Sunday, December 17, 2017

A Lesson For Trump, In Shame: On This Day, In 1944 -- US Army Announces End Of Interment Of LOYAL Americans...


It was 73 years ago this morning that the US Army officially announced the end of the Roosevelt presidency's executive order no. 9066 -- a plainly unconstitutional order, capturing and detaining over 120,000 US citizens and lawful residents -- without any due process whatsoever -- most of them then living in the Western US.

These US residents were imprisoned solely on a showing that they had some Japanese roots -- the vast majority of them were full US citizens, and several thousand of them were four generations removed from a person of full Japanese ethnicity -- i.e., only one-sixteenth -- yet they were ordered detained, in spartan prison camps. Most were held for more than two years.

It was December 17, 1944 before the announcement of an official end to this abomination against our founding principles of a free and open and just society. Mr. Trump, your time for pandering to stereotypes and xenophobic fear. . . is drawing to a close, as well.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

-- Thomas Jefferson


Now you know. Go forward, in progressive ways, and. . . resist. Peaceably -- but do resist.

नमस्ते

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hear, Hear for Mr. Jefferson.

However I must state that I believe in conservatism. Specifically conserving the First Amendment and other civil liberties, and that standards of ethics, and civility matter and need to be maintained. What bothers me is the pseudo-conservatism that we typically see.

Salmon

condor said...

I do hear you, man. [So good to see you around the old joint, too. . . .]

And like you -- I too long for a time when the rule of law -- including free expression, and a faith-neutral governing stance returns to 1600 Pennsylvania. We may have principled differences, across the aisle (with many others of good will) -- but these, as proposed by 45, threaten the foundation of our constitutional frame.

We will have to wait a tic, I think, for a resolution of that. But I am too busy moving forward, and peacefully resisting here in Chicago's federal courts, to spend much time on 45's lost soul lunacy, of itself.

Nah, I'll just undo him, in the courts.

Namaste, and happy holidays!