obama would have loved to do this, and even ordered the IRS to pay special attention to conservatives.
If obama didn’t open concentration camps, no one will do it.
Just put them on the bus.
No fuss.
No muss.
LOL ..... This crap has resurfaced at the start of EVERY administration since the second world war. Remember Jade Helm? .... Bet the Democrats are pissed that they actually spent a zillion dollars setting up the infrastructure to activate such a deed.
Kelly needs a wake up call and I would really like to see her get it soon.
She’s such a, well, ladies read this board, so i’ll leave it at that.
It was FDR who established internment camps during WWII.
In case anyone has forgotten.
I saw the Kelly interview. What Higbie said was stupid. He should have known what the MSM would do with it. Unfortunately, conservatives aren’t allowed the time to explain what they are really saying. He should have been more careful with the way he brought it up.
Little-known aspect of the WW2 interment:
1. It also effected a number of Germans and Italians. The current site of the NSA at Fort Meade was originally an internment site for German-Americans.
2. American cryptographers had broken JN-25 & The Purple Code. After Pearl Harbor US teams continued to process compromised Japanese cables and discovered something ominous —some of the very last instructions to Japanese Embassies in the US prior to the attack focused on details concerning sabotage attacks on US defense companies. Such attacks almost surely would have used Japanese-Americans sympathetic to The Cause. US authorities could not disclose their sources and methods, else Japan would revamp their commo, with disastrous effects for the US war effort. So when internment orders went around, they couldn’t explain WHY there was reasonable fear. For decades it would simply be chalked up to plain xenophobia and petty revenge.
There was a Muslim registry after 9/11.
It was ceased 9 years later.
Seems to me .. maybe we should have kept it. Now, we have all these foreign people; we don’t know who they are, we don’t know who they align with, and we have already experienced several notable attacks.
There is no plausible reason why we cannot know who these people are .. where they’re going to settle, and who their associates are. THEY ARE NOT AMERICANS, BY BIRTH, OR BY ACCEPTING ASSIMILATION, AND BECOMING CITIZENS. THEY DO NOT NECESSARILY ACCEPT ANY ALLEGIENCE TO THE CONSTITUTION.
Interesting article.
I don't doubt race was a factor, but was it "quite decidedly racist"? I would say it was as much about traditional Japanese culture as the color of their skin. From what little the average American knew about it, the biggest thing was the Japanese worship of their ancestors and the Emperor. Nobody knew if that was true for Japanese born here, and it was a risk nobody wanted to take.
Jeffrey Lord did some good research on the subject of modern “internment camps” but he left out some things, one possibly due to a type (Enemy Aliens - Italians).
I played a minor role in helping to quash a Clinton/Democrat plan to make a big issue out of the internment of Italian nationals in the US during WW2 as “enemy aliens”. The Clintonestas, hoping to get a large Italian voter bloc of support, tried to say that the US was wrong to intern Italian enemy aliens and that they numbered in the tens of thousands.
As I showed the leader of the commission on this subject, most Italian citizens and resident non-citizen Italians who were arrested/rounded up, were picked from Italian fascist support groups, some sailors who were unlucky enough (or perhaps very lucky) to be in an American port when war was declared on the Axis Powers.
The total number of those interned was roughly 1,500 or so, possibly including a few deported from Latin American countries (most deportees from LA countries were German nationals, some naturalized citizens who were Nazi supporters, and German agents (see the Office of Naval Intelligence files at the National Archives on who the saboteurs and spies were. Good police work got them, not the nationality of their names).
At least one Italian was arrested in the US as a spy, and so was at least one Argentinian who was photographing US dams (also in the Archives files).
There was a never officially totaled great amount of both passive and active acts of sabotage in the U.S. factories that turned out armaments and supporting items. The major method of sabotage was to throw something into the gear systems, even on ships as they were built, or to loosen parts in the hope of causing a plane to crash or a gun to malfunction. Lots on this in the National Archives files too.
There were acts of sabotage of railroad tracks and bridges (wooden ones were burnt down), and at the Alcoa Plant at Messina, NY, company guards fired at unknown persons attempting to get into that crucial facility (also one of the targets of the German saboteurs who landed from a sub in New Jersey.
My Police Science teacher was the FBI agent who actually took the first call from German saboteur Daesch who wanted to turn himself in, and did, with the result that the whole team was arrested, tried, and a couple, shot, for their actions).
Megan Kelly is dumb as dog-crap on too many subjects, a little like Bill O’Reilly (who at least covered the “streets” of reality). A little reading on her part would have shown her just how stupid she sounded.
Hey Megan. It is never too late to read a good, factual history book.
Oh, just FYI, most Japanese Americans living on the East Coast were NOT interned, with some of them actually working in war industries. The problem was trying to separate the real Japanese enemies on the West Coast from the general population. J. Edgar Hoover told Congress and FDR that his organization had the situation on the West Coast under control, as did a leading Immigration official, but FDR listened to his Democrat liberal advisors and signed the internment orders.
The Democrat Party conveniently likes to leave out this blatant racism on the part of FDR and company when they talk about how great a leader he was. He wasn’t so great but the myth they created about him was and still endures until today.
It is very interesting how self-involved and self-righteous USA Japanese are about the very benign “concentration camps” the US government imposed on Japanese citizens during WWII. It is interesting how quick they are to cast blame....for a very real concern our government had about saboteurs, both Japanese and German. I have heard very few Germans moan about that time as they truly understood the fear and they, too, were not nicely treated. So...
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Let’s talk then about how wonderful the Japanese were toward civilians, men, women and children during WWII in the FAR EAST including the Philippine Islands. I, one of my brothers and my parents were POWs in the Philippine Islands beginning with the bombing of Clark’s Field (coincident with Pearl Harbor). We then spent 3 years in 2 very separate concentration camps. Finally people are beginning to write about it:
The most recent book, a #1 Best Seller, NY Times by Bruce Henderson, was titled “Rescue at Los Banos” and published in 2015. You ought to read it sometime. You will not meet many of us, the survivors. We are increasingly rare.
Neither Japan nor the USA has apologized for our imprisonment yet the court case, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 04-5017 Marcia Fee Achenbach and 597 other similarly situated plaintiffs v United States, Defendant-Appellee, Appeal from the United States Court of Federal Claims in 02-CV-894, Judge Emily C. Hewitt, is very, very clear how it was the USA decided we would be imprisoned.
STuff like this happens. I think the Japanese and their kids should suck it up just like we have had to do. The universe certainly doesn’t care and neither do Japan or the United States. Just cannon fodder. Just cannon fodder—except we didn’t die. Perhaps so we can talk about it. Maybe we who survived the SE Asia decimation to skeletanization should talk to the USA Japanese who still got to eat real food while incarcerated.
Higbie was not referring to internment. Rather, when Kelly interrupted him, he was in the middle of talking about wartime (WWII period) restrictions on movements of German, Italian and Japanese nationals ... NOT about American citizens who happened to be of German, Italian, or Japanese ethnicity.