Geographic Political Science

Lipmann’s argument for the Japanese elimination and internment was based on several reasons.  First, he stated that the Japanese residents held a huge threat to the American security and therefore they were supposed to be incarcerated (Lippmann, 1942).  He supported this by stating that the fact that no damage had occurred at the particular period clearly shows that it would occur in the end. This is mainly because the American Japanese would offer support to the Japanese in destroying America.  The United States national security was stated by Lipmann as very significant and a serious matter.  This is mainly because the coast pacific was in forthcoming danger of receiving an attack that was combined from outside and the inside. This danger would, therefore, result to increased destructions because it would be completely different than if it was an inland centered danger which would result in less destruction.  The pacific coast would, therefore, be subjected to a Japanese raid that would be assisted from the enemies living within the American territory (Lippmann, 1942).  The corporation can be termed as challenging in real nature. This is mainly because the capability of the Japanese to strike the United States from both the air and the sea may not be very intense. However, a strike that has resulted from the organized corporation would result into unmanageable damage mainly as this would be an organized destruction to which the American state would be completely vulnerable to.  Lipmann made the statement  based on the report that  the Japanese navy  had  been investigating  the coast  pacific in a continuous nature  and  for a significant time  period they had  been sensing out  and testing the strength of the united states forces.  This was a clear  explanation that there was an ongoing communication taking place between  the enemy located at the sea and the American Japanese who were acting  as the land enemy agents (Lippmann, 1942).

Lipmann’s argument for the exclusion and incarceration of the Japanese American was that they needed to be protected from the American persons. With the assumption that there are no damages that had been caused on the pacific coast was a sacrifice of   the Americans security in order to exercise freedom (Lippmann, 1942). This would thus be termed as a danger posed to the American people and they felt that the American Japanese were a threat and the exclusion and incarceration would offer them adequate protection. The solution to the issue would not be solved by doing anything basically according to Lippmann.  The official strategy of solving the issue is through the utilization of reality. Lipmann stated that the assumption that this was an issue of extraterrestrial’s enemy was wrong because it was also an issue of Native Americans. The organized strike would cause destructions to the American-born individuals rather than the enemy situated within the American land (Lippmann, 1942).

Lippmann argued that citizens’ rights like those of citizenship may not be interfered with unless there is an existence of strong evidence that they have committed an illegal act but they also have the right to protection (Lippmann, 1942).  He, therefore, asserted that the American Japanese needed to be protected from the American citizens as they were viewed as a security threat. Lippmann thus believed in practical approaches by forgetting about rights, citizenship and the parentage of the aliens and make considerations of the impacts that may be generated. Through the application of practical solutions, he stated that the Japanese held no good thoughts for American and therefore they stay should be regulated.  He stated that everyone who should be compelled in order to ensure that their rationales of being in the country were positive.  The operations of individuals should, therefore, be examined in order to ensure that their interests are in match with the United States defense. Lippmann regarded the pacific coast as a fighting zone which would be characterized by fights if any measures were not implemented. If an individual holds no positive interests for the pacific coast then this implies that they have no freedom of being there since they can exercise this freedom in another location (Malkin, 2004).

According to Lipmann, there is no evidence that the American Japanese have committed any crime (Malkin, 2004). However, it is clear that they are a land’s enemy who is working with the outside Japanese to strike the American land. Their corporation with the outside enemy is aimed at resulting in more destruction. Incarcerating the innocent American Japanese will be crucial in avoiding the occurrence of destruction.  Lippmann supported his argument by stating that the national security would not be sacrificed for the alien’s freedom (Malkin, 2004).

Lipmann additionally held that imprisoning the innocent American Japanese are expected to make adequate sacrifices because it is their existence and that of Americans that is being risked. This fact according to Lipmann would not be ignored because the Japanese race is considered as an enemy (Malkin, 2004). This, therefore, implies that even though the decedents who are born on the United States soil are regarded as Americans there is no way that racial strains can be eradicated. The American Japanese in American according to Lippmann they serve as racial attractions and they are always loyal to their nations and they are ready to fight for their nations.  If there is a necessity the Japanese are always ready to die for their nations in the war that is particularly against their parent country. In addition, the  Japanese are directly allied to  Italy as well as Germany and in this ground,  the  Japanese decedents cannot be assumed to be fully loyal to American  as they are bound to turn against the united states land when they are subjected to loyalty test which is the far.  The American Japanese will automatically be in support of their mother nation. Therefore according to Lipmann despite the fact that the American Japanese are innocent they should be imprisonment which will help in regulating their operations and ensuring that they do not act against the wellbeing of the nation (Malkin, 2004).

There are more than a hundred and ten thousand American Japanese which shows that the probability of the potential Japanese enemy to strike and cause much destruction is very high (Malkin, 2004). Lippmann additionally states that  this is the indication  that the  Japanese are well  organized and the fact  that  there is no destruction that  has been caused so far shows that  they are very ready to  strike when it is  the favorable  time to act arrives. The investigation that has continuously been done by the Japanese navy cannot be based on anything and when all their plans  become a success the striking action will be done from  within and  outside thus causing increased  sabotage (Lippmann, 1942).

 

 

 

 

 

 

            References

Lippmann, W. (1942). Today and tomorrow, the fifth column on the coast. San Francisco, Washington post. Pdf

Malkin, M. (2004). In defense of internment: The case for "racial profiling" in World War II and the war on terror. Washington, DC: Regnery Pub.