Posted on 02/17/2020 6:16:29 AM PST by artichokegrower
Les Ouchida was born an American just outside California's capital city, but his citizenship mattered little after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States declared war. Based solely on their Japanese ancestry, the 5-year-old and his family were taken from their home in 1942 and imprisoned far away in Arkansas.
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One don't elect Democrat presidents because bad things happen. Two it is an insult to compare the detention of Japanese American citizens to that of illegal aliens.
Okay . . ..
This could turn to our favor. Once upon a time President Obama went on an apology tour and then we elected President Donald J. Trump.
And a Democrat president put you and family into internment camps with an executive order.
Let THAT sink in...
Practicing diplomacy ? Do they have a license ? (FARA)
What's it been, 77 or 78 years? A little late, and unnecessay, but in the immortal words of The Eagles "But you might feel better if they gave you some cash". - Get Over It. I'm sure that's the bottom line this is leading to.
Not all that long ago, Manhattan Beach was as red as a tail light. It was the heart of the fiery conservative Republican "B-1 Bob" Dornan's congressional district. Yet another California community that was red from the get-go has turned blue.
The US had broken the Japanese codes and FDR knew from those intercepts that there was a contingent of saboteurs living among the Japanese residents. There was no idea from the intercepts of how many or where they were located. This information could not be released at the time or the Japanese would have known their codes had been broken. The president took what actions he deemed necessary to protect the United States and the war effort. California had nothing to do with the decision and this is worthless virtue signaling.
also many germans as well
Based on what we know today, how would things be handled if the Chinese regime bombed Pearl Harbor today? Should it be any different?
Magic: The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast During Ww II
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Intelligence-Evacuation-Japanese-Residents/dp/0960273611
At the very least it was a much tougher question for WWII leaders than politically correct nostrums would have you believe. And I’m certainly no fan of FDR in general.
citing history and facts is becoming old fashioned
I used to have a girlfriend who would look for me to continually apologize for the smallest slight. I married a woman who would perceive that my apologies were sincere, she accepted them, and moved on.
Why does California need to apologize something they did not initiate, and for which the Feds apologized for decades ago?
This “not sorry enough” bullshit is a bad precedent.
Expect an apology for allowing illegals to flood the country in 3250...from our President Wan Jose IV.
“I used to have a girlfriend who would look for me to continually apologize for the smallest slight.”
That’s not a girlfriend - that’s a job.
War is hell. I wonder how many REAL acts of sabotage it prevernted.
If someone was to go back in time and murder Adolf Hitler in 1935, he would have been executed for murdering a popular leader. Nobody would have ever found out what he prevented.
Same here.
beginning of a reparations push now japs n germans tomorrow blacks again
Don’t forget “Native Americans”.
Didn’t we also detain some German & Italian types also?
I believe we probably saved a lot of Japanese-American lives by interning them ... would they rather we sent them back to Japan?
A lot of the Japanese atrocities were well hidden till after the war ... Had such things as the Bataan Death March, treatment of POWs, placing POWS on transports to ‘protect’ Japanese Naval movements been WIDELY publicized, I don’t believe any ‘different’ person would have been ‘safe’ mingling in public.
Remember in the 1940s, the ENTIRE working Press didn’t regard Military and State secrets as tools against the Government and US.
“ One don’t elect Democrat presidents because bad things happen. Two it is an insult to compare the detention of Japanese American citizens to that of illegal aliens.“
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Roosevelt, no doubt in hindsight he over reacted by interning American Japanese. But, in the context of the time he did what he thought was best. And, there was with some merit. Many adult Japanese living in the US. were being asked to take a locality oath to Japan. And, there was magazine literature in circulation particularly on the west coast. Also, it’s not mentioned very often that some Italians and Germans residing in the US were interned as well. In the early days of the war there was massive uncertainty as intelligence about Germany and Japan was almost nonexistent. About the internment camps themselves; being interned had to be a humiliating experience for sure. But, the camps were a far car from German extermination camps. By the photos I’ve seen the internment camps housing quarters were on a par or even better than a lot of non-Japanese Americans lived in at the time. I know their housing was superior to what my maternal grandparents lived in at the time on their small farm in east Texas. Also, many of those interned were allowed to leave the camps during the day to work and shop. Towards the end of the war many were allowed to leave permanently and return home. Not saying internment was right but the camps were hardly on a par with soviet goologs or German externment camps.
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