Posted on 09/05/2004 6:47:31 PM PDT by quidnunc
Sixteen years ago, President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, proclaiming it "a great day for America." It provided $1.65 billion in restitution to 82,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry who had been subjected to evacuation, relocation and internment during World War II.
Although it was almost universally hailed at the time, the decision was one of Reagan's biggest blunders. In a rare capitulation to political correctness, Reagan ignored the advice of his own military and legal experts who opposed wartime reparations for ethnic Japanese evacuees and internees. The road to reparations was paved with injustice, intellectual dishonesty and incompetence. The panel created by Congress to assess whether the evacuation and relocation of West Coast ethnic Japanese were militarily necessary didn't include anyone with a military or intelligence background. The 500-page report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians devoted just 10 pages to intelligence.
Worse, the commission failed to acknowledge the existence of long- declassified MAGIC cables — which revealed Japan's extensive espionage activities on the West Coast — until after it had published its famous indictment that wartime relocation and internment were the result of "race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership." The commission's legal counsel hastily dismissed MAGIC's importance in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to approve Executive Order 9066 and the West Coast evacuation.
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Hate to say it, but God forbit another 911 on America the Jews, myself included, will then cease to be the most hated people on the Earth.
How much did Japan pay the prisoners of war forced on the Bataan death march?
I believe they paid them with something along the lines of...
"We regret for having been so harsh."
You can say they paid with nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Ah, nothing like the smell of PC in the morning...
The real key is that many of those interned were American citizens. Many were undoubtedly loyal Americans. I believe J Edgar Hoover was of the opinion that the internment was not necessary, that he could track any Japanese Americans who were engaged in espionage.
I love this babe. There is no backdown in her!
I suppose Michelle Malkin thinks she's smarter than Ronald Reagan now.
Actually, i was responding to someone else's question about how did the Japanese repay the people they interned... and often killed.
The Japanese were interned en masse to protect them from the general population.
Just as Arabs will be after another jihadi atrocity on American soil.
I don't think another atrocity will happen. I'm trying to be optimistic. I hope it doesn't come to that.
Yes, almost all were American citizens, 99.9% were patriotic citizens who had their businesses, assets, etc. confiscated. This thread should die.
Rose-colored glasses placemarker.
Those b*stards are dedicated, and they're here, now.
Wow being optimistic is wearing rose colored glasses????
In this case, yes.
Well I'll wear my rose colored glasses and not give myself an ulcer, as opposed to believing the very worst about my country's military and other law enforcement to protect me. More than that, I believe in God and pray every day for this nation.
I join you in prayer.
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