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Japanese Internment: Why It Was a Good Idea--And the Lessons It Offers Today
History News Network ^ | 2019 | Daniel Pipes

Posted on 02/19/2022 11:58:19 AM PST by Az Joe

For years, it has been my position that the threat of radical Islam implies an imperative to focus security measures on Muslims. If searching for rapists, one looks only at the male population. Similarly, if searching for Islamists (adherents of radical Islam), one looks at the Muslim population.

And so, I was encouraged by a just-released Cornell University opinion survey that finds nearly half the U.S. population agreeing with this proposition. Specifically, 44 percent of Americans believe that government authorities should direct special attention toward Muslims living in America, either by registering their whereabouts, profiling them, monitoring their mosques, or infiltrating their organizations.


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: internment; japanese; wwii
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To: dhs12345

Well said.


21 posted on 02/19/2022 12:49:51 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immunue from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: politicket

Pearl Harbor was bloodier because of traitor Japanese Americans.


22 posted on 02/19/2022 12:52:04 PM PST by Az Joe ("Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds")
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To: jjotto

Japanese & Italians/germans were interned at near equal numbers. The “relocations” of Japanese were the difference, ostensibly to ‘protect’ them as well as clear them off the coast, which it was supposed might be invaded in ‘42.

The entire thing might have been a bit more (but not entirely) defensible if it didn’t involve large scale theft of the property of American citizens.


23 posted on 02/19/2022 12:53:34 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Az Joe

The author of this crap is a moron — unless he wants to be fair and objective, and go back over the last 75 years and see how much better off the U.S. might have been today if JEWISH Americans had been rounded up and exiled to internment camps.


24 posted on 02/19/2022 12:54:01 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Az Joe

Pearl Harbor was bloody because our commanders lacked the ability to think beyond their predecessors.

Guess who is in that world today?


25 posted on 02/19/2022 12:56:23 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: FreedomPoster
I want to take nothing away from the Nisei battalion or regiment that fought in the European Theater,
***We should have a segregated LGBQabcxyz unit. Let them prove their bravery in battle.


26 posted on 02/19/2022 12:57:18 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immunue from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Alberta's Child

It’s sentences like that which make liberals think conservatives are jerks.


27 posted on 02/19/2022 12:57:54 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Actually, it’s the original article that does it.


28 posted on 02/19/2022 12:59:05 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Alberta's Child

It’s sentences like that which make liberals think conservatives are jerks.


29 posted on 02/19/2022 12:59:30 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Alberta's Child

They both do that.


30 posted on 02/19/2022 1:01:33 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Alberta's Child

You wouldn’t make a pimple on Pipe’s ass. STFU


31 posted on 02/19/2022 1:03:13 PM PST by Az Joe ("Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds")
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To: Vermont Lt

USC. There was a Canadian of Japanese decent enrolled there. He enlisted in the Japanese army and worked in the POW camps. He was sadistic towards the whites-something to do with bullying. Someone recognized him talking classes and turned him in. Don’t know what happened afterwards. I would have dealt with him my own way.


32 posted on 02/19/2022 1:06:57 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Az Joe
From his Wikipedia page:

In 2016, Pipes resigned from the Republican Party after it endorsed Donald Trump as its 2016 presidential candidate.

You can take this New England “neo-conservative” globalist @sshole and stick him up your @ss.

MAGA.

33 posted on 02/19/2022 1:10:59 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Whatta anti-semitic jerk you are.

You should apologize to Jewish FReepers and then go back to whatever hellish hidey-hole you hang out in.


34 posted on 02/19/2022 1:14:05 PM PST by Yossarian
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To: Az Joe

Internment of American citizens of Japanese decent is EVIL.

Anybody who disagrees should be banned from FR for life.


35 posted on 02/19/2022 1:18:20 PM PST by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: ZULU
WTF? Japanese had attacked Guam, Wake Island, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Malaya on the same day as Pearl Harbor... Midway the day after that!

US forces and equipment (especially ammo) in California was inadequate...AND, 80% of all US aviation manufacturing was sitting undefended on the west coast...all of it within naval gunboat range of ships at sea. People had daily and almost hourly scares about an attack to US cities on the West coast....

36 posted on 02/19/2022 1:18:57 PM PST by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: Alberta's Child

Don’t do that.


37 posted on 02/19/2022 1:20:59 PM PST by Lazamataz (The forces of fascism and oppression are on the move in North America. We cannot let tyranny stand!)
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To: Alberta's Child

Shut the F up if you can’t keep up you piece of s joke.

https://www.newsweek.com/reluctant-unhesitating-vote-donald-trump-opinion-1508271


38 posted on 02/19/2022 1:21:33 PM PST by Az Joe ("Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds")
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To: Sapwolf

You should be banned from life you piece of S


39 posted on 02/19/2022 1:22:03 PM PST by Az Joe ("Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds")
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To: Az Joe
What a G D idiot. He's lost the argument as to Muslims by premising it on the Japanese-American internment.

There was no significant spying on the US by Japanese-Americans.

The Japanese residents of the Hawaiian Islands were never interned. Hawaii was our major Pacific base and its economy would have crashed to a halt without most of its then population.

This fool should read the combat history of the 100th Regimental Combat Team, 100% Japanese-American, and its Medal of Honor citations to learn just how disloyal this population was, as in never.

40 posted on 02/19/2022 1:22:26 PM PST by colorado tanker
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