At several points in its history this country has, in times of danger and fear, indulged xenophobic tendencies to deprive people of fundamental rights -- e.g., the Alien and Sedition Acts, Lincoln's suspension of habeus corpus, and most infamously, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the congressional persecution of suspected communists and their associates in the early years of the Cold War -- all in the name of security. Many people of good conscience did not have the vision to recognize the injustice or the courage to protest against it. History has judged them very harshly.