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VIDEO: Tokyo Rose Proves ABSURDITY of 2022 Censorship
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| November 5, 2022
| DUmmie FUnnies
Posted on 11/05/2022 11:04:30 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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With so much CENSORSHIP going on nowadays it is easy to forget that even during the height of WWII, the government had enough trust in the American people as to allow them to listen to enemy propaganda broadcasts all they wanted. Oh, and remember when people in the West used to mock the Soviets during the Cold War when they tried to jam Radio Free Europe broadcasts? Well, now WE are the ones doing the 21st Century version of jamming.
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:04:30 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
To: Xenalyte; RMDupree; AlexW; CzarNicky; Mike Fieschko; motzman; codercpc; thingumbob; tje; ml1954; ...
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:05:24 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(YouTube is Trying to "Fortify" Another Election)
To: PJ-Comix
That said, FDR actively censored and threatened with censorship any US media outlets that did not toe the line. Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose were ineffective. State-side criticism of the government, however, could not be tolerated.
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:07:56 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(Republicans are all honorable men.)
To: Antoninus
Also, not exactly censorship but the U.S. locked up thousands of Japanese Americans. Most of them lost their homes, businesses, farms, etc.
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:14:35 AM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: PJ-Comix
Tokyo Rose was correct in many of her reports, telling ships where they were going and such. The music was considered pretty good.
Axis radio was an odd mix of prisoner interviews, predictions of troop movements and diatribes about Roosevelt and his Jews.
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:16:23 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
To: PJ-Comix
Here's an interesting tidbit regarding Tokyo Rose and her treason conviction:
In 1974, investigative journalists found that important witnesses had asserted that they were forced to lie during testimony. They stated that FBI and US occupation police had coached them for more than two months about what they should say on the stand, and that they had been threatened with treason trials themselves if they did not cooperate.[18] US President Gerald Ford pardoned Toguri in 1977 based on these revelations and earlier issues with the indictment.[19]: 47
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Rose
So... the dirty FBI pressured witnesses to commit perjury and it took a REPUBLICAN president to issue a pardon. The FBI has likely been corrupt and dirty since it was created by Bonaparte.
"Charles Joseph Bonaparte was an American lawyer and political activist for progressive and liberal causes."
To: Antoninus
That said, FDR actively censored and threatened with censorship any US media outlets that did not toe the line. Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose were ineffective. State-side criticism of the government, however, could not be tolerated. There was war time censorship as to what appeared in American newspapers as to what could help the enemy, however there was NO censorship to prevent anyone from listening to Axis broadcasts.
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:21:22 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(YouTube is Trying to "Fortify" Another Election)
To: Wilhelm Tell
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:22:36 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
To: PJ-Comix
Historical tidbit: prior to the war Japan had bought several massive German radio transmitters capable of sending radio signals ridiculously far. This range allowed them to pester the US troops with Tokyo Rose propaganda (which they troops endured because she played music and stuff and the USA couldn't reach them over the air with radio).
My old man served in the Occupying Forces of Japan. He and a couple of other guys - small crew - were stationed to maintain the Funabashi transmitter station where they transmitted her stuff from. Rose recorded in Tokyo, Funabashi was in the absolute boondocks on the coast (the photos from the time look like they could have been taken in the the 17th century). The US took advantage of the range and kept is going to be used for their own purposes until power transitioned back the new Japanese government. So the transmitters used by Tokyo Rose became an important part of early cold war military coordination in the Pacific.
Sidenote: my old man learned about very high power RF there and was a natural fit to become a radar engineer when he came home, which he did.
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:23:23 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(This post is subject to removal pending review by government censorship officials)
To: Wilhelm Tell
…and German, and Italians.
That being said. These things happen during war. Hindsight is always… well you know the rest.
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:34:05 AM PDT
by
MotorCityBuck
( Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
To: Antoninus; ProgressingAmerica
US Presidents infringing on the right to free speech got started certainly in WWI with Progressive Leftist President Woodrow Wilson. PA has posted about that, probably several times.
Though it wouldn’t surprise me if Lincoln did it as well.
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:34:38 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Antoninus
That said, FDR actively censored and threatened with censorship any US media outlets that did not toe the line. Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose were ineffective. State-side criticism of the government, however, could not be tolerated. Very true, but mostly it was done by tight control over news from the fronts, and a constant barrage of propaganda. Actual censorship wasn't much needed. He never tried to shut down the Chicago Tribune, for example. Lincoln did far worse during the War of Northern Aggression.
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The internment of Japanese from the West Coast was prompted by two things - firstly there were a few who spied on ship movements, but more importantly there was a violent reaction among the general population, and it was deemed best to remove the Japanese to prevent mobs from attacking them. The narrative that is now current is largely a fabrication of lawyers seeking post-war compensation from Congress.
To: PJ-Comix
"...the public is too idiotic to be allowed to listen to or watch broadcasts..." Probably the government education/indoctrination system has something to do with that...
IAC, as someone who was aged 8-12 during WWII and aware of the TR broadcasts, I was only interested in listening to Captain Midnight, The Shadow, and Jack Armstrong...
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:43:31 AM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
To: PJ-Comix
When I was an elementary schooler in West Germany, I would listen to the Communist propaganda broadcasts on my SW radio. For giggles. The Albanian stuff was the funniest. Serious “Yellow capitolist lackey running dog” stuff. I did this with the full knowledge of my parents, and sometimes they’d listen in and laugh with me. I fail to see the danger of allowing people to hear the lies spewed by the other side.
To: Chad C. Mulligan
“there was a violent reaction among the general population, and it was deemed best to remove the Japanese to prevent mobs from attacking them.”
That is an accurate statement—but think of the implications...
Imagine “there was a violent reaction among the general population to the unvaxxed, and it was deemed best to remove the unvaxxed to prevent mobs from attacking them...”
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:50:02 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
To: pepsi_junkie
To: Antoninus
That said, FDR actively censored and threatened with censorship any US media outlets that did not toe the line. Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose were ineffective. State-side criticism of the government, however, could not be tolerated. He had the boot to Hollywood's neck as well.
Any film that questioned the US role in the war was verboten.
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:57:29 AM PDT
by
Captain Walker
("Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
To: FreedomPoster
Though it wouldn’t surprise me if Lincoln did it as well. "Honest Abe" shut down 300 newspapers.
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posted on
11/05/2022 12:00:52 PM PDT
by
Captain Walker
("Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
To: PJ-Comix
let’s not forget Hanoi Hannah...
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posted on
11/05/2022 12:26:14 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: PJ-Comix
There was no "Tokyo Rose." Japan used several female English-language broadcasters, most of whom were Japanese, and none of them used that name.
Iva Toguri called herself Orphan Ann, and her program was called the Zero Hour. I have a recording of one of those programs from 1944 in which she plays popular songs from 1939 and 1940--newer music being unavailable due to the war. The program is probably available on Youtube or some other online site.
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