Why don't we learn from the mistake of world War II and putting Japanese in internment camps??

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20061001/cm_thenation/15126220

Answer 1

Pattern in history tend to repeat themselves because each generation think themselves smarter, and more justified then previous generations. It is a matter of arrogance. Thanks for the link.

Answer 2

Life offers us opportunities in some of the most unexpected ways. Things come and go in peoples lives and only when there is a notable event do people take notice. (Please remember the the Nazis took away everything from the Jews and they put them in internment camps and killed them. But that aside...) I don't mean to understate the unhappiness this event caused the Japanese in general, but I know of a family who changed my life because they were in an internment camp. The father and my grandfather became life long friends and our attitude toward the Japanese was forever changed. He often came and visited long after the war was over and the two of them went fishing together. Because they lost their family farm, he like many Japanese families realized that education would have to be the way to ensure a good future for their children. His son became a professor and is now world famous for his work. Now I know this is a turning lemons into lemonade kind of story but how we treat each other and how we respond to that treatment is the key. Those in Florida have lost all they owned due to no fault of their own and their own government has disowned them because Big Business says their profits are more important. So where does the true suffering lie? This isn't just an single event in history, it's something that keeps happening over and over again. The names of the people and places change but the suffering and damage are on going. What ethical attitude needs to be changed and by who to prevent these kinds of abuses? I'm afraid to say that this issue is much bigger than mankind and only God can fix it.

Answer 3

The Japanese Americans were put into camps for theri own protection. If they were allowed to wander around, they would have had their stores burned down and tied up to trees, just like the blacks were during that time. America was a very racist society, even the Germans were bashed in WWI with people refusing to eat sauerkraut because it was associated with the Germans.

It was not to protect the Americans from the Japanese, because they did nothing about the German Americans or the Italian Americans which were an equal threat.

Answer 4

If we hadn't have let them out of the interment camps at the end of the war we wouldn't have been able to sell them our over priced real estate in Downtown New York and Los Angeles and ruined their economy!

Or did you mean why don't we intern all the Muslims. That's coming! We need to have a few Starbucks blown up in the Midwest before we can justify that move!

Answer 5

I don't agree with the torture bill, however, it is not the same as putting Japanese in internement camps. That was done solely on the basis of race. Theoretically, the bill is talking about detaining people who have express support of terrorist or committed some act of terrorism.

Answer 6

What we did with the Japanese in World War ll, putting them in internment camps, look bad now, after the war. But have you imagine who were the Japanese with their culture and family values and who were they going to defend, the USA or their mother country. That's a question that we have to answer before we start making judgments about our decision at that moment. In war we make decisions in order to win, is not about image at that moment. About the war today against terrorism we look scare about what the people are going to say, and this make us weak in front of the enemy and the world, specially when we start attacking our president and each other. This war is the West against the Muslim terrorist in the world that are attacking us, killing our babies and civilians. This is why is not a war like any other war before is different and the rules have to be different in order for us to win.

Answer 7

i became into raised interior the agricultural south and approximately like right this moment very few residences have not got weapons Favorites are A 22 rifle A 12 ga shotgun And a honest length Hand gun-Mine is a 40 Cal S&W

Answer 8

Crap.... why don't you just write the "Terrorist Bill of Rights"... or better yet we could have a catch and release program.... keep recycling them... Enemy's of this country can never defeat us from without... only by using fellow travelers, and traitors (like you) can they defeat us from within.

Answer 9

For one, read the books Rape of Nanking, Flags of Our Fathers and any other book that showed the barbaric mentallity of the Japanese during WW2.

Also, I don't give one crap if the US Gov captures and tortures the living he!! out of a suspected terrorist. If it is done for the purpose of keeping our nation safe and our military safe, I say go for it!

Weak.......so weak. It's pathetic.

Answer 10

This law will come back to hurt the United States. Stay tuned.