Insulting the memory of FDR [were Japanese internment camps wrong?]

WorldNet Daily ^ | March 20, 2004 | Les Kinsolving

[risk]

Honda was in the news here in Kaliforniastan over the weekend "reaching out" once again to potential victims of racism and discrimination due to our war on terror. This article seemed to be an appropriate response. The difference between the way we fought WWII and how we're "fighting" now is that in 1941 we aimed to win at any cost.

We could lose this war thanks to people like Honda who think it isn't serious enough to warrant an all out effort to win.

[risk]

ping

[cyborg]

Locking up Americans was wrong but why is this being discussed now? Two entirely different wars in two very different times.

[muawiyah]

Sometimes an article is full of total B*S*. For example: "Dr. McGrath also notes that the American Japanese Claims Act of 1948 led to the provision of $35 million paid on thousands of Japanese-Americans claims for lost or damaged homes, or even crop loss, as a result of their being called away from their homes during a national emergency -- just as so many millions of American men were called away from their homes to serve in our armed forces where half a million of them were killed fighting our national enemies."

This is of little comfort to any individual Japanese-American citizen family which LOST over $35,000,000 in property while their sons were serving and dieing in the American armed forces overseas.

Just give me this Kinsolving guy, Manzanar, and I'm in the guardtower with a firearm and he wants to come too close to the fence. I'll show him what a concentration camp is like. You'd better believe buddy! Let me at him.

[ml/nj]

Locking up Americans was wrong but why is this being discussed now? Two entirely different wars in two very different times.

Go back and read the Los Angeles and San Francisco newspapers from that time. There were numerous articles about a Japanese fifth column in this country. Maybe they were all planted stories? But if they were not, Roosevelt was absolutely right to do what he did. And let's not forget: We won that war.

The main reason this war is different is that we have more than one fifth column active here now.

ML/NJ

[cyborg]

Well there were large contingents of Nazi sympathizers here on Long Island during the same time and they were never locked up. Actually, the neo-nazis still have a small presence here on LI. I don't make excuses and pretend that racism didn't play a part in making it MUCH easier to lock up Japanese people. FDR would NOT have won friends if he started locking up white people. I'll bet money on that one.

[AntiGuv]

were Japanese internment camps wrong?

Yep, they sure were.

[Mears]

I'm with you. This was a national disgrace but it was over 60 years ago----let's move one.

[Mears]

Correction---let's move on!

[cyborg]

Part of a lot of people's problems on the left is their seeming inability to MOVE ON which is why I find the name moveon.org humorous. How on earth anyone can make this comparison is beyond me.

[Mears]

The newspapers then were the same as they are now,they printed what they wanted to print and ignored what they wanted to ignore.

The Japanese Americans were treated poorly and German Americans were treated well.

It was racism,pure and simple.

[Steely Tom]

Of course they weren't wrong.

Now, if they had been set up during the administration of a Republican president, they would have been the most grevious crime ever committed in human history.

Who doesn't understand this? Its just logic.

(steely)

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Is it true that Yaphank actually has some streets named after high-ranking Nazi/German officials? I don't know where I heard this, and probably dismissed it as a baseless rumor when I first heard it, but somehow it got stuck in my head.

[cyborg]

I don't know but I can check. Sounds like a Long Island legend though but the people are very real. I do know that my mother had God on her side when her car broke down waaaaaaaay out that way. Certain parts of LI make Deliverance look citified.

[Travis McGee]

Outstanding article, finally stating what so few Americans understand about this chapter of WW2.

[reg45]

Is it true that Yaphank actually has some streets named after high-ranking Nazi/German officials?

Chicago has a street named after an Italian-Fascist aviator - Balbo.

[Travis McGee]

Did you bother to read the article before posting?

Would you have preferred to have lost the "Magic" code breaking advantage, and hence lost (among many battles) the Battle of Midway and WW2 in the Pacific?

[cyborg]

I read the article. You and I have a disagreement. Sorry.

[junta]

He forgot major portions of McGrath's article in "Chronicles" namely about the Tule lake camp where the internees celebrated Pearl Harbor day. And of course he forgets to mention how many Japanese took off for the homeland and how many who couldn't get out of the states renounced their American citizenship. Or that a large portion of the second generation Japanese were propagandized to think of themselves as just that Japanese not Americans (think Mexicans today) and a large program existed to take these kids back to Japan for proper education in being Japanese. Or how many Japanese-americans served the empire.

[ml/nj]

FDR would NOT have won friends if he started locking up white people.

Lincoln has a lot of friends.

ML/NJ