No time to ask questions: Lawmaker appears to defend use of WWII Japanese internment camps

[angka]

Source: Washington Post

House Bill 1230, also known as the Ralph Carr Freedom Defense Act, was introduced by Colorado House Democrats earlier this month to ensure the state “does not aid or assist any federal overreach that would set up a registry for Muslims or other religious groups, create internment camps, or attempt to identify individuals by their race, religion, nationality, or immigration status and ethnicity — all of which go against our American and Colorado values and our U.S. and state Constitutions,” said state Rep. Joe Salazar (D), a co-sponsor.

The bill is aimed squarely at the policies of President Trump, who throughout his campaign made frequent promises to ban Muslims and create a Muslim registry. It is named after former Colorado governor Ralph Carr — a Republican — who opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order to create Japanese internment camps in the state.

The mass incarceration of as many as 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II is widely considered a shameful and unjust chapter in U.S. history.

However, during the bill's second hearing in the Colorado House of Representatives on Wednesday, Republican state Rep. Phil Covarrubias seemed to argue that the mass incarceration order was done “in the heat of combat” when there was “no time to ask questions.”

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[Jonny Appleseed]

1. Yes, and that's we we're saying "let's not do that again"

Or has there been "no time to ask questions" over the last 70 years?

[Turn CO Blue]

4. Authoritarians prefer we never ask any questions.

They prefer living with their rose-colored glasses on, where catastrophic crimes like Japanese internment can be painted over with delusions of permanently rose-colored American exceptionalism.

[tblue37]

6. Nah, they wear yellow glasses, so their view of everyone and everything is jaundiced. nt

[47of74]

2. Jesus what a fucking idiot

That's the nicest thing I can say about Covarrubias

[iluvtennis]

5. Agree a moron and nincompoop and a nitwit as well nt

[SCVDem]

3. Wasn't that a character on the X Files?

What the hell is wrong with the right?

They just want to rule through fear since their ideas suck!

[MichMan]

7. Should forever taint FDR legacy

The Japanese internment was one of our countries worst moments and the legacy of FDR should be forever tainted by it.

For many people, however, this despicable act is glossed over while they praise him for Social Security and Unions. I don't get it ?

[StevieM]

8. It has tainted FDR's legacy. It just doesn't eliminate all the good things he did.

Millions of people were on the brink of starving to death before the New Deal.

It is hard to overlook that he prevented that, along with all his other accomplishments.

But the Internment was horrible. And it should stain him.

Earl Warren, the governor of California, helped carry it out. And that stains him. But we also remember the great things he did as Chief Justice of the United States.