The issue of rights has always been a truly spectacle argument in my career as a soldier. I often firmly believe that the American populace has a real hard time dealing with reality, and do not much like deal with the truth. My basis for that reached its zenith in 2013 when the federal government shutdown. That validated a lot of deep rooted hated towards the extremely conservative, and the intense liberal movement. I thought to add comedy to my argument when I made this video (or at least attempted to) the traditional argument on the side of rights is that there are indeed rights, rights for the people, the government in terms of how it may conduct its responsibilities and function, but what about the rights of the people? Well, the argument is such that the bill of rights was created at the time when the British Empire was abusing all forms of their power over our colonies that when the Continental Congress (both of them) were formed as response to find a way to firmly entrench upon the ideas of self governance. While this was a start, it was not until after the Revolutionary War that our strength and unity was tested with the making of a true government. The Articles of Confederation was the U.S. first attempt to form a stable government that failed almost immediately and later gave rise to the first bill of rights...the Constitution.
What most people do not know is that there is a clause in the writing of that paper that forfeits the rights of the people, the states, and the executive power given in the 5th amendment. The taking of private property. Under this clause it in a way keeps the power of the federal government at holds over the people. In the case of Japanese American's in the year 1942 right after the attack on Pearl Harbor this was the heaviest included and dependent upon when the American populace terrified of further attacks as well as preparing for the war in Europe and the recent declaration of war on Japan, was called to do something toward the Japanese-American population for fear of them attacking other areas of the US, but this was voided because the clause in which this amendment works is that the people who lose the land are fairly compensated. This was not the case of the Japanese American's who lost everything when the American government relocated them to the various interment camps that lined the country side of California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. When the war was over the Japanese American populace was released...but into poverty with nothing to their names, their houses gone, their business closed. The thought makes you think that something is really wrong with this picture even in the best of circumstances. The principle argument is that this was a just and needed course of action, but the results clearly do not justify the means in which it was carried out.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuOwomqN9Lg
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