"When I was four, soldiers with bayonets marched up to our home and ordered my family out."
From George Takei's facebook page:
"When I was four, soldiers with bayonets marched up to our home and ordered my family out. My life's mission is to ensure that what happened next never happens again. Please honor my hope and give this a listen: http://ohmyyy.gt/ooE13o "
Enjoy. :)
"When I was four, soldiers with bayonets marched up to our home and ordered my family out. My life's mission is to ensure that what happened next never happens again. Please honor my hope and give this a listen: http://ohmyyy.gt/ooE13o "
Enjoy. :)
The cause of the problem was people warping law to fit their opinion. Sorta like those who tell a businessman who his customers can be and saying that he must serve those he does not want to serve.
Although, when I was a kid he was the only Star Trek male crew-member that I didn’t have a puppy-crush on. Even the scene with him running dow the corridors shirtless with a bayonet didn’t do anything for me. I think I developed a woman’s intuition early.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica...
Who was President during WWII? Some Democrat, wasn't it?
I'd just like to point this out...
WE WON WORLD WAR II.
Meanwhile, this war we're fighting politically correctly continues endlessly and all we're getting for it is our best young men coming home in pieces.
Make no mistake... political correctness kills.
am I the ONLY one who recognizes Maph beating on the same old drum? You think it's *coincidence* that he's citing George Takei, the gay member of the Star Drek troupe?
With his track record?
Yes, let's question Phil Robertson's anecdotal account, but let's accept as gospel Takei's anecdotal account.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det...
"From the Publisher
Everything you've been taught about the World War II "internment camps" in America is wrong:
- They were not created primarily because of racism or wartime hysteria
- They did not target only those of Japanese descent
- They were not Nazi-style death camps
In her latest investigative tour-de-force, New York Times best-selling author Michelle Malkin sets the historical record straight-and debunks radical ethnic alarmists who distort history to undermine common-sense, national security profiling. The need for this myth-shattering book is vital. President Bush's opponents have attacked every homeland defense policy as tantamount to the "racist" and "unjustified" World War II internment. Bush's own transportation secretary, Norm Mineta, continues to milk his childhood experience at a relocation camp as an excuse to ban profiling at airports. Misguided guilt about the past continues to hamper our ability to prevent future terrorist attacks. In Defense of Internment shows that the detention of enemy aliens, and the mass evacuation and relocation of ethnic Japanese from the West Coast were not the result of irrational hatred or conspiratorial bigotry. This document-packed book highlights the vast amount of intelligence, including top-secret "MAGIC" messages, which revealed the Japanese espionage threat on the West Coast. Malkin also tells the truth about:
- who resided in enemy alien internment camps (nearly half were of European ancestry)
- what the West Coast relocation centers were really like (tens of thousands of ethnic Japanese were allowed to leave; hundreds voluntarily chose to move in)
- why the $1.65 billion federal reparations law for Japanese internees and evacuees was a bipartisan disaster - and how both Japanese American and Arab/Muslim American leaders have united to undermine America's safety. With trademark fearlessness, Malkin adds desperately needed perspective to the ongoing debate about the balance between civil liberties and national security. In Defense of Internment will outrage, enlighten, and radically change the way you view the past-and the present. "
My parents were told by that government you love so much that only people with dual citizenship and resident aliens, who would not sign loyalty oaths, were taken to internment camps, in some cases for their own protection after Pearl Harbor. The government wouldn't lie, would they?
My only regret about interning Japanese, Germans, and Italians during WWII is that it made us hesitate to expel or intern Moslems during this war.
Trivia for you: more colonists died in prison during the War of Independence than died on the battlefield. Same for British.
The same people who cry and scream over internment are quite often all to willing to cheer the horror and destruction inflicted upon civilian populations during the Total War campaign the Union inflicted upon the Confederacy.
Even assuming his account is accurate... don't care.
Wait til the bayonets come to order bakers out of their business for not catering to sexual deviants.
Without the rule of law, and, without the legal protection of property rights, and, freedom of speech, there are no human rights.
Cheers for George Takei.