Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>> Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>>
>>>>Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>>>>>Basically, it is granting law enforcement the power and authority as well
>>>>>>>as the hardware, to "know", instead of simply relying on what legal
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Cool; we can return to the days of (eg) the Jim Crow South, when cops
>>>>>>"knew" that some "nigrahs" committed such and such an act.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Or do you prefer the days of early WW II US, when west coast officials
>>>>>>"knew" Japanese-Americans were disloyal?
>> 
>>>>>Those who practiced discrimination did not have the means to know the truth.
>> 
>>>>Actually, they did; the FBI kept good lists of potential trouble-makers.
>>>>
>>>>Seemed to think it was OK on the East coast with the German/Italian
>>>>Americans...
>> 
>>>That would news to the Italian/German Americans at Fort Missoula, 
>>>Seagoville, Kenedy, Crystal City....
>> 
>> You mean, they evacuated the East Coast of German/Italian-Americans?

> They evacuted the East Coast of the same number of German, Italian, and 

They evacuated all of them?

No, no they didn't. In fact, German nationals worked in East Coast
aircraft factories at the time.

BTW, how many (exactly) German-Americans were evacuated from the East
Coast? How many Italian-Americans? What was the process used to select
for whom to remove?

Thanks.

BTW, Hawaii was under martial law.

Should know that, barrister.

Mike