Journal #3

Why would FDR do something like that? Why would he place ordinary people in internment camps like that? Defense, maybe. Security of the nation, possible. But regardless of the reason someone somewhere had to have stood up against this terrible atrocity. Yes, there was a terrible resentment towards any Japanese person in the world by Americans after Pearl Harbor was bombed. However, the ethics of internment camps was terribly out of line. We hated when Hitler put the Jews in concentration camps and slaughtered them. But when we put Japanese in internment camps it suddenly became ok? The hypocrisy of this entire nation just annoys the you-know-what out of me. It's ok when we do something we know is wrong, but when somebody else does the same thing we raise a whole stink about the situation.