This is nothing new. During World War 2, Americans were placed in concentration camps and the only crime they committed was that they were Japanese
decent. Remember, it's just a conspiracy theory when you have no facts to support your claim, but a true conspiracy has facts.
In February 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order Number 9066, forcing more than 120,000 Japanese Americans into "relocation
centers" across the country in the largest forced movement of people in the U.S. since the relocation of Native Americans in the nineteenth century.
Driving them from their homes in California, Western Oregon, Washington and Southern Arizona, the U.S. government gave families as little as two weeks
to report to concentration camps where most would spent the next three to four years.
The sudden order and the distances families were being asked to travel meant that almost everything but the clothes on their backs had to be left
behind. Families from Bainbridge Island, Washington, for example, were forced to report to the Tule Lake relocation center in Northern California.
Most lost everything they had before the war. They had to sell, give away, or destroy land, homes, vehicles, cherished relics, and artifacts.
Nearly 65 percent of those interned were American citizens born in the United States, while the other 35 percent could not become citizens by law.
They had broken no laws. There would be no hearings or trials for those incarcerated. Their only crime was their heritage.
While the Second World War raged in Europe and Asia, the incarceration of Japanese in the United States rested on a campaign of racism and hypocrisy.
To justify the camps, Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, commander of the Western Defense Command and the Fourth Army, characterized Japanese Americans as "a
large, unassimilated, tightly knit racial group, bound to an enemy by strong ties of race, culture, custom and religion," which constituted a
"menace which had to be dealt with."
They’re not Concentration Camps! They’re Relocation Centers! Yea, Right.
Concentration Camps?
America's Concentration Camps
Topaz Camp
[edit on 14-2-2006 by bigrich117]