Comment on US Internment Camps “Human Rights Crime of Century” by Anonymous:

“These were American citizens that had their land, their property, and their rights taken from them without any due process”

Actually, no.

Their land and property was not taken from them. And they were interned with “due process”, only the process at the time was, admittedly, messed up.

Internees also had a lot more freedom than people think. College students were allowed to continue going to their classes and people could get permission to leave the camp. They just had to make sure that they didn’t wander too far out of their way on the way to and from where they were going, had to have a legitimate reason for leaving the camp and had to be back in the camps by a certain time.

I don’t condone the actions taken at the time, but as has been said, times were different back then. A less enlightened time when it came to bigotry and a time when paranoia was running rampant because of the war.

And, based on what other nations were doing at the time, the internment was one of the least offensive “atrocities” to happen during the war.

Although it could be considered a travesty of justice, people were certainly not being killed or maltreated. They were just being contained.

You also have to give the US credit for owning up to their mistake. They’ve made a direct, formal apology (although it took a bit too long to do IMO) and, as the article states, have paid over a billion dollars in reparations.


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