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Reparations?
Posted at 4:08 a.m., Thursday, January 25, 2007
Inouye introduces bill to investigate WWII internment
Associated Press
Sen. Daniel Inouye yesterday introduced a bill to create a commission to investigate the relocation, internment and deportation of Latin Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II and the late 1940s.
"They were taken from their homes in countries such as Brazil, Panama and Peru, stripped of their passports, involuntarily brought to the United States, and interned in American camps," Inouye, D-Hawaii, said in a news release issued by his Washington office.
"They apparently had only one purpose on U.S. soil — to be used for prisoner exchanges with Japan," he said.
Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, one of the co-sponsors of the legislation, said the panel will conduct a thorough examination of the largely unknown aspect of the internment of some 2,300 Latin Americans of Japanese ancestry.
"We are a great nation, and we should not be afraid of the lessons we can learn from the dark chapters of our history," Akaka said.
Inouye agreed.
"The lessons of history can be painful," he said. "But that pain can also strengthen our nation and our commitment to its democratic ideals, which include equal justice for all."
The other co-sponsors of the bill are Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Carl Levin, D-Mich., Robert Bennett, R-Utah, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska.
The nine-member commission would be able to recommend remedies, if any, based on what it uncovered.
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment of about 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. They received a formal apology from President Ronald Reagan in 1988.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Jan/25/br/br7950628431.html
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reparations are a very weird thing. monster pandoras box capabilities.
vietnam was started over a lie, the gulf of tonken, which they now admit was a "middle mgmt mistake" in the DoD.
should children of people killed in Vietnam receive reparations?
Suppose scooter libby dropped ironclad evidence that WMD was a lie and the war was indeed about oil and now WMD. Imagine 3000 families asking for them.
Good to see they're investigating what happened in WWII tho, so that it can never happen in USA again
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Maybe if we had to pay for our mistakes, we'd stop making frakin' mistakes all the time ;D
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I never heard of this.... 66 years later and now they are doing something about it?
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I never heard of this.... 66 years later and now they are doing something about it?
Better late than never? :-\ I suspect part of this is Inouye trying to make himself useful. He's pretty useless. Too bad Ed Case couldn't send him home.
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Better late than never? :-\ I suspect part of this is Inouye trying to make himself useful. He's pretty useless. Too bad Ed Case couldn't send him home.
ahh totally agree, both Inouye and Akaka are useless. we need change.
reparations can be dangerous.
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ahh totally agree, both Inouye and Akaka are useless. we need change.
reparations can be dangerous.
I bet one of them dies in office. They both don't look so hot, especially Akaka.
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I bet one of them dies in office. They both don't look so hot, especially Akaka.
then we will have to deal with Ambercrombie (sp)
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then we will have to deal with Ambercrombie (sp)
I sure hope not. I think Case could beat that old hippie. :)
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Raparations were already given to Japanese interment camp victims. I bleeive it was already posted byTre, but the each recieved $130,000.
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Raparations were already given to Japanese interment camp victims. I bleeive it was already posted byTre, but the each recieved $130,000.
thats what i thought. so what now?
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If the same thing happened now they should be interned again.
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If the same thing happened now they should be interned again.
Suppose we were battling a nation of white males age 21-25.
Would you support Cavalier22 going to an internment camp?
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thats what i thought. so what now?
I think this is for Latinos of Japanese descent, but they wouldn't be Latinos would they?
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I think this is for Latinos of Japanese descent, but they wouldn't be Latinos would they?
no that would make them Japinos!
*sorry couldnt help myself