This DI article is far superior.

DInterested said: “That Japanese Americans were interned and German Americans were not, just doesn’t seem fair ;)”

Though not to the extent of Japanese Americans, both Italian and German ethnics on the east coast were interned.

The ignorance of this should be expected I guess, given the tenor of the discourse…but fact of the matter is both Italian AND German American Citizens were stuck in camps EXACTLY like the Japanese. In fact, they were set up in many cases side by side with POW Camps.

I know, I had relatives there. Displaced from the East Coast to camps in the interior they hated the fact that a common perimeter fence encircled the common Internment/POW camp. They saw the German Military Prisoners on the other side of the fence as the reason for their malady.

Italians and Germans moved on. Japanese got a few congressmen to continue whining until they got a payout. Welcome to political correctness.

When I didn’t know, and what I fnd the most offense pave is that despite massive “educational efforts” this story of even a single incident of rationale behind the Japanese Internment Camps seems to be missing.

It’s typical “American Bashing” agenda: cast the actions in the worst possible light. Despite knowing about this for 30+ years! this is the first time I can recall anybody mentioning an actual incident where a Japanese-American aided the enemy per dating the internment order.

In that light, the spark of hysteria makes FAR more sense other than some sanitary report from an intelligence agency (the way it’s always relayed).

They mention the Rombinson island incident and intelligence agency over reaction, fine & truthful.

What we get from the entrenched special interest victimology circus: hogwash, only partially relaying tihe whole truth of what happened!

gMac said: “A very interesting story, speaking as a Canadian we had the same abomination occur here. I can only imagine that the events on Niihau island also had a detrimental affect on Japanese-Canadians as well, as we seem to follow the US in many cases. I know that Canada also issued a formal apology with compensation in the 1980s after Ronald Reagan apologized in the US for the treatment of Japanese-Americans (not sure if money was involved in that case).
I can’t speak for the US but I know that one of the main causes of the internment in Canada was sheer jealousy and pandering for votes. Since most Japanese Canadians lived in British Columbia at the time the politicians from BC saw a chance to get more votes for ‘protecting’ their constituents from the ‘evils’ of the Japanese. In reality it was a money grab of the worst kind as many of their former neighbours and ‘friends’ profited greatly from the forced sale of their property. BC was also the root of a law which had banned ALL Asian immigration to Canada starting in the 1920s so it certainly met the qualifications necessary for the charge of racism. Interestingly Japanese internment in Canada occurred after the RCMP had told the Canadian government that there was no discernible Japanese spying activity, certainly nowhere near the amount that was present in other enemy communities across Canada. In these cases the spies were investigated and arrested or ‘turned’ by good solid (and generally legal) police work and intelligence. If people were improperly interned in those cases the number was in the dozens, not the thousands.
As far as what might have been done to uncover the potential spies within the Japanese community (if they existed), maybe DI could investigate how British Intelligence managed to keep the Germans guessing about the whereabouts and timing of the very successful D-Day invasions, even after the Allies invaded the Germans still didn’t know what was happening. I hardly think that American operations that occurred thousands of miles from the continental US were in any more danger of exposure than the world’s largest amphibious landing which was occurring a few dozen miles off the British coast.”

I’m not sure how shameful and unjust this was. If a US citizen of Japanese descent could turn on the U.S. THE SAME DAY the Japanese attacked…wouldn’t you figure quite a few more would do it over the course of the war with Japan?

Seems justified to me. It’s war, that sorta stuff happens.

Don’t forget that many German Americans Repatriated and fought in the war against Americans.

Here is another website that discusses the internment of Alaska Natives!!!