Final-Fan said:
Kasz216 said:
Final-Fan said:
"Aside from which, he thought the bill of rights should be rescinded during wartime."
If you can dig up THAT, then I guess I really won't have a leg to stand on. |
I read it in an biography piece on Elenaor Roosevelt a while back. I'll try and dig it up.
Though I mean... Japanese Internment did rescind the Bill of Rights for Japanese people... he also rescinded freedom of the press... banning a socialist and anti-war matieral...
This book has an indepth account of how much was Roosevelts decision... and some one the racism as well I believe.
I just find it frightening people are willing to excuse something so fundamentally wrong?
I mean would nobody care about Guantanamo if Bush was a good president in all other regards?
When do you draw the line of what can't be erased by good deeds?
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I thought you meant like the way Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. The internment violated the civil rights of a group of people; you were saying he favored suspending civil rights. That's different. With XO9066 I'm sure he thought he was acting within the Constitution. (Which does NOT excuse his actions, and I certainly hope you're not suggesting I have been making excuses for them.)
As for censorship, I found a good article (book summary). Sounds to me like he was a model of restraint compared to Wilson; he did however (apparently) abuse the system to hide his poor health and affai
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I don't see the difference between suspending one groups civil rights and all though.
He banned tons of press though he didn't jail the people making them.
Though then again, he did jail people who he had even less right to jail.
He also to my knowledge supressed news about the Holocaust.
The stuff you mention is straight out Nixon level stuff I didn't even know about though.
Also, yeah i'd say internment was much worse then the 1900 Califronia laws.
