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Japanese-Americans Recall The Pain Of World War II Internment 60 Years Later
Associated Press / SFGate
Posted on 02/18/2002 4:05:49 PM PST by RCW2001
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To: RCW2001
i had an instructor in college who was born in a california japanese internment camp.
he was very bitter about it, in a quiet way, but got even by banging white chicks from his classes. he kept a list in his college office.
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posted on
02/18/2002 9:41:26 PM PST
by
ken21
To: Pissed Off Janitor
Try reading some of the Japan-America newspapers from the mid to late 1930's. It's no wonder they were rounded up. I see. So a little children with no clue regarding history or politics are a threat to the state?
Why are you defending the socialist FDR? Trying to cover up?
To: Young Rhino
Dear Rhino,
I agree with your equation of Stalinist Russia and Hitler Germany to FDR. However, you are incorrect regarding apologies. EO9066 was revoked by President Ford (Republican). An apology was written and discussed by President Reagan (Republican). The token reparations (mostly at the end of lives permanently damaged) occured under President Bush.
The roles of Democrats in the process were:
1. FDR incarcerated people on the basis of race.
2. JFK and LBJ failed to address the situation.
3. Carter stonewalled.
4. Clinton stalled funding for 6 years for educational programs in the Japanese American community which would have educated the populous regarding the FACTS in this case.
The lame leadership of the Japanese American community contributed to this ridiculous hypocrisy by sucking up to the liberals for 60 years! Mineta is a turn coat to the liberal stallwarts in the JA political realms.
In my book, these threads are posted for two reasons.
1. Liberals are trying to break up the rapid conversion of California and Hawaii Japanese Americans to Republican conservatism.
2. Liberals are trying to resurrect anti-Japanese propaganda on the heels of the staunch support of GW by the Japanese conservatives.
Anyone want to read about the role of the US and Japanese in the Russo-Japanese war?
To: ken21
sounds pretty whacko ... anyway you look at it.
To: shigure
It would have been logistically impossible for Japan to have landed on the US Mainland even if they faced no armed oppositionIt should have been impossible for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor successfully. Never say never. FDR was wrong about a lot of things but this was necessary. These people need to quit whining. They were a casualty of WW2 like the tens of millions of other inhabitants of planet earth. At least they weren't raped like Nanking or marching in Bataan.
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posted on
02/18/2002 10:01:47 PM PST
by
#3Fan
To: bonesmccoy
The real history is that FDR nuked the areas which could serve as a immigration pathway for other family members. This is as far as I got in your post because I know you don't know what you're talking about. FDR didn't nuke anyone.
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posted on
02/18/2002 10:05:20 PM PST
by
#3Fan
To: #3Fan
OK... my bad... I could have said Harry S Truman, but said FDR because the reality is that the Manhattan Project was created under FDR and essentially fully implemented under FDR Administration rules.
You sound like the other bleeding-heart, social-liberal cover-up artists... now that I've taken your sling and arrow, answer the rest of my original posting....then I'll give you a few more zingers to swallow.
To: #3Fan
the anon-Fan-meister said:
It should have been impossible for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor successfully. Never say never. FDR was wrong about a lot of things but this was necessary. These people need to quit whining. They were a casualty of WW2 like the tens of millions of other inhabitants of planet earth. At least they weren't raped like Nanking or marching in Bataan.
Well, I think the American women (of Japanese descent) in the camps WERE RAPED. They were definitely traumatized by the events and got NO opportunity for ANY mental health services. This resulted in an entire generation of females who were traumatized by their childhood and have the lifetime scars to show it. If you look at the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, you will find many of the identical mental health problems in the families. Anxiety, mood disorders, and neurosis in those ethnic communities have an origin in the dark and evil world of governmental abuse (either Nazi or Democrat).
To: borghead
Dear Borghead,
Only a class A liberal would think like you.
You support the ONLY example in US history where a sitting US president converted an independent, self-sustaining ethnic community into a bunch of welfare-dependent liberal stooges.
Is your last name "CLYMER"???
To: RCW2001
Japanese origin people weren't alone. Italians were sent to Montana, and some Germans were rounded up. War is hell, and mistakes are made.
It is easy to determine, in hindsight, that many loyal American citizens, of Japanese ancestry, got rounded up. But it was also a fact that subversives were found among the internees.
My father-in-law, the son of Italian immigrants, jumped into Germany and earned a purple heart. He never bellyached about the Italians interned in Montana.
If it becomes necessary, I will support rounding up Muslims, for the same reason as Japanese, Italian and German origin people were interned during WWII. It is called pre-emptive self-defense, during conflict. It is not a question of absolute and perfect application of laws and rights, to later be evaluated in hindsight. It is a matter of immediate survival, and protection against vigilante violence, as well. Fire away.
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To: cynicom
Please!! There are always traitors among us. Look at Johnny Taliban. Does this mean that all young white men should be put in camps because he betrayed America?
To: Noslrac
Your Grandfather wasn't locked up by his own country. True his group of POW's suffered the most in WWII (my opinion). However; that still does not justify locking up the Japanese Americans for what the JAPS did.
To: borghead
Thats right the JAPS did all that to your extended family. Not the Japanese Americans who were locked up in those camps. Learn to tell the difference. My family is full blooded German. Does this mean we deserve to die for Nazi Germany's sins?
To: shigure
Good post! The Japs wanted the US naval fleet out of the picture so they could conquer all islands south of them and expand their empire. This would not of worked very well with US battleships fighting them off.
To: cynicom
Thats pretty weak reasoning for what happened. A couple of Japanese Americans help a pilot as he takes over one little island. That shows no conclusive evidence that the JAPS would of been able to invade the US because of this incident.
To: bonesmccoy
Your're too far from normal to argue with. I'm no bleeding heart liberal and have no idea why you called me one. So unless you can show a semblance of sanity our conversation ends right here.
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posted on
02/18/2002 11:19:25 PM PST
by
#3Fan
To: bonesmccoy
None of the confiscation & removal was based on race alone-that was an indicator-the action was based on perceived & potential threat from people who might have been agents, sympathizers or otherwise present a danger. When my father reached Ft. Bliss, El Paso, & found artillary arranged on the mountain tops overlooking the pass, my mother's uncle, base commander, told my Father, "We actually thought they might come in through California, & we planed to stop them here". This was obviously a very real threat. Sure, as I suggested, bad things also happened in the process, people & nations make awful mistakes, but please, leave the PC crap to the Left. I, & very few here, really need your admonishments against some imagined racial atrocity.
To: breakem
Ouch! You really hurt my feelings! That should be MR. A$$hole, coming from you. Now, go back to watching the prime time trash on network tv and leave the discussion of history to the adults, okay?
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posted on
02/19/2002 4:47:21 AM PST
by
Howie66
To: bonesmccoy
bones....
Faked up facts???? Communist ink???? Your post is incoherent at the least, beyond that, I have not the slightest inkling of what you were saying.
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posted on
02/19/2002 5:26:53 AM PST
by
cynicom
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