Where’s the peanut butter?!

Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Fred Korematsu died
yesterday. From his wikipedia href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu">bio:

Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (1919-March 30, 2005) was one of the many
Japanese-American citizens living on the West Coast during World War
II. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor the Secretary of War sent
loose Executive Order 9066, which ordered all Japanese-Americans to
report to the Internment Camps. Mr. Korematsu refused and was tried
and convicted in federal court. He appealed and went to the U.S. Court
of Appeals. They upheld the original verdict. He appealed again and
brought his case to the United States Supreme Court. On December 18,
1944, in a 6-3 decision, authored by Justice Black, the Court held
that compulsory exclusion, though constitutionally suspect, is
justified during circumstances of “emergency and
peril”.

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In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed a special commission to
investigate the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War
II. The commission concluded that the decisions to remove those of
Japanese ancestry to prison camps occurred because of “race prejudice,
war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.” In 1988,
Congress apologized and granted personal compensation of $20,000 to
each surviving prisoner.

Mr. Korematsu’s conviction was vacated in 1983 by Judge Marilyn Hall
Patel of U.S. District Court in San Francisco. In 1998, President
Clinton awarded Korematsu with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.