point is... do you think this should be happening? It might have been upheld in the past but Ronald Reagan subsequently apologized for it on behaldf of the US. *SLAVERY* was upheld in the past!
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:21 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Abe Lincoln did the same thing. >> >> Dude. That shit was over a hundred years ago and I sure as hell don't >> give a fuck. > > Okay, something more recent then - > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment > > President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive > Order 9066, which allowed local military commanders to designate > "military areas" as "exclusion zones", from which "any or all persons > may be excluded." This power was used to declare that all people of > Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, > including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, except > for those in internment camps. In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the > constitutionality of the exclusion orders, while noting that the > provisions that singled out people of Japanese ancestry were a > separate issue outside the scope of the proceedings. > > This sets precedent from both the Executive and Judicial branches. > I'm not saying it's right, just that there is a history of it > happening and being upheld in the past. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:282282 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
