User talk:Howard Freeman

--Howard Freeman (talk) 16:04, 22 February 2008 (UTC)–Welcome![reply]

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Regards, howcheng {chat} 23:34, 20 February 2008 (UTC) I am having trouble understanding how this works. After reading the this I would like to make a few talking points. So I hope this is the right way. Many make charges of racism when dicussing this issue however one must remember that the U.S.was helping China and the Chinese are of the same race as the Japanese. It is more a issue of country of origin. Are the terms country of origin and ethnicity the same? Someone also posted saying that there were no convictions of japanese for spying without considering the fact that the internment/relocation might have prevented such actions. Perhaps it worked. Another point I would like to make is that ethnic Germans helped the German army when they invaded the low countries and Norway and ethnic Japanese helped the Japanese army when it invaded the Philipines and Solomon islands. For the Japanese their nationality and religion are linked ,the emperor was seen as a God like figure. This would make it especially hard for them to give up their country and religion at the same time. The idea that all Japanese living in the U.S. gave up all loyality to Japan and the emperor on Dec.7 1941 is impossible to believe. There would almost certainly would have been espionage and perhaps sabotage if not for the internment and relocation. The justice department had only a few Japanese speaking people and did not have capability of investigating and tracking down security risks and the U.S. had a war to win, that at the time wasn't going all that well. Is war a just excuse for cutting back on civil rights? internment/relocation.[reply]

    Comments on article: Since this site is said to be a encyclopedia it is important to be fair as young students who have not yet formed a opinion on this issuse may come here for information. Yet in the very first sentence you shade the issue in a way that puts the U.S. in a bad light. That is stating that 62% were american citizens without including the percentage that were children and why they were taken along. Almost all the U.S. citizens were children. Now a young student may understand why citizens of Japan were interned as enemy aliens but May see the internment of U.S.citizens as a bad thing. Internment of enemy aliens was common practice for all countries at war. Canada did it but did not take the entire families and thoes taken were subjected to very cold and harsh treatment. WE took the families on the advice of social workers to avoid breaking them up and leaving them without support. No good deed goes unpunished. 
     There are many other areas in the article that have a similar leaning. I hope they will be corrected.