75 years ago today FDR's executive order 9066

[whitehall]

The only thing you can say to justify FDR's executive order authorizing the internment of American citizens without due process is that FDR may have been suffering a mental breakdown in his 3rd term. It didn't even make sense from a security standpoint. Hawaii was a hotbed of Japanese espionage but the Executive Order only applied to Japanese in California. None of the other states were even impacted. It's possible that FDR supporters were eyeing valuable real estate owned by Japanese Americans or the administration had gone insane. FDR had appointed a former KKK member to the Supreme Court and Justice Black paid him back by writing the majority opinion authorizing American concentration camps.

 

[eflatminor]

Careful, that's a progressive hero you're talking about. It doesn't matter what he did. What matters are his intentions, which, as is the case with all progressives, is always pure and benevolent. True story.

 

[whitehall]

It's no secret that the media writes the history books and there was no other media except the liberal media for the entire 20th century. The truth is out there but sometimes you have to look for it.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

FDR, classic Fascist

 

[Unkotare]

Careful, that's a progressive hero you're talking about. It doesn't matter what he did. What matters are his intentions, which, as is the case with all progressives, is always pure and benevolent. True story.

That scumbag fdr's intentions were anything but benevolent.

 

[yiostheoy]

The only thing you can say to justify FDR's executive order authorizing the internment of American citizens without due process is that FDR may have been suffering a mental breakdown in his 3rd term. It didn't even make sense from a security standpoint. Hawaii was a hotbed of Japanese espionage but the Executive Order only applied to Japanese in California. None of the other states were even impacted. It's possible that FDR supporters were eyeing valuable real estate owned by Japanese Americans or the administration had gone insane. FDR had appointed a former KKK member to the Supreme Court and Justice Black paid him back by writing the majority opinion authorizing American concentration camps.

It was well known to FDR that Japanese spies were crawling all over Hawaii.

His fear was that California would be next.

It was actually a blunder by Yamamoto and Togo not to invade California when they had the chance. This would have sucked the last remaining US carriers towards them and then the Japanese could have finished the job they only started at Pearl Harbor.

So FDR had to take radical action and so he concentrated all Japanese and Japanese-Americans into concentration camps so that they could not spy for Japan.

It was a smart move.

Not politically correct, but smart.

If moosleems in America start rioting and burning down buildings the same thing can happen to them again if it gets out of hand.

 

[yiostheoy]

The most extreme thing that could ever happen would be a declaration of martial law. Then not even the courts would be functioning and you could be jailed for nothing and kept there forever.

You could.

I wouldn't.

Anyone who tries to jail me or take my guns without a warrant would very quickly lose their life.

 

[rightwinger]

Post Pearl Harbor hysteria

Not many opposed it

 

[BlackFlag]

That was the worst moment of FDR's Presidency, and a shameful part of America's past. It's sad that conservatives like to use it to support similar ideas today.

 

[Unkotare]

The only thing you can say to justify FDR's executive order authorizing the internment of American citizens without due process is that FDR may have been suffering a mental breakdown in his 3rd term. It didn't even make sense from a security standpoint. Hawaii was a hotbed of Japanese espionage but the Executive Order only applied to Japanese in California. None of the other states were even impacted. It's possible that FDR supporters were eyeing valuable real estate owned by Japanese Americans or the administration had gone insane. FDR had appointed a former KKK member to the Supreme Court and Justice Black paid him back by writing the majority opinion authorizing American concentration camps.

It was well known to FDR that Japanese spies were crawling all over Hawaii.

His fear was that California would be next.

It was actually a blunder by Yamamoto and Togo not to invade California when they had the chance. This would have sucked the last remaining US carriers towards them and then the Japanese could have finished the job they only started at Pearl Harbor.

So FDR had to take radical action and so he concentrated all Japanese and Japanese-Americans into concentration camps so that they could not spy for Japan.

It was a smart move.

Not politically correct, but smart.

If moosleems in America start rioting and burning down buildings the same thing can happen to them again if it gets out of hand.

The most extreme thing that could ever happen would be a declaration of martial law. Then not even the courts would be functioning and you could be jailed for nothing and kept there forever.

You could.

I wouldn't.

Anyone who tries to jail me or take my guns without a warrant would very quickly lose their life.

Rambo!!!!!!!

 

[Unkotare]

The only thing you can say to justify FDR's executive order authorizing the internment of American citizens without due process is that FDR may have been suffering a mental breakdown in his 3rd term. It didn't even make sense from a security standpoint. Hawaii was a hotbed of Japanese espionage but the Executive Order only applied to Japanese in California. None of the other states were even impacted. It's possible that FDR supporters were eyeing valuable real estate owned by Japanese Americans or the administration had gone insane. FDR had appointed a former KKK member to the Supreme Court and Justice Black paid him back by writing the majority opinion authorizing American concentration camps.

It was well known to FDR that Japanese spies were crawling all over Hawaii.....

Name 5

 

[whitehall]

The only thing you can say to justify FDR's executive order authorizing the internment of American citizens without due process is that FDR may have been suffering a mental breakdown in his 3rd term. It didn't even make sense from a security standpoint. Hawaii was a hotbed of Japanese espionage but the Executive Order only applied to Japanese in California. None of the other states were even impacted. It's possible that FDR supporters were eyeing valuable real estate owned by Japanese Americans or the administration had gone insane. FDR had appointed a former KKK member to the Supreme Court and Justice Black paid him back by writing the majority opinion authorizing American concentration camps.

It was well known to FDR that Japanese spies were crawling all over Hawaii.

His fear was that California would be next.

It was actually a blunder by Yamamoto and Togo not to invade California when they had the chance. This would have sucked the last remaining US carriers towards them and then the Japanese could have finished the job they only started at Pearl Harbor.

So FDR had to take radical action and so he concentrated all Japanese and Japanese-Americans into concentration camps so that they could not spy for Japan.

It was a smart move.

Not politically correct, but smart.

If moosleems in America start rioting and burning down buildings the same thing can happen to them again if it gets out of hand.

Hawaii was crawling with Japanese spies so FDR thought he would prevent espionage in California by rounding up innocent American citizens and placing them in concentration camps and you think it was a smart move?

 

[rightwinger]

The only thing you can say to justify FDR's executive order authorizing the internment of American citizens without due process is that FDR may have been suffering a mental breakdown in his 3rd term. It didn't even make sense from a security standpoint. Hawaii was a hotbed of Japanese espionage but the Executive Order only applied to Japanese in California. None of the other states were even impacted. It's possible that FDR supporters were eyeing valuable real estate owned by Japanese Americans or the administration had gone insane. FDR had appointed a former KKK member to the Supreme Court and Justice Black paid him back by writing the majority opinion authorizing American concentration camps.

It was well known to FDR that Japanese spies were crawling all over Hawaii.

His fear was that California would be next.

It was actually a blunder by Yamamoto and Togo not to invade California when they had the chance. This would have sucked the last remaining US carriers towards them and then the Japanese could have finished the job they only started at Pearl Harbor.

So FDR had to take radical action and so he concentrated all Japanese and Japanese-Americans into concentration camps so that they could not spy for Japan.

It was a smart move.

Not politically correct, but smart.

If moosleems in America start rioting and burning down buildings the same thing can happen to them again if it gets out of hand.

Hawaii was crawling with Japanese spies so FDR thought he would prevent espionage in California by rounding up innocent American citizens and placing them in concentration camps and you think it was a smart move?

It was a political move to respond to anti Japanese hysteria. It was a very popular decision

It "kept us safe"

 

[regent]

The question being raised is, why didn't FDR know there was little danger? Just because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor did not mean we had to worry about sabotage.

 

[whitehall]

The question being raised is, why didn't FDR know there was little danger? Just because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor did not mean we had to worry about sabotage.

I didn't know sabotage was an issue in executive order 9066. At any rate is it alleged that racially profiled concentration camps were a logical plan to prevent sabotage?

 

[rightwinger]

In retrospect it is easy to see he did the wrong thing

In post PearlHarbor 1942, it seemed like a prudent thing to do to keep us safe

Sometimes people do stupid things in the name of safety

 

[Unkotare]

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Sometimes people do stupid things in the name of safety

And sometimes they do them in the name of racist hatred so their buddies can pick up some cheap real estate.

 

[rightwinger]

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Sometimes people do stupid things in the name of safety

And sometimes they do them in the name of racist hatred so their buddies can pick up some cheap real estate.

Yup

Welcome to America 1942

Not only did we discriminate against Japanese who had attacked us and were distrusted by the public......but we discriminated against blacks, minorities and gays

 

[regent]

The question being raised is, why didn't FDR know there was little danger? Just because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor did not mean we had to worry about sabotage.

I didn't know sabotage was an issue in executive order 9066. At any rate is it alleged that racially profiled concentration camps were a logical plan to prevent sabotage?

Why did 9066 only apply to the Japanese on the west coast and not to the Japanese in other parts?

 

[whitehall]

If FDR decided to incarcerate illegal aliens or ship them back to their countries of origin and it was applied logically throughout the U.S. it would have been an acceptable security measure. It would even have made sense to deport all "legal" aliens who were suspected of unAmerican activities at the time. There is no way in the freaking world that anyone could argue that the incarceration of American citizens without due process was legal or made any sense. Only Justice who was a former KKK member could support such an atrocity. Justice Black and FDR should have been impeached.