The Internment of the Japanese and German Americans was based solely on suspicion and great injustice was done. But the stakes were great and what was done was done on a worse case appraisal of the scenario.

Holger on September 18, 2009 at 2:27 AM

No, it was done solely on the basis of racism. Unlike the case of German Americans, the entire population of Japanese-Americans was removed from the West Coast. In the case of both German and Italian Americans, it was done on the basis of FBI investigation, and so only those who had expressed Fascist sympathies, along with their (sometimes citizen) children and families, were removed.

I know this because my maternal grandfather was from Sicily; all five Cardone sons joined the Army and fought in Europe (including Italy). Apparently, nobody questioned their patriotism as the patriotism of both Sadao Munemori and his family, and the patriotism of Nobutero Harry Sumida (a Navy veteran and Purple Heart recipient in the Spanish-American War) were questioned. I guess I’m happy about the thought that my grandmother was a Blue Star Mother without barbed wire around her house, but then there’s the other thoughts about Sadao’s mother, who became a Gold Star Mother in the camps.

California was at the forefront of this racist circus — Democratic politicians there (including Earl Warren) wanted the entire state cleared of people of Japanese ancestry, while the states of Oregon and Washington requested that those citizens in the interior half of their state not be cleared. General John “a Jap is a Jap” DeWitt (whose racism was evident in nearly every comment relating to the evacuation) ordered that all three states be cleared to their eastern borders.

It is a stain on our courts that they permitted this type of Executive Order by an obviously racist party to go unchallenged, but then most of the racist policies of the Democrats went unchallenged all the way into the mid 1960′s.

It took the Republicans, led by President Ronald Reagan, to finally apologize to our individual citizens of Japanese ancestry who were deprived of liberty, and to make a small restitution for their travails. If you ever pass by Manzanar on the way to Mammoth or June Lake, you can see Reagan’s letter of apology carefully preserved.

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Mrs. Obama first hatched the UCMC program as the “South Side Health Collaborative,” which featured a gang of “counselors” whose job it was to “advise” low-income patients that they would be better off at other hospitals and clinics. The program was so successful in getting rid of unwanted patients that she expanded it, gave it a new name, and hired none other than David Axelrod to sell the program to the public. According to the Sun-Times, “Obama’s wife and Valerie Jarrett, an Obama friend and adviser who chairs the medical center’s board, backed the Axelrod firm’s hiring.” Axelrod helped the future First Lady formulate a public relations campaign in which the “Urban Health Initiative” was represented as a boon to the community actuated by the purest of altruistic motives.

In one of the few frank passages of the Post article, we discover that many members of UCMC’s medical staff believe the program is nothing more than an “attempt to ensure that the hospital retains only affluent patients with insurance.” And another association of emergency physicians has joined ACEP in denouncing the Urban Health Initiative. The Chicago Tribune reports that Dr. Larry Weiss, president of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine is unhappy about UCMC’s failure to consult its own ER physicians before initiating the program: “Not including emergency-room physicians … would be analogous to changing the way surgery is performed in an operating room without involving any surgeons.” Dr. Whitaker assures us, however, that such critics are merely “opposed to change.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/michelle_obamas_patientdumping_1.html

I was angry at the time but now I’m totally outraged that she’s going around trying to sell us a bill of goods like she’s some sort of gentle and kind moral woman. She/they make me sick to my stomach.

Sounds like another ACORN scheme hatched by soulless snobs. How could anyone even contemplate such a horrendous plot against human beings?!!!!

Holger on September 18, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Mangy Scot on September 18, 2009 at 2:09 PM

Sorry. Hypersensitivity on my part.

Are Mangy Scot and Holger sockpuppets of Killgore Trout?

zmdavid on September 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM

Oh heck NO! I’m probably farther right than you.

It’s just Friday and I need to dial back on the caffine.

I’d love to be at a town hall with her though, and ask her….what will be the requirements for not being a drive by under this crap plan.

The White House is desperate. This is a move they didn’t want to make; they wanted to keep Michelle out of the policy spotlight to avoid the negatives that Hillary racked up. The fact they’re deploying her tells you……

Ed and Allah and Michelle

For the love of God get rid of the link to Little Green Footballs!

Hilts on September 18, 2009 at 11:12 AM

I third this. If you need technical assistance I am a WordPress developer.

the aim is for the first lady’s imprimatur to put a friendly face and a noncontroversial spin on

First, you’ve got to have a friendly face and be noncontroversial. Fail.

she’ll make the soft, soccer-mom sell

Apparently they don’t know soccer moms the way I know soccer moms. But sure, go for the Sarah Palin-style sell.

Seriously though, what’s with playing to sexist stereotypes?

Tell your sister I called her an ignorant doofus.

Jeff from WI on September 18, 2009 at 9:42 AM

She already knows- shortly AFTER the inauguration she lost her cushy bank job….

*blech*

For the health care reform push, which got something of a reboot last week with President Barack Obama’s address to Congress, the aim is for the first lady’s imprimatur to put a friendly face and a noncontroversial spin on a complex, highly partisan issue.

Am I the only one who thinks that’s funny?

Breaking news! Michelle Obama shops at Farmers Market, cheers vegetables!

Glad she’s eating healthy, but that picture on Drudge looks like she needs to let those pants out a bit. :o)

Ed and Allah and Michelle

For the love of God get rid of the link to Little Green Footballs!

Hilts on September 18, 2009 at 11:12 AM

Second that.

Not a big fan of his works though.

For the love of God get rid of the link to Little Green Footballs!

Are Mangy Scot and Holger sockpuppets of Killgore Trout?

I am being sarcastic and doing my part to ridicule the liberal doctrine of racism into ineffectivity.

I suspect the only racists at Hotair are trolls from LGF trying to start something.

When his mother finds out he is on the computer at this hour she will take away the Barney doll he sleeps with.

Elizabetty on September 18, 2009 at 1:38 AM

Would that be a Barney Frank doll?