islanded in a stream of stars

Fact of the day: Internment camps for people of Japanese descent were set up all over the West Coast to house people from that region as well as from Peru and the Pacific coast of Canada. The major exception was in Hawaii, for so many ethnically Japanese were working on the sugar cane and pineapple plantations that the local economy would collapse without their continued labor. The Hawaiian internment camps housed Japanese bourgeois, professionals and community leaders instead. That, and martial law was declared, thus diminishing the risk of sedition and espionage there. I'm embarrassed to say that I learned about the Hawaiian exception for the first time tonight from the new Asian-Pacific American class I'm taking.

It seemed appropriate to note considering that the right of habeus corpus is probably going to crawl into a hole and die in the near future.