JoeB131
Diamond Member
2. Japanese internment camps--------> FDR and his band of merry Supreme Court Justices, took AMERICAN CITIZENS and put them in almost jail. Why? Because they were of Japanese decent. Those people LOST their businesses, their homes, their possessions, and our government never did repay them for their loss. It was soooooo bad, the Japanese Empire started using it as propaganda that proved Americans hated the Japanese people and wanted them all in concentration camps.
First, do you have any evidence that it was used by the Japanese Government for propaganda purposes.
Secondly, most of those interned were released within a year.
Third, while wrong, the internment did arise from some valid fears. The Axis found collaborators in every country they invaded, and here you had a region that was after Pearl Harbor, largely defenseless against an invasion some people thought might be possible. The Japanese had pulled off the first invasions of American Territory since 1812, people kind of had legit concerns.
By comparison, we are still taking off our shoes at airports because one twit tried to do a shoe-bomb 16 years ago.