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In reply to the discussion: Wow, where did this come from? [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)64. Still running.
If you intend to brand FDR a racist and a "Hypocrite", then extend that to include the Congress,
and a vast majority of the American People.
"In the months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, many expected an immediate attack against the West Coast. Fear gripped the country and a wave of hysterical antipathy against the Japanese engulfed the Pacific Coast.
The FBI quickly began rounding up any and all "suspicious" Japanese for internment. None was ever charged with any crime. Almost all were simply Japanese community leaders, Buddhist or Shinto priests, newspaper editors, language or Judo instructors, or labor organizers. The Japanese community leadership was liquidated in one quick operation.
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In February 1942, Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Commanding General of the Western Defense Command, requested authorization from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to evacuate "Japanese and other subversive persons" from the West Coast area. On February 19, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066 authorizing the Secretary of War or any military commander to establish "military areas" and to exclude from them "any or all persons. A month later, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9102 establishing the War Relocation Authority, which eventually operated the internment camps. Roosevelt named Milton Eisenhower, brother of the future president, to head the WRA.
Without a murmur of dissent, the Congress quickly affirmed Executive Order 9066 with the passage of Public Law 77-503.
Beginning in March, the Army organized the evacuation of some 77 000 U.S. citizens of Japanese origin ("Nisei" and 43 000 mostly older Japanese citizens ("Issei" from California and parts of Washington, Oregon and Arizona."
<snip>
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p-45_Weber.html
The FBI quickly began rounding up any and all "suspicious" Japanese for internment. None was ever charged with any crime. Almost all were simply Japanese community leaders, Buddhist or Shinto priests, newspaper editors, language or Judo instructors, or labor organizers. The Japanese community leadership was liquidated in one quick operation.
<snip>
In February 1942, Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Commanding General of the Western Defense Command, requested authorization from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to evacuate "Japanese and other subversive persons" from the West Coast area. On February 19, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066 authorizing the Secretary of War or any military commander to establish "military areas" and to exclude from them "any or all persons. A month later, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9102 establishing the War Relocation Authority, which eventually operated the internment camps. Roosevelt named Milton Eisenhower, brother of the future president, to head the WRA.
Without a murmur of dissent, the Congress quickly affirmed Executive Order 9066 with the passage of Public Law 77-503.
Beginning in March, the Army organized the evacuation of some 77 000 U.S. citizens of Japanese origin ("Nisei" and 43 000 mostly older Japanese citizens ("Issei" from California and parts of Washington, Oregon and Arizona."
<snip>
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p-45_Weber.html
Your frantic and disingenuous attempts to discredit the founder of the modern Democratic Party
says more about you than it says about FDR.
You will know them by their WORKS.
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#4
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#20
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#46
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Apr 2012
#42
If you can't handle a little criticism, perhaps you should start a safe haven group.
Robb
Apr 2012
#68
You don't have to "twist" to think the Japanese Internment was a racist construct.
Robb
Apr 2012
#72
Spinning and twisting into ever tighter misinformed little circles of willful misrepresentation,
bvar22
Apr 2012
#74