Government
Mar. 1, 2007
National Security Mustn't Undermine Due Process
Forum Column - By Stan Yogi - Sixty-five years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order setting in motion the incarceration of Japanese-Americans in internment camps. The story of Fred Korematsu and his decades-long fight against the law shows that things haven't changed as much as might be expected.
By Stan Yogi
Twenty-three-year-old Fred Korematsu was motivated initially by love, not constitutional principles, when in 1942 he defied military orders that all people of Japanese ancestry, immigrants and American-born citizens alike, leave their homes on the West Coast and enter government-controlled camps.
Korematsu's life, like those o...
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