"kage" wrote in message
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How do you assume the US knew ALL the spies?

First, you proposed that the internment of all Japanese Americans was
justified because the government supposedly knew which few of them were
spies (though you provided no evidence for that assertion).

Then, when it was pointed out that that would not have been a sensible
response to knowing the identities of some spies, you decided instead that
the justification for the internment was that the government *didn't* know
who some of the spies were. Are you making this up as you go along?

And what about the unknown spies among Americans of German or Italian
descent? Shouldn't anyone who was known (or suspected) to be of such descent
have been interned too, by your rationale?

Many, many lives were saved by the interment.

How? Please be specific. What is your evidence? Which internees were
revealed after the war to have been spies, and what life-threatening
information were they privy to that they couldn't have been kept from except
by interning all Japanese Americans?

I'm sure you'd agree that it would be unspeakably irresponsible to represent
idle speculation as fact in order to rationalize the imprisonment of
millions of innocent people based on their race (and in order to have it
done again, as you have advocated). So then what is the factual basis for
your assertion that "many, many" lives were saved by the internment?

--Gary