On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, initiating a controversial World War II policy with lasting consequences for Japanese Americans. The document ordered the forced removal of resident “enemy aliens” from parts of the West vaguely identified as military areas.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in 1941, Roosevelt came under increasing pressure by military and political advisors to address the nation’s fears of further Japanese attack or sabotage, particularly on the West Coast, where naval ports, commercial shipping and agriculture were most vulnerable. Included in the off-limits military areas referred to in the order were ill-defined areas around West Coast cities, ports and industrial and agricultural regions. While 9066 also affected Italian and German Americans, the largest numbers of detainees were by far Japanese Americans.
On the West Coast, long-standing racism against Japanese Americans, motivated in part by jealousy over their commercial success, erupted after Pearl Harbor into furious demands to remove them en masse to Relocation Centers for the duration of the war.
Japanese immigrants and their descendants, regardless of American citizenship status or length of residence, were systematically rounded up and placed in prison camps. Evacuees, as they were sometimes called, could take only as many possessions as they could carry and were forcibly placed in crude, cramped quarters. In the western states, camps on remote and barren sites such as Manzanar and Tule Lake housed thousands of families whose lives were interrupted and in some cases destroyed by Executive Order 9066. Many lost businesses, farms and loved ones as a result.
Roosevelt delegated enforcement of 9066 to the War Department, telling Secretary of War Henry Stimson to be as reasonable as possible in executing the order. Attorney General Francis Biddle recalled Roosevelt’s grim determination to do whatever he thought was necessary to win the war. Biddle observed that Roosevelt was not much concerned with the gravity or implications of issuing an order that essentially contradicted the Bill of Rights.
In her memoirs, Eleanor Roosevelt recalled being completely floored by her husband’s action. A fierce proponent of civil rights, Eleanor hoped to change Roosevelt’s mind, but when she brought the subject up with him, he interrupted her and told her never to mention it again.
During the war, the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, upholding it both times. Finally, on February 19, 1976, decades after the war, Gerald Ford signed an order prohibiting the executive branch from re-instituting the notorious and tragic World War II order. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan issued a public apology on behalf of the government and authorized reparations for former Japanese American internees or their descendants.
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Italians and Germans were classified as enemy aliens and incarcerated too under this order.
Why do they only teach that the Japanese were interned and not other nationalities? See my questions to Ice-9.
The actual scale of the Japanese Internment probably dictated the history of the act.
I believe that this is done because, the Japanese were the main focus of this action. Much like the Jews were during the Holocaust of WorldWar II. There were many others like communists, political dissidents, gypsies, etc., during that time too. It’s anyone that the ruling class of that government is afraid or just hates at the time. And yes I said “ruling class”. The Roosevelt’s were then and are now, part of the ruling class of elitists in the USA! Emphasis added!👵😇
My grandfather had a buddy at work named Frank who was a Japanese American whose family was caught up in this order. Frank and his family lived in Los Angeles and he explained to my grandfather that they and all other Japanese Americans who lived on the west coast were given a choice of either moving some specified distance inland or going into the camps. Frank’s family moved to Denver and lived there during the duration of the war with Japan, Frank joined the Marines and fought the Japanese in the Pacific theater, and when the war was over he and his family returned to Los Angeles and resumed their old lives.
I always found it interesting how that part about choosing to go to the camps was left out.
So why would people choose to go to camps instead of moving? How would moving inland keep us “safe” from so called Japanese spies? Why weren’t German Americans interned?
Parts of our history we may never the answers to these questions and more.
Germs may have been too numerous for concentration camps proper.
A huge part of the Midwest would have in camps if it included German ancestry. At that time our family was over 100 people.
Once again we see trampling of American citizens’ rights by the “liberal” Democrat party. And once again, we see an executive order prohibiting that again signed by a Republican. Yet the public still believes the Democrat propagandists’ claims of Republicans having done what they themselves are the actual perpetrators of.
And that was after he ordered all the gold “interned,” among other crimes.
Today’s orders are trying to get to all Jabbanese (Jabbedweaknees?) “internment” left, all the dirty disease-breeding rest “internment” right ~ the two paths diverged in a yellow wood, but which will converge again, at interment, for as many as the mass murder-suicide set can get.
Remember, FDR was a Democrat.
The KKK was a Democrat organization.
Democrats were proponents of slavery.
Nothing has changed; Democrats have always been and will always be on the wrong side of history. It’s in their DNA.
“Nothing has changed; Democrats have always been and will always be on the wrong side of history. It’s in their DNA.”
Once again we have the ill informed flippantly repeating false information like it was set in stone and delivered from on high.
Repukelicans were the party of central bankers in Andrew Jackson’s day. Democrats were the party of Jackson who killed the first illegal US Central Bank. Repukelicans were the party of the traitor Dishonest Abe Lincoln. Repukelicans were the party of the north who started the war of Northern aggression. An illegal police action. Repukelicans were the party of the heartless carpet baggers.
The Two parties were finally merged into one anti American party shortly after the Federal Reserve act and the enactment of Constitutional amendments 14 through 19.
It was the 18th that made possible organized crime on a scale not remotely possible prior to that.
Before that, two bit hoodlums were limited to theft, strong arming, numbers and other gambling rackets, fencing and prostitution.
Like the later war on drugs, the 18th created a vast market overnight and introduced a level of government corruption unimaginable a decade earlier.
Giving women the vote guaranteed that all future elections from the smallest hamlet to the Whitehouse would thereafter be terrorized by the mob rule of democracy fueled by pure emotion.
I give you exhibit A.
Today in history, Donner party rescued from Sierra Nevada Mountains. And another bit of cannibalism etiquette is established, or reiterated/reinforced. Show of hands: didn’t the Donner Party in fact just copy-paste•mulate their betters in the various political parties that had been gnawing & munching the body politic from the get? Soooo many synonyms swaddling trigger words, eh? Has much to do with why the wily englishwo/men need such thick dictionaries.
Speaking of…read PJ O’Rourke’s NYT sendoff this morning. I’m looking for a copy of PJO’s Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People, because this quote from it:
“Good manners can replace intellect by providing a set of memorized responses to almost every situation in life. Memorized responses eliminate the need for thought. Thought is not a very worthwhile pastime anyway. Thinking allows the brain, an inert and mushy organ, to exert unfair domination over more sturdy and active body parts.”
I wonder if any future presidents of the USA will do the same for all those affected by the Biden regime? That is of course if we will have any future presidents of the USA.👵😇
THE STORY IS THE ASSASSINATION OF SHINZO ABE
There is a magical curse on Modi (INDIAN PM – CHAIWALA) which dooms all nations that he visits and dooms all those who come to meet him !
The “Chaiwala Indian Dindoo Hindoo PM”, has the “curse of satan on” him. The Satanic Effect ,has “3 layers” :
The people “who come to meet” the Chaiwala Indian Dindoo Hindoo PM in Dindoo Hindoo Land
The “people who invite” the Chaiwala Indian Dindoo Hindoo PM to come to their nation
The “nation and city visited” by the Chaiwala Indian Dindoo Hindoo PM
WHAT DO WORLD LEADERS SEE IN CHAIWALA ? WHEN THEY MEET THE CHAIWALA HE HAS THE EXPRESSIONS OF AN ORANG OTANG BEING FED BANANAS
BORIS EMBRACED CHAIWALA IN UK AND INDIA = HE ALMOST DIED OF COVID
BOLSONARO EMBRACED CHAIWALA = HE ALMOST DIED OF COVID
TRUMP EMBRACED CHAIWALA (IN INDIA AND US) AND MADE LOVE = HE GOT COVID AND LOST HIS POTUS
GHANI EMBRACED CHAIWALA = HE IS HISTORY
KARZAI EMBRACED CHAIWALA = HE IS HISTORY
THE EX-PM OF JAPAN EMBRACED CHAIWALA = AND HE IS IN BAD SHAPE -HE HAD CANCER SOON AFTERWARDS
MACRON EMBRACED CHAIWALA = FRANCE GOT THE BIGGEST SHOCK IN HISTORY,AND THE BIGGEST INTELLIGENCE FAILURE OF FRANCE.THEY HAD NO CLUE ABOUT AUKUS OR THE NUKE DEAL !
RAJAPAKSE ALLOWED CHAIWALA TO COME TO LANKA AND HUG HIM – HE WAS ALMOST KILLED AND LANKA IS DESTROYED
PUTIN CAME TO INDIA AND HUGGED CHAIWALA – PUTIN LOST A SHIP AND HAS CANCER !
THEN BOJO CAME TO INDIA TO MEET CHAIWALA AND THEN THIS HAPPENED
https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/06/24/boris-johnson-faces-a-fresh-crisis-after-two-by-election-defeats
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/uk-pm-boris-johnson-faces-new-call-to-resign-over-partygate/articleshow/91842040.cms?from=mdr
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uk-pm-boris-johnson-faces-parliament-for-1st-time-since-trust-vote-win-3047707
AND NOW BOJO HAS QUIT !
CHAIWALA MET MACRON A FEW MONTHS AGO IN PARIS AND THEN THIS HAPPENED – THEY CALL IT A DEMOCRATIC SHOCK
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/19/macron-alliance-projected-to-lose-parliamentary-majority.html
SOME FOOLS TALK OF EXPANDING G7 T O G8,TO ACCOMODATE,A NATION OF TOILET CLEANERS,LED BY THE SON OF A DISHWASHER !
AND NOW THE “DEAR FRIEND” OF CHAIWALA – SHINZO ABE IS ASSASSINATED !
WHEN WILL THE GOOD JAPANESE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND – THAT INDIANS ARE A MONGREL RACE – AND COWARDS AND WEASELS – THEY WILL NOT STAND UP TO PRC.dindooohindoo