Internment of Japanese-Americans During World War II

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"And now in closing, I wonder whether you'd permit me one personal reminiscence, one prompted by an old newspaper report sent to me by Rose Ochi, a former internee. The clipping comes from the Pacific Citizen and is dated December 1945.

"Arriving by plane from Washington," the article begins, "General Joseph W. Stilwell pinned the Distinguished Service Cross on Mary Masuda in a simple ceremony on the porch of her small frame shack near Talbert, Orange County. She was one of the first Americans of Japanese ancestry to return from relocation centers to California's farmlands." "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell was there that day to honor Kazuo Masuda, Mary's brother. You see, while Mary and her parents were in an internment camp, Kazuo served as staff sergeant to the 442d Regimental Combat Team. In one action, Kazuo ordered his men back and advanced through heavy fire, hauling a mortar. For 12 hours, he engaged in a single-handed barrage of Nazi positions. Several weeks later at Cassino, Kazuo staged another lone advance. This time it cost him his life.

The newspaper clipping notes that her two surviving brothers were with Mary and her parents on the little porch that morning. These two brothers, like the heroic Kazuo, had served in the United States Army. After General Stilwell made the award, the motion picture actress Louise Allbritton, a Texas girl, told how a Texas battalion had been saved by the 442d. Other show business personalities paid tribute-Robert Young, Will Rogers, Jr. And one young actor said: "Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way." The name of that young actor—I hope I pronounce this right—was Ronald Reagan. And, yes, the ideal of liberty and justice for all—that is still the American way."







Ronald Reagan: Remarks on Signing the Bill Providing Restitution for the Wartime Internment of Japanese-American Civilians

 

[Unkotare]

do you ever say anything?

As a matter of fact, a big percentage of them, around 35%-40%, weren't American citizens, and weren't going to become citizens..

So that makes it ok to throw innocent people into concentration camps?

Yes, indeed, and you can't come up with a reason they shouldn't have.....

There are many reasons, starting with the US Constitution. You should read it sometime.

Read it, can't find a thing in it where it says you know anything....

The next step is to try and understand it.

 

[Unkotare]

....

Someone already brought up the Nihau incident,....

The Niihau Incident | HistoryNet

 

[longknife]

There comes a time when the absolute ignorance of the leftist trolls on here becomes too much to deal with. Outta here.

 

[Unkotare]

"Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way."


Anyone who can't understand this ^^^^ has no place calling themselves an American.

 

[Unkotare]

"On Feb. 19, 1942, then-Gov. Carr was fuming. He yelled at his staff even though they were not the object of his scorn, but since he did not have direct access to the White House and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, they’d have to do.

Clutching Executive Order 9066 in his hand, he paced and shouted, “What kind of a man would put this out?” The president’s order allowed for the de facto declaration of martial law on the West Coast with one not-so-veiled purpose: to remove anyone of Japanese descent.

It was soon after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, which killed thousands of Americans. The Japanese were called “yellow devils” on the front page of papers like The Denver Post. People clamored for them to be locked up, sent to work camps, or — in the words of one Colorado farmer — “just killed.”

No one distinguished between non-citizen and citizen. No one talked about constitutional rights. No one except for Ralph Carr.

“Now, that’s wrong,” Carr told his staff. “Some of these Japanese are citizens of the United States. They’re American citizens.”

And yet, nearly 120,000 people of Japanese descent, many of them American citizens, would spend the war years in internment camps, including Camp Amache, located near Granada in southeast Colorado. Barbed wire lined their boundaries and military police guarded their exits.

Carr would share his message with Colorado. He said we must protect the Constitution’s principles for “every man or we shall not have it to protect any man.” Further, he said, if we imprison American citizens without evidence or trial, what’s to say six months from now, we wouldn’t follow them into that same prison without evidence or trial?

"The Constitution," he said, starts with, ” ‘We the people of the United States.’ It doesn’t say, ‘We the people, who are descendants of the English or the Scandinavians or the French.’ ”





He stood up while others sat – The Denver Post

 

[Picaro]

Anyone ever consider that the reason we locked up the Japanese and didn't lock up the Germans or the Italians is because the Germans and Italians looked like us, but the Japanese had different facial features?

You fear most what you understand least.

So now the left is on with racial profiling?

they always have been; they rely on racism for their voter base.

 

[Picaro]

so it's obvious they had no loyalties to this country as a group.

And that is why thousands volunteered for combat duty defending the country that imprisoned them and their families.

"no loyalties".

Sad- even Ronald Reagan realized the travesty that was the Japanese internment.

Reagan was an idiot, and many volunteered to get out the camps. they didn't all volunteer, and most knew Japan was going to lose the war so they covered their asses, is all. The American Japanese press loved the Japanese victories, and even raised money and 'care' packages for the Japanese troops for most of the century right up to Pearl, another reason they weren't trusted and why it was no problem to intern them for a while.

 

[Picaro]

"The Constitution," he said, starts with, ” ‘We the people of the United States.’ It doesn’t say, ‘We the people, who are descendants of the English or the Scandinavians or the French.’ ”

They didn't have to specify the obvious, which was that most were of English descent in the 1700's, crybaby. no Japs among the Founders.

 

[Picaro]

1942 American pecking order

1. White Christian males(not catholic)
2. White immigrants
3. White women
4. Catholics
5. Mexicans
6 Jews
7 Japs and Orientals
8. Indians
9. Negroes
100. Homosexuals

Typical leftist, always rating mentally ill homosexual fetishists far higher than they deserve.

Typical Conservative- obsessed with homosexuality and sexual fetishes.

Don't claim he represents conservatives. We don't want him.

Who says conservatives want you? You're just a nutjob, with no claims to anything but conspiratard cults.

 

[Picaro]

1942 American pecking order

1. White Christian males(not catholic)
2. White immigrants
3. White women
4. Catholics
5. Mexicans
6 Jews
7 Japs and Orientals
8. Indians
9. Negroes
100. Homosexuals

Typical leftist, always rating mentally ill homosexual fetishists far higher than they deserve.

Typical Conservative- obsessed with homosexuality and sexual fetishes.

You homos want everybody to center their attentions on you, so don't snivel when you get it.

 

[Unkotare]

"The Constitution," he said, starts with, ” ‘We the people of the United States.’ It doesn’t say, ‘We the people, who are descendants of the English or the Scandinavians or the French.’ ”

They didn't have to specify the obvious, which was that most were of English descent in the 1700's, crybaby. .....

As I was saying, those who can't or won't understand America have NO place in calling themselves Americans. I provided two great quotes from two great Americans to educate those who need it, but some folks just don't get it.

 

[Unkotare]

1942 American pecking order

1. White Christian males(not catholic)
2. White immigrants
3. White women
4. Catholics
5. Mexicans
6 Jews
7 Japs and Orientals
8. Indians
9. Negroes
100. Homosexuals

Typical leftist, always rating mentally ill homosexual fetishists far higher than they deserve.

Typical Conservative- obsessed with homosexuality and sexual fetishes.

Don't claim he represents conservatives. We don't want him.

Who says conservatives want you? ....

Reagan and Carr, among countless other REAL American conservatives.

 

[Unkotare]

"On Feb. 19, 1942, then-Gov. Carr was fuming. He yelled at his staff even though they were not the object of his scorn, but since he did not have direct access to the White House and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, they’d have to do.

Clutching Executive Order 9066 in his hand, he paced and shouted, “What kind of a man would put this out?” The president’s order allowed for the de facto declaration of martial law on the West Coast with one not-so-veiled purpose: to remove anyone of Japanese descent.

It was soon after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, which killed thousands of Americans. The Japanese were called “yellow devils” on the front page of papers like The Denver Post. People clamored for them to be locked up, sent to work camps, or — in the words of one Colorado farmer — “just killed.”

No one distinguished between non-citizen and citizen. No one talked about constitutional rights. No one except for Ralph Carr.

“Now, that’s wrong,” Carr told his staff. “Some of these Japanese are citizens of the United States. They’re American citizens.”

And yet, nearly 120,000 people of Japanese descent, many of them American citizens, would spend the war years in internment camps, including Camp Amache, located near Granada in southeast Colorado. Barbed wire lined their boundaries and military police guarded their exits.

Carr would share his message with Colorado. He said we must protect the Constitution’s principles for “every man or we shall not have it to protect any man.” Further, he said, if we imprison American citizens without evidence or trial, what’s to say six months from now, we wouldn’t follow them into that same prison without evidence or trial?

"The Constitution," he said, starts with, ” ‘We the people of the United States.’ It doesn’t say, ‘We the people, who are descendants of the English or the Scandinavians or the French.’ ”





He stood up while others sat – The Denver Post

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[Unkotare]

"Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way."


Anyone who can't understand this ^^^^ has no place calling themselves an American.

Read

 

[Unkotare]

"And now in closing, I wonder whether you'd permit me one personal reminiscence, one prompted by an old newspaper report sent to me by Rose Ochi, a former internee. The clipping comes from the Pacific Citizen and is dated December 1945.

"Arriving by plane from Washington," the article begins, "General Joseph W. Stilwell pinned the Distinguished Service Cross on Mary Masuda in a simple ceremony on the porch of her small frame shack near Talbert, Orange County. She was one of the first Americans of Japanese ancestry to return from relocation centers to California's farmlands." "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell was there that day to honor Kazuo Masuda, Mary's brother. You see, while Mary and her parents were in an internment camp, Kazuo served as staff sergeant to the 442d Regimental Combat Team. In one action, Kazuo ordered his men back and advanced through heavy fire, hauling a mortar. For 12 hours, he engaged in a single-handed barrage of Nazi positions. Several weeks later at Cassino, Kazuo staged another lone advance. This time it cost him his life.

The newspaper clipping notes that her two surviving brothers were with Mary and her parents on the little porch that morning. These two brothers, like the heroic Kazuo, had served in the United States Army. After General Stilwell made the award, the motion picture actress Louise Allbritton, a Texas girl, told how a Texas battalion had been saved by the 442d. Other show business personalities paid tribute-Robert Young, Will Rogers, Jr. And one young actor said: "Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way." The name of that young actor—I hope I pronounce this right—was Ronald Reagan. And, yes, the ideal of liberty and justice for all—that is still the American way."







Ronald Reagan: Remarks on Signing the Bill Providing Restitution for the Wartime Internment of Japanese-American Civilians

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[protectionist]

However, Thomas Jefferson had this to say about you:

Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease.

Thomas Jefferson to William H. Crawford, 1816

Somebody needs to read this to those blockhead judges who blocked Trump's Muslim immigration/travel bans.

 

[protectionist]

"Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way."


Anyone who can't understand this ^^^^ has no place calling themselves an American.

The thread is about NATIONAL SECURITY, not race.

 

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Nothing you post is ever worth reading. Just go out on your porch and read to us out loud while we do something else more productive.

 

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Nothing you post is ever worth reading. ....

The words of Reagan on this are worth reading.