Chapter 9
When the President of the United States believes the lies, what do you do? Where do you go? You go where they tell you to go.
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which permitted the military to circumvent the Constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense. The order set into motion the exclusion of “enemies” from the West Coast, since now Japanese-Americans were “enemies.” Most of the people ordered to evacuate were U.S. citizens or legal resident aliens, sent away without due process of law. Without a trial of their peers. The writ of Habeas Corpus—the legal right to a trial in court with a judge before imprisonment can take place—was suspended. The government justified its action by claiming there
