. In those years most Japanese still had connections in Japan, still spoke at least some Japanese, and were still more “Japanese” than “American.”
Scalia is absolutely correct that if America is once more attacked by a more or less homogeneous foreign group resident members of that group will very likely be rounded up. A whole bunch of Americans might lose their senses of humor after another such event and otherwise just start cleaning house.
The entire community of Florin (east of Sacramento) was rounded up and they were all productive farmers.
From what I understand was that the Japanese farmers owned a lot of prime farmland in California that roosevelts cronies wanted to get their hands on.
Once they were interred, their farms went for pennies on the dollar.
Nice sentiments for a guy who (almost) always sides with state power. But, good for him.
I don’t predict a Holocaust here in my lifetime. But, if there is, it will be overwhelmingly popular. And anybody who’s lived through the past 12 years can see that Republicans are just as hysterical as the Left.
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