You youngsters may not be hyperaware of this little speed bump in our great nation’s track record regarding civil liberties, but if you’ll recall from chapter 7, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, ol’ FDR pooped his presidential drawers and, under the pressure of his advisers, issued Executive Order 9066, which yanked about 120,000 Japanese Americans from their (mostly West Coast) homes and plunked them unceremoniously into concentration camps. “Say what?” you say. “That is accurate reporting,” I reply. “No shit?,” you add. “That’s a negatory on the shit,” I persevere. “That is fucked
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