"HenryJ" wrote in message
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"The people in internment camps that seek compensation were Americans",
... but who knew at the time which ones could be collaborating with Japan?
Pearl Harbour was just bombed, the Seventh Fleet almost totally crippled.
Would you have stood idly by and asked them to excuse you for harbouring
thoughts of revenge? Maybe in your case!
They received $1.6 billion from the taxpayers for being a possible
security risk. Read and avail yourself of a smidgeon of knowlege before
you make such uneducated, ignorant statements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanes...can_internment

"possible security risks"....

Now there's a loaded assessment if ever I saw one. Absolutely anyone can be
a "possible security risk". The Japanese that were here before and during
WWII were Americans. They had chosen to leave their native country. As a
rule, this means that the place they left for offered them more than their
home country, and that they no longer felt allegiance to their home country.

You can't just arrest and imprison someone because they "are a possible
risk". If you could, then you, me, or anyone could be arrested and
imprisoned without cause or charge at any time. Mind you, with the Patriot
Acts I and II, even this is now possible... all that has to happen is for
someone to point a finger at you along with a weak accusation. Indeed, a
very dangerous precedent.