Japanese Internment during WW II

by doc moto Posted 2012/05/28 14:21:20

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After America was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 consigning 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps. Fred Korematsu challenged the internment all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In "Korematsu v. United States" (1944), the Court sided with the government.
In 1988, Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. The legislation said that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership". The U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion in reparations to Japanese Americans.

Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/05/28 14:30:10

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The problem: they didn't tear down those camps. The government NEVER tears down anything. With the result that an awful lot of people are very much afraid that the government will not only do it again, but has a plan...
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littlebuffalo55TBA 2012/05/28 16:54:48

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A chilling time in Our history and what can happen when OUR government acts against the core principles in the Constitution & Bill of Rights!

I always felt as well that even though the Marshall Plan was brilliant for it's time that at the very same time restitution for what had been taken from the Japanese Americans would have been a paltry amount compared to what we spent re-building the infrastructures of our enemies.

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Jackie G - Poker Playing Pa... 2012/05/28 16:27:16

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It was a reaction, and an over reaction to be sure, to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Hind sight is generally always 20-/20 but no one can change the past - it happened and to the people at the time it seemed correct.

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Chris - The Rowdy One! #187 2012/05/28 14:35:50

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I understand that it was designed to protect the Jap Americans from other Americans that may have wanted to vent their anger on these people.

I think it was wrong overall but I do not think it was worthy of reparations.

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Jackie ... to Chris -... 2012/05/28 16:32:21

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Well, the reparations were not necessarily for the interment - many of these people owned land, homes, businesses, personal property (furniture, clothing etc.) and had to sell them for pennies because they could not take them with them - a whole bunch of folks in California and Hawaii picked up some choice property for nearly nothing.

Looking at the past through our standards and values makes us cringe sometimes but we cannot imagine the horror and fear generated by Pearl Harbor - to the people then, it seemed correct. Our era is 9-11 but we did not inter all Muslims, so we learned from the past even though the horror and fear was there.

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doc moto to Jackie ... 2012/05/28 16:37:26

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Learning to live with the fear and the enemy too! Think about that statement and run it by what comes in 2013 if they get 4 more years!

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Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/05/28 14:30:10

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The problem: they didn't tear down those camps. The government NEVER tears down anything. With the result that an awful lot of people are very much afraid that the government will not only do it again, but has a plan...

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doc moto to Temlako... 2012/05/28 15:16:10

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Yes we can!!! PLANnnnnnnnn!!! Yowl.....

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