“There WERE JAPANESE SPIES and many sympathizers in this country during World War II. It is unfortunate that many innocent people were interned, but they were not all innocent.”
Forgive me, but you’re rationalizing despotism. Since you are new to FR, I will assume you’ve not had enough time to develop a rational concept of civil rights under our constitution. Please, go back and read those documents, along with the Federalist Papers. They are all about the rights that you, as a citizen of the US, are entitled to. Being tossed into internment camp because some of your own race are spies does not what the founders intended.
If you think about what you typed, I believe you’ll agree that you may have been a little fast on the keyboard. If you still believe it was justified, I might next ask if you are a US citizen yourself.
I have been a member of FR since 2000, longer than you have. I understand the concepts of civil rights as outlined by our Constitution, which is not a suicide pact. I have read the Federalist papers and can quote from them, extensively, in particular the section about the dangers of faction, domestic faction and insurrection (No. 10). I also have read an extensive amount of history, particularly the threats of espionage and sedition we faced before and during World War II. And finally, I can recognize condescension when it rears it ugly head.