Japanese internment by the U.S. during WW2 was justified

"Pro must do more than prove there was "good and sufficient reasoning" to detain 110K+ people, but that it was just, right and reasonable"Tthe definition con provided used the word or. Just, right or reasonable. I'm focusing on the reasonable part of the, though voters may find it meets the other parts as well. Also common sense tells us that good and sufficient reasoning makes an action reasonable. Voters should disregard con's attempt to manipulate the debate.------------------Before we get to the internment, we have to go back. Decisions do not occur in a vacuum. They are made in intense moments, with lack of complete information and with knowledge of the past. It may seem out of the ordinary now, but before WW2 it was common practice for countries to detain foreign nationals during times of war in order to negate the ability of enemies to spy. America would likely do that again in the event of a major war where an invasion of the homeland was possible, but it has been about 75 years since we have faced that sort of situation, and we may never face it again. Though the Japanese were the most effected by internment (for reasons to be discussed later), the United States government also put Italians and Germans in these "camps". http://www.businessinsider.com...The Niihau IncidentSometimes people underestimate people's attachment to their own race. It is not just whites who can be racist(favor their own race), but anybody. Maybe it was this attachment to race that lead to the next incident. Maybe it was some sort of misplaced national pride, but whatever the reason it had occurred. The attack on Pearl Harbor had happened on December 7, 1942. All of the pilots in the first wave of attacks on Pearl Harbor pretty much got away without a scratch, but during the 2nd wave of attacks when the U.S. was a little more prepared, this was not the case. Shigenori Nishikaichi was a Japanese airman who participated in the bombing of Pearl Harbor, unfortunately for him his plane sustained a ton of damage. His aircraft an A6M2 Zero fighter had taken too much damage to get back to it's aircraft carrier. The pilot was forced to land on what he thought was an abandoned Island, but Niihau though cut off from the outside world mostly was very much inhabited. The inhabitants were unaware of the attack on Pearl Harbor but aware of the tensions between Japan and America, so they confiscated his gun and indentification. However in typical Hawaiian fashion he was treated to a feast and some dancing. It wasn't long before residents caught wind of what happened to Pearl Harbor and had the Japanese couple detain him. It should be noted that the Japanese couple was American born, and there should have been no doubt where their loyalty laid. Sometime over the next 5 days the pilot must have sweet talked the couple, appealing to their Japanese pride. I can not sum up what happened better than the article I am citing so:"five days after the attack, Shintani approached Kaleohano with a large sum of money to try to buy the pilot's papers, but once again Kaleohano refused. At around the same time, Harada and Nishikaichi overpowered the guard, locked him in a storage shed and, armed with a shotgun and pistol, headed off to Kaleohano's house, bringing along a 16-year old boy they met along the way as a hostage. Kaleohano hid from them, ran to the village to warn the residents, then left with five others in a rowboat on the ten-hour trip to Kauai to notify the authorities. Nishikaichi and Harada, meanwhile, went to the crashed Zero where they tried to contact someone on the plane's radio, then torched the Zero to destroy it. The next morning, the pair went to the village and captured several islanders, including Ben Kanahele and his wife Ella. When Kanahele made a grab for the pilot's gun, a fight broke out. Nishikaichi shot Kanahele three times, but, using his hunting knife, Kanahele still managed to kill Nishikaichi, and Harada then killed himself with the shotgun." http://www.dailykos.com...So we know that president Roosevelt was aware of this situation where a lone pilot managed to practically take over an island with the help of the Japanese residents of the island 2 out of the 3 which were American born. It is an alarming fact to know that if a Japanese invasion were to occur, then they would potentially have the help of 100,000 people who were Japanese or of Japanese descent. The help wouldn't have to be in the form of actual fighting to be devestating either. They could engage in sabotage of military bases and personnel, aid in hiding soldiers or just provide some good spying. MAGIC The west coast of the United States could easily become a war zone if the Japanese invaded, though intelligence gathering even without the invasion could prove harmful to the war effort. Milton Eisenhower says: "First attention was given to the problems of sabotage and espionage. Now, here at San Francisco, for example, convoys were being made up within sight of possible Axis agents. There were more Japanese in Los Angeles than in any other area. In nearby San Pedro, houses and hotels, occupied almost exclusively by Japanese, were within a stone’s throw of a naval air base, shipyards, oil wells. Japanese fishermen had every opportunity to watch the movement of our ships. Japanese farmers were living close to vital aircraft plants. So, as a first step, all Japanese were required to move from critical areas such as these. But, of course, this limited evacuation was a solution to only part of the problem. The larger problem, the uncertainty of what would happen among these people in case of a Japanese invasion, still remained. That is why the commanding General of the Western Defense Command determined that all Japanese within the coastal areas should move inland." http://historymatters.gmu.edu...There was plenty of reason to suspect many Japanese citizens were a threat to national security as well. What is known to us now, but only known to individuals with the highest top secret security clearance then (FDR being one of the people wih the highest clearance seeing as how he was Commander in Chief), was that The military had intercepted a bunch of Japanese top secret messages and had decrypted them. These decrypted messages became known as the "MAGIC" decrypts for God knows what reason. What the decrypted messages told us was that The Japanese government had a huge network of spies in the United States of Japanese descent or origin. Messages from the decrypts include but or nowhere near limited to:A cable from the Tokyo Government to its Washington embassy, dated Jan. 30, 1941, asked the embassy and Japanese consulates to arrange for 'utilization of our 'second generations' and our resident nationals.' On May 9, 1941, the Los Angeles consulate sent Tokyo a message marked 'strictly secret' that seemed to assert that cooperation was being obtained from some ethnic Japanese. The cable said strong efforts were being made to recruit white and black agents 'through Japanese persons whom we can trust completely.''We have already established contacts with absolutely reliable Japanese in the San Pedro and San Diego area, who will keep a close watch on all shipments of airplanes and other war materials, and report the amounts and destinations of such shipments,' the message said. 'We shall maintain connection with our second generations who are in the army, to keep us informed of various developments in the army. We also have connections with our second generations working in airplane plants for intelligence purposes.' A cable from the Seattle consulate dated May 11 told Tokyo that intelligence would be collected on United States naval ships in the Bremerton, Wash., Naval shipyard; on mercantile shipping; on aircraft manufacturing, and on troop and ship movements. It added, 'For the future we have made arrangements to collect intelligence from second-generation Japanese draftees on matters dealing with the troops as well as troop speech and behavior.' http://www.nytimes.com...The score is that we have one incident in Niihau that shows the willingness of Japanese citizens American born or not to help the enemy, and now we have decrypted messages hinting at a pretty big network of Japanese spies in America. Departing StatementsThe Japanese threat very real. The have response was reasonable and legitimate. Looking back at past events we have the advantage of 20/20 vision, and of missing small details. For example many people get confused by the Secret Service's theft of JFK's body, from Dallas. There seems to be no motive, but we have the advantage of knowing JFK was shot by a lone gunman, the Secret Service was still in a fog. They knew that an attack happened and that the first lady was refusing to leave the side of JFK's body. For her protection in the case of a coup or worse they stole the body so they could get her to safety. It is the same way in this story. We know the Japanese never invaded, but the United States had just watched them bring the war to American soil. Anything could happen at any time. Internment was the most humane option and also frequently worked to the benefit of Japanese American citizens. Though the United States government acted reasonably, American citizens did suffer from racism and hysteria. As well as the internment camps protecting America herself from the negative consequences that would come from an invasion, they would often protect the Japanese themselves from the hysteria. There are reports of Japanese requesting the barbed wire fences be higher to protect them from angry mobs. They were likely safer in the camps.http://inconvenienthistory.com...