khagler Wrote:I was thinking more "Mackenzie King", but I'm Canadian. (The US wasn't the only country that did that.)robkelk Wrote:It's been a long while since I've seen anyone make that comparison without actually saying the name... (polite applause)You mean... Roosevelt?
I don't know if it's widely known outside the US (it certainly wasn't mentioned in US public schools back when I was in them), but the US government actually did round up over 100,000 Americans with Japanese ancestry and put them in concentration camps during World War 2.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012