Not good enough. I want examples.
You still don't get it, huh?? I didn't make any internment camp jokes!!! So when you find mine mine you will find yours means that neither of us made them!
There was no history leading up to their internment
Right, but that is with hindsight and of course they were placed in a position where they would not be able to cause any further trouble in case they were sympathetic to the Japanese in Japan. They didn't want a "history"
No leaders at the time and as I said, approx 50% were children anyway. As ric27 has pointed out - the US Govt paid reparations for historical misconduct. If your version is right, there would have been no reparations.
The fact that reparations were made in the United States and Canada shows that following governments felt what happened to the Japanese was wrong. And don't think for a second there weren't political considerations here in order to make themselves look good. I've already said that taking their land without compensation was wrong, and that should never have happened. But were they wrong to do what they did in a time of war and without our present hindsight? I don't think so. They had to act in the best interests of the majority of the people, and that they did.
Nice dodge - were US citizens of German descent locked up during WW1 or WW2? Or WW1? Most of the interned Japanese during WW2 were US citizens. I'm not talking about German citizens in the US during WW2.
The difficulty with discussing these issues with some of you people is that I'm never quite sure whether you're being satirical or stupid. I'll guess that you're being satirical here, ok? Of course i was trying to point out that in a time of war, when stories about barbaric inhumanity are coming back to the people at home, angers rise dramatically. If all this went over your head then there is nothing I can add. And of course the Japanese in both countries, Canada and the United States, were sent to internment camps and their properties were also largely confiscated and reparations later made.
Most of the interned Japanese during WW2 were US citizens. I'm not talking about German citizens in the US during WW2.
Well I obviously was using that as a point of reference.
My mistake - I was going from another source which argued that as the Philipinnes had been transferred to being a US colony that a declaration of war by a colonial underling could not be recognised as a true "declaration of war."
I expect you've been using that source for a lot of what you think you know.
That still does not negate however the fact that Philipinnos were locked away and up to a million died under the US empire. The freedom loving US didn't seem to think freedom applied in equal measure to US black or Philipinno brown people - which neatly takes us back to the essence of what PeteEU was speaking of in the first place.
So the Philippines declared war on the United States, something you were adamant had never happened, and in a remarkable segue of the Americans winning this you then declare they racists. Yes, you and PeteEU both have a firm grasp on history, especially American history. As taught by the BBC and the Guardian, of course.