Executive Order 9066

[Doc Holliday]

It's part of our history the government wants you to forget.

Executive Order 9066, signed by Franklin Roosevelt during WWII, took 100,000+ Japanese-Americans from their homes and placed them into concentration camps, right here in America. Many of the camps were on Indian/Native Reservations, against the will of the Indians/Natives, who didn't want them built on their lands. One of the largest camps was here in Arizona. Yesterday I took a drive over to the west side of the state, and saw one of the few remaining barracks still standing from that camp.

 

[Suck My Glock]

Poston?

 

[Doc Holliday]

Poston?

Yup. :!:

 

[Ballistic Therapy]

There was one in the Catalinas outside of Tucson also.
It is at mile post 7 going up Mt Lemmon Highway.
There are no buildings left but there are plenty of foundations left where they were standing.

 

[storage_man]

Everybody here needs to remember that after WWI, this country didn't ever want to fight in another WAR (We lost many patriots for no reason at all). But the Germans in the late 30's were kicking ass again in Europe, taking countries and Churchill begged Roosevelt to get involved. Most American's heard this story before and didn't give a crap about France and ... all of the other countries. The people of the USA said NO (My father & Grandfather told me many times). But after the attack on Pearl Harbor, American attitudes changed. Conspiracy theorist thought that Roosevelt made this happen (Which he didn't), so after that anybody with slanted eye's were deemed the ENEMY. I remember as a young child in the middle 40's, every Jap was an enemy and we shot them in play time.

Back then there was more patriotism then exists today, and back then, during the war (even today) SHIT happens. Good or bad. :clap:

 

[Pale Rider]

We don't have to worry now though. The Feds would never do any unconstitutional shiat like that these days, right? They all watch our constitutional rights like a hawk,-------my aching ass.

 

[Steve_In_29]

Another facet of the push to get FDR to sign the order was white Americans wanting to get their hands on the lands and assets owned by the Japanese Americans. The internees signed their property over for pennies on the dollar, if they were given any compensation at all.

It wasn't just the .gov that was culpable.

 

[RandyTF]

So next is we need to compensate the Japanese for those atrocities. But we don't seem to see much about their demands anywhere. Maybe they have too much pride and class so they don't make that sort of stink.

 

[Miker12]

So next is we need to compensate the Japanese for those atrocities. But we don't seem to see much about their demands anywhere. Maybe they have too much pride and class so they don't make that sort of stink.

In 1988, President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act to compensate more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent who were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. The legislation offered a formal apology and paid out $20,000 in compensation to each surviving victim. The law won congressional approval only after a decade-long campaign by the Japanese-American community.

To mark the 25th anniversary of its passage, the Civil Liberties Act was put on display at the National Archives alongside the original Executive Order 9066, which authorized the internment.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/09/210138278/japanese-internment-redress

 

[Crippledtrigger]

So next is we need to compensate the Japanese for those atrocities. But we don't seem to see much about their demands anywhere. Maybe they have too much pride and class so they don't make that sort of stink.

Already did.