Over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States were internment in “War Relocation Camps” during World War II. The U.S. government ordered the internment in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally as a geographic matter: all who lived on the West Coast were interned, while in Hawaii, where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans comprised over one-third of the population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were interned. Sixty-two percent of the internees were American citizens.
On February 19, 1942, soon after the beginning of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. The evacuation order commenced the round-up of 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage to one of 10 internment camps, aka concentration camps, were officially called “Relocation Centers” in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. These “Relocation Camps” were overcrowded and provided poor living conditions. According to a 1943 report published by the War Relocation Authority (the administering agency), Japanese Americans were housed in “tarpaper-covered barracks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind.” Coal was hard to come by, and internees slept under as many blankets as they were alloted. Food was rationed out at an expense of 48 cents per internee, and served by fellow internees in a mess hall of 250-300 people. If President Roosevelt could Executive Order American citizens into “Relocation Camps”, what’s to say Obama wouldn’t Executive Order American citizens into “Reeducation Camps” if they false-flagged” us into a Martial Law situation?
By Tom Retterbush
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Japanese American internment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment 51e. Japanese-American Internment http://www.ushistory.org/us/51e.asp
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