re: #111 Obdicut

Well, the Japanese-American Internment was far, far worse than the German-American Internment. For one thing, German-American’s weren’t rounded up en-masse, but cases were prosecuted individually— unfairly, with scant attention to due process. If you want to make a case for the government acting terribly to an ethnic group, it’s far better to use the Japanese-Americans as an example.

I mean, hell, German-American internement in total was less than 12,000— the German-American Bund had about twenty-five thousand members, and eight thousand Sturmabteilungen — ‘storm troopers’.

In contrast, 110,000 Japanese-Americans were interned, including nearly all the Japanese-Americans on the West Coast. They were interned en-masse, not in individual cases.

The German-American internment definitely went too far, ignored due process, and is abhorrent; however, it completely pales in comparison to the Japanese-American internment.

However, I’m not quite sure you got my point; the US has done any number of terrible things in the past, including internment, but by “It Can Happen Here”, I was referring to a small but nutty subsection of the population being stirred up, agitating against, and committing violence based on fascist ideology.

And I’m not sure you got my point… which you remade in your statement…

“The German-American internment definitely went too far, ignored due process, and is abhorrent; however, it completely pales in comparison to the Japanese-American internment.”

That was my point. So, we agree for once.