Lawmaker's defense of internment called `preposterous' and `ignorant'

SJ Mercury News ^ | 2/6/03 | Cecilia Kang

[NormsRevenge]

Comments by a North Carolina congressman that he agreed with the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II sparked outrage Wednesday by San Jose Rep. Mike Honda and Bay Area Japanese and Arab Americans.

Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., who heads a homeland security subcommittee, made the comments Tuesday on a radio call-in program when a listener suggested that Arabs in the United States be confined.

[aristeides]

Individuals could not have been prosecuted without making public our codebreaking success.

[swarthyguy]

Another point worth mentioning is that the younger generation of Japanese, called the Kisei, IIRC, had been sent back to Japan for studies.

They came back radicalised after being indoctrinated with Bushido'ism. They were, in fact, more anti American than their parents in a lot of cases, too.

An analogy to today is the large number of Arabislami American youth who have been totally captivated and indoctrinated by Saudi wacky wahhabist deathlust indoctrination. Except these guys and gals didn't have to go to Saudi. It happened and is happening right here and now in the numerous Saudi sponsored schools operating right here in the USA.

Every day we don't take down the Saudis, the cost in blood goes up as the money keeps flowing from the Tragic Kingdom to their jihadi brothers all across the world.

[sailor4321]

If there was a "fault" here, it was this lack of discrimination amongst the ethnic Japanese. However, I will defer to the Supreme Court, which made this very point but also pointed out that it was a military call based on the exigencies of the moment.

By the way, i hold nobody here thinks that people of Japanese ancestry consitute one of the "races" (people keep throwing around the term racism in conncection with this incident).

[CounterCounterCulture]

Any time Bay Area liberals speak against you, it means you're saying or doing something right.

Often that is the case.

BUT sometimes a Republican hands a mallet to the enemy to allow them beat the Republican over the head with it, a la Trent Lott. This is one of those situations.

Just another Stupid Republican inserting foot-in-mouth.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Related thread...
N.C. Congressman Says Internment of Japanese-Americans During World War II Was Appropriate

[sailor4321]

Also, there were Japanese "patriotic" (and I don't mean the red, white and blue) groups as well as Japanese army veteran's groups that were active in the U.S. These groups comprised a few thousand amonst the entire "Japanese-American" population, and my understanding was that they were picked up fairly quickly after Pearl Harbor. That left only the question of who amongst the rest, many of whom had duel citizenship, were in fact sympathetic to Japan. Somehow the bigoted bastards running the country were of the foolish opinion that Japan not only wasn't going to suspend hostilities while we sorted it all out but was in fact about to invade the West Coast.

[CounterCounterCulture]

60th Anniversary of Japanese Internment by FDR - Executive Order 9066

[sailor4321]

Good question. I am thinking of the US Government categories used for Affirmative Action programs and for EEOC Reporting. This would make them asian (even though their homeland is one of the pacific islands).

[funkyliciousfeatherhead23]

hi! im doin a thesis thingy at skool and i need to know if the internment of japanese americans was really unconstitutional and where it says that. do u no? thanx so much!

[funkyliciousfeatherhead23]

i dont no y evry1 thinx war is such a good thing! all it does is cause more wars, more deaths, more peepl who cry evry day for their dead luvd ones, all it is is hate! its so horrible that so many americans r proud to go to war! i meen, ull probly just get killed, and for wut reeson? so an iraqy can shoot u? and then sum1 shoots dat iraqy and nuthin is gained! y do peepl do it???? so u can say to dat country, oh we're sooooooooooooo much better than u and laugh in their face? if thats y then ur just proud and completely evil. u say ur helping them, but killing isnt helping! they dont want the help so y waste money on them? because then ull look good? does any1 agree w/ me?

[Admin Moderator]

Along with #50, preserved for the ages.

[LibWhacker]

lol, thank you.