Alleged Seditious Utterances

This was only the beginning of our stroll down the path of the Third Reich. In the early months of 1942 Japanese Americans were forbidden to server in California's civil service. As well, all German, Italian, and Japanese aliens were ordered to leave San Francisco Waterfront areas. Soon laws were passed in which the US Army began restricting

Speaking out in favor of placing Japanese-Americans in camps for the remainder of the war, at the time Earl Warren thought that was the best thing to do. He had heard military intelligence state that Japanese-American fishermen, who often went out into the Pacific Ocean at night, might be signaling enemy submarines. While he had qualms about abrogating the civil rights of Japanese-Americans, he was also a patriot who wanted to support the war effort.

During this time of injustice to the Japanese, the Americans were to busy with war to notice that what they were doing was wrong. As the war settled down and the internment camps released their people, the president declared that the unfair treatment of the Japanese was a national mistake.

In the “Allowing Guns Won’t Make Campuses Safer” article, the president of Drexel University in Philadelphia John A. Fry, who happens to be the author of this article, made plenty valid points to support his point of view. He goes back into recent American history and provides incidents where guns have led to extreme violence. For example, last year a student killed six and injured thirteen near the University of California in Santa Barbara. Another incident was in 2013 when a twenty-three year old shot his father and brother before killing three others at Santa Monica College, and that is just to name a few. Mr. Fry said, “Only in America do we respond to shootings with the need for more guns. Arming college campuses will do little to reduce mass attacks, and will likely lead to more shooting deaths” revealing his stance on guns on campuses and in our country.

Despite the fact that an attack on the US mainland would have been extremely difficult with being so far away and not very technologically advanced, “public opinion in 1942 thought otherwise” (Document 14). This is even confirmed by Attorney General Biddle, who in 1942 stated that “The present military situation does not at this time require the removal of American citizens of the Japanese race” (Document 6), and shows the deep rooted racism in the reasoning for removal. Despite the facts, the public panic caused by the media caused Japanese internment to become “military necessity”, causing a lack in their loyalty to the United States (Takaki). The assumption of disloyalty played a large role in the Japanese internment, even though the Japanese that were in Hawaii, closest to the attack, were actually extremely helpful and essential to the rebuilding of Hawaii after the attack (Fraser). The claim for “military necessity” is undermined with the fact that the Attorney General Biddle opposed the relocation for the very fact that it wasn’t actually necessary (Takaki). Since “there (was) no evidence of planned sabotage”, then the relocation of Japanese during the 1940s was unnecessary and unjust, without any facts to back it up with besides racism, the main root of the

After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese that propelled the U.S. into World War II, paranoia causes President Roosevelt to sign an executive order forcing all people of Japanese ancestry; including those born in the U.S. to be moved to concentration camps. Even in the towns where the camps were located, stores would post signs saying “No Japs Allowed”.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese American people were seen as enemies, conspirators, and dangerous even though they wanted to live and be a part of life in America. Because of the hysteria from the war, people began to think that the Japanese people were planning another attack, when there was no proof that pointed to that. The Attorney General of California, Earl Warren, believed that, “The fifth column activities that we are to get, are timed, just like the invasion of France, and of Norway… I believe that we are just being lulled into a false sense of security...Our day of reckoning is bound to come.” Later when Warren becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he regrets his decisions and words involved with the Japanese American

It wasn’t very long after Pearl Harbor that we succumbed to fear of the Japanese here in America, thinking they were spies, and still loyal their ancestral land. Sadly, even our president Roosevelt succumbed to this, in which he signed executive order 9066 which authorized the relocation of all Japanese citizens here in America to internment camps where they would spend 4 years of their life, and lose their homes, valuables, lifes savings,businesses, and much more. Japanese Americans were taken by bus and train to assembly centers such as racetracks and fairgrounds, after this there were camps were created in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II because

Ronald Takaki told his experiences of military men, immigrants, and the government during World War II. The United States was hypocritical having ethnic groups fight for freedom but not treated as equal individuals nor having full access to the “Four Freedoms”. (Takaki, 7) As articulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941, the Four Freedoms are freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Equally important, Ruth Benedict argued that Hitler’s Anti-Semitism required Americans to challenge their own racism. (Takaki, 6) There is no master race, as Hitler argued. Everyone is from one race: the human race. During World War II racism was not only in the service it was also still going on with civilians. As World War II took place, Takaki expressed his feelings about the military men, the immigrants, and the government because the United States was very hypocritical. All of this can be seen in the WWII experiences of Japanese Americans, African-Americans and women.

The decision to imprison Japanese Americans was a popular one in 1942. It was supported not only by the government, but it was also called for by the press and the people. In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, Japan was the enemy. Many Americans believed that people of Japanese Ancestry were potential spies and saboteurs, intent on helping their mother country to win World War II. “The Japanese race is an enemy race,” General John DeWitt, head of the Western Defense Command wrote in February 1942. “And while many second and third generation Japanese born in the United States soil, possessed of United States citizenship, have become ‘Americanized,’ the racial strains are

"In hell, everyone is seated at a banquet table full of wonderful food, but the only implement they have to use are spoons that are three feet long. The residents of Hell spend eternity trying to feed themselves with these awkward spoons, and never get a bite to eat. In heaven, everyone is also seated at a banquet table full of wonderful food, and the only implement they have are also spoons that are three feet long. The residents of Heaven, however, get all the wonderful food that they can eat because instead of awkwardly struggling to feed themselves, they feed each other.“- Anonymous

However racist the country was as a whole, not all Americans concurred with their government about the Japanese. Some thought that the military ambition of Japan was a

To the Americans, the Japanese, unlike the Germans, were all a race to be hated. Because the Germans

the story line Macbeth begins to use murder to rule and cannot avoid tyranny, which has lead him too committing the cruel and unusual punishment to many lives. The guilt, the death of many people including his wife and further more himself; was it all worth it for the power? The only question is if he had not told his wife and let time unfold his true fate, or if the witches had never for told the future; would have he ever committed these sins? I think not. His deceiving wife plays the biggest part in his actions, for example when she urges him to kill Duncan in the very beginning, you can feel the tension in his finger tips as he is waiting for the sound of the bell. In my opinion Macbeth is not the natural born murderer he was claimed

"…neither can they fully convey our Nation 's resolve to rectify injustice and to uphold the rights of individuals. We can never fully right the wrongs of the past. But we can take a clear stand for justice and recognize that serious injustices were done to Japanese Americans during World War II."