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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (660249)	11/14/2004 6:53:57 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

They were treated well? That's a joke. There are kind guards and cruel ones. I'm sure your stepfather's dad was a kind one, and evidently he felt comfortable with what was done to those people. I can't know what was in his mind. I can guess what would have been if the same had been done to his family: "In March of 1942 the American government herded an estimated 120,000 Japanese people out of their Pacific coast homes at gunpoint. Between 75,000 and 80,000 of these Japanese were U.S. citizens. Some were naturalized. The majority were Nisei - that is, they were American born and raised citizens. Soldiers forced these people, who had neither been accused nor charged with any crime, into 10 desolate, makeshift internment camps, quickly slapped together in the country's interior. ... To prove their loyalty many Japanese-Americans, who made up only .01 percent of the population, proudly displayed banners proclaiming "I AM AMERICAN" on their homes and storefronts. But their poignant messages were unheeded. So, too, were exhaustive efforts by Japanese-American national organizations to prove the minority groups' patriotism... ... The order stipulated that all people of Japanese descent in these areas must be removed from their homes immediately. Early that day armed U.S. soldiers began dragging Japanese people out of their homes in these four states. There were no trials, no determination of guilt, and no evidence of any sabotage... All Japanese - men, women, and children - on the West Coast were hauled away to "some of the most uninhabitable parts of the interior of our continent." Age, sex, and citizenship meant nothing. Nearly half the interned Japanese people were young children confined to harsh, bare camps, usually in deserts, surrounded by wire and armed militia.[8] The camps were located in the most remote areas of Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, with little or no vegetation, or swamp-like terrain. In some camps winter temperatures dropped to 35 below zero. In others, particularly in Arizona, the summer temperatures soared as high as 115 degrees.[9] Soldiers with rifles patrolled the camp perimeters 24 hours a day. In several instances they shot and killed Japanese who were reportedly trying to escape.[10] Japanese families were torn apart and financially wiped out. Many lost their West Coast homes and businesses - in addition to their dignity - as internment sentences lasted until the end of the war. Within the camps, many internees, crowded into tarpaper shacks, died from inadequate medical attention and insufficient nutrition. In most camps dust and sand penetrated the hastily constructed barracks walls and floors. Many families were crammed into each drafty barrack, sometimes with only hanging blankets dividing the living quarters. One former resident said "the desert was bad enough. But the constant cyclonic storms, loaded with sand and dust made it worse. Suddenly forced to live the life of a dog is something which one can not so readily forget."[11] Internees were forced to stand in line for substandard food. They shared communal bathroom facilities, including toilets without stalls. There were psychological challenges as well, as they had to cope with a sense of betrayal and the sudden loss of homes, property, livelihood, and freedom...." etc etc etc list.msu.edu