[ctdonath2]

The internment was wrong. Very wrong.
There’s a difference between theft of possessions and wrongful imprisonment, vs “no, you can’t come in”.

[basil]

Sounds okay to me!

[Williams]

Frankly as compared to a possible defeat at the hands of the Imperial Japan dictatorship, I can’t see the internment as that big a deal.

But asking Trump supporters about it to make them look “bad” is pure BS.

Hilary’s supporters - what do those radical idiots believe?

[Grampa Dave]

Below is a reality that has been hidden by the left wing media re German Americans in WWII. Not only Japanese were interned during WWII, Germans were, and Italians were closely monitored in coastal areas.

One of the best kept secrets of WWII was the internment of German American men, women and children, away from the rest of America.

Canada and some Latin America countries did the same and interned some Italians.

Why did these evil countries do this. They were at war with the Axis, Germany, Italy and Japan, and they did not want to have acts of terrorism committed against their citizens by possible terrorists.

Did the media label FDR as a Nazi for the internment of Germans, Japanese and some Italians during WWII?

Who were the presidents during WWII, and what party controlled congress and the Supreme Court?

[grania]

I wonder what the Trump ground game in IA will be like after the holidays. Keep in mind he gained traction this summer when he found a way to provide those helicopter rides for kids at the state fair.

[JoSixChip]

His Supporters Think Japanese Internment Was Good

I love that little barb. It must really chap their ass :)

[traderrob6]

But Iowa means nothing, they never pick a winner, Iowa voters are stupid and gullible............er, never mind.

[PLMerite]

My Great Aunt was interned for a while. She worked at the German Embassy and they sat on them until they could be sent back to Germany.

[Kickass Conservative]

Were the words “Immigrants” or “some” used in this Poll?

As in a database of “Muslims Immigrants” and “some Mosques”?

Just part of the Trump Supporters are Nazis or better yet, they supported the actions of a Democrat President during WWII.

[hotsteppa]

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, it’s not over in Iowa. Me thinks Trump has a shot.

[Crusher138]

If these are real numbers, people calling themselves Republican are a less conservative than I thought.

Maybe the Uniparty is a reflection of reality?

[lewislynn]

His Supporters Think Japanese Internment Was Good

It might not have been "good" but, like temporarily restricting Muslims/Islamists it's necessary.

[Durbin]

I’m still trying to figure out how temporarily banning immigration has anything in common with the internment of US citizens during WWII.

[Jim W N]

I’m a Trump supporter and I say, INTERN ‘EM ALL!!!

I didn’t know it was so bad to be an intern...

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

“His supporters think Japanese internment was good.”

Maybe they are more thoughtful than modern progressives. Of course internment was not good. However, things could have been worse. Modern progressives, only semi-literate in most cases and almost inevitably not well-educated, probably have no idea how bad it was for German-Americans during WWI. Social shunning just scratched the surface. Beatings and other acts of violence were also common. I knew elderly Germans in the Midwest in 1960 who were still in shock over how they were treated in WWI because they spoke English with a heavy German accent and had German names. Think how much worse it would have been for Japanese, who differed in appearance, too.

Suppose Roosevelt, the sainted progressive of his day, had not interned the Japanese. Remember that Americans of the early 1940s were violent, racist, bigots by today’s standards. Progressives always point this out, but then fail to understand its potential consequences.

Suppose there had been a “terror attack” by a Japanese or Japanese-American in 1942 like the one that just occurred in San Bernadino, even against a military target. How many innocent Japanese and Japanese-Americans would have been killed in the massive race riots that would almost certainly have followed?

Internment, especially internment that was carried out as unjustly as the one under Roosevelt, is bad, no doubt about it. But it could have been much, much worse. And by the way, Progressives, prison camps are just one aspect of the totalitarian government you long for so greatly. So get used to them.

[Pietro]

So Trump’s pandering on ethanol was for a purpose.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither and will lose both.

[LS]

You will all recall that in the hype of the "ten point Cruz lead" in IA that I kept saying "Wait for PPP. This cycle, PPP has been right in the middle of ALL the polls, not high, not low. I hunk THIS ELECTION cycle, PPP is "the" poll at the state level.

Moreover, I think this will show that this was the top end of Cruz's support.

I have no evidence to support this, only intuition. But those who have followed my posts since June would know that, except for thinking the "1 per enters" would have dropped out by now, I've been pretty accurate.

[crz]

Wow..just wow. I see some are confusing German POWS with internment.
The declaration of war by congress give the president near dictatorial powers. And FDR used it.

As for German POWS, they were used as workers for largely ag businesses. And they were paid in SCRIPT. Many got here near the end of WW2 and were kept past 1945..some as long as late 1946. Then, many were sent to England, and then to France where they were really treated badly.
A quite a few German POWs wanted to stay..now wait for it...THEY HAD TO GO BACK!!!! And apply LEGALLY to come back and recieve citizenship. Now aint that a quaint idea? Where have I heard that now lately?
I personally knew one who did this. He fought in N Africa and managed to get back to the USA and became a citizen. ONE fine person to know, took pride in his work and assimilated with the community.

[Dr. Sivana]

When I was in college, I was on the debate team for U of Chicago, and we debated Chris Coons and his partner from Amherst.

It was a preassigned topic, “You can’t have it both ways” describing the U.S. as being hypocritical about human rights because of the internment camps.

My partner and I had to defend the camps, or at least make distinctions that would show the operations of them were not hypocritical.

Two primary points were made.

One, people were released from our camps, the purpose of the camps really WAS to protect the greater population from some of those interred.

Two, we cannot replay history. We don’t know what would have happened if a single ethnic Japanese decided to place a bomb in the San Diego airport. For all anybody knows, the locals would start having massive lunch parties that would make Jim Crow look like a Sunday School picnic.

Further, we made the point that even if the judgment about the character of Japanese-Americans was wrong or exagerrated, the people in charge had to make a judgment based on their best judgment of the situation as they knew it. Iftheir judgment was mistaken due to bad informastion or false knowledge, it does not necessarily reflect on them.

My debate partner and I won the debate by one point, and we made sure that the Amherst team did NOT make the finals.