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[Final-Fan]

DonFerrari said:

Final-Fan said:

I meant the USA internment camps of Japanese-descended U.S. citizens, to the tune of 110,000 to 120,000, who were not prisoners of war nor indeed were charged with any crime.  Worse than Guantanamo, even if they weren't treated as badly as the Guantanamo prisoners. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

In times of war I would say that was totally justifiable. In Brazil we also had severe restrictions against German, Italian and Japanese during WW2. And even so I would say the USA government of that time was a lot better than today. I fail to see how this camp would show how corrupt and power hungry were the government against today standars.

I'm not even sure where to begin.  Brazil doing it doesn't mean it's OK for the USA to do it.  [edit:  Nor Brazil, for that matter.]  And these weren't people that the government had any evidence against.  Lots of them weren't even people who had come from Japan.  Their parents had, or their grandparents.  They were United States citizens, born and raised in the USA and shipped from the only home they had known to a military prison camp with inadequate food, shelter, education (many of them children), medicine, etc.  Many of them lost their property while they were held, not to mention lost income.  I'm not aware that they were compensated at all upon their release, although decades later (1980s or 90s?) there was some compensation and a public apology from the US government. 

There was little real wartime justification for the action.  What made these Japanese descendants more dangerous than German descendants? 

In what way do you argue that holding less than 1,000 people accused of terrorism in Guantanamo is not as bad as holding over 100,000 people accused of nothing in these interment camps? 

Additionally, the Supreme Court upheld these actions repeatedly (albeit in narrow decisions that ignored the main question in favor of refusing the appeal on other grounds that let the actions happen), which is one of the most shameful chapters of the Court's history.