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To: Henk
FDR had solid intelligence from two of his main intelligence experts, William (OSS) Donovan and John Franklin Carter, that the Pacific Coast Japanese were essentially quite loyal to the USA. Ironically, Carter's agent (Curtis Munson) said there were questions about the Hawaiian Japanese. Yet they were not interned. It was one of the worst things ever to happen in the US. It's true impact is actually minimized by lefty historians, since the main forces behind it were two of their heroes, FDR and Earl Warren.

Interning Arab Americans or Muslims today would be not only be a grevious ethical wrong, it would be an act of matchless idiocy. Indeed its the dampest dream of the middle east Islamists, for the propaganda value alone.

-Eric

23 posted on 02/09/2003 5:16:49 PM PST by E Rocc
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To: E Rocc
The FBI also opposed the "relocation" of Japanese.
40 posted on 11/02/2003 9:52:07 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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