Posted on 02/17/2020 6:16:29 AM PST by artichokegrower
they lost a war but them too and the oppressed irish n italians n the early chinese !!!
It was actually California's Attorney General Earl Warren who pushed for it. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was opposed. Guess who FDR listened to.
And, yes, it was the same Earl Warren who later became Supreme Court Chief Justice and invented legislating from the bench. Go figure.
“California had nothing to do with the decision and this is worthless virtue signaling.”
In their minds, it is a logical step toward open borders. The article even alludes to it.
“The resolution, co-introduced by California Assembly Republican Leader Marie Waldron of Escondido, makes a passing reference to “recent national events” and says they serve as a reminder “to learn from the mistakes of the past.”
Muratsuchi said the inspiration for that passage were migrant children held in U.S. government custody over the past year.”
Nice to see California catching up with President Reagan. He did the same thing over 30 years ago
Last I saw FDR, the man responsible for internment of Japanese legal residents and citizens — as well as many other things Arbitrary government, was from New York ... not California.
“The president took what actions he deemed necessary to protect the United States”
These do gooders never see these events from the perspective if their times. Whenever I hear about how we use the horrors of nuclear weapons I tell these people that they were just considered a more efficient explosive at the time. We even had “Operation Plowshares” that was going to use nukes on our own soil to make canals and such. People just don’t get it.
Respectfully, Dorman represented Garden Grove and Anaheim, across the county line (Orange). Been in CA since 1981, don’t ever recall Manhattan Beach being a GOP stronghold. Thank you.
*Dornan
It’s funny...I ran into her at a coffee shop twenty years after. We sat down for ten minutes. Within three minutes I remembered why I left. I was ready to shoot myself after 8.
also many germans as well ....................... Many, but they couldn’t put too many in camps, they needed good soldiers to defend the country. They had the best of the Germans here. Even the Fuhrer’s cousin served in the US Navy.
It was the right thing to do, regrettable, but necessary.
If we went to war with China, would all Chinese-Americans be loyal to the US? I highly doubt it, and we simply wouldn’t have the resources to weed out who is loyal and who isn’t. So a more cruder method is necessary.
Thank you. I just put that one on the wish list.
Too funny! Glad you made the right call!
Japan unconditionally surrendered in 1945, but did they ever apologize for the sneak attack on December 7th, 1941, the Bataan March, the rape and murder of millions, the torture of prisoners, the medical experiments on prisoners of war?
Plus, the Japanese had an extensive spy network throughout the US.
There was ample reason to keep the Japanese in camps for the duration of the war. It was not a mistake.
Gotta disagree with you on this. At now time is is correct to imprison American citizens as a group for any reason including ethnic background. You imprison me in a luxury hotel and I would still be miserable due to the loss of my freedom. Also many of the imprisoned Japanese Americans found at the end of the war they had loss their farms and businesses due to the four year absence. I live and farm on the Central California Coast. My Japanese neighbors during the war were imprisoned. My Italian neighbors were told they could not stay in their homes if they were west of Hwy 1.
Interesting local historical note for me:
On Dec. 20, one of the Japanese submarines, I-23, had been stalking an American oil tanker, Richfield Oil Company’s Agwiworld, about 20 miles off Monterey Bay. At 2:15 p.m., an explosion off the stern of the ship sent Capt. Frederick Goncalves racing to the bridge, where he could see what appeared to be a submarine about 500 yards to the west. While there hadn’t been a lot of experience with merchant ships attempting to outsmart submarines, the captain ordered the pilot to turn hard to port (left) to head straight for the sub, in order to present the smallest area for any shelling.
After a second shot, the helm was put hard to starboard (right) so the stern was facing the submarine and the tanker was now heading towards the coast.
Although the sub was much faster than the tanker, Capt. Genichi Shibata faced a dilemma. Seas were large at the time, and he knew if he attempted to chase the tanker with the swells washing over the submarine’s deck that he would both be risking some of the gun crew and would also have less accuracy with his deck gun.
Goncalves later reported that the tanker zigzagged around in attempts to present the smallest target possible. The sub dodged and circled, trying to get broadside of the ship, but never was successful. As the Agwiworld got closer to the Monterey Peninsula, the submarine fired the last of its eight shots, four of which splashed water on to the deck of the tanker, and then it submerged. The tanker had made a distress call to the U.S. Navy, requesting assistance, which was believed to have been intercepted by the sub, leading them to retreat.
There was one additional interesting local part of this episode. There were a number of golfers playing on the Pebble Beach course that afternoon that noticed the tanker zigzagging wildly as it steamed for Santa Cruz, belching large clouds of smoke from its stacks. They thought little of it, however, and went back to more important things on the golf course.
Gary Griggs
dont remember the story - some from wis german american bund others elsewhere
I was a volunteer in his campaign. On Halloween Night, 1976, I roamed the residential neighborhoods of Venice distributing door hangers that read, "Even the Great Pumpkin is voting for Dornan." Some of my colleagues plastered the Sepulveda Tunnel under the Los Angeles International Airport with hundreds of Dornan posters. The airport authorities howled, but hundreds of motorists would see the name Dornan dozens of times as they traversed the tunnel.
With reapportionment after 1980, the district boundaries shifted to include some cobalt-blue neighborhoods. No longer electable in his district, Dornan had too pack up and move to Orange County to continue his career in Congress.
California governor Earl Warren, a liberal icon today, supported internment while America's leading conservative Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who is maligned by the Left today, opposed it.
Wikipedia:
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government and authorized a payment of $20,000 (equivalent to $43,000 in 2019) to each camp survivor. The legislation admitted that government actions were based on “race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.” The U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion (equivalent to $3,460,000,000 in 2019) in reparations to 82,219 Japanese Americans who had been interned and their heirs.
I would guess that there are less than a dozen American citizens who were interred as adults that are still alive.
=> The apology was already made
=> Reparations were paid
=> There is almost no one left to apologize to
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