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How many Japanese-Americans were ever convicted of treason or espionage during WWII?
Answer: 0
What remains to this day the most decorated unit in US Military history?
Answer: The 442nd
Guess which Americans comprised the majority of the 442nd?
Answer: Look it up if you really don't know
Of course there were far, far, far~ more Americans of Italian and German ancestry in the US at the time.
Around 3000 Italians or Americans of Italian ancestry (civilians, not POWs) were 'concentrated' during the war.
Around 11,000 Germans or Americans of German ancestry were treated likewise.
And from the far, far, far~ smaller population of Japanese and Americans of Japanese ancestry? Over 100,000
Yeah, that fucking FDR was a real peach.
You are an idiot!
Thanks for admitting you cannot refute the real facts, you un-American shitstain.
Yes, I do. So did that piece of shit FDR when he ordered innocent Americans - among them some of the very best Americans - thrown into his CONCENTRATION CAMPS. This was after those innocent people had been locked up in filthy horse stables while said CONCENTRATION CAMPS were being built, complete with barbed wire and guard towers from where anyone trying to escape could be shot and killed.
It seems that YOU don't know what concentration camps are.
"concentration camp
n.
1. A camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes prisoners of war are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions."
"A place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions."
"a guarded prison camp in which nonmilitary prisoners are held"
"A place where large numbers of political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities are imprisoned"
"President Roosevelt himself called the 10 facilities "concentration camps."
"At the time, Executive Order 9066 was justified as a "military necessity" to protect against domestic espionage and sabotage. However, it was later documented that "our government had in its possession proof that not one Japanese American, citizen or not, had engaged in espionage, not one had committed any act of sabotage." (Michi Weglyn, 1976)."
Children of the Camps | INTERNMENT HISTORY
It's stupid to use the word concentration camp when 6 million Jews were killed by our enemy in WWII.
No one is comparing FDR's concentration camps to hitler's death camps, you fucking idiot. If you don't like the term, then stop playing apologist for the action.
Don't you think there were reports in those days of what the Japanese were doing to the Chinese? That is what we were fighting against, so when the Imperial Japanese state asks it's people to spy, why would you take a chance? They removed all of them from the west coast.
It's stupid to use the word concentration camp when 6 million Jews were killed by our enemy in WWII.
No one is comparing FDR's concentration camps to hitler's death camps, you fucking idiot. If you don't like the term, then stop playing apologist for the action.
Do you like the term: Fuck you!
You are an idiot!
Thanks for admitting you cannot refute the real facts, you un-American shitstain.
I've posted my reasonings and all you clowns have done is repeat the same bullshit. .
I guess you can't figure why the American people can't stand libertarians.
Don't you think there were reports in those days of what the Japanese were doing to the Chinese? That is what we were fighting against, so when the Imperial Japanese state asks it's people to spy, why would you take a chance? They removed all of them from the west coast.
We've already covered this, asshole. No Japanese-Americans were ever convicted of espionage during the war. NONE. There were many, many, many times more German-Americans in the country at the time, but only a tiny fraction as many of them were similarly deprived of their Constitutional rights. "Why would you take a chance"? You know why, asshole.
German Espionage and Sabotage Against the U.S. in World War II
German Espionage and Sabotage Against the U.S. in World War II
Nazi Spies Come Ashore - America in WWII
No one is comparing FDR's concentration camps to hitler's death camps, you fucking idiot. If you don't like the term, then stop playing apologist for the action.
Do you like the term: Fuck you!
= you have nothing to say because you cannot refute the facts of history, you un-American sack of crap.
Common sense would say Japan would have some agents in America, but their activity was foiled.
No reports of espionage just means internment worked.
Do you like the term: Fuck you!
= you have nothing to say because you cannot refute the facts of history, you un-American sack of crap.
You are the un-American piece of shit. You haven't posted one link that makes sense. Post the primary sources and not blog nonsense!
Why don't you try to explain your case and back it up with concrete facts and figures?
Show us you can do something besides write a sentence or two!
So you really believe that those innocent until proven guilty Japanese Americans were a threat and that because of that anything is justified?
Like I said you just love to impose your morality on everyone and are OK with the use of force to do it because there is just no scenario that your ovine brain can devise in which you are not 100% correct.
I don't recall hearing a lot of bitching about it back then, so lay it on me, asshole! I wasn't even born.
Calisphere - JARDA - Relocation and Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
"On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day, the United States and Britain declared on Japan. Two months later, on February 19, 1942, the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans were dramatically changed when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 (view the Order). This order led to the assembly and evacuation and relocation of nearly 122,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry on the west coast of the United States but not in Hawaii, despite the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Racism and Prejudice
Japanese Americans in Hawaii were not incarcerated because they made up nearly 40% of the population and a large portion of the skilled workforce. The fact they were not incarcerated suggests that the removal of Japanese Americans on the west coast was racially motivated rather than out of "military necessity." Agricultural interest groups in western states, and many local politicians, had long been against Japanese Americans, and used the attack on Pearl Harbor to step up calls for their removal.
The United States was fighting the war on three fronts Japan, Germany, and Italy compared to the number of Japanese Americans, a relatively small number of Germans and Italians were interned in the United States. But although Executive Order 9066 was written in vague terms that did not specify an ethnicity, it was used for the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. The government claimed that incarceration was for military necessity and, ironically, to "protect" Japanese Americans from racist retribution they might face as a result of Pearl Harbor. (These reasons were later proved false by the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in the 1980s.)
In fact, Japanese Americans and other Asian Americans had long been characterized as a foreign "Yellow Peril" that was a threat to the United States. Prejudice against Japanese Americans, including laws preventing them from owning land, existed long before World War II. Even though Japanese Americans largely considered themselves loyal and even patriotic Americans, suspicions about their loyalties were pervasive. Before Pearl Harbor was bombed, President Roosevelt secretly commissioned Curtis Munson, a businessman, to assess the possibility that Japanese Americans would pose a threat to US security. Munsons report found (as cited in Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Distant Shore, page 386) that "There will be no armed uprising of Japanese" in the United States. "For the most part," the report says, "the local Japanese are loyal to the United States or, at worst, hope that by remaining quiet they can avoid concentration camps or irresponsible mobs."
Despite these findings, however, thousands of families in California, Oregon, and Washington were soon incarcerated in government camps. The government and popular sentiment understood that German Americans were not necessarily Nazi sympathizers, and could distinguish Italian Americans from Mussolinis Fascist regime, but they had a more difficult time separating Japanese Americans from Imperial Japan.
The majority of those interned nearly 70,000, over 60% were American citizens. Many of the rest were long-time US residents who had lived in this country between 20 and 40 years. By and large, most Japanese Americans, particularly the Nisei (the first generation born in the United States), considered themselves loyal Americans. No Japanese American or Japanese national was ever found guilty of sabotage or espionage."
Calisphere - JARDA - Relocation and Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
"On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day, the United States and Britain declared on Japan. Two months later, on February 19, 1942, the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans were dramatically changed when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 (view the Order). This order led to the assembly and evacuation and relocation of nearly 122,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry on the west coast of the United States but not in Hawaii, despite the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Racism and Prejudice
Japanese Americans in Hawaii were not incarcerated because they made up nearly 40% of the population and a large portion of the skilled workforce. The fact they were not incarcerated suggests that the removal of Japanese Americans on the west coast was racially motivated rather than out of "military necessity." Agricultural interest groups in western states, and many local politicians, had long been against Japanese Americans, and used the attack on Pearl Harbor to step up calls for their removal.
The United States was fighting the war on three fronts Japan, Germany, and Italy compared to the number of Japanese Americans, a relatively small number of Germans and Italians were interned in the United States. But although Executive Order 9066 was written in vague terms that did not specify an ethnicity, it was used for the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. The government claimed that incarceration was for military necessity and, ironically, to "protect" Japanese Americans from racist retribution they might face as a result of Pearl Harbor. (These reasons were later proved false by the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in the 1980s.)
In fact, Japanese Americans and other Asian Americans had long been characterized as a foreign "Yellow Peril" that was a threat to the United States. Prejudice against Japanese Americans, including laws preventing them from owning land, existed long before World War II. Even though Japanese Americans largely considered themselves loyal and even patriotic Americans, suspicions about their loyalties were pervasive. Before Pearl Harbor was bombed, President Roosevelt secretly commissioned Curtis Munson, a businessman, to assess the possibility that Japanese Americans would pose a threat to US security. Munsons report found (as cited in Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Distant Shore, page 386) that "There will be no armed uprising of Japanese" in the United States. "For the most part," the report says, "the local Japanese are loyal to the United States or, at worst, hope that by remaining quiet they can avoid concentration camps or irresponsible mobs."
Despite these findings, however, thousands of families in California, Oregon, and Washington were soon incarcerated in government camps. The government and popular sentiment understood that German Americans were not necessarily Nazi sympathizers, and could distinguish Italian Americans from Mussolinis Fascist regime, but they had a more difficult time separating Japanese Americans from Imperial Japan.
The majority of those interned nearly 70,000, over 60% were American citizens. Many of the rest were long-time US residents who had lived in this country between 20 and 40 years. By and large, most Japanese Americans, particularly the Nisei (the first generation born in the United States), considered themselves loyal Americans. No Japanese American or Japanese national was ever found guilty of sabotage or espionage."
Everything you have posted so far has inflated numbers and this article doesn't even have good facts, because Japanese were removed from Arizona, too (122,000 vs 110,000). It's the same propaganda about concentration camps.
You stink of desperation, asshole. It must be clear by now - even to you - that you are defending the indefensible. Give it up and try being a real American for a change.
"Yellow Peril" - There has always prejudice in America and still is today. I understand the farmers in California were happy, but the issue was competition, which tells me the Japanese there were good farmers. There may have been farm workers too, competing for jobs, because there were large amounts of Japanese imigrants who weren't American citizens. This is just a typical play the race card tactic.
