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By: Vivek Golikeri

Vivek Golikeri — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:23:07 +0000

Incidentally, I have heard this same “that was an unfortunate mistake” dodge from Iranian persons about the Tehran embassy hostage crisis. That Ayatollah Khomeini had lied to the people that an “American and Zionist” mass invasion of Iran was imminent, and that the embassy was a “nest of spies” that would serve as a Trojan Horse for the hitlerization of Iran. That hysteria caused their savagery toward our blindfolded hostages.

By: Vivek Golikeri

Vivek Golikeri — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:01:58 +0000

Earl Wareen explicitly said: “When we deal with the Caucasian race, we have methods that will test the loyalty of them. But when we deal with the Japanese, that is an entirely different field.” That remark is not hearsay but public record. And yet Ex-PFC Wintergreen claims that Warren and others were not racist, just misguided?

Calling the internment an unfortunate mistake is like calling a date rape an error in communication. We have a mountain of evidence involving blatantly racist comments. Moreover, the fact that Eskimoes and Aleut Indians from Alaska were also interned proves beyond question that it was racism. Such excuse-making has the same relationship with Holocaust Denial that first degree murder has with manslaughter. Except that the Nisei were not murdered, that is also exactly the difference between the internment and Hitler’s persecution of the Jews ———- a difference of degree.

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By: ExPFC Wintergreen

ExPFC Wintergreen — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:34:16 +0000

I think it is a stretch to call Earl Warren a racist. I would heartily agree he was a government-centric liberal, but not a racist. It was wartime, and however misguided, I believe that at the time the majority of jurists, politicians,military and others in positions of responsibility for public safety felt that, in the wake of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, that the security of the country required measures that were distasteful, but necessary, and temporary. I wasn’t even alive then, so I wouldn’t know. Remember, this was before the age of political correctness, which has swung the pendelum so far the other way that REAL and PRESESNT dangers to the national security are sent through the TSA security lines carte blanche.

By: John Seiler

John Seiler — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:54:25 +0000

David,

Yes, you are correct. The Register’s then-owner, R.C. Hoiles, was one of the few newspaper editors in the country to oppose the internment, and the only one on the West Coast. Steven Greenhut, our editor, wrote a great article on it 2 years ago:
http://www.freedompolitics.com/articles/many-48-government-discretion.html

By: David in Irvine

David in Irvine — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:08:19 +0000

John- you probably know this better than I can recall, but didn’t the west coast newspapers support the internment, with the exception of The Santa Ana Register? (The more things change,…huh?) I was thinking about what the LA Times editors may have opined in 1942 on this internment when a few weeks ago in response to the the TSA groping issue they said “Shut up and accept it”.