Re: interning nukers

From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 11:05:02 MDT


On Saturday 03 August 2002 20:44, Lee Corbin wrote:
> Mitch writes
>
> > Lee stated:>If a city goes up in a nuclear blast, I'm all for interning
> >...
> > Gentleman, rather then embrace the fiasco of interring loyal Japanese
> > Americans
>
> Fiasco? It worked splendidly. The Black Dragons never got a chance
> to go into action, which, especially if there had been a Japanese
> invasion, might have been crippling. Not only that, but the intense
> racial hatred following Pearl Harbor among some of the white Americans
> had no local outlet.
In the cases of which I am aware, it worked perfectly in that local whites
were able to buy up the property of the Japanese for pennies on the dollar.
No problem occured in Hawaii, which had a large Japanese population, and
didn't interr any of them.

>...



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