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Hawaii Republican Leader Rep. Beth Fukumoto Officially Resigns From GOP
NBC ^ | March 22, 2017 | Traci G. Lee

Posted on 03/22/2017 7:06:19 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

In a letter to the Hawaii Republican Party on Wednesday, Rep. Beth Fukumoto wrote about the partisanship she saw from her colleagues on the right, which included criticism from her own caucus that she felt was due to her participation at the Women's March in Honolulu in January.

"This election, I saw members of my party marginalizing and condemning minorities, ethnic or otherwise, and making demeaning comments towards women," Fukumoto wrote in her letter. "So, when I listened as our now top office holder refused to condemn the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, speaking out didn't seem like a choice."

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fukumoto; ha; hawaii; japs; womensmarch
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To: blueplum

To BluePlum.. Nice summary of Japanese attacks on MAINLAND US, not including the Aleutian campaigns/Alaska.

Re the German saboteur George Dasch, who turned himself in to the FBI in NY City, here’s something you probably won’t find in most history books.

Dasch, after landing near NY City, decided he wanted to turn himself in, so he found a phonebooth and called the FBI office.

The rookie FBI agent who took that midnight call was William “Bill” Furcolow (his brother was also an FBI agent).
Bill, thinking that this was a trick being played on him as a rookie, by some fellow agents, almost hung up on Dasch.
But, as he told me/our class at No. Va. Community College (in Police Science which he taught), his training kicked in and he put Dasch on hold.

Then he went downstairs to talk to his superior SAC who had gone there for a late dinner while Bill tookover the office.
His superior came up and took the call, and the rest is history.

Now, just to tease you late night Freepers, one of my other friends (and Board of Advisors to a newsletter I was Associate Editor of), was Ray Wannell, a former Assistant Director of the FBI for Counter-Intelligence. He ran the “SOLO” operation for decades until it was finally released to the public in another one of our luncheon group’s members, John Barron of Reader’s Digest.

John had been working on Operation SOLO for 10 years before the FBI allowed it to be released because a leftist professor David Garrow had stumbled upon its’ existence when he was research his trilogy on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, (The FBI and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. volume).

The Bureau decided to beat Garrow to the publishing punch and John’s book, “Operation SOLO: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin”, was published in 1996 by Regnery Publishing, Inc. Wash. D.C.

And the rest is history.

If I told you who the rest of our luncheon group was, I’d have to kill you. Actually I have over the years in my comments and I’m finding more of that group’s members in my old files. Half of our WW2 Navy commanders were there including Adm. Dan Galley (captured the German Sub 505), OSS (Ed Hunter “Brainwashing in Red China”), CIA, FBI, congressional internal security investigators, WW2 pilots, a National Chinese general and aide to Gen. Lansdale in Vietnam (Bernie Yoh, “SACO”), professors (Dobriansky, Rice, Moser, Michaels, etc.), a leader of the Free Polish Army during WW2, Stefan Korbonski, RCAF - Dave Martin, Jim Kerns, 5th Special Forces/VN, Major Nick Rowe (SF, POW, “5 Years to Freedom”, Amb. Elbridge “Durbie” Durbrow, etc. and that was just at my table.

You should have seen who was at the desert table!

A luncheon a month with the makers of history. For a graduate student it was heaven in the flesh.


81 posted on 03/22/2017 8:32:19 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: manc

I have history books from the 50’s for the war between the states, and today’s history books , and they are totally different. Really sad that the left feels they have to change history.


82 posted on 03/22/2017 8:34:30 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: nopardons

It’s the bran in the food that makes them bran dead.


83 posted on 03/22/2017 8:40:18 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Mears

Barbara Boxer, former Senator from California.


84 posted on 03/22/2017 8:40:34 PM PDT by ShorelineMike
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To: left that other site

ZZZZing!!


85 posted on 03/22/2017 8:48:46 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

rino horn


86 posted on 03/22/2017 9:24:29 PM PDT by DEEP_e
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To: gaijin

“Internment:
The US had comprimised both JN-25 and Magic —they were reading Japanese signals.”

Bingo! Thanks for bringing this up. I’ve posted before about MAGIC, and it seems few are aware of the Intercepts. The MAGIC intercepts indicated an active effort by the Japanese Consulates to recruit both Japanese Nationals and Japanese-Americans I to spy and conduct espionage and it appears they were successful.

https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Intelligence-Evacuation-Japanese-Residents/dp/0960273611


87 posted on 03/22/2017 9:56:17 PM PDT by ConsCA
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To: ConservativeStatement
In 2013, Fukumoto was awarded the James Madison Fellowship by the Millennial Action Project for her demonstrated success in transcending partisan lines. The Daily Beast named Fukumoto one of "Nine Women Remaking the Right." Fukumoto was also named by the Washington Post as a Top 40 under 40 Rising Political Star.

This woman is not a conservative. Sounds like she ran as a Republican to get around an incumbent Democrat. Her 2012 debate sounds like she's a Democrat.

88 posted on 03/22/2017 10:16:17 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: ConservativeStatement

https://business.facebook.com/HIRA808/videos/1379197815475305/


89 posted on 03/22/2017 11:57:52 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: nopardons

it’s called pakalolo ...


90 posted on 03/22/2017 11:58:24 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: LeoWindhorse

What is called that?


91 posted on 03/23/2017 12:04:42 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Mears
Who’s the one on the top,right?

That would be Maam Boxer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k

92 posted on 03/23/2017 12:18:39 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: ConservativeStatement; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican

RINO scum shocked that no one else approved of her participation in a partisan democrat rally.

Traitor slime.


93 posted on 03/23/2017 12:26:56 AM PDT by Impy (End the kritarchy!)
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To: blueplum
I read the entire article, but there was nothing about Japanese Americans having anything to do with these attacks. The incidents all involved attacks against land targets by Japanese submarines, and the infamous incendiary balloons sent downwind across the Pacific from Japan.

OTOH, one of the German invasions in this article did involve 8 naturalized US citizens.

94 posted on 03/23/2017 12:27:18 AM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pres. Herbert Hoover)
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To: ZULU

And don’t forget the Bataan Death March and the POWs who were tortured, killed, and even eaten by their Japanese captors.

I wasn’t around at the time, but I would assume the internment seemed like a reasonable action at the time, considering that the continued existence of the US was absolutely at stake.

Imagine the blowback if any of those who were interned had actually turned out to be future saboteurs whose actions could have killed large numbers of Americans, or did grave damage to our war effort.

Would the same sort of excuses that are now being used to excuse the barbarity of Muslim terrorists worked in the 1940s? I doubt it.

And would the Japanese have hesitated to use the A-bomb on US cities if, by chance, they had gotten it first? I doubt it.

All this former “Republican” cares about is her own political future in a deep blue state.


95 posted on 03/23/2017 12:38:21 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Beth is hapa


96 posted on 03/23/2017 12:38:45 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Another ignorant person who knows nothing about history, her people and the people she now wants to associate with.

Ed

97 posted on 03/23/2017 12:53:41 AM PDT by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: ConservativeStatement

So she’s leaving the GOP because Trump didn’t condemn FDR for Japanese internment camps?

Sayonara, Felicia


98 posted on 03/23/2017 1:44:16 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: gaijin
the notion that all recent arrivals had no love for the Empire of Japan is wrong.

Hmmm - this meme sounds familiar for some reason. I wonder why?

99 posted on 03/23/2017 3:12:57 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most useless words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: nopardons

I believe I am right when I say Hawaii has the biggest welfare participation rate in the US. Virtually all native born Hawaiians draw some sort of assistance!!!


100 posted on 03/23/2017 3:48:17 AM PDT by ontap
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