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2012-06-06 Home Front: Politix

L.A. County Board to vote on repealing support of WWII Japanese internment

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Posted by gorb 2012-06-06 09:27|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Harsh and probably unwarranted in most cases, yet somewhat humane treatment as opposed to how the Japanese treated their Chinese, Korean and Filipino subjects.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2012-06-06 09:45|| 2012-06-06 09:45|| Front Page Top

#2 A number of folks profitted from the property theft. Id be more impressed with LA if they found a way to publicize who did and by how much. I suspect a lot of them were strong Democrat supporters which is why nobody has so far taken that step.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2012-06-06 09:58|| 2012-06-06 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Of course 'new' information gleaned from the declassification of the pre-war and WWII Japanese diplomatic traffic in the 90s won't get the volume of attention that the original act did. Whether the Japanese consulate personnel were just telling their bosses what they wanted to hear or that there was some truth to their reports is up to interpretation. What was not up for interpretation was that the people responsible for security didn't have the luxury to play political correctness with 90 percent of all the nation's aircraft production in the LA or Seattle area based upon those intercepts.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-06-06 10:26|| 2012-06-06 10:26|| Front Page Top

#4 So people who were not alive at the time will rescind a decision that they didn't make, 60 years after the fact.

The word "pointless' leaps to mind.

Posted by mojo 2012-06-06 11:31|| 2012-06-06 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Bingo, rj!

Posted by Barbara 2012-06-06 12:31|| 2012-06-06 12:31|| Front Page Top

#6 So apparently all other problems were solved and they could get on with 70 year old ones that no one really gives a rat's ass about anymore.

Or are they trying to keep from making really hard decisions that will cost them their jobs by the voters?

Posted by DarthVader 2012-06-06 13:25|| 2012-06-06 13:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Not making the hard decisions should cost them their jobs. In a sane world.

Posted by gorb 2012-06-06 14:40|| 2012-06-06 14:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Exactly Proc. There was a very real danger of Sabotage. Who knows what might have happened if we _didn't_.

It was a terrible thing to have to do - and in most cases unwarranted. But we didn't have the liberty to play Political Correctness at the time.

Still should have guarded their property better.

Posted by CrazyFool 2012-06-06 15:50|| 2012-06-06 15:50|| Front Page Top

#9 My mother was a child of 11 at the time, and living with her family in Pasadena, California. Her very best friend was a Japanese-American girl her age, who was the daughter of a nursery-gardener who was one of my grandfather's suppliers. (Grandfather being the head gardener for one of those enormous estates.)And my mother's friend and her family were interned first at the old Santa Anita racetrack in Altadena. My grandfather took her to visit with her friend; they could talk to each other across the barbed wire fence around the internment center.
My grandfather stored all of the property that they couldn't take with them in his garage for the duration. There was another retail nursery-gardener, an Anglo - who bought the nursery and the house that they had to sell, but he paid them a very fair market price for it, which apparently was quite unusual.
They worked for him when they came back, after the war.
Just for grins and giggles, I'd also like to know who benefitted from the forced sales of property. I've also rather cynically been amused at how the print media these days so solemly get up and decry the public hysteria on the west coast that led to the demands for the Japanese to be interned - when the Hearst newspapers in 1942 took a leading role in whipping up the anti-Japanese hysteria in the first place!
My mother has always said that she was rather glad that her friend and her family were interned, because then they were protected by armed guards. She said that after Pearl Harbor, and the fall of the Phillipines, she heard so much ugly talk about what ought to be done about the US-resident Japanese. They didn't tend to live all clustered together - no Chinatown-type district, back then. Most of the Japanese-Americans she knew lived out on little truck farms, or scattered thru suburbia. She says there very likely would have been mob action, and random attacks on Japanese during 1942 and 1943. People were frightened, and very, very angry; it always astonished and shocked her, the ugly things that people said in public - in front of her and other children!

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