Posted on 01/31/2017 9:42:28 AM PST by ColdOne
Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) on Monday compared congressional Republicans' acceptance of President Trump's executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries to lawmakers who didn't fight against the Japanese internment camps during World War II.
The history of the U.S. government forcing Japanese Americans to live in camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor is personal for Takano: His parents and grandparents were among the people in those camps.
"History often forces us to ask ourselves: How would we have acted if we lived in that moment?" Takano mused in a fiery House floor speech. "Through the president's recent executive order, we no longer have to wonder."
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Their imagination is running wild.
The Tennessee Valley Authority had years before built a hydro electric dam to serve the Knoxville area. After WW2 began FDR ordered the development of the atomic bomb. A company was formed under a local name and it was a cover for facilities to enrich the uranium for the bombs. A secret city was built. No one got in or out without clearance or escort. This city was located on the Clinch River and later after the war called Oak Ridge.
Twenty miles upstream from these facilities is Norris Dam the fist built by TVA. Had it been taken out the entire project would have been destroyed. Below the dam for nearly two miles were gun placements along a high bluff. It was feared a local plane could be stolen and loaded with enough explosives to take out the dam. A tower with a hand cart was how many got to their post to protect the dam and the tower and the cable still exist today as do the foundations for the gun mounts.
Ok, well I’m going to compare Rep. Mark Takano to Stalin, then.
Aw, c’mon It’s not like Muslims hit us with a sneak attack. /s
...Dem compares Trump immigration ban to Japanese internment camps...
What did he say about Zero blocking Iraqis from entry for six months in 2011?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing like all other Democrats. It’s only an issue as part of the attempt to destroy the President.
Japanese women and children were passing Gyoza, Yakiniku, Tempura and Miso soup recipes. /s :)
Would you offer up your wife and baby to be imprisoned if it prevented one act of sabotage, espionage, and spying?
I would not make that sacrifice for freedom.
FDR and the left should not be defended.
Isn’t it interesting that the perpetrators were all Democrats?
Mark Allan Takano (born December 10, 1960) is an American politician who has been the United States Representative for California’s 41st congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Takano has served on the Riverside Community College Board of Trustees since 1990. Upon taking office, Takano became the first openly gay person of Asian descent in Congress.
So he’s the first “openly gay” Asian member of Congress! How nice!
“Would you offer up your wife and baby to be imprisoned if it prevented one act of sabotage, espionage, and spying?”
If it prevented the loss of thousands of lives and damage to our war machine infrastructure. The ports were very vulnerable. And a disaster equal or greater than what happened at Pearl Harbor could have happened. Thus the statement of wife and baby are irrelevant, besides I am not a jap.
Mark Takano needs to stop going to those gay bathhouses where he entertains 12 year old boys.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Per Wikipedia (take it for what it’s worth):
Of 127,000 Japanese Americans living in the continental United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, 112,000 resided on the West Coast.[24] About 80,000 were nisei (literal translation: “second generation”; American-born Japanese with U.S. citizenship) and sansei (”third generation”; the children of Nisei). The rest were issei (”first generation”, immigrants born in Japan who were ineligible for U.S. citizenship by U.S. law).”
I won’t comment on that one way or the other, except to say that there are no similarities between the Japanese interments (62% were citizens and all of them were ALREADY HERE) and a temporary ban on entry to the U.S. from a handful of countries. The congressman diminishes the experience of the Japanese by making the comparison, just as those who make misplaced references to Hitler and the Nazis diminish their atrocities.
“if it prevented the loss of thousands of lives and damage to our war machine infrastructure.”
If you had your wife and kids locked up, how would you know to what extent you saved America?
Let’s just say you’re a kraut, not a jap, as you say.
Why run away from supporting an outright Muslim ban? If we don’t want to turn the USA into the typical poverty ridden Muslim dictatorship — and most Americans still don’t — we will, sooner or later, have to restrict Muslim immigration. Or cease aborting our kids.
Thank you for that history lesson!! Never knew that..
Here you go noobian:
`virtue signalling’: saying you love or hate something to show what a virtuous person you are, instead of actually trying to fix the problem.
What the hell is that? A university administrator?
Do Democrats really wish to bring that up? Shall we begin with FDR earlier refusing to accept Jews escaping Nazi Germany? Or Obama and Clinton sending Cubans back to Castro’s prisons? Who wants to start the discussion? Buehler?
That’s like comparing apples to orangutans.
FDR: “Open borders for Germans and Japanese “refugees” fleeing Germany And Japan”
Can you even begin to imagine.the reaction?
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