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hobbit709

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62. That part about the balloons is total BS.

Reply to KurtNYC (Reply #36)

Mon Feb 20, 2012, 09:38 PM

Feb 2012

There were some that landed in the Pacific northwest. As far as trying to stop the A-bomb-that is totally made up.

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It was seventy years ago today that America sent Japanese Americans to our own concentration camps. [View all] Stinky The Clown Feb 2012 OP

we shouldn't have did that limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #1

Did you ever read "Snow Falling on Cedars?" blue neen Feb 2012 #2

I do remember that. Stinky The Clown Feb 2012 #3

Theatrical... ellisonz Feb 2012 #21

I am doing a report on this... Kalidurga Feb 2012 #4

While it was wrong, and bad Confusious Feb 2012 #5

THe word fits... BrentWil Feb 2012 #6

Yeah, like natural causes low. Muskypundit Feb 2012 #10

Why not use the word usually used Confusious Feb 2012 #16

it's not anti-American enough to say "internment camp" hfojvt Feb 2012 #32

Is the OP anti-American? 2ndAmForComputers Feb 2012 #74

"Internment camp" is to "concentration camp" as "enhanced interrogation" is to "torture." Posteritatis Feb 2012 #44

Sure it is Confusious Feb 2012 #45

In fact, most German concentration camps were not "death camps". Bonobo Feb 2012 #55

In fact, you have a disingenuous argument Confusious Feb 2012 #65

I smell a person who lost the one prop holding up their argument Bonobo Feb 2012 #67

Again, you're wrong Confusious Feb 2012 #68

Isn't it past your bedtime? nt Bonobo Feb 2012 #69

If it is, then you should have gone to bed Confusious Feb 2012 #70

Not at all. Bonobo Feb 2012 #73

Only in your mind.... Confusious Feb 2012 #75

It was the very definition of a "concentration camp". Bonobo Feb 2012 #7

Then why not use the word usually used Confusious Feb 2012 #15

just came back from Dachau and you're confusing that kind of camp with a death camp CreekDog Mar 2012 #84

As I've said before, and you may have missed Confusious Mar 2012 #85

I keep trying to explain the difference between these camps as they explained them to us CreekDog Mar 2012 #86

You're misrepresenting what I said Confusious Mar 2012 #87

We're just arguing over terminology --but you made a mistake in describing Dachau CreekDog Mar 2012 #88

Much as we may ask pregnant women if they've named the fetus yet? LanternWaste Feb 2012 #46

? blue neen Feb 2012 #9

Why do you seem to think I know nothing about it? Confusious Feb 2012 #14

President Roosevelt called them "concentration camps." blue neen Feb 2012 #26

So you're just following Roosevelts example? Confusious Feb 2012 #38

I've done plenty of reading on German concentration camps. blue neen Feb 2012 #50

You're the only one with compassion Confusious Feb 2012 #51

What cross? blue neen Feb 2012 #53

Figure it out. nt Confusious Feb 2012 #72

I notice there is no link for Roosevelt calling them "concentration camps" former9thward Feb 2012 #57

Please notice that there is indeed a link in post #26. blue neen Feb 2012 #58

That is what I'm posting about former9thward Feb 2012 #60

Here's a quote: blue neen Feb 2012 #66

Thanks for the quote! former9thward Feb 2012 #77

The term is probably technically correct, but in the popular mind it's associated with the Nazis RZM Feb 2012 #17

Thank you Confusious Feb 2012 #18

I've usually thought of it the same way RZM Feb 2012 #19

Concentration camp is such a much more straight-forward description than the sanitized indepat Feb 2012 #34

Not really RZM Feb 2012 #37

I guess 2+2=5 Confusious Feb 2012 #39

George Takei mentioned this on Facebook. backscatter712 Feb 2012 #8

Some years ago I worked with a woman who spent her childhood in one of the camps Stinky The Clown Feb 2012 #11

reparation and redress dynasaw Feb 2012 #27

He talked about it at a Science Fiction convention I attended 25 years ago. eShirl Feb 2012 #20

while their sons fought, & died, with extraordinary valor, in the US Army .... marasinghe Feb 2012 #12

FDR, of all people... davidthegnome Feb 2012 #13

I'm not defending the order. It was just plain awful. But . . . . Stinky The Clown Feb 2012 #22

Let's Get This Straight dynasaw Feb 2012 #31

Post removed Post removed Feb 2012 #23

Ah, we have Mr. Sensitive here. backscatter712 Feb 2012 #29

Italians and Germans too NNN0LHI Feb 2012 #24

But Italians and Germans had to actually DO something suspicious to be interned Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2012 #28

Except the ones who lived in the Panama Canal Zone Bruce Wayne Feb 2012 #56

K&R zoechen Feb 2012 #25

Here's some reading material for you: blue neen Feb 2012 #30

Sure it was. Confusious Feb 2012 #40

One life taken in those camps, whatever YOU choose to call them, was too much. blue neen Feb 2012 #49

Do you ever get any point I'm trying to make? Confusious Feb 2012 #52

What cross? blue neen Feb 2012 #54

Figure it out. nt Confusious Feb 2012 #71

Who is saying they are equal to "The holocaust" (quotes yours) or what happened to NA? uppityperson Feb 2012 #64

yep. I recently spoke to a former internment camp resident. He described how Liberal_in_LA Feb 2012 #61

This is a history that should be remembered along with the treatment of German Americans. With jwirr Feb 2012 #33

My brother in law was a guard at one of those concentrtion camp. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2012 #35

I used to drive past those camps KurtNYC Feb 2012 #36

That part about the balloons is total BS. hobbit709 Feb 2012 #62

The BS killed 6 in Oregon; stopped a nuclear weapons plant in WA KurtNYC Feb 2012 #78

Prove to me the Japanese knew about the plant. hobbit709 Feb 2012 #79

So who was working in the plant in your theory of history? KurtNYC Feb 2012 #80

And about 99% of them didn't know anything beyond "Top Secret" hobbit709 Feb 2012 #81

The location is quite the museum now. miyazaki Feb 2012 #76

My late wife Another Bill C. Feb 2012 #41

The Counter Point: Historical, Social, and cultural context is IMPORTANT. bvar22 Feb 2012 #42

The OP has only facts (and one opinion) Stinky The Clown Feb 2012 #47

The context is important, I agree. And yet... Bruce Wayne Feb 2012 #63

And Guantanamo's still open. rug Feb 2012 #43

It wasn't just the internment HeiressofBickworth Feb 2012 #48

What was the mentality of people in Germany? Boojatta Feb 2012 #82

All I know is what I've read HeiressofBickworth Feb 2012 #83

Interesting sidenote: the RW governor of Hawaii decided not to inter Bruce Wayne Feb 2012 #59