National Security “National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power.” In times of need, the government has to breach civil liberties. They can do this during a time of war in order to ensure National Security. This is acceptable because when the nation is in serious danger, it’s best to violate Individual Rights instead of risking millions of lives. As long as that information is important enough to save a country, then the information should be used. | Individual Rights The internment violated the Civil Rights of Japanese Americans. They lost their freedom of speech, and religion. They no longer had homes or jobs from being forced out of their town. Most Japanese Americans suffered severe financial losses. They had no idea what was going on or where they were being sent to. Personal property was taken or destroyed. In the camps families lived one family to a room. When a human being is placed in captivity, survival is the key. They spent countless hours to beat the system. The Japanese Americans were held in confinement ringed by barbed-wire fences and guarded by armed soldiers. Nobody treated the Japanese Americans right, they thought of them as the plague saying “The Japs live like rats, breed like rats and act like rats. We don't want them." But what they should have known is that “Loyalty is a matter of the heart and mind not of race, creed, or color.” |
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