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Sunday, February 28, 2016

The Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II - from my friend Bill V.

I know the attack on Pearl Harbor was a really devastating blow to the security of Americans, and a lot of them freaked out completely..

 Roosevelt's actions were, as I remember, upheld by the Supreme Court.

 I would just like to note two things though 1) There WAS a really nasty and cynical "land grab" of Japanese holdings in California especially and 2) Considering the concentration camps of other countries, the American camps were not so hideous ( but who would want to be in one, of course?)
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A Date That Should Live in Infamy

Never forget Executive Order 9066

 
Friday, February 19, 2016
  • #War
  • #Civil Liberties
  • #Race
  • #FDR
  • #Concentration Camps
    • On February 19, 1942 — seventy-four years ago today — Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. With the stroke of his pen, the man who had earlier snubbed Jesse Owens after the Berlin Olympics used his executive powers to order the imprisonment of over 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry (as well as thousands of German and Italian ancestry) for the duration of World War II.
    Most of the internees were natural-born American citizens, whose “crime” was having a parent or merely a grandparent with Japanese blood. It was an act of naked, aggressive racism that damaged people and families, including my own, for generations.
    It happened here. With the NDAA as the law of the land, and with war-mongering and xenophobia, it could happen here again. We must oppose such collectivism and stand for freedom for all.
    On a related note, if you think Apple’s current battle with the FBI over iPhone security is based on empty fears of civil-liberties violations, think again. After decades of denials, the US Census Bureau recently admitted that it provided the Treasury Department with the names and addresses of Japanese-Americans who were later tracked down and herded into concentration camps.
    Correction: This post originally referred to Jesse Owens competing at the Munich Olympics; it was actually Berlin.
    Sandy Ikeda
    Sandy Ikeda
    Sandy Ikeda is a professor of economics at Purchase College, SUNY, and the author of The Dynamics of the Mixed Economy: Toward a Theory of Interventionism. He is a member of the FEE Faculty Network.
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