Posted on 02/19/2017 11:09:16 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
On this day in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, initiating a controversial World War II policy with lasting consequences for Japanese Americans. The document ordered the removal of resident enemy aliens from parts of the West vaguely identified as military areas.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in 1941, Roosevelt came under increasing pressure by military and political advisors to address the nation’s fears of further Japanese attack or sabotage, particularly on the West Coast, where naval ports, commercial shipping and agriculture were most vulnerable. Included in the off-limits military areas referred to in the order were ill-defined areas around West Coast cities, ports and industrial and agricultural regions. While 9066 also affected Italian and German Americans, the largest numbers of detainees were by far Japanese.
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correct - FDR was a international socialist
How dare you introduce truth and logic into the story?!
I agree. One of the side effects of the interment of the Japanese on the West Coast, is that it probably saved some of their lives. The press could not print photos of American KIAs before early 1943. Some of the first printed pictures of American dead soldiers are from the invasion of Buna. Their bodies half buried in the sand. I can imagine the outrage against the Japanese when the American public got its first look at the true cost of war, realizing it was Japanese soldiers that had cost those men their lives. I could easily see mobs out looking to get even with those “dirty Japs” in places like Los Angele or San Bernidino. JMO
“... that EO was so bogus and disgraceful.”
Desperate, times, desperate measures. Sometimes taking a wrong action than dithering and taking no action at all. We certainly should have learned that with Bill Clinton.
wrong action IS BETTER than letting your thoughts get ahead of your fingers. Sorry about that.
Roosevelt’s actions were not without cause. During Pearl Harbor, a Jap plane came down on one of the small Hawaiian islands. Some of the Japanese residents rallied behind the pilot instead of turning him promptly over. Little did they know their actions would influence US policy in such a major way.
Well, not quite. President Trump is trying to vet non-citizens trying to come here. If they pass the vetting, then they're in. He's not doing a blanket ban; he is simply checking on who is trying to enter to see if they are a threat or not. Much different than an outright ban. What FDR did was wrong. What President Trump did is legal and right.
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