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Battle of Los Angeles
2011 · Film · 90 min
Directed by Mark Atkins
In February 1942 US forces engaged an unidentified flying object above Los Angeles. Now almost 70 years later, the alien invaders have returned.
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Yeah, the Niihau incident and the shelling of a Santa Barbara oil facility by a Japanese sub with a witness (falsely, in retrospect) reporting seeing the sub turning south toward LA and signalling someone on shore after the attack [0], and the subsequent incident where what was later identified to have been a rogue weather balloon triggered war nerves and resulted in substantial anti-aircraft fire on phantom Japanese aircraft over LA [1] were all part of the context of the internment, but while, like the more deliberate propaganda directed by the Nazis against the Jews, they are important if you want to understand the mechanics of how the actions they preceded were seen as justified at the time, they are so distant from anything that might actually remotely justify the action (and, unlike the Nazi propaganda, aren’t themselves an organized part of the action) that there is a very good reason they aren’t highlighted in most discussion of the ethics of the action.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Ellwood
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles