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01/30 - Fred Korematsu Day [1]

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Date: 2023-01-30  

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It's Fred Korematsu Day and I'm gonna cheat a bit by first posting the opening bit from da wiki and highly suggest people read the full article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Korematsu )

Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (是松豊三郎, Korematsu Toyosaburo, January 30, 1919 – March 30, 2005) was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Shortly after the Imperial Japanese Navy launched its attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized the removal of individuals of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast from their homes and their mandatory imprisonment in incarceration camps, but Korematsu instead challenged the orders and became a fugitive.

The legality of Roosevelt's order was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in Korematsu v. United States (1944).[1] However, Korematsu's conviction for evading internment was overturned four decades later in US District Court, after the disclosure of new evidence challenging its necessity, which had been withheld from the courts by the U.S. government during the war.[2] Eventually, the Korematsu ruling itself was formally condemned seventy-four years later in Trump v. Hawaii, 585 U.S. ___ (2018).[3]

To commemorate his journey as a civil rights activist posthumously, "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution" was observed for the first time on his 92nd birthday, January 30, 2011, by the state of California, the first such commemoration for an Asian American in the United States. In 2015, Virginia passed legislation to make it the second state to permanently recognize each January 30 as Fred Korematsu Day.[4][5][6]

The Fred T. Korematsu Institute was founded in 2009 to carry on Korematsu's legacy as a civil rights advocate by educating and advocating for civil liberties for all communities.

In the end, this was all an exercise in futility. NDAA 2012 (Public law 112-81) included a clearly unconstitutional provision allowing the government to indefinitely incarcerate anybody and everybody without any due process or habeas corpus. The Supremes have long ago ceded all authority in security or wartime matters to the executive and Congress has likewise ceded the right to start and or declare wars to the executive. Beyond that, we have obviously entered a time of permanent war, with or without the rhetorical cover of the War on Anybody we Choose War on Terra.

(Before anybody hollers Hedges v. Obama, please be aware that it was overturned and the Supremes denied cert.)

Mahatma Ghandi, a promoter of nonviolence and Indian independence was assassinated on this day in 1948. It does not appear that the CIA was involved in any way.

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