The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Well, let's hope he doesn't...


During WWII, we put Japanese Americans into camps. Did that make us any safer? No. Was it a knee jerk reaction to Pearl Harbor? Yes. Did people feel safer after we did that? Probably. Was it right of us to do? Absolutely not.

The reason why it was wrong to do was because these people had not broken any laws and were here legally. During the war, would it have been wise to let a million Japanese cross our border without any checking whatsoever? Would we have been wrong not to do so?