Time to relegate the FDR Monument in Washington to the flames

[Lisa558]

The difference is that FDR imprisoned US citizens without trials in violation of the Constitution. A reasonable case can be made for interning Japanese, German and Italian nationals residing in the US, it was customary and in accordance with international law. But there was no legal basis for incarcerating US citizens.

He also refused entry to refugees on the St. Louis fleeing Hitler, choosing instead to send the Jews back to be gassed.

Imagine how those people felt. Going up and down the coast, so despised because they were Jews, that people preferred they be killed Instead of granted entry to their country.

 

[Anathema]

Saved the Country then saved the World

Neither of which deserved to be saved; as they had created their own problems and were simply enduring the consequences thereof.

 

[rightwinger]

The difference is that FDR imprisoned US citizens without trials in violation of the Constitution. A reasonable case can be made for interning Japanese, German and Italian nationals residing in the US, it was customary and in accordance with international law. But there was no legal basis for incarcerating US citizens.

FDR did a lot of things during WWII

Strict rationing
Turning the US Socialist
Restricting the press
Interring potential enemies.

The entire world was that way