Nov. 22, 1963: 50 years, and still no conspiracy|Op Ed LA Times

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35. From Personal Justice Denied

Personal Justice Denied Summary
http://www.archives.gov/research/japanese-americans/justice-denied/summary.pdf

Fourth, as anti-Japanese organizations began to speak out and
rumors from Hawaii spread, West Coast politicians quickly took up
the familiar anti-Japanese cry. The Congressional delegations in Washington
organized themselves and pressed the War and Justice Departments
and the President for stern measures to control the ethnic
Japanese-moving quickly from control of aliens to evacuation and
removal of citizens. In California, Governor Olson, Attorney General
Warren, Mayor Bowron of Los Angeles and many local authorities
joined the clamor. These opinions were not informed by any knowledge
of actual military risks, rather they were stoked by virulent agitation
which encountered little opposition. Only a few churchmen and aca
demicians were prepared to defend the ethnic Japanese. There was
little or no political risk in claiming that it was "better to be safe than
sorry" and, as many did, that the best way for ethnic Japanese to prove
their loyalty was to volunteer to enter detention. The press amplified
the unreflective emotional excitement of the hour. Through late January
and early February 1942, the rising clamor from the West Coast
was heard within the federal government as its demands became more
draconian.

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In his 1943 Final Report, General DeWitt cited a number offactors
in support of the exclusion decision: signaling from shore to enemy
submarines; arms and contraband found by the FBI during raids on
ethnic Japanese homes and businesses; dangers to the ethnic Japanese
from vigilantes; concentration of ethnic Japanese around or near' militarily
sensitive areas; the number of Japanese ethnic organizations on
the coast which might shelter pro-Japanese attitudes or activities such
as Emperor-worshipping Shinto; and the presence of the Kibei, who
had spent some time in Japan.

The first two items point to demonstrable military danger. But
the reports of shore-to-ship signaling were investigated by the Federal
Communications Commission, the agency with relevant expertise, and
no identifiable cases of such signaling were substantiated. The FBI did
confiscate arms .and contraband from some ethnic Japanese, but most
were items normally in the possession of any law-abiding civilian, and
the FBI concluded that these searches had uncovered no dangerous
persons that "we could not otherwise know about." Thus neither of
these "facts" militarily justified exclusion.

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Discussing conspiracies with you is like debating a rather dull child.

You've wasted enough of my time; go play in the BOG.