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The day after the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, the US government froze assets of the Issei, and the FBI began to follow community leaders with strong Japanese ties. As American citizens, Issei and Nisei had enjoyed the rights of any US citizen; now their own government imposed strict curfews on them and raided their homes for “contraband”—anything that showed special connection to their former homeland.
Within two months President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the War Relocation Authority to force 110,000 Japanese and their American-born children into relocation camps. Internees relinquished their communities, homes, and livelihoods for cramped barracks in isolated interior areas of Arizona, Utah, California, Wyoming, Arkansas, Idaho, and Colorado. Officially, the government declared that the forced relocation was necessary for Japanese Americans’ safety. Unofficially, however, these citizens had become the enemy—and America had to be protected from them. There was widespread agreement that the Issei and Nisei needed to be removed from the coast where collusion with the Japanese was easy and, it was believed, likely
Damn. And history repeats itself.
Then too it might have been that the general in charge of the area, DeWitt, told FDR what needed to be done for his area responsibility to be secure and FDR followed the general's requests. If DeWitt and all the other's had been right and sabotage took place we would be posting differently today. As it was DeWitt and the others were wrong as was FDR. Today with ISIS, we can feel a small smattering of the fear that the nation was experiencing after Pearl Harbor. Trump to close Mosques.FDR was a sick man, physically and possibly mentally. The only sources of information at the time for Americans were radio shows and newspapers which were solidly in line with the FDR philosophy. It seems that FDR's executive order to incarcerate American citizens might have had a political angle. Rich real estate developers in California that supported FDR coveted Japanese American real estate and FDR's executive order might have been a payment when the Democrat party was strapped for cash.
Apparently there are some posters here who won't be happy unless there is a PBS documentary that involves digging up dead people and beating them with bats and wagging fingers at them or something for not being suitably compliant and repentant concerning sniveling modern PC gibberish.
And screw George Takei. He has the means to move back to Japan if he's so unhappy here.
I demand a memorial to the Japs that suffered in these camps.
And Aid money and gifts for Japan.
It's ironic that Hawaii was literally a hotbed of Japanese espionage but the FDR administration made no effort to incarcerate the Japanese. Maybe they were essential for making coffee for the admirals. General Dewitt had no jurisdiction over American citizens. He should have been relieved of duty on the spot if FDR was in his right mind. You have to be crazy to assume that the incarceration of American citizens without due process is a legitimate method for preventing sabotage. FDR should have been vilified by the history books but strangely enough about 75 years of pro FDR propaganda makes it almost impossible to criticize the administration.Then too it might have been that the general in charge of the area, DeWitt, told FDR what needed to be done for his area responsibility to be secure and FDR followed the general's requests. If DeWitt and all the other's had been right and sabotage took place we would be posting differently today. As it was DeWitt and the others were wrong as was FDR. Today with ISIS, we can feel a small smattering of the fear that the nation was experiencing after Pearl Harbor. Trump to close Mosques.FDR was a sick man, physically and possibly mentally. The only sources of information at the time for Americans were radio shows and newspapers which were solidly in line with the FDR philosophy. It seems that FDR's executive order to incarcerate American citizens might have had a political angle. Rich real estate developers in California that supported FDR coveted Japanese American real estate and FDR's executive order might have been a payment when the Democrat party was strapped for cash.
