No justification

Reader comment on item: Why the Japanese Internment Still Matters
in response to reader comment: I salute Captain James M. Olsen

Submitted by Derek (United States), Jul 8, 2010 at 20:08

Even if there were traitors it doesn't mean you have to lock everyone in the community up because of their race. And soldiers killed in prison camps are in enemy hands. Japanese Americans were being held by their own govenment because they looked like the enemy. And I think people were just scared, thats all.

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