Census blamed for roundup and internment of Japanese Americans

On Dec. 9, 1941, two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Census Bureau produced a report titled, “Japanese Population of the United States, Its Territories and Possessions.” The next day it issued a report on the Japanese population by citizenship and place of birth in selected cities. The next day it published another report, this one on the Japanese population by counties in states on the West Coast. All reports were based on data from the 1940 census.

No Treason – Lysander Spooner 1867

The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals.