I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.
During war, the laws are silent.
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.
And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.
At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress.
I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.
I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.
As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.