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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
the current war holds many unique characteristics (in our history anyway), but i think that it isn't without its own historic parallels.
for example: our war with japan caused FDR to send all japanese to internment camps. the enemy combatants in our current war share a remarkable number of similar characteristics (foreign born, middle eastern, male, fervently religious). many more shared traits than those interred in WWII... yet they aren't even (legally) subject to added suspician when going through an airport metal detector.
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an action which has been reviled by our government and history.
recent
documents have proved that high up officials in the adminstration admitted *at the time* that national security did not provide a valid reason for the detentions, and that they were racist, not just.
this info is from
http://www.isthatlegal.org/archives/...ant_inter.html.