Posted on 12/07/2015 7:26:52 AM PST by hemogoblin
So, it's Pearl Harbor Day.
You know what that is, right?
It's when we commemorate how Americans forced non-white American people into camps, after irrational mass paranoia that drove white people into hysterical rage against people who didn't look like us.
Of course it was all caused by a militaristic country on the other side of the Pacific, which decided it needed to take out the U.S. Pacific Fleet if it wanted to continue growing its empire. Their early-morning air attack destroyed many naval vessels and an airfield, killed nearly 2,400 U.S. servicemen, and woke Americans up to a whole new kind of anger.
But that's not the important part, right?
The important part is the internment camps that were created for Japanese-Americans, and into which whole Japanese immigrant families were steered. Some people today talk about it as if it were our own Holocaust -- an evil far worse than the initial sneak attack.
So let's look at just why those camps were created:
After an attack that seemed to break the rules of warfare, suddenly anyone with Japanese lineage or even appearance was suspect. They were profiled. That's how nature works. Living things learn instantly from deadly attacks. Songbirds profile house cats all the time. Parents tell their young children to always profile strangers. Nearly everything profiles a snake.
If it walks like a threat, talks like a threat, and stalks like a threat, it might well be a threat.
(Excerpt) Read more at christianaction.org ...
Sound familiar?
It’s when we commemorate how DEMOCRATS forced non-white American people into camps,
There, fixed.
At the time of WWII, the United States had a large population of ethnic Germans. In 1940 more than 1.2 million persons had been born in Germany, 5 million had two native-German parents, and 6 million had one native-German parent.[citation needed] Many more had distant German ancestry. During WWII, the United States detained a total of 11,507 ethnic Germans, overwhelmingly German nationals.
(NOTE - Mexico also has a large German community)
Similarly, a small proportion of Italian nationals and Italian Americans were interned in relation to their total population in the US. The United States had allowed immigrants from both Germany and Italy to become naturalized citizens, which many had done by then. In the early 21st century, Congress considered legislation to study treatment of European Americans during WWII, but it did not pass the House of Representatives. **Activists and historians have identified certain injustices against these groups.**
When the Dems are in charge of “Security” nobody is safe.....
Today, the democrats would be ashamed to do anything patriotic.
I would so like a President who would insist his chief military commanders issue orders like:
“Execute unrestricted air and naval warfare against Islam,”
and
“You will enter the Continents of Asia and Africa, and in conjunction with the allied nations, conduct operations directed at the heart of Islam and the destruction of their armed forces.”
Sooner or later we are going to have to do those things and we might as well resign ourselves to it, roll up our sleeves, and get it done.
We rounded up the Japanese that were in our midst and put them in a place where they couldn’t harm us until we thrashed the living daylights out of their homeland without mercy.
Then, we released them and they live and work among us peacefully today. If anyone is to blame for the treatment that they endured, it’s their own countrymen, not us. We merely did the only thing that made sense in the face of an attack on our nation. The number of Americans who will eventually die at the hands of terrorists would be much smaller if our majority hadn’t “evolved” into such a clueless, unrealistic bunch of fodder.
Yup, it was the right decision based on what was known at the time. One of Reagan's few mistakes was apologizing for it, establishing a bad precedent which the left is using against us today. The left argues that because no indigenous pro-Japanese activity happened there was no risk, but that ignores the fact that the internment prevented any such activity, just as Bush's grounding all flights prevented any possible further planned attacks on 911. Malkin's book on the subject shows there was a risk and the internment was justified.
Yes, it was a mistake for Reagan to apologize.
Actually, there was quite a bit of stuff that was known to be going on by intelligence intercepts.
If someone is spouting off about the evil U.S. actions regarding internment, ask if they have read Magic: The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast During WW II.
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Intelligence-Evacuation-Japanese-Residents/dp/0960273611
If they have not, they are talking from complete ignorance about the key reasons behind the event. You may still disagree with internment, but absent this information, anyone mouthing off on the topic is doing so completely unjustifiably.
The book include much source material, including contemporaneous memos and assessments.
Even if Reagan didn’t know the historical information justifying the action, his understanding of liberalism should have clued him in that the push for the apology was a liberal guilt trap. War requires many actions that would be regrettable outside of war. This was just one of them. Any apologizes for the consequences of a war are owed, if by anyone, by the side that started the war. The infamy of which lives on THIS day. Reagan shouldn’t have apologized.
Dec 8, 1941! Men were lined up around the corner at recruiting stations to go fight the Japs!
Sept 12, 2001! Some men lined up at recruiting stations to go fight the moslems! Others supported them as while going to pottery and basket weaving at the local university!
“I may join up later but right now I have other..OMG! I’M LATE FOR BASKET WEAVING! GOTTA GO! Talk to you when you get back in a couple of years!”
Agreed.
The Nisei (American born of Japanese ancestry) and Issei (Japanese born American residents) were interred because Roosevelt obtained intelligence information that they could be a military threat. The Japanese military attache in Hawaii was definitely reporting on the status of Pear Harbor based on post war documents. Tokyo Rose was an American citizen (born in LA) before earning her claim to dishonor.
Then as now, parts of our cities are identified ethnically with their land of origin despite being located in American metro areas. There was plenty of support in the early phases of America's involvement in WWII to intern people of Japanese, German and Italian heritage who showed questionable loyalty.
In our contemporary world ask a mexican, even though he was born in the US, what his home country is. The answer may surprise you.
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