Final-Fan said:
Kasz216 said:
Final-Fan said:
Kasz216 said:
Final-Fan said:
"FDR made Bush look like a saint when it came to civil liberties."
Those Japanese were imprisoned for much less time than a lot of people in Guantanamo, and not tortured AFAIK.
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The Japanese were imprisoned for much less time... however they also had no reason for the majority of them to be there, and went around capturing people who weren't even in south america.
Furthermore he deported a masses of people to Japan... who weren't even from there... or the US, but south America.
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The people in Guantanamo were also imprisoned without sufficient reason. I guess you could argue that one action was unconstitutional and the other was MORE unconstitutional, but ... come on.
When you say "capturing people who weren't even in south america", I presume you mean "not even in the US but SA". I did confirm that we somehow got Japanese individuals from South America in U.S. internment camps, but not that they were successfully deported to Japan. Update: I see no evidence thus far that this particularly disgusting part of an already unsavory corner of U.S. history occurred with FDR's knowledge or consent, much less at his behest.
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Considering a number of people fought it in courts, it would of have to have came to his attention. The whole thing was done under an executive order, and so should of the resetlment.
It should also be noted that many of these people were not repaid for their possesions and land seized. |
I don't mean the internments in general; I mean, he signed Executive Order 9066, so obviously he knew of it.
I don't see evidence that he was aware of the specific part of the internments that involved the U.S. accepting people from Peru (that were basically kidnapped by the Peruvian government), apparently at least partly for the purpose of having hostages. You followed the link right?
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Your suggesting that someone else in the government just accepted a bunch of japanese people in the middle of WW2 without even notifying the president?
That's something that had to come across his desk.
That's like saying that the president wouldn't know we were selling weapons to "freedom fighter" groups.
Keep in mind we oursselves deported plenty of US citizens, and people who weren't aloud to be US citizens because of racist laws against asians to japan.
I mean that link itself shows FDR's racism towards asian americans.
