[Nagual]

Shut Up! We won you lost. Get over it. We helped rebuild Japan from ruins, not from our doings. It was the Japanese that attacked us. Just like the Arabs. They will lose Too.

[LibWhacker]

He said the internment of Japanese-Americans has ``already been deemed unconstitutional . . .

Just not by the Supreme Court.

[sailor4321]

I guess the Congressman is not entitled to his opinion if it differs from the PC view that the relocation was about racism and nothing else?

My view is that just as the people at the Tule Lake Relocation Center were entitled as a matter of free speech to hold a flag ceremony for the flag of Japan (I've seen the pictures), so too is the Congressman entitled as a matter of free speech to state his opinion without the need to apologize to anyone.

[Grampa Dave]

Norm, please go to the link that Aristeides provided in hisreply #5, "David D. Lowman, Magic: The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast during WW II." 5 posted on 02/06/2003 8:21 AM PST by aristeides

Norm, I just finished reading this book, and there were big time security reasons for what was done. We had cracked the Japanese Embassy codes before Pearl Harbor.

The Imperial Japanese had set up and financed an incredible network of spies and potential agents from Canada to Chili.

If we arrested just these spies and agents, they would know that we had cracked their embassy codes. So basically every country from Canada to Chili rounded all the Japanese and moved them away from prime coast areas. It was not just the evil USA that did this to survive.

The treatment of the Japanese by Canada, Mexico and Chili made our internment camps look like Scout camps. One of the best kept secrets is the response of Canada, Mexico and Chili. The trial lawyers and the lobby that have made billions from this don't want that fact known. Nor do they want this book's data and the facts from the broken codes known.

Every conservative should read this book.

I want to thank Swarthy Guy for recommending this excellent book to me.

[A2J]

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.

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

Go North Carolina!

[Stone Mountain]

It's unbelievable to me that people would attempt to justify the internment of American citizens for no other reason than what race they happened to be. The majority of Japanese immigrants came here and did all the things that "good" immigrants were supposed to do. They learned the language; they assimilated; they worked hard and thrived; they educated their children to be good Americans. And yet, they found out that when the chips were down, they weren't really Americans - just a bunch of Japs who didn't deserve the same rights and priveleges as other Americans. And even after the most decorated unit of WWII, the 442nd comprised of all Japanese-Americans fought so heroically, they still had to come back and listen to bigots like this idiot who apparently still thinks it's a good idea to imprison American citizens solely on the basis of their race. How sad.

[Jim Noble]

>> a listener suggested that Arabs in the United States be confined<<

And, if Congress will cooperate and declare war, they will be.

[CounterCounterCulture]

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