Often it is seen a a stain in US history, but was the policy driven by Liberals or Conservatives??? This like the Red Scare of 1919, and the original House on unAmerican Activities was Liberal policies...
But history is often rewritten by the elite when they think the unwashed masses are ignorant... http://www.slate.com/id/2224159/ >>> In the United States, and especially in California, the war against >>> Japanese imperialism was also accompanied by collective punishment of >>> Japanese-Americans and the sequestration of their persons and property. >>> When I first came to the Bay Area in 1970, I was introduced by Carey >>> MacWilliams, a great historian of the state, to Lou Goldblatt of the >>> longshoremen's union, one of the very few public figures to have opposed >>> the indiscriminate internment. It was a crime committed largely by liberals >>> like Earl Warren, as many people prefer to forget, and was even supported >>> at the time by the Communist Party. (Actually, why do I say even? >>> Communists by then were getting pretty used to supporting mass roundups and >>> deportations.) Hatred and fear and bigotry were probably never more general or more strongly felt than against Japanese people in America in the period between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima/Nagasaki, and Hollywood and the comic book industry kept the feeling alive for some years afterward. Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas drew howls of laughter when he said a kind word to young Rep. Daniel Inouye, who had lost a limb fighting for America in Europe, and—thanked for taking the trouble to notice the newcomer—roared: "Ain't no trick to it! How many one-armed Japs we got around here?"* (Actually, I think that was pretty funny.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
