Posted on 01/31/2017 5:11:01 AM PST by topher
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, over 110,000 to 120,000 Japanese-Americans were interred in Prison Camps by President FDR, a Democrat, based his Executive Order.
This was done at the start of World War II as an issue of 'National Security'. Were all these American Citizens a threat to the United States in World War II? Obviously not as a group of these Japanese-Americans formed a unit to fight in Italy in World War II. This unit compiled more medals than any other unit of similar size in World War II.
yet no germans or italians were mass interred.
the US ended up paying reparations for what FDR did.
The action of FDR justifies the recent action of President Trump. Just as FDR, President Trump is doing this for the cause of National Security.
And there is a big difference between preventing people trying to get Visas to the United States who might be terrorists versus just BLINDLY IMPRISIONING people based on race as FDR did.
Any you're saying that was a good thing?
There are a number of sources of information on what FDR did. I will try to post links in this thread about this issue.
Not mass internments but some were interned. And their internments were based on evidence that they might be a threat, and not just because they were German or Italian.
OTOH, then California Attorney General Earl Warren pushed hard for it. He was the left's favorite appointment of Ike Eisenhower.
They also had a common religion from their origin, Shinto
I think the focus on the nips was due to the fact that they had first dibs on US invasion, so they were more of a threat.
That’s not to say others weren’t.
I think it’s an analogous situation where we want a wall in the south, but not the north - the list of troubles to deal with is prioritized based on where most of the problems lie.
I think the point here is that FDR is one of the gods of American Leftists and we should shame the Left at least as often as they shame us.
And the fact that the Japanese SAID that all of the Japanese in the US would rise up against us. That had something to do with it.
The one and ONLY reason for all the noise about Trump ordering a temporary halt on certain immigration hopefuls is that HE, Trump did it and that is the ONLY reason. The libs, supported by the media whores are going to fight him every step of the way, and could care less about the rights of hopeful immigrants. I despise what the media is doing to hurt this country.
The Japanese were interned based on the ability to speak a language that the government didn't have enough monitors to police for espionage agents.
If we hadn't had enough German speakers, we would have interned the Germans too. Rightly so.
Right now we have all these idiots on the left asserting Islam is a race or Syrian is a race. Same nonsense.
And when a nation is struggling for survival, it should not be surprising that it does what has to be done. It is wholly inappropriate to look through 2017 lenses and wag a finger at the leadership at that time.
You are correct. 11k Germans.
But when you run the numbers, only 11k of 5,000,000 chance of being rounded up if you had 2 german born parents. And way more than 5 mil Americans had German blood.
Not sure, but I think FDR said any JPN heritage at all was grounds to be taken. Infants, kids, anyone. Not sure of percentages. But the EO was a blanket statement.
The Japanese slaughtered Chinese civilians by the hundreds of thousands and kidnapped thousands of Korean women for sex slaves, and tortured captured American soldiers.
Roosevelt put 110,000 in camps to prevent sabotage. I think, somewhere in all that, the self-righteous outrage can be tamped down.
Federal troops, in the South, killed tens of thousands of civilians. You never hear any outrage over that.
The government knew there were some dangerous individuals among that population (a small minority) but they couldn't reveal it because then the Japanese government would learn that we had broken their code.
In World War I, Australia and New Zealand put immigrants from Austria-Hungary in concentration camps, even those who had become naturalized and were willing to fight for the British Empire.
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