History of Regret
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History of Regrets After reading Houston’s memoir Farewell to Manzanar, it brings out the treatment of the government of the United States to the Japanese living in the country at the time of world war two were discriminative. In the Executive Order 9066, it is evident that the policies the government was trying to enforce were solely aimed at oppressing the Japanese. The order opened up a gap that would allow the military commanders to make the decisions on who should be evacuated from the military area. This freedom led to the Japanese being evacuated to concentration camps since they were viewed as threats to the United States. Fred Korematsu was charged with defying military orders to evacuate and detained. According to him, he had not committed any crime to warrant him to be charged. More to that, Korematsu was born in the United States and is thus a citizen of the United States. By arresting him, the government had violated his rights as a citizen of the United States. When he tried to defend himself at the Supreme Court, the judgment passed overlooked the provisions in the law for him as a citizen. This is because it had violated the fourth, fifth and fourteenth amendments. The fourth amends requires that everyone be accorded the right to be secure with everything that belongs to them. It is provided that they shall not be subjected to unreasonable investigation, detention and also any violations of whatsoever nature unless with conclusive evidence. The Fifth Amendment provides for a person’s freedom in the United States to be respected and if it is to be withdrawn then there has to be a legal process to do as such. The fourteenth amendment states that any an individual who is a United States citizen either through birth or by naturalization remains to be a citizen. The government thus is not in a capacity to authorize any laws that will deprive any citizens of their rights or invulnerability as citizens of
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History of Regrets After reading Houston’s memoir Farewell to Manzanar, it brings out the treatment of the government of the United States to the Japanese living in the country at the time of world war two were discriminative. In the Executive Order 9066, it is evident that the policies the government was trying to enforce were solely aimed at oppressing the Japanese. The order opened up a gap that would allow the military commanders to make the decisions on who should be evacuated from the military area. This freedom led to the Japanese being evacuated to concentration camps since they were viewed as threats to the United States. Fred Korematsu was charged with defying military orders to evacuate and detained. According to him, he had not committed any crime to warrant him to be charged. More to that, Korematsu was born in the United States and is thus a citizen of the United States. By arresting him, the government had violated his rights as a citizen of the United States. When he tried to defend himself at the Supreme Court, the judgment passed overlooked the provisions in the law for him as a citizen. This is because it had violated the fourth, fifth and fourteenth amendments. The fourth amends requires that everyone be accorded the right to be secure with everything that belongs to them. It is provided that they shall not be subjected to unreasonable investigation, detention and also any violations of whatsoever nature unless with conclusive evidence. The Fifth Amendment provides for a person’s freedom in the United States to be respected and if it is to be withdrawn then there has to be a legal process to do as such. The fourteenth amendment states that any an individual who is a United States citizen either through birth or by naturalization remains to be a citizen. The government thus is not in a capacity to authorize any laws that will deprive any citizens of their rights or invulnerability as citizens of
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