It was seventy years ago today that America sent Japanese Americans to our ow

[USA4ME]

It was 70 years ago today
FDR Put the Japs away
And though they claim to be the ones oppressed
Only Dems have made the mass arrests
So may I introduce to you
The liberal's wettest dream
Democratic Concentration Camps

They're Democratic Concentration Camps
We hope you will enjoy your stay
Democratic Concentration Camps
Shut up and vote just how we say
Democratic Concen-
Democratic Concen-
Democratic Concentration Camps

We'd like to stick you in here
Conservatives must go
A way to shut you up for good
We'd like to put you all away
We'd love to see you gone

You know we really want to run the show
But we just don't have the votes to go
You conservatives are really pests
And you vote against your interests
So let me introduce to you
The sum of all the country's fears
Democratic Concentration Camps

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[Vagabond]

Yeah, they're getting a little lost in hyperbole over there.  "Concentration camp" just meant a gathering place to confine a large number of people until the truth about the Holocaust death camps emerged after WW2, there were plenty of 'concentration camps' that were collecting points for displaced people/refugees and enemy aliens run by friends and foes from WW1 to the end of WW2.  The death camps were a thing apart, they used the same name to hide their purpose (Although Dachau was originally an actual concentration camp to segregate political enemies, and became a death camp later once the 'Final Solution' started).

There was nothing at all unusual or illegal in rounding up and confining enemy citizens in your own country during war, it was an entirely normal practice in European countries (In the case of WW2, meaning the Axis citizens located within the US were completely fair legal territory for assembly and confinement for the duration).  Where FDR's order went overboard was the racial/ethnic component regardless of actual citizenship, and the expropriation of the property of completely law-abiding US citizens of Japanese ancestry.

I also wonder why it is always the people of Japanese lineage that are mentioned.  There were only five hundred more Japanese interred that  Germans.  A good portion of that number is due to Japanese-American dual citizens who eith renounced US citizenship or would not renounce Japanese citizenship.  There is nothing immoral about imprisoning citizens of a foreign nation that you are at war with provided they are treated well.

I disagree with the expropriation of property of people that were obeying the law.  FDR didn't, and apparently nobody could tell him no.

[BannedFromDU]

Yeah, whenever I see an old Japanese person with a serial number on their forearm, I shudd- oops. Wait. That didn't happen, either.

Oh well.

[JohnnyReb]

I disagree with the expropriation of property of people that were obeying the law.  FDR didn't, and apparently nobody could tell him no.

FDR said he was an even better socialist that Stalin...redistribute the wealth and all, you know. ...probably amongst his supporters.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I also wonder why it is always the people of Japanese lineage that are mentioned.  There were only five hundred more Japanese interred that  Germans.  A good portion of that number is due to Japanese-American dual citizens who eith renounced US citizenship or would not renounce Japanese citizenship.  There is nothing immoral about imprisoning citizens of a foreign nation that you are at war with provided they are treated well.

I disagree with the expropriation of property of people that were obeying the law.  FDR didn't, and apparently nobody could tell him no.

For reasons that can't really be attributed to anything but racism, Orientals were not regarded as 'Real' US citizens even if they were born in the US, an artifact of the importation of Chinese coolies for railroad-building and mining in the latter half of the 19th Century.  For quite awhile that was actually the law, although a child of Italian, Serbian, or whatever immigrants born here was a citizen from birth.  I'd have to look it up, but I believe that law had changed before WW2, though the thinking persisted. 

[Airwolf]

What they did was wrong but it doesn't compare to the three years my father spent in a German POW camp untill his camp was liberated by American forces in 1945.

[AllosaursRus]

These pukes don't have a clue, do they? One of these so called camps is located outside of Spokane WA. The place is a paradise nestled down between gently rolling hills with a creek running thru the bottom! It's used now for a kids summer camp! Doubt Auschwitz could be used for any kind of camp!

[franksolich]

What they did was wrong but it doesn't compare to the three years my father spent in a German POW camp untill his camp was liberated by American forces in 1945.

That was the other thing the old dude was trying to do.

First, the old dude wanted to show he's not a racist by decrying a racist act that took place before he was even born, where both the perpetrators and nearly all the victims have long been dead.

Second, the old dude was applying relativism--"we're just as bad as they are"--when in fact there are degrees of "badness."  The worst of the camps here in America into which a few tens of thousands of Japanese were sent were nothing compared with the best of the camps in Europe and Asia into which millions, tens of millions, of others were sent.

It's really puerile, this constant primitive assertion that stepping on someone's toe is "just as bad as" killing someone.

[Skul]

Sun Feb 19, 2012, 11:10 PM
 Stinky The Clown (45,085 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

 It was seventy years ago today that America sent Japanese Americans to our own concentration camps.
On this day in 1942, FDR signed the order that sent them there.

A VERY dark day in our history, indeed.40   
 

Who?
Tell us stinkDUde..WHO???
Was there a "D", invoved?
Tell us stinkDUde.
I thought FDR was your big hero, stinkDUde.
stinkDUde just dissed the major regressive icon of the socialist left.
stinkDUde is a loser.

[AllosaursRus]

Like I said, he needs to go back to playin' with the cat in his basement head! He's just makin' a fool of himself with tripe like this! He wants everyone to compare our internment camps durin' WWII to Hitlers death camps. What a putz!

[diesel driver]

Like I said, he needs to go back to playin' with the cat in his basement head! He's just makin' a fool of himself with tripe like this! He wants everyone to compare our internment camps durin' WWII to Hitlers death camps. What a putz!

As I posted on another thread, there was a MAJOR difference between our camps and Hitler's.

Ours didn't have "showers".

[AllosaursRus]

As I posted on another thread, there was a MAJOR difference between our camps and Hitler's.

Ours didn't have "showers".

And, we actually fed them better than many of our citizens could afford! far cry from a concentration camp! Any of you DU pukes ever see what our POW's looked like after bein' the guests of the Japanese durin' WWII?

You fail to realize that it was as much for their own safety to intern certain nationalities as it was for the fear of espionage!