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Thread #145879   Message #3398657
Posted By: Sawzaw
01-Sep-12 - 01:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: 58% Say The Rich Deserve Their Wealth
Subject: RE: BS: 58% Say The Rich Deserve Their Wealth
Did the New Deal come before or after the internment [concentration] camps, a Bushesque violation of the writ of Habeas Corpus like Gitmo?

In 1988, Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. The legislation said that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership". The U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion in reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned and their heirs.