And at what regularity is this happening? Give me some cold hard facts and I'm sure it is way less than 1% of our population being detained. You're talking about an administrative law that happened because of an invasion of our country. When the Japanese Americans were detained without doing anything wrong during WWII, they just sucked it up, didn't whine about it at all.
Originally Posted by: DakotaT
An "administrative law" whose "judicial review" showed once and for all that SCOTUS would be completely ineffective in reigning in the executive.
That Japanese-Americans sucked it up, and IIRC won more medals for valor per person than any other section of the USA population fighting FOR the USA, does not justify the actions the state took.
Not even close.
What the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans proved, perhaps more than anything in our nation's history save perhaps the Patriot Act and Lincoln's willingness to suspend habeas corpus, is just how fragile our freedoms truly are. Just how little "protection" minorities have when the state is legitimated by the will of the majority.
1% of the current American population is about 3.1 million people. What's the population of North Dakota again?
Perhaps what we ought to do is intern all the people of North Dakota in Minnesota and sell all that oil shale/etc up there to the highest bidder to reduce the national debt. After all, it's only about 1/5 of one percent (
way less than 1%)of the current population.
Funny thing about numbers. Sometimes a fraction of a percent is actually a lot.
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