Posted on 06/19/2019 4:12:24 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
The Spanish called them “reconcentration camps”. They were a tactic to suppress the Marti guerillas by removing their source of support. They divided the island into zones and shot anyone crossing from one zone to another without a pass. Then they herded the entire population into these camps. The Spanish army soon found that they didn’t have the logistical capabilities to support the civilians in the camps and there was mass starvation.
The model for the reconcentration camps were the US Indian reservations and the Spanish pointed to this when they were criticised. The population of Cuba was a lot larger than any North American Indian tribe though, and the model didn’t scale up too well.
The Marti guerillas were even worse, though it is unfashionable to say so now. They simply massacred any civilians who didn’t support them. It was a very bad war for the civilian population.
As a young officer, Weyler served as an observer on Sherman’s staff.
Enough medals?
Actually, it was America first for the British. The only reason they started to send the convicts to Australia, was because of the American Revolution and they couldn’t send them to America any longer. At the time they had their convicts on ships near places like New York and penal colonies like Georgia.
When the Americans had the revolution, they had to find a new place.The penal colony was established in Australia in 1788.
FDR has them installed during WW2. Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. This order authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans, German Americans, and Italian Americans in U.S. concentration camps.
Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. This order authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans, German Americans, and Italian Americans in U.S. concentration camps.
It was!
I thought it was “Australia”.
Re Weyler -
My ancestress (from Cienfuegos, Cuba) was his lady-in-waiting (basically an unpaid social secretary) when he was Governor-General of Cuba. Her brother was his aide-de-camp in both Cuba and the Philippines.
Spain was very experienced in counterinsurgency by this time, having dealt with an awful lot of that for almost the whole of the 19th century. The Spanish army was extremely busy. Weyler was an expert.
Well liked by all who worked for him was the family story.
By co-opting “concentration camps” and “never again” from the Holocaust AOC is showing that the radical pro-palestinian Democratic Party has decided to side with Heabollah over our Democratic friends in Israel. Jewish Americans need to be made aware of this Holocaust denial.
Aren’t Gulags & Concentration Camps the same thing? Both of which are different then refugee camps?
Clinton built camps at Guantamo where he sent thousands of Cubans and Haitians, thirty or forty thousand Cubans, maybe 12 thousand Haitians, for years in tent cities behind fences. This, until the political damage was impossible to ignore, upon which time he sent the Cubans to the mainland and sent the Haitians back to Haiti.
“The British long ago had one of the biggest concentration camps and they called it “Ireland”
Actually the first concentration camps set up by the modern definition were by the British in South Africa during the Boer War. The Brits were brutal.
The Brits F-uped everything they touched in their colonial empire. The Brits ruled that empire with great success. They abandoned it after WWII as they were really a failed nation and much violence today in the former colonial colonials is the result. They abandoned their former empire simply due to economics. Britain’s collapse after WWII set in motion an unstable Middle East and much of Africa.
If one looks at a map of Britain’s colonies before WWII it stretched from Egypt to South Africa. They really screwed up that continent when they collapsed as world power.
Today on the subcontinent of India and Pakistan we have two nations on the edge of nuclear warfare. This is a result of the Brits abandoning their empire and drawing totally artificial lines between Pakistan and India. Both nations have very sophisticated nuclear arsenals. This might end not well.
I’d much rather watch someone on the House Floor remind OAC that this is the second time she’s made an implicit racist remark towards ethnic mainland Americans- the first referring to Southern blacks as all having ‘ringworm,’ and now this instance: By labeling temporary detention centers ‘concentration camps’ she is by default classifying those that work there as gestapo, although she’s too much of a coward to say that word out loud. But that word would be our BP, which, contrary to her bubble world view of 100% white supremists with batons and snarling dogs she thinks she’s projecting, actually consists of a force of many ethnic Spanish men and women who serve on patrol, as translators and in providing emergency care to everyone from abandoned newborns to trafficked teens to critical care elderly migrants. Such blatant displays of ethnic racism should be publically called out and Censored by The House same as any other racist congresscritter would be.
Headlines this morning show the Dims may be on board with “immigrants” and The Border.
—Roy
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