He lived in the bunk house of one of the Japanese families he was helping and only kept half of the profits he made in those three years even though the families whose farms he was working (90 acres in all) offered him all of the profits in exchange for him keeping their farms. He was unmarried when he first started working there, but married later on and his wife also lived in the bunkhouse and refused to move into the one Japanese family’s houses, even though the family offered and cleaned it for them before the families came back. The families all came back to their farms with money in the bank and managed and maintained homes thanks to Fletcher and his wife.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/us/bob-fletcher-dies-at-101-saved-farms-of-interned-japanese-americans.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/us/bob-fletcher-dies-at-101-saved-farms-of-interned-japanese-americans.html
Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. This order authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans, German Americans, and Italian Americans in U.S. concentration camps.
ReplyDeleteFDR was a Democrat. Democrats also held the majority in both the House and the Senate at this time. Not a "effing ultra-conservative government" by any definition.
Interesting though, it was President Carter that opened an investigation to determine whether the decision to put Japanese Americans into internment camps had been justified or not. Another Democrat, and he was not conservative either.
Ronald Reagan is the one who signed into law the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government and authorized a payment to each camp survivor. Now HE was a "effing ultra-conservative".
Do you use the definitions of 2018 and apply them to the people in history? I do not. The Republicans of Lincolns era were todays democrats, I've read time and again, and vice versa, that the democrats of long ago were what todays republicans are considered in political philosophy.
DeleteRegardless. The word conservative, to conserve, aka, to be cautious to the point of hardly risking anything. In order to take risks that the Japanese Americans were going to be inconus terrorists, they were locked up, agreed?
Doing that, was unconstitutional, regardless of the Supreme Courts ruling of the time. Agreed? Bill of rights #4, it's that simple. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, etc. And #5, No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, and that certainly is the case of the interred. And #2, they were prevented from bearing arms. #1 when they were prevented from "petition the government for a redress of grievances" and all of #6
Deleteif you're offended by my calling the govt effing ultra conservative, well, are you aware of the inhumane acts the govt of the USA has committed? Do you know the bullshit that the govt has done? Try Operation Northwoods, just for one. Or how about the infecting of blacks with syphilis? Forcing the natives to force march from Florida to Oklahoma, the "Trail of Tears"? Reneging on the many treaties with the native Americans? So, are you offended that I find the govt to be a racist, corrupt, horrible group of people? Or that I call them conservative?
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