Remember Manzanar?
May. 25th, 2011 03:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slamlanderOne of the biggest mass violations of the US Constitution is not being set right but it is moving in that direction.
Charles Fahy, an appointee of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, deliberately hid from the court a report from the Office of Naval Intelligence that concluded the Japanese Americans on the West Coast did not pose a military threat.
US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which authorized forced removal of Japanese Americans from "military areas" in 1942. The government and the military agreed the roundup of Japanese Americans was required as a matter of "military necessity." Roosevelt issued the order on Feb. 19, 1942, about two months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged the U.S. into World War II.
Katyal said he decided it was important to publicly acknowledge the mistakes made in the solicitor general’s office. Hiding the truth from the justices, he said, "harmed the court, and it harmed 120,000 Japanese Americans. It harmed our reputation as lawyers and as human beings, and it harmed our commitment to those words on the court’s building: Equal Justice Under Law."
Over 120,000 Americans1 of Japanese decent were incarcerated in one of 10 prison camps in the country. California had two, Tule Lake and Manzanar. This was via Executive Order. There was no due process and most of those people lost everything they had when they were wrongfully incarcerated. Most of them were barely allowed the clothes on their backs and all of them lost whatever land that they owned with no remuneration or any sort of fair compensation.
Scholars and judges have denounced the World War II rulings as among the worst in the court’s history, but neither the high court nor the Justice Department had formally admitted they were mistaken — until now.
It is now 69 years down the timeline and only now is this crap coming to light.
He then looked into the history of the World War II internment cases, including documents revealed in the 1980s. Peter Irons, a professor at UC San Diego, had found reports in old government files that showed the U.S. military did not see Japanese Americans as a threat in 1942. His research led to federal court hearings that set aside the convictions of Korematsu and Hirabayashi. Congress later voted to have the nation apologize and pay reparations to those who were wrongly held.
The reparations were still not just or fair for what is, in essence, wrongful imprisonment and unlawful incarceration. compared to current practice for those crimes, the Congressional Reparations were a pittance, verging on an insult. It mainly rubbed salt in the wounds that the US Feral government had already flayed open.
Are you still proud to be an American? The US needs to stop doing wrongs! Those Guantanamo prisoners need to be tried in civil courts or released immediately. If there is no evidence then they should never have been incarcerated. The Illegal search and seizure practiced by the TSA on every airline flight needs to be stopped immediately. The US Feral Government needs to start living by its own Supreme Law of the Land, the US Constitution! If it does not then it should be dissolved!
- These were US citizens, natural-born, and some were even third generation Americans. [↩]
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