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We did not get the Patriot Act from Pearl Harbor.

• colejohnson66 7y ago
  But we did murder millions of innocent people because of it. Whether that’s on par with the Patriot Act is up to you.
  • catalogia 7y ago
    I'm curious where you're getting that figure. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 550,000 - 800,000 Japanese civilians died during WWII (those figures includes both atomic bombings.) More than two million Japanese military personnel were killed, but those obviously don't count as "innocent people murdered".
• catalogia 7y ago
  That's an inane and irrelevant point to make. More than 100,000 Japanese Americans were interned in the aftermath so in either case there was an extreme reaction from the US government, but that's not relevant because it's no more plausible that two guys creeping around a courthouse at night were trying to torpedo battleships than they were trying to fly airplanes into skyscrapers.
  • dillonmckay 7y ago
    I respectfully disagree. It took almost 50 years for the US government to acknowledge the extreme reaction to Pearl Harbor and provide reparations. If that is any indication, 9/11, will remain in the zeitgeist for at least another 30 years.