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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There was a difference, apparently we only interned Italian and German nationals, where with Japan we apparently interned Japanese that had already obtained citizenship. That and we paid the Japanese reparations where we didn't the German and Italians.
My guess is that the Japanese had seen a lot of recent immigration relative to the Germans and Italians. But I don't know.
There was a difference, apparently we only interned Italian and German nationals, where with Japan we apparently interned Japanese that had already obtained citizenship. That and we paid the Japanese reparations where we didn't the German and Italians.
My guess is that the Japanese had seen a lot of recent immigration relative to the Germans and Italians. But I don't know.
Scalia and Roberts should be replaced by men like Oliver Cromwell.
Would you offer the same defense of Dearborn Muslims should they be rounded up?
LOL!
Thought so.........
The problem is that it's very hard to look back and know whether or not it was warranted. There is no control group. We don't know what damage if any was prevented. Clinton had a commission that tried to look backwards and decided that there was little justification to think the people interned were a threat. But apparently the Congress at the time thought they were.
BTW, only those who were connected to the big shots in Japan (like the Emperor) were interned and only temporarily. And the camps weren’t run like prison camps. I’ve worked in some of those places under harsher conditions (cbt. engr.—cbt. type training).
Are we not fighting the War on Terror still?
You raised some good questions. One of the reasons for Japanese-government-connected citizens of Japanese descent being interned, was that Japan came closer to attacking the U.S.A. on our own soil.
Replace Scalia? He and Thomas are the best we have.
Okay, men like Oliver Cromwell should replace the other Europeans on the Court first, then Roberts and Scalia.
My guess is that one big reason that Japanese Americans were interned while the German Americans and Italian Americans were not is that FDR was a racist just like his mentor, Woodrow Wilson. FDR could have desegregated the armed forces during World War II. FDR chose not to. Truman did it.
The Niihau Incident seriously freaked out the powers-that-be. A single Japanese airman from the Pearl Harbor attack landed his damaged aircraft on the remote Hawaiian island of Niihau. He had no trouble getting the only three Japanese descendants on the island to help him out. Whether it was indicative of overall Japanese-American sentiment, I don't know.
I strongly believe the internment was wrong, but I was not alive at the time, and can't speak for the people that were.
However, I do agree with Scalia; human nature has not changed that much. A modern Niihau Incident could spark a drive to get conservatives into the concentration camps...unless we fight back.
That depends on if you find liberty terrifying. </semi-sarc>
Any member of Congress, The Executive, or Judiciary that acts in such a way against US citizens should be impeached and removed from office(or worse)immediately!
There are probably not many of us Freepers who remember Pearl Harbor and the beginnings of WWII. I am one of them and I can tell you that the mood of the country was heavily in favor of interning them. There were legitimate doubts as to where the loyalties of some of them lay, contrary to what the revisionists would have us believe.
That would be an interesting trial... though I don't put it past them to "pack the court" on Jury-selection.
thanks for posting it on the SCOTUS link..
If it was purely racial, why did it only apply to the West Coast instead of nationally?
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