Internment of Japanese-Americans During World War II

[Dan Stubbs]

Whatever you may say about the internment of Japanese-Americans, you cannot say that it had no legitimate national security function. We will never know what would have occurred, if the internment had not happened.

The only way that a valid, objective assessment could be made, is if there was an internment, and no internment, and then compare the two side by side – which, of course, is impossible. We will simply never know.

What we CAN assess, is that if we had never allowed Muslims to immigrate here, or come here on visas, we would not have had many terrorist attacks, which, in total, have killed thousands of our people.

We can also assess that a Muslim ban is not only legal, it is required by the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause (Article 6, Section 2, Part 1)

FDR rounded them up to get them off the farm land so that his buddy R Herst could buy the farm land cheap. As anyone from the area or just read History. This incident is about as bad as the Trail of Tears.

 

[rightwinger]

FDR rounded up the Japanese because there was mass hysteria regarding the threat of Japanese immigrants

Kind of like Trump's Muslim ban

 

[whitehall]

The question seems to be, what would we have done if FDR hadn't violated the Constitution and incarcerated American citizens without due process. The dirty little secret is that Executive Order 9066 only included Japanese Americans who lived on the West Coast. FDR supporters who were also real estate speculators seemed to have made a killing from valuable real estate that Japanese Americans were forced to liquidate at bargain prices before they were placed behind barbed wire and guard towers. You almost have to laugh that the actual hotbed of Japanese espionage was on Hawaii but the Admirals needed the Japanese to make their coffee in the morning and their drinks at night so the executive order didn't apply. It should be noted that the former KKK member that FDR appointed to the Supreme Court wrote the majority opinion that justified the most notorious affront to the Constitution in history and true to form the left wing media either ignored the impeachable offense or justified it at the time.

 

[rightwinger]

The question seems to be, what would we have done if FDR hadn't violated the Constitution and incarcerated American citizens without due process. The dirty little secret is that Executive Order 9066 only included Japanese Americans who lived on the West Coast. FDR supporters who were also real estate speculators seemed to have made a killing from valuable real estate that Japanese Americans were forced to liquidate at bargain prices before they were placed behind barbed wire and guard towers. You almost have to laugh that the actual hotbed of Japanese espionage was on Hawaii but the Admirals needed the Japanese to make their coffee in the morning and their drinks at night so the executive order didn't apply. It should be noted that the former KKK member that FDR appointed to the Supreme Court wrote the majority opinion that justified the most notorious affront to the Constitution in history and true to form the left wing media either ignored the impeachable offense or justified it at the time.

FDR and 99% of the political leaders in 1942 would have done the same thing

 

[bripat9643]

The question seems to be, what would we have done if FDR hadn't violated the Constitution and incarcerated American citizens without due process. The dirty little secret is that Executive Order 9066 only included Japanese Americans who lived on the West Coast. FDR supporters who were also real estate speculators seemed to have made a killing from valuable real estate that Japanese Americans were forced to liquidate at bargain prices before they were placed behind barbed wire and guard towers. You almost have to laugh that the actual hotbed of Japanese espionage was on Hawaii but the Admirals needed the Japanese to make their coffee in the morning and their drinks at night so the executive order didn't apply. It should be noted that the former KKK member that FDR appointed to the Supreme Court wrote the majority opinion that justified the most notorious affront to the Constitution in history and true to form the left wing media either ignored the impeachable offense or justified it at the time.

FDR and 99% of the political leaders in 1942 would have done the same thing

Watch Fakey run to make excuses for his party's blatant racism.

 

[rightwinger]

The question seems to be, what would we have done if FDR hadn't violated the Constitution and incarcerated American citizens without due process. The dirty little secret is that Executive Order 9066 only included Japanese Americans who lived on the West Coast. FDR supporters who were also real estate speculators seemed to have made a killing from valuable real estate that Japanese Americans were forced to liquidate at bargain prices before they were placed behind barbed wire and guard towers. You almost have to laugh that the actual hotbed of Japanese espionage was on Hawaii but the Admirals needed the Japanese to make their coffee in the morning and their drinks at night so the executive order didn't apply. It should be noted that the former KKK member that FDR appointed to the Supreme Court wrote the majority opinion that justified the most notorious affront to the Constitution in history and true to form the left wing media either ignored the impeachable offense or justified it at the time.

FDR and 99% of the political leaders in 1942 would have done the same thing

Watch Fakey run to make excuses for his party's blatant racism.

Show me all the Republicans who demanded their release

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

Whatever you may say about the internment of Japanese-Americans, you cannot say that it had no legitimate national security function. We will never know what would have occurred, if the internment had not happened.

The only way that a valid, objective assessment could be made, is if there was an internment, and no internment, and then compare the two side by side – which, of course, is impossible. We will simply never know.

What we CAN assess, is that if we had never allowed Muslims to immigrate here, or come here on visas, we would not have had many terrorist attacks, which, in total, have killed thousands of our people.

We can also assess that a Muslim ban is not only legal, it is required by the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause (Article 6, Section 2, Part 1)

The US also interned Italian-Americans and German Americans so there really wasn't a racial component to the policy. There is also the fact that many Japanese-Americans fought honorably for the US in the European theater.

 

[Unkotare]

Whatever you may say about the internment of Japanese-Americans, you cannot say that it had no legitimate national security function. We will never know what would have occurred, if the internment had not happened.

The only way that a valid, objective assessment could be made, is if there was an internment, and no internment, and then compare the two side by side – which, of course, is impossible. We will simply never know.

What we CAN assess, is that if we had never allowed Muslims to immigrate here, or come here on visas, we would not have had many terrorist attacks, which, in total, have killed thousands of our people.

We can also assess that a Muslim ban is not only legal, it is required by the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause (Article 6, Section 2, Part 1)

The US also interned Italian-Americans and German Americans so there really wasn't a racial component to the policy. ...

That is absolute bullshit.

 

[danielpalos]

It was unconstitutional, and our government paid for that mistake.

 

[protectionist]

FDR rounded up the Japanese because there was mass hysteria regarding the threat of Japanese immigrants

Kind of like Trump's Muslim ban

So you have positive proof that minus the internment, there would have been no adverse effect on the American people ? Sorry but that is impossible.

 

[protectionist]

Show me all the Republicans who demanded their release

Why should they ? Could they have been sure it would be national security positive ? You can't (nor can anyone else)

 

[protectionist]

It was unconstitutional, and our government paid for that mistake.

They only paid $$ to buy political favor. Not because of any right/wrong aspect.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

Whatever you may say about the internment of Japanese-Americans, you cannot say that it had no legitimate national security function. We will never know what would have occurred, if the internment had not happened.

The only way that a valid, objective assessment could be made, is if there was an internment, and no internment, and then compare the two side by side – which, of course, is impossible. We will simply never know.

What we CAN assess, is that if we had never allowed Muslims to immigrate here, or come here on visas, we would not have had many terrorist attacks, which, in total, have killed thousands of our people.

We can also assess that a Muslim ban is not only legal, it is required by the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause (Article 6, Section 2, Part 1)

The US also interned Italian-Americans and German Americans so there really wasn't a racial component to the policy. ...

That is absolute bullshit.

Internment of German Americans - Wikipedia
Internment of Italian Americans - Wikipedia

 

[rightwinger]

FDR rounded up the Japanese because there was mass hysteria regarding the threat of Japanese immigrants

Kind of like Trump's Muslim ban

So you have positive proof that minus the internment, there would have been no adverse effect on the American people ? Sorry but that is impossible.

Thankfully, the Japanese never attacked anyone once they were interred

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

FDR rounded up the Japanese because there was mass hysteria regarding the threat of Japanese immigrants

Kind of like Trump's Muslim ban

There is no Muslim ban I believe your referring to the executive order that restricts travel to the US from certain countries. ? If it was an actual Muslim ban it would affect the other billion or so Muslims around the world it does not.

 

[Unkotare]

Whatever you may say about the internment of Japanese-Americans, you cannot say that it had no legitimate national security function. We will never know what would have occurred, if the internment had not happened.

The only way that a valid, objective assessment could be made, is if there was an internment, and no internment, and then compare the two side by side – which, of course, is impossible. We will simply never know.

What we CAN assess, is that if we had never allowed Muslims to immigrate here, or come here on visas, we would not have had many terrorist attacks, which, in total, have killed thousands of our people.

We can also assess that a Muslim ban is not only legal, it is required by the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause (Article 6, Section 2, Part 1)

The US also interned Italian-Americans and German Americans so there really wasn't a racial component to the policy. ...

That is absolute bullshit.

Internment of German Americans - Wikipedia
Internment of Italian Americans - Wikipedia

A) wiki? Really?

B) a relative handful from two of the largest ethnic groups in the country - among which were a number of REAL threats of espionage and sabotage - as opposed to over 100,000 of a small minority - among whom NONE were ever convicted of espionage or sabotage during the war? Bull fucking shit there was no racism involved. The scumbag fdr was a known racist, among other ugly qualities.

 

[Moonglow]

Within days of Pearl Harbor, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover assured the U.S. Attorney General that “practically all” suspected individuals were already in custody, and there was no need for mass evacuations of Japanese for security reasons. But Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, head of the Western Defense Command, pushed for wholesale Japanese evacuation. “The Japanese race is an enemy race,” DeWitt wrote, “and while many second and third generation Japanese born on United States soil, possessed of United States citizenship, have become ‘Americanized,’ the racial strains are undiluted.”

West Coast congressmen also agitated for the removal of the Japanese. Los Angeles representative Leland Ford insisted that “all Japanese, whether citizens or not, be placed in concentration camps.” In the end, political pressure prevailed, and the army was empowered to force all West Coast Americans from their homes.

THE WAR . At Home . Civil Rights . Japanese Americans | PBS

 

[danielpalos]

It was unconstitutional, and our government paid for that mistake.

They only paid $$ to buy political favor. Not because of any right/wrong aspect.

dude; it was about, being Legal to our Own laws.

 

[Unkotare]

It was unconstitutional, and our government paid for that mistake.

They only paid $$ to buy political favor. Not because of any right/wrong aspect.

That's not what Reagan said.

 

[rightwinger]

FDR rounded up the Japanese because there was mass hysteria regarding the threat of Japanese immigrants

Kind of like Trump's Muslim ban

There is no Muslim ban I believe your referring to the executive order that restricts travel to the US from certain countries. ? If it was an actual Muslim ban it would affect the other billion or so Muslims around the world it does not.

Trump called it a Muslim ban...try to keep up