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To: kabar
Right, the stay at home order is far worse than the Japanese interment. Far wider impact and more devastating to the entire population of WI.

Your ignorance is showing...

And my in-laws were in internment camps - one at Manzanar in California, the other at Poston in Arizona.

They were allowed to only take what they could physically carry on board the transport trains.

Everything else was left for theft and squatters.

The barracks they were placed in, behind the barbed-wire fences, were made of thin plywood - one room to a family with a single bar bulb.

Beds were burlap bags stuffed with straw.

They each got $20 after the war and were told to go make a new life.

There's lots more - I just covered the surface for sake of time.

By the way, both of my in-laws were born in Los Angeles. They were Americans.

As I said - it's a stupid comparison.

12 posted on 05/05/2020 9:30:35 PM PDT by politicket (Don't remove a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. It's the only thing holding the car together!)
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To: politicket

There were 127,00 Japanese-Americans involved mainly from the West Coast along with 10,000 German and Italian Americans. 62% of the Japanese were US citizens. 30,000 of them were children.

Living conditions were problematic. There were educational facilities and organized sports, but very spartan and demeaning conditions. It was a disgraceful episode in our history. Reparations were paid out, about 20K per person, far from covering what they went thru. There was an FDR Executive Order that was challenged in court and SCOTUS upheld the EO. So at least there was some legal patina for the action.

The house arrest in WI affected 8 million people. The Governor issued an edict not approved by the legislature or the courts. Schools
and businesses were shut down. Freedom of movement and assembly were curtailed including holding religious services. In terms of civil liberties the shutdown could be considered more restrictive than inside the relocation camps.

If you read the article, the judge was making the point that like what happened with FDR and the treatment of the Japanese and others, the shutdown was a hastily put together action that failed to consider the impact on our Constitutional rights. It was wrong then and it is wrong now.


16 posted on 05/05/2020 10:06:35 PM PDT by kabar
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