Bfgrn
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This has to be the absolute lamest attempt yet to spin.Progressive nanny state part deux:
Manzanar Internment camp, set up by progressive hero Franklin Roosevelt, to imprison those dirty little yello bastard Nisei (who just happened to be American citizens, a minor detail FDR had the Supreme Court take care of)
Want to keep playing clyde, or do you concede that comparing Gitmo to the true gulags set up by FDR & Lenin trump any other lame attempt you want to make.
I have plenty more if you want too.
Certainly not America's or FDR's finest moment. But do you have sources showing any conservatives or Republicans who opposed this horrible policy? The opposition came from liberals, most notably the President's own WIFE, First lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Anti-Japanese sentiment didn't start with FDR, it was a cultural ignorance that permeated our society.
You need to look beyond JUST FDR.
Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt, head of the Western Command, sought approval to conduct search and seizure operations aimed at preventing alien Japanese from making radio transmissions to Japanese ships. The Justice Department declined, however, stating that there was no probable cause to support DeWitt's assertion, as the FBI concluded that there was no security threat. On January 2, the Joint Immigration Committee of the California Legislature sent a manifesto to California newspapers which attacked "the ethnic Japanese," whom it alleged were "totally unassimilable." This manifesto further argued that all people of Japanese heritage were loyal subjects of the Emperor of Japan; Japanese language schools, furthermore, according to the manifesto, were bastions of racism which advanced doctrines of Japanese racial superiority.
The manifesto was backed by the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West and the California Department of the American Legion, which in January demanded that all Japanese with dual citizenship be placed in concentration camps. Internment was not limited to those who had been to Japan, but included a small number of German and Italian enemy aliens. By February, Earl Warren (Republican), the Attorney General of California, had begun his efforts to persuade the federal government to remove all people of Japanese heritage from the West Coast.
Civilian and military officials had concerns about the loyalty of the ethnic Japanese, although these concerns seemed to stem more from racial prejudice than actual risk. Major Karl Bendetsen and Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt each questioned Japanese American loyalty. DeWitt, who administered the internment program, repeatedly told newspapers that "A Jap's a Jap" and testified to Congress,
"I don't want any of them [persons of Japanese ancestry] here. They are a dangerous element. There is no way to determine their loyalty... It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen, he is still a Japanese. American citizenship does not necessarily determine loyalty... But we must worry about the Japanese all the time until he is wiped off the map."
Non-military advocates for exclusion, removal, and detention
Internment was popular among many white farmers who resented the Japanese-American farmers. "White American farmers admitted that their self-interest required removal of the Japanese." These individuals saw internment as a convenient means of uprooting their Japanese American competitors"
State politicians joined the bandwagon that was embraced by Leland Ford (Republican) of Los Angeles, who demanded that "all Japanese, whether citizens or not, be placed in [inland] concentration camps.
wiki
'FDR really isn't to blame, it was Republicans!'
HA HA HA
Executive Order 9066 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Executive Order 9066 was with rescinded by Gerald Ford on February 19, 1976.
On August 10, 1988, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, based on the CWRIC recommendations, was signed into law by Ronald Reagan. On November 21, 1989, George H.W. Bush signed an appropriation bill authorizing payments to be paid out between 1990 and 1998. In 1990, surviving internees began to receive individual redress payments and a letter of apology.
You are 0-2 clyde.
I didn't say 'FDR really isn't to blame, it was Republicans!'
What I said is that it represented the will of We, the people; conservatives and Republicans included. They were NOT opposed to it, they supported and even advocated FOR it...
You lost this one badly and didn't even address Lenin and Stalin, you know, those two liberal guardians of red, white and blue capitalism
You are 0 for 1 aqn