Alberto asked how bad the internment camps for Japanese Americans were. I believe that the most unfair thing was that most of the internees had to sell their homes and farms before they left, often at pennies on the dollars. Since they could not derive income from their businesses, farms, etc, they all had to be sold. The internment bankrupted most of the internees.
Now, any situation like this is also going to have individual assholes guarding camps. I'm sure there are people who were mistreated. They were probably treated about as well as the average criminal prisoner at that time. Which is to say, not nicely, but no starvation, killings, torture, etc. I can't remember if the internees were used as labor or not. I imagine they worked....someone correct me... ===== Darryl Think Galactically -- Act Terrestrially __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com
