We believed that the Jap-Am's were a threat to national security.

The "Jap-Ams"? Pardon me, your unwashed slip is showing.

When we took these "threats to national security" off to prison camps, there
were no trials, no individual investigations, no requirements for evidence, no
background checks, no objective steps taken *at all* to
determine who was- or even might be- a threat to national security and who was
not. If you were 50% or more Japanese, had a Japanese name, and "looked
Oriental", your ass was grass. Once in prison, there was no due process
available- not even a chance to appeal your innocence or prove you were not,
and had never been, a threat to security.

It was like locking up a female dog in heat.
Who knows what trouble the poor beast would get into if let out?

While interred, the rents and taxes on personal and business properties
continued to accrue. The Japanese lost houses, farms, businesses, etc to
repossession and public auction. Did you know that it was acutally *illegal* in
many areas for a non-Japanese friend or non-Japanese relative to try to keep
the payments and taxes current on properties owned by the Japanese prisoners?

While it didn't do diddly squat for national security, the shameful internment
of American citizens and legal immigrants based solely on racial
characteristics proved to be a very effective means for profiteering through
property forfeitures.

Did you know that when the Japanese were hauled off to UnAmerica, many of their
young men joined the army and were
combined into a special "Jap" Regiment?
The Japanese soldiers fought bravely in Italy, but were never sent to the
Pacific theater for fear they might "revert" and turn their guns on US
soldiers. (Funny there was no similar fear when US soldiers of German ancestry
were sent to Europe in the same war).

I am at a total loss to understand how anybody can defend Japanese imprisonment
during WWII as a noble idea. It is one of the most shameful chapters in the
history of a nation that
proclaims "liberty, and justice, for all."

The
Germans believed that the Jews were an inferior race. We temporarily
"secured" the Jap-Am's. The Germans exterminated the Jews.

The comparison is not even close.


The basic fact that the Jewish "race" and the Japanese race were
both interred by their governments during the Second World War is not a close
comparison--------it's an *exact* comparison. The Japanese were let out again,
but sadly there were millions of Jews who butchered so there is no comparison
between the fates of the two groups *after* they were imprisoned.