Posted on 03/05/2017 8:09:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A sign bearing a presidential seal has been posted on a fenced-off plot in Eastern Market designating the area the site of a “Future Internment Camp.” Printed in dull government hues and scrawled with President Donald Trump's signature, the sign citing "Executive order 9066" almost appears real.
Fortunately, it’s not. But the street artist behind the message says the notion that Trump will someday put people in detention centers for their ethnicity is not farfetched.
The sign on Winder Street near Orleans was created by Plastic Jesus, a Los Angeles-based artist known best for public works of social commentary. A resident on the block says the message appeared Friday.
At least one other such sign has been posted elsewhere in the country. Plastic Jesus tweeted an image of it Saturday along with the caption, "Coming to a city near you." A total of ten signs are expected to go up around the U.S., according to a source who spoke with those who hung the one in Detroit.
Shortly after he was elected, Trump cited Japanese-American internment camps as “precedent” for his proposal to create an immigration registry. The internment camps are widely viewed as a stain on the country’s history.
Though Trump has never suggested bringing back such detention centers, Plastic Jesus argues on his website that it is within the realm of possibility:
Trump has so far signed more than two dozen executive orders and memos during his less than two months in office. They've included the authorization of a U.S.-Mexico border wall, the stripping of federal grant money to sanctuary cities, a temporary halt on refugees entering the U.S. and a temporary ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Trump is expected to sign a revamped version of that travel ban early this week. The White House says the new ban, designed to address the concerns of the judges who blocked it, will be implemented more smoothly than the ban that sparked protests and widespread confusion when it was rolled out early last month.
This will make Sulu cry
Bill Clinton wants to go or so he thinks.
Like a strategically placed gerbil.
that would make the gerbil cry
MAGA will require some incarceration. Like for Low Retta the Lyncher.
The internment camps were set up by FDR who was a Democrat. This bit of history gets overlooked. I have yet to hear anyone say FDR was bigoted or hateful of Japanese Americans. Somehow his executive order is never ascribed to him.
The immoral left has gone crazy turning Trump into a boogeyman man that has no connection to the actual man except in their imaginations.
OTOH, I have seen lots of Obamavilles
And the beat goes on...
Darn fake news getting my hopes up for nothing
Because,gasp, freedom means jail and internment camp
for tyrants....
For Obama anninternment camp is Guantanamo bay. It is why he released them so they could set up more IsIs internment camps in Syria and French no go zones
Good spot to store illegals until they can be deported. Just don’t do it in a racist manner - deport illegal Mexicans, illegal Africans, illegal South Americans, illegal Asians, illegal Europeans, and even illegal Australians. Deport them all unless they have a US birth certificate (their own!) or a green card.
Internment camps? Been there. Done that. FDR.
Not for their ethnicity, for their BEHAVIOR! They’ve willingly and knowingly broken the law.
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