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TAKE ACTION: We're Paying War Reparations to Guam for What Japan Did
RedState.com ^ | today | Jeff Emanuel

Posted on 05/07/2007 2:18:42 PM PDT by enough_idiocy

"House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and his eight compatriots, all of whom have co-sponsored a bill that would require that America pay reparations to the people of Guam for - get this - the actions of the Japanese in World War II.

According to the bill (HR.1595, the "Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act"), the people of Guam:

suffered unspeakable harm as a result of the occupation of Guam by Imperial Japanese military forces during World War II , by being subjected to death, rape, severe personal injury, personal injury, forced labor, forced march, or internment.

For this reason (?), "the Secretary of the Treasury shall make payments" to WWII survivors and their descendants on Guam for the brutal actions of a third party.

Makes perfect sense, doesn't it? After all, the US is the largest aid donor on the planet; it's only logical that we should rebuild, repatriate, and reparate every country that has been hurt by every war that we can find. Let's not stop with Guam - let's include everybody from Carthage on up to the present. Should we pay reparations to the Koreans for the Mongol invasions of the 14th century, and to the Spanish for the loss of their Armada in 1588? Why not?

And while this bill holds up $126,000,000.00 for the repayment of the people of Guam for what the Japanese did (as well as $5,000,000.00 for "the Secretary of the Interior [to] establish a grants program [to]...award grants for research, educational, and media activities that memorialize the events surrounding the occupation of Guam during World War II, honor the loyalty of the people of Guam during such occupation, or both, for purposes of appropriately illuminating and interpreting the causes and circumstances of such occupation and other similar occupations during a war"), our soldiers can't even get a dime in supplemental appropriations.

Way to go, Democrats. Your "blame America first" (even for things we have nothing to do with), anti-US soldier attitudes, actions, and mindsets have just been taken to a new level."


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: congress; corruption; earmarks; spending
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My rep's office could not explain to me why we're spending Americans' money to compensate Guam for what Japan did.
1 posted on 05/07/2007 2:18:46 PM PDT by enough_idiocy
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To: enough_idiocy

Reparations Trumps Warfighters
http://www.redstate.com/redhot#redhot-31629


2 posted on 05/07/2007 2:20:14 PM PDT by enough_idiocy (Voters can't vote out the rats if the media doesn't tell them what they're up to.)
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To: enough_idiocy

What kind of lunacy is this...? Oh yeah, the Democratic kind.


3 posted on 05/07/2007 2:21:21 PM PDT by danmyte (dana)
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To: enough_idiocy

I think Steny Hoyer and his eight cronies should have to pay the reparations. Their savings and investments can be liquidated for the purpose, and their wages garnished until their debt is paid.


4 posted on 05/07/2007 2:22:33 PM PDT by American Quilter (You can't negotiate with people who are dedicated to your destruction.)
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To: enough_idiocy

I think that the Democratic Party owes me reparations for screwing up my country and failing to adequately support the defense of our nation and its allies.


5 posted on 05/07/2007 2:23:03 PM PDT by hometoroost (TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
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To: enough_idiocy

Easy.. it’s called buying votes.


6 posted on 05/07/2007 2:24:21 PM PDT by keepitreal
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To: enough_idiocy

Makes perfect sense...

In a bid to one-up his compatriot, Harry Reid, the Hon. Mr. Hoyer has found a way to retroactively surrender to Japan for WWII...


7 posted on 05/07/2007 2:25:41 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (He who smiles and keeps his head when all about are losing theirs - doesn't understand the situation)
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To: keepitreal

From Guam?


8 posted on 05/07/2007 2:25:45 PM PDT by enough_idiocy (Voters can't vote out the rats if the media doesn't tell them what they're up to.)
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To: Uncle Ike

That’s funny, but yet really sad at the same time


9 posted on 05/07/2007 2:26:15 PM PDT by enough_idiocy (Voters can't vote out the rats if the media doesn't tell them what they're up to.)
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To: enough_idiocy
Liberal logic says if we had been ready for the Pearl Harbor attack, we could have stopped Japan in it's tracks and the Japanese would have never needed or been able to occupy Guam.

So, yes it was our fault.

10 posted on 05/07/2007 2:26:20 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is the Democrat's George Galloway?)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I am so ashamed!! Why wasn’t I there to protect Guam? Why? Why?...Oh yeah, I wasn’t even born yet. Sheesh


11 posted on 05/07/2007 2:27:50 PM PDT by danmyte (dana)
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To: keepitreal

Does the word “KICKBACK” come to mind? Someone other than the people of Guam is getting some of this money. This is one of the dumbest things I’ve heard of in a long time. How about all the other countries that Japan invaded? Like China? How about all the countries that Germany invaded? And.....where in our Constitution does it give these idiots the right to do this?


12 posted on 05/07/2007 2:29:17 PM PDT by RC2
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To: enough_idiocy

My grandfather lost a couple of toes and partial hearing in the Ardennes during WWII. Apparently he wasn’t loyal enough for me to get reparations.


13 posted on 05/07/2007 2:31:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: keepitreal
Easy.. it’s called buying votes.

Votes for what? Guam is a U.S. Territory that elects a non-voting representative to Congress. It has no electoral votes for President. The current representative is a Democrat. And a Democrat has held that seat since 1993.

Why aren't the Japanese paying these "reparations"? They are the ones who invaded our sovereign territory in 1941. The United States has already paid reparations in blood, liberating the island in 1944.
14 posted on 05/07/2007 2:31:18 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: enough_idiocy
They certainly have reached their level of incompetence!!!!
15 posted on 05/07/2007 2:31:21 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act

“... acknowledge the steadfast loyalty to the United States of the residents of Guam as a result of the occupation of Guam in World War II by Imperial Japanese military forces;”

http://www.theorator.com/bills109/hr1595.html


16 posted on 05/07/2007 2:32:56 PM PDT by rhombus
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To: RC2
Someone other than the people of Guam is getting some of this money. This is one of the dumbest things I’ve heard of in a long time. How about all the other countries that Japan invaded? Like China?

Guam isn't a country - it is and was a U.S. territory - since 1898 - except for the 3-year period of Japanese occupation.
17 posted on 05/07/2007 2:34:39 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: danmyte

I wonder how many Guamians are still alive from WWII. I would expect that most of these people would be in their 70s and 80s by now. If they survived that long, then what’s the problem? The Dems are outdoing themselves on the pork - at least the Repubs seemed to keep their pork in the USA.


18 posted on 05/07/2007 2:36:13 PM PDT by Sioux-san (God save the Sheeple)
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To: enough_idiocy; All

it looks like I nailed it again..to quote the late Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond, “Holy Crap”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828014/posts


19 posted on 05/07/2007 2:38:56 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese..)
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To: enough_idiocy
Wait until the next Democrat apologies to Germany for us winning WWII.
20 posted on 05/07/2007 2:40:43 PM PDT by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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