I want the 9th Circuit to have my baby!

[Imran Siddiqui]

It had everything to do with nationality and had NOTHING to do with race no matter how many times you repeat it.

SUCH BULL****!

Why did all Japanese go? Even US citizens? Were they loyal to the emperor? Did they say they were? NO! They were concentrated because they were Japanese. It was racism at its basest level.

One of the worst periods in US history.

[Ramo]

Imran's right, it was about race not nationality. It didn't matter if the people of Japanese descent were fully assimilated apple-pie eating Americans, they were detained anyhow.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It didn't matter if the people of Japanese descent were fully assimilated apple-pie eating Americans, they were detained anyhow.

Utterly shameful .

I bet 99% of those detained had no nefarious goals.

[KrazyHorse]

Probably closer to 99.9%

I don't know if we managed to round up our Japanese first, or if we let you take the lead on that one.

[Berzerker]

And they didn't round up German or Italian Americans nor did they require German or Italian Americans in the US military go only to the Pacific like they ordered the Nisei division to Europe.

[Ned]

Guys, it was the emperor thing. The German no longer had an emperor. They did in WWI, and I understand there were restrictions placed on the Germans at that time.

[Berzerker]

You mean German Americans weren't allowed to fight the Hun in WWI? Or were they sent to Turkey? I suspect it had nothing to do with emporers but with racism and familiarity, Germans had lived in the USA from the beginning and them Japanese were...well...you know...foreign.

[Ramo]

Guys, it was the emperor thing.

Priceless.

I guess if the Brits ended up on different sides in WW II, we'd be rounding people up of British descent. Or does it only work for guy Emperors?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Emperors... that must be the silliest thing I've read on this forum... well, since yesterday .

[Ned]

Imran, Silly or not, it was THE fundamental reason for the order, it WAS discussed by the Supreme Court, it WAS the reason that the Supremes foung the order lawful.

What you are doing, Imran, is falling into the trap that reasons stated by the government and the Supreme Court are not the real reasons. This is conspiracy thinking.

As to Germans during WWI, I had a friend whose grandfather was a German in the US at that time. He was telling me some of the restrictions placed on them. That was some time ago, so I no longer remember the details.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Silly or not, it was THE fundamental reason for the order, it WAS discussed by the Supreme Court, it WAS the reason that the Supremes foung the order lawful.

Bull****, bull****, bull****. It was racism, pure and simple. If the Germans had an emperor there is no chance they'd be thrown into concentration camps.

What you are doing, Imran, is falling into the trap that reasons stated by the government and the Supreme Court are not the real reasons. This is conspiracy thinking.

Or rather realizing that the government and Court is trying to cover up the true reasons for their orders because, GUESS WHAT, government's LIE! I know that is hard for you to understand, but it happens.

As to Germans during WWI, I had a friend whose grandfather was a German in the US at that time. He was telling me some of the restrictions placed on them.

Was one of them being ripped from their homes and having to live in a camp set up by the US Army? NO? Then you just prove my point yet again.

[Ned]

So, Imran, you absolutely DENY that the Japanese had any loyalty at all to their Emperor?

[Imran Siddiqui]

So, Imran, you absolutely DENY that the Japanese had any loyalty at all to their Emperor?

I'm sure plenty of did have no loyalty to the Emperor of Japan.

[Kuciwalker]

What you are doing, Imran, is falling into the trap that reasons stated by the government and the Supreme Court are not the real reasons. This is conspiracy thinking.

A) so you think that it is a fallacy to DOUBT THE GOVERNMENT?!

B) it's not conspiracy theory, it's called cynicism

[Ramo]

Germany did have an Emperor during WWII in a sense. They called their gov't the Third Reich after all.

So, Imran, you absolutely DENY that the Japanese had any loyalty at all to their Emperor?

I'm sure that the vast majority of Japanese-Americans didn't take their orders from Hirohito just like the vast majority of Italian-Americans didn't take orders from Mussolini and the vast majority of German-Americans didn't take orders from Hitler. You're the person inventing racist conspiracy theories, no better than bringing up Papism or the Elders of Zion.