Posted on 11/30/2004 4:41:18 PM PST by mojojockey
I had a friend who was a kid during WWII, living with his parents in NJ. Their surname sounded plausibly Japanese, but was really Hungarian. They were viewed with suspicion, and to allay this, they voluntarily allowed some FBI agents to board in their home during the war. My friend remembers his talks with the agents, and their showing him their guns. He was the envy of the neighborhood, because read G-men lived in his house.
It is a strange story, for my friend was blond and blue-eyed, and not at all Japanese-looking. Such, I guess, is the irrationality which suspicion engenders.
LIved there for a year.. miserable place.
Depending on their status (resident aliens or citizens) many
folks of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast had the option
of moving to the interior. Given the attitude of most
Americans at the time, the internment option was the safe
choice.
On the other hand, I have a few acquaintances who were civ-
ilian prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippines. They
were starved and beaten for three and one-half years and
have never even received an apology, let alone, compensa-
tion, for their trouble.
Arthur Jacobs, for one, was a German-American who was interred and deported.
Under that criterion, 110,000 Japanese-Americans were interned.
Whatever they were, the Relocation camps were not internment camps.
Get your facts straight.
And you.
My co-author and I had wartime correspondence declassified in the process of working on our book. That's the source of my knowledge on what happened. What, pray tell, is the source of your knowledge? Enlighten us.
Billybob
Funny how the whole thing was put in place by Liberal democrats - but somehow that's never mentioned.
I've read the whole interment come about because of the liberal AG Biddle. Hoover wanted to treat west coast JA just like those in Hawaii. Investigate and intern the security risks. Biddle objected that would violate "civil liberties". So FDR decided to relocate everyone.
Billybob
Whether you view them as simple detention centers at former military facilities or whatever your mind can conjure up they apparently form a pattern for warehousing large numbers of dissidents who are citizens and TERRORISTS. Dissidents comprise those who the government "SUSPECTS" of being dis loyal to what is perceived as a One World Order of business. TERRORISTS are agents of opportunity not aligned with any country and as a result do not fall under the Geneva Conventions that apply to "Prisoners of War" who are identified with a particular country or nation state. Once again historical parallels apply when you consider who you are locking up. There are reasons not clearly spelled out when you follow the path in this twisted maze.
Especially if the sabateur is in a relocation center 200 miles (or more) away from the facility...
Yes, I know. But the US camps were not death camps so what's the point?
I years ago came across something called Una Storia Segreta, now on the web, which said that Italians/Italian-Americans had been subject to internment, relocation and exclusion. That peaked my interest in the subject as everything I'd previously encountered said otherwise. The first reference to Una Storia Segreta was in New York Newsday.
I found the website of retired USAF Major, Arthur Jacobs. I was skepitical but but went looking further. I read the "oral histories" of Stephen J. Fox, a retired history professor and apparent Liberal.
I discovered that the US Gov. has become more forthcoming with info on the subject. There is the WARTIME VIOLATION OF ITALIAN AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ACT and similar, pending legislation for German-Americans. The US Parks Service now mentions Euro-Americans in camps and otherwise messed with.
I've learned that the detentions we call "internment" are common and legal both in the US and internationally. The real damage done to J-As was in the Relocation program so I don't like seeing you, Eric Muller or any other use the terms interchangeably
I haven't read Malkin's book but I gather she's gone too far with her assertions. So do you.
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