i can see how it can slip through the cracks but what about the guards and staff there...??? ...they must have know the war was already over since they jut worked there and were going outside the camp in their spare time, didn't they...???
This just in: Americans citizens are actually believing fictional news reports, as a country, we may be doomed to be laughed at by rest of world's youth, who, at earlier ages, learn not to believe everything given to us at face value. Fricken idiots. Its the onion news. The only news more made up than this is on fox news.
haha cute bitch says "it's ben over for 6 decades" - sounded like she said 6 dickheads = those dumass news reporters always TRY to make it sound like more than it iz = maybe she shood say 3 scores = hey i know like try 60 YEARS
oh well - i doubt they'll learn how to say it the eazy way
@jozzo6 Please tell me you are joking. Please tell me you aren't this fucking stupid. If you are, let me enlighten you. Go to Wikipedia and search "The Onion" (Onion News Broadcast). It's a satirical news broadcast, in other words, it's meant as sarcasm and mocking. It's not actually news. Come on, Bring your Daughter to War day? Death Penalty 'Totally Badass'? Ninja parade? Feed bags? (actually that sadly will become a reality O_O).
Are we sure it's safe to release those people? They are dangerous wierdos due to their longterm isolation and need to be held somewhere where they can't hurt Americans.
Wait, wait. You're arguing politics on the internet? I take it back, I take it all back- you guys are cool. Not irrational, either, especially "Michaelwright99,' --- your comment, "LETS FUCK THREE WOMEN TO DEATH" seems right on the money. Good job, guys. Keep up the intelligent, completely serious conversation on this fake News Story far into the next century.
People complaining about the past a lot... Why not think about the future and join the Zeitgeist movement? Go watch Zeitgeist addendum, it will open your eyes.
@xxSmiLeAgaiNxx I would also count the firebombing mass murder too. and of course the japanese didnt target women and children. they targeted a military base. in a world war. and the US was taken "by suprise" xD
@Deathnotepuppetgod Because in a state of total war, nothing matters but survival. What good are rights if you are dead or enslaved by another government? It was known that the Japanese government had been sending over spies for years. The camps were created out of war hysteria and they also created Italian and German camps. They were treated humanely. Of course it is sad that it happened, but when you know there are real enemies in your midst, you might overcompensate trying to find them out.
@theskiesbelowme k could you you send me the link for the proof of german and italian camps plz, and your theory of survial is off, though i dont agree on how you think humans should be treated, srry evil is never justified
@DonMeaker I can understand if you believe that ,but evil will not be justifed, and are you stating our constitution is evil? Its not about be more evil its about being better. Its not justifed to discriminate against a race, if japanese americans were thrown into camps then all german, and italian should have been. How do you get suicide pact?
@Deathnotepuppetgod The constitution is imperfect, suitable for governing imperfect people in an imperfect world. To deny a government the right to defend itself when an enemy violates the rules of war (with spies, attacking without declaration of war, and by failure to follow Geneva convention) is supporting a greater evil. The internment camps were in response to Japanese infiltration. Germans and Italian nationals were detained, but their spy efforts were ineffective, and needed less response
@DonMeaker Show me one proven example of "Japaneseinfiltration" whatever the fuck that means. there was not a single instance of espionage or sabotage by Japanese Americans. German AMERICANS spied for the Nazis.
@DonMeaker Yeah but they were never, mistreated like the japanese, you cant just take one race and detain and mistreat them. Even though some are bad. Yet let other get away scot free.
@Deathnotepuppetgod it is important to know that US MAGIC decrypts revealed many Japanese agents, and they could not be picked up without revealing that we had penetrated the Japanese codes. Just as the British didn't warn Coventry England when they knew the Germans were going to bomb it, to protect ULTRA code breaking, the US picked up all Japanese Americans to protect MAGIC.
@DonMeaker Im sorry that still doesn't make it right, no matter how much you try to justify the means it was wrong and should never have been done. Just becuase the expirements on jews the nazis did helpped didn't mean it was right. Were not brittian or anyother country whether you want it like that, this is america we have to live by a higher standard, were not a third world country. Im sure their were as many german spies.
@Deathnotepuppetgod Japanese Americans in Hawaii were not interned, because we knew all spies there had diplomatic credentials, and they were detained similar to Germans and Italians. Japanese use of spies for sabotage was a war crime, and actions taken to protect the US from that war crime are to be laid at the door of the Japanese. Many brave US solders were drafted from the internment camps, and won more medals than any other unit of similar size. People die in war. Blame the bad guys
@theskiesbelowme There were also camps in Germany and Japan where Americans were kept after war started, until diplomats and travellers could be repatriated. The military term "camp" means a temporary establishment. The Japanese camps were different in that American citizens of japanese descent were sent there.
@theskiesbelowme okay thats true but why try to hide it? i've never seen something like this in the history books. the nazis said the same thing, "that the jews aere treated humanely" but we knew what really happened. how do we know that our japanese people were treated humanely? it might be another lie like the one about terrorists.
@StartContaversy1 I'm no expert on the subject LOL. But I do know that if they had really been treated inhumanely, word would have gotten out after the internees had been released. People try to put it into the wrong context. It wasn't 2010, it was 1943. It wasn't interning because of racism, but of absolute hysteria that your neighbor was a spy. Which could have been true. Look at pictures on Google of the Japanese internment camps and the Nazi Concentration Camps. Totally different.
@theskiesbelowme Maybe we should put you in one? See if you think its humane? Oh, no? Why not? Sounds fun! I think my neighbors are criminals and are spys working for a warmongering illegal govt. Can we put them away in internment camps?
@HorrorAngel666 For goodness sake man, start using your brain and don't just think with your emotions. If I moved to Japan and then the US just randomly attacked them, and then made it clear that their intention was to completely destroy Japan, I would understand if the Japanese were suspicious of me! If it was known that the US had been sending over spies for years, I would understand if Japan temporarily interned me for safety! Of course it's not fun. It wasn't some random act of racism.
@theskiesbelowme Wrong analogy. Japanese BORN int his country were interned, not just recent immigrants. It WAS "some random act of racism." Despite comments here, natural born German Americans WERE NOT arbitrarily interned, despite actual acts of espionage. There wasn't a single act of espionage by japanese Americans. Neither were Japanese Americans in FUCKING HAWAII interned. WHY? Cuz they weren't sitting on some of the most valuable land in California and Nevada. Look THAT shit up.
@HorrorAngel666 They played baseball in there for crying out loud! Youtube won't let me post links, but it's actually on Wikipedia. It's a picture of a baseball game at Manzanar. It's not a concentration camp. Children went to school in those camps.
@theskiesbelowme So we can lock up people for no reason for the rest of their lives as long as we let them play baseball? Concentration camps are perfectly acceptable as long as we treat them a little better than the Nazi's would?
@goddamnit345 WTF man I'm done trying to 'argue' on Youtube. It's lame. Nazis sent people to camps in order to 'deal' with them by killing them. We sent people to camps in order to take a precautionary measure against a known threat that could have conceivably led to total annihilation of your nation and way of life. If you really can't understand that, then you are more ignorant than you already seem.
@theskiesbelowme Putting aside that satirical nature of this particular video, our rationale for imprisoning the Japs was essentially the same as the one given out by the Germans. Contrary to popular belief, not all camps were death camps. Some really were just internment camps, and not just for "undesirables", but for those deemed dangerous to the German cause.
Racism did play a part, clearly, as the Germans were not put in internment camps.
@Chiarcmorn Clearly... the Germans were not put in internment camps?
xD They were. Nice intelligent response, but you need to do your research. Italians AND Germans WERE detained in internment camps. Not as many, but yes, they were.
@theskiesbelowme Whats more, conditions varied, and some were hardly the baseball playing ones you see(I am sure even wikipedia can tell you this). Much like camps in Germany. Now of course we never had anything approaching the worst camps there, but its irrelevant. Its silly to justify one's own actions by simply claiming the opponent is worse.
Now of course its understandable. War brings out the worst in people, and especially in nations. But its not in line with this country's principles.
@Denise2004 Are you serious? I get condemned if a piece of paper flies out the window in my car. Did I just type that? Wait, I picked up the piece of paper and volunteered to adopt a highway afterwards.
i must be seeing things? Some of the people on this comments link actually thought this was real? They have no idea what The Onion is? I have heard that Americans can be naive as far as history goes and it certainly seems by this that it might just be the case.
for the clueless, roughly 100,000 Asian Americans were dragged out of their homes after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and put into camps. just picture Auschwitz with the stars and stripes in the background instead of the swastika banner.
congratulions, you have found the underlying truth in a Onion vid, now watch the rest of the vids.
@Tw1St3DSt33L there were also 20000 itailians and some 50000 germans interned on the east coast. oh, and none of them were used as fuel to start fires or gased, so no not like Auschwitz. 120,000 Japaness desendednts is not equall to the fate of Six million jews and five million other ethnic minorities. think before you post these things
@stunt4203 yes, but the US is a nation where this should not happen. A nation of freedom contradicts itself by not allowing people of an ethnic minority to become citizens, then destroying what little lives they had built for themselves by herding them into concentration camps.
@GenralMajors I agree with you, in America this should not happen. But to say it is compareable to the german camps, is a lie. They were U.S. citizens when they were put into camps.
@stunt4203 The Jews, Catholics, and Confessing Christians thrown into German concentration camps were German citizens, and many of those German citizens were killed there. The Japanese in California were US citizens, and were not killed. That is the major difference.
@tommi7678 Look up Martin Niemoller or Dietrich Bonhoffer. Learn something. Sure of the 11 millions murdered in the German concentration camps, about 6 million were Jews. Others included Catholics, Gypsies, homosexuals, Confessing Christians. 5 million murders is small potatoes compared to the ~60 million murdered by USSR, but it is a big number.
@TheGrayWolf96 And prison is different from a camp, such as the camps where soldiers were trained. Many US soldiers got to go to prison as a result of the war. They had done nothing wrong, yet were confined, and partially starved in prisoner of war camps. In Japan, prisoners of war were treated harshly, denied Geneva convention rights (though Japan was a party to that agreement). Why? Japan didn't intend to lose, and if they won, nothing they did on the way would matter.
@DonMeaker Dude your government put its citizens in an internment camp which is basically a prison & denied them basic civil liberties.It was wrong, you need to accept that and stop making excuses & trying to spin it like it was not so bad.I can assure you that Japanese americans who were placed in those camps simply for being Japanese viewed it for what it was imprisionment.This awful act does't mean America is a bad country it just means that at a stressful time the country did a bad thing.
@trinapinks The US also drafted millions of soldiers, many of whom died in agony, screaming from their wounds. That isn't so nice either. Soldiers who tried to get away after being drafted were shot. Compared to being drafted into combat units, the detainment camps were a picnic. Some of the draftees were Japanese from the camps. What would you have done to prevent japanese agents from committing sabotage, without giving away that we were reading Japanese signals?.
And check amendments 4, 6, 7 and 8 while you're at it. Japanese internment camps can be tackled over all amendments from 4 through. Half of the bill of rights right there.
@davidhlusko there have been several Geneva Conventions that discussed POW rights. Some occurred before WWII, and some after. Japan in WWII violated the conventions that occurred before WWII. Germany did also, but mostly with the Russians and Poles. Jews in the US services knew to hide their Jewish identity, and most served with their ID tags marked as Protestant.
@davidhlusko Not so. Ceneva Convention 3 adopted in 1929 defined POWs and their rights. GC1 adopted in 1864 governed treatment of captured sick and wounded. CG3 also stressed "laws and customs" of warfare which are generally referred to as the Hague Conventions.
@Darusdei The US camps didn't have Zyclon D dispensers like German concentration camps. Soviet camps were horrific. German POWs in US had serious problems with gaining weight. Due to Germany's criminal destruction of ports and civilian facilities in France the US was unable to import enough food. German POWs were put on half rations so that civilians would not starve.
@DonMeaker yes germany's criminal destruction of ports and how is that criminal? well anyhoo, meanwhile allies bomb city of dresden to ruins. which basically only killed civilians. yep yep the evil evil germans... lol
@Darusdei Germany's criminal destruction of ports and other civilian facilities prevented import of food to feed civilians. Germany had earlier bombed British (and Polish and Netherlands) cities, and so lost any claim to having their cities protected. Also note that General Blaskowitz was only Wehrmacht General to protest German atrocities in Poland. for that he never was promoted, vs. others not only were promoted, but also were paid secret tax free NSDAP party money to shut up.
@DonMeaker oh now i get it. because terrorists are evil it's okay to torture them. yes that's the same braindead logic. yours is probably even more weird...
no one protested? well some did but why no one did is called self-preservation
@Darusdei Terrorists are evil. Waterboarding is not torture, as it causes no permanent damage, and US servicemen are waterboarded as part of their training. by contrast, "Water torture" is torture, consisting of forcing cloth or a tube into the stomach, and forcing or wicking water into the stomach, causing stretching or rupture of the stomach. See "Daniel Pearl" for what the terrorists think is appropriate for their prisoners.
@DonMeaker "terrorists are evil" is rather naive statement. waterboarding causes no permanent damage, again wrong and it really seems you don't know enough about the subject to even comment on it.
it's torture just like it was when the japanese did it and you told it was (ironic i know)
yes some u.s. military personel are waterboarded in some training, which is a far cry from a real situation.
@Darusdei Yes, a difference between Japanese water torture, and US waterboarding, one is torture, the other is not. German field marshalls didn't move to a dictatorship, they were its highly paid servants, the ones who implemented German war crimes, in return for money and promotions. Germans killed millions of POWs in 1941, by orders given by Wehrmacht officers.
@DonMeaker yes i've heard that before. when someone else does it, it's torture but not when you do it. there's another word for it and it's "hypocrisy"
german generals were paid to do war crimes? did the allies get paid when they did their share of warcrimes? now what does that tell you about allies? lol...
@Darusdei Introducing water under pressure to the stomach cavity is torture. That is what the Japanese did. Pouring water over the face is not torture. German fieldmarshalls were paid by the Nazi party to support their crimes. 3.5 million Soviet POWs were murdered. In the west a total of 8194 US and UK POWs died in german custody in the whole war. In the east that many USSR POWs died every day of 1941.
@DonMeaker nah... if you start looking into the wars you will see that the germans were mainly demonized because of the ethnic cleansing.of the nazis
for example read about how different sides treated their prisoners of war, there is a huge difference. so to me it's always amusing to see people ranting how the "good guys" didn't do anything bad ;)
@Darusdei The Germans were particularly harsh to Poles and Soviets.Soviets were harsh to Poles and Germans (no idea how they treated Japanese.) US soldiers didn't waste many lives giving Japanese extra chances to surrender. German soldiers in US tended to gain weight, but were sometimes given half rations so that German civilians wouldn't starve. German death camps were well documented. Soviet gulag too.
@DonMeaker yep they are well documented. so well in fact that when you compare, the allied camps were actually in worser condition than their axis counterparts...
and your comment about u.s. not giving japanese a chance to surrender is in fact a war crime.
it's amusing how americans tend to justify acts that were in fact much more horrible than the oppositions.
'Worser condition'? Where is the evidence to support that grammatically incorrect statement The lack of gas chambers and firing squads would certainly be an improvement.
@Darusdei Every WWII German field marshall was paid money by Nazi party, secretly, off the books, so they would support illegal German war crimes. About 24,000 RM, when a common laborer was paid 1400 RM a year. Paulus' stipend stopped, after he made broadcasts critical of Hitler and Nazis.
@DonMeaker yes move to a dictatorship and then start broadcasting critical views of that dictator, lets see how fast you get a rope around your neck. whole argument is just ridiculous...
@WilliamBatley Every single person here commenting is a fucking retart? I have a question for you.Did you also comment here? Well, what makes that you then? :D
@MrSpieldose They did the same in Canada but it was worse. They took the japs belongings and buisnesses and sold them. David Suzuki was actually placed in a internment camp when he was a child and his families dry cleaning store was taken and sold by the government. All the interned japanese really got was a shitty pay from the goverment 20 years later for the incident.
If you call that being at war with Japan, well... Japan wasn't attacking Canada, Canada wasn't attacking Japan. The point is that Canada was interning Canadian citizens that happened to be of Japanese descent, treating them as if they weren't Canadians. But thanks for the info.
being held for questioning= locked away in Guantanamo bay
m1c000l 1 week ago
@m1c000l with the minotaur
flamingarse1 6 days ago
i still think those japs are loyal to the emperor of japan
999basille 3 weeks ago
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Turkey`s politician bluster to european people.Because Atatürk had said this.
Devranderya 2 months ago
i started scratching the bit just right of the n on the onion cause i thought there was something on my computer
m1c000l 3 months ago
i can see how it can slip through the cracks but what about the guards and staff there...??? ...they must have know the war was already over since they jut worked there and were going outside the camp in their spare time, didn't they...???
TheYouwontgetit 3 months ago
@TheYouwontgetit
It's satire.
Mikeanglo 3 months ago
@Mikeanglo ...us internment camps were very real...
TheYouwontgetit 3 months ago
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how do we know there isn't a forgotten camp still out there...???
TheYouwontgetit 3 months ago
This just in: Americans citizens are actually believing fictional news reports, as a country, we may be doomed to be laughed at by rest of world's youth, who, at earlier ages, learn not to believe everything given to us at face value. Fricken idiots. Its the onion news. The only news more made up than this is on fox news.
corgimischief 3 months ago
Well this is possibly a true story xD
Teufelsnachbar667 5 months ago
comments funnier than the videos! lomao.
manxdude1 6 months ago
haha cute bitch says "it's ben over for 6 decades" - sounded like she said 6 dickheads = those dumass news reporters always TRY to make it sound like more than it iz = maybe she shood say 3 scores = hey i know like try 60 YEARS
oh well - i doubt they'll learn how to say it the eazy way
rammar09 6 months ago
@rammar09 you realize none of it is real, right? please say yes.....
zikten 4 months ago
@zikten The guy said "iz". He realizes nothing.
Voothegreat 4 months ago
watch?v=KnYAC2_hnKg
''SAVING MY PRIVATES" (2011 - tom hanks)
a MUST see video. you need a good stomach - added yesterday
MrChatItOut 7 months ago
You must admit the best part of having The Onion on line is seeing the remarks of people who think this is real news!
Lucailey 7 months ago in playlist The Onion - Best 11
she says it all badass
"there was still a camp open"
jovannna23 8 months ago
47 people missed the ninja parade!
hamiltonjsh 8 months ago
Lol, Kevin Rudd.
murf69 9 months ago
Ah, Onion News Network, you never fail to make me laugh.
Equilibrium2037 9 months ago
Questioning = Torture
arsenelupin123 9 months ago 5
she looks like a hologram or something....
Sylvanas17 9 months ago
they should have kept it open for WW3
1973mazdarx4coupe 11 months ago
Society is doomed if people thing this is real.
Doctalen 11 months ago 2
AHAHAHA General Tojo died
a long ass time ago!!!!!
zokan23 1 year ago 3
This is quite bad...i hope all the people in the camps can integrate into modern society well
jozzo6 1 year ago
@jozzo6 YOU DUMBASS IT'S ONION NEWS IT'S NOT REAL ARE YOU SERIOUS?
CHURCHISAWESUM 1 year ago
@CHURCHISAWESUM huh? ONION IS REAL NEWS, YOU ARE THE DOME ARS. POOR JEWS LETS GIVE THEM SOME MORE AID.
jozzo6 1 year ago
@jozzo6 Please tell me you are joking. Please tell me you aren't this fucking stupid. If you are, let me enlighten you. Go to Wikipedia and search "The Onion" (Onion News Broadcast). It's a satirical news broadcast, in other words, it's meant as sarcasm and mocking. It's not actually news. Come on, Bring your Daughter to War day? Death Penalty 'Totally Badass'? Ninja parade? Feed bags? (actually that sadly will become a reality O_O).
CHURCHISAWESUM 1 year ago
@CHURCHISAWESUM Trolling isn't fun when its so easy
jozzo6 1 year ago
@jozzo6 Damn you XD
CHURCHISAWESUM 1 year ago
@CHURCHISAWESUM Get trolled, idiot.
SuperSkipMaster 1 year ago
@CHURCHISAWESUM why do you have to be so nasty to people? you could just say its satire rather than being a dick about it.
AussiePolitics 11 months ago
@jozzo6 *AIDs
mandowarrior123 1 year ago
ITS FAKE, CALM THE FUCK DOWN!!!
motlencore89 1 year ago
A couple of things slipped over our excitement of defeating the Nazis LOL Comedic Gold :D:D
TheNoobCore 1 year ago 24
I wonder how many times the word "retard" comes up in the comments.
titans091052 1 year ago
i love all you retards out there that think these are real
MurphyMoose94 1 year ago
One out of four Gitmo detainees return to terrorism. Sad but true.
nobama6 1 year ago
@nobama6
yeah, my professor told me that!
Obama is such a dumbass
ajsaccount1991 1 year ago
Are we sure it's safe to release those people? They are dangerous wierdos due to their longterm isolation and need to be held somewhere where they can't hurt Americans.
MrSafetymeeting 1 year ago
According to a youtbe user called WilliamBatley, I am a fucking retard for writing this comment.
ThePaxtonProductions 1 year ago
This is NOT even funny.
b5kalad 1 year ago
45 people were stuck in that internment camp.
P0WAT0TH3P30PL3 1 year ago
What many people don't know is that many Germans and Italians were also held in internment camps.
63gstone 1 year ago
@63gstone no i know that the germans and italians were held in camps
Pat0p 1 year ago
Being held for questioning. LOOOOL you are such dicks
Reluctanttreehugger 1 year ago 29
What is the music at the end from?
intercipio 1 year ago
Wait, wait. You're arguing politics on the internet? I take it back, I take it all back- you guys are cool. Not irrational, either, especially "Michaelwright99,' --- your comment, "LETS FUCK THREE WOMEN TO DEATH" seems right on the money. Good job, guys. Keep up the intelligent, completely serious conversation on this fake News Story far into the next century.
TotalLibertaria 1 year ago 3
hahaha the f5 butten is no match for the google ads HAHAHAHA
meuass72 1 year ago
People complaining about the past a lot... Why not think about the future and join the Zeitgeist movement? Go watch Zeitgeist addendum, it will open your eyes.
Seanze329 1 year ago
@Seanze329 - Cool idea~!
piginasack 1 year ago
@piginasack Yes, yes it is.
Seanze329 1 year ago
general tojo lmao
hempartist420 1 year ago
This can't be real. This is too stupid to be real. is this some sort of parody or something?
C3P0meetsData 1 year ago
Well at least we didn't mass murder the Japs, only raped and killed a few of em. Kids mostly, they won't remember it when they're older anyways.
EliteCake 1 year ago
@EliteCake LOL. "Well at least we didn't mass murder the Japs"
If Hiroshima and Nagasaki wasn't mass murder, I don't know what is.
xxSmiLeAgaiNxx 1 year ago
@xxSmiLeAgaiNxx I would also count the firebombing mass murder too. and of course the japanese didnt target women and children. they targeted a military base. in a world war. and the US was taken "by suprise" xD
mandowarrior123 1 year ago
@mandowarrior123 The US wasn't in the war yet, dumb fuck.
CHURCHISAWESUM 1 year ago
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@CHURCHISAWESUM At least try to make sense.
mandowarrior123 1 year ago
@xxSmiLeAgaiNxx More japs died in the firebombing of Tokyo. Same in Dresden.
specom 10 months ago
FEMA Camps are opened NOW! For YOU, DEAR SHEEPLE CITIZENS!
IustitiaPax 1 year ago
@IustitiaPax
you talking about the 10 trailer homes?
taledarkside 1 year ago
@IustitiaPax This is the face of modern conservatism, folks. Coherence is overrated.
rubino83 1 year ago
Jap internment camps were justified.
theskiesbelowme 1 year ago
@theskiesbelowme So were the one for the jews.
J0EMOMMA726 1 year ago
@theskiesbelowme how so?
Deathnotepuppetgod 1 year ago
@Deathnotepuppetgod Because in a state of total war, nothing matters but survival. What good are rights if you are dead or enslaved by another government? It was known that the Japanese government had been sending over spies for years. The camps were created out of war hysteria and they also created Italian and German camps. They were treated humanely. Of course it is sad that it happened, but when you know there are real enemies in your midst, you might overcompensate trying to find them out.
theskiesbelowme 1 year ago
@theskiesbelowme k could you you send me the link for the proof of german and italian camps plz, and your theory of survial is off, though i dont agree on how you think humans should be treated, srry evil is never justified
Deathnotepuppetgod 1 year ago
@Deathnotepuppetgod Evil is often justified by greater evil. 'The Constitution is not a suicide pact".
DonMeaker 1 year ago
@DonMeaker I can understand if you believe that ,but evil will not be justifed, and are you stating our constitution is evil? Its not about be more evil its about being better. Its not justifed to discriminate against a race, if japanese americans were thrown into camps then all german, and italian should have been. How do you get suicide pact?
Deathnotepuppetgod 1 year ago
@Deathnotepuppetgod The constitution is imperfect, suitable for governing imperfect people in an imperfect world. To deny a government the right to defend itself when an enemy violates the rules of war (with spies, attacking without declaration of war, and by failure to follow Geneva convention) is supporting a greater evil. The internment camps were in response to Japanese infiltration. Germans and Italian nationals were detained, but their spy efforts were ineffective, and needed less response
DonMeaker 1 year ago
@DonMeaker Show me one proven example of "Japaneseinfiltration" whatever the fuck that means. there was not a single instance of espionage or sabotage by Japanese Americans. German AMERICANS spied for the Nazis.
specom 10 months ago
@Deathnotepuppetgod German and Italians in the US were detained, and exchanged for Americans who were in Germany and Italy at the start of the war.
DonMeaker 10 months ago
@DonMeaker Yeah but they were never, mistreated like the japanese, you cant just take one race and detain and mistreat them. Even though some are bad. Yet let other get away scot free.
Deathnotepuppetgod 10 months ago
@Deathnotepuppetgod it is important to know that US MAGIC decrypts revealed many Japanese agents, and they could not be picked up without revealing that we had penetrated the Japanese codes. Just as the British didn't warn Coventry England when they knew the Germans were going to bomb it, to protect ULTRA code breaking, the US picked up all Japanese Americans to protect MAGIC.
DonMeaker 10 months ago
@DonMeaker Im sorry that still doesn't make it right, no matter how much you try to justify the means it was wrong and should never have been done. Just becuase the expirements on jews the nazis did helpped didn't mean it was right. Were not brittian or anyother country whether you want it like that, this is america we have to live by a higher standard, were not a third world country. Im sure their were as many german spies.
Deathnotepuppetgod 10 months ago
@Deathnotepuppetgod Japanese Americans in Hawaii were not interned, because we knew all spies there had diplomatic credentials, and they were detained similar to Germans and Italians. Japanese use of spies for sabotage was a war crime, and actions taken to protect the US from that war crime are to be laid at the door of the Japanese. Many brave US solders were drafted from the internment camps, and won more medals than any other unit of similar size. People die in war. Blame the bad guys
DonMeaker 10 months ago
@theskiesbelowme There were also camps in Germany and Japan where Americans were kept after war started, until diplomats and travellers could be repatriated. The military term "camp" means a temporary establishment. The Japanese camps were different in that American citizens of japanese descent were sent there.
DonMeaker 1 year ago
@theskiesbelowme okay thats true but why try to hide it? i've never seen something like this in the history books. the nazis said the same thing, "that the jews aere treated humanely" but we knew what really happened. how do we know that our japanese people were treated humanely? it might be another lie like the one about terrorists.
StartContaversy1 1 year ago
@StartContaversy1 I'm no expert on the subject LOL. But I do know that if they had really been treated inhumanely, word would have gotten out after the internees had been released. People try to put it into the wrong context. It wasn't 2010, it was 1943. It wasn't interning because of racism, but of absolute hysteria that your neighbor was a spy. Which could have been true. Look at pictures on Google of the Japanese internment camps and the Nazi Concentration Camps. Totally different.
theskiesbelowme 1 year ago
@theskiesbelowme Maybe we should put you in one? See if you think its humane? Oh, no? Why not? Sounds fun! I think my neighbors are criminals and are spys working for a warmongering illegal govt. Can we put them away in internment camps?
HorrorAngel666 1 year ago
@HorrorAngel666 For goodness sake man, start using your brain and don't just think with your emotions. If I moved to Japan and then the US just randomly attacked them, and then made it clear that their intention was to completely destroy Japan, I would understand if the Japanese were suspicious of me! If it was known that the US had been sending over spies for years, I would understand if Japan temporarily interned me for safety! Of course it's not fun. It wasn't some random act of racism.
theskiesbelowme 1 year ago
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@theskiesbelowme Wrong analogy. Japanese BORN int his country were interned, not just recent immigrants. It WAS "some random act of racism." Despite comments here, natural born German Americans WERE NOT arbitrarily interned, despite actual acts of espionage. There wasn't a single act of espionage by japanese Americans. Neither were Japanese Americans in FUCKING HAWAII interned. WHY? Cuz they weren't sitting on some of the most valuable land in California and Nevada. Look THAT shit up.
specom 10 months ago
@HorrorAngel666 They played baseball in there for crying out loud! Youtube won't let me post links, but it's actually on Wikipedia. It's a picture of a baseball game at Manzanar. It's not a concentration camp. Children went to school in those camps.
theskiesbelowme 1 year ago
@theskiesbelowme So we can lock up people for no reason for the rest of their lives as long as we let them play baseball? Concentration camps are perfectly acceptable as long as we treat them a little better than the Nazi's would?
goddamnit345 1 year ago
@goddamnit345 WTF man I'm done trying to 'argue' on Youtube. It's lame. Nazis sent people to camps in order to 'deal' with them by killing them. We sent people to camps in order to take a precautionary measure against a known threat that could have conceivably led to total annihilation of your nation and way of life. If you really can't understand that, then you are more ignorant than you already seem.
theskiesbelowme 1 year ago
@theskiesbelowme Putting aside that satirical nature of this particular video, our rationale for imprisoning the Japs was essentially the same as the one given out by the Germans. Contrary to popular belief, not all camps were death camps. Some really were just internment camps, and not just for "undesirables", but for those deemed dangerous to the German cause.
Racism did play a part, clearly, as the Germans were not put in internment camps.
Chiarcmorn 1 year ago
@Chiarcmorn Clearly... the Germans were not put in internment camps?
xD They were. Nice intelligent response, but you need to do your research. Italians AND Germans WERE detained in internment camps. Not as many, but yes, they were.
x360c 1 year ago
@x360c I am aware. It was not made the policy to put Italians and Germans in general in them as it was with the Japanese. Thats the key issue.
Chiarcmorn 1 year ago
@x360c Luckily they didn't put Eisenhower in a camp.
wildhippy 1 year ago
@theskiesbelowme Whats more, conditions varied, and some were hardly the baseball playing ones you see(I am sure even wikipedia can tell you this). Much like camps in Germany. Now of course we never had anything approaching the worst camps there, but its irrelevant. Its silly to justify one's own actions by simply claiming the opponent is worse.
Now of course its understandable. War brings out the worst in people, and especially in nations. But its not in line with this country's principles.
Chiarcmorn 1 year ago
actually it is in the history books/
UkrainianShinobi 1 year ago
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Denise2004 1 year ago
@Denise2004 Are you serious? I get condemned if a piece of paper flies out the window in my car. Did I just type that? Wait, I picked up the piece of paper and volunteered to adopt a highway afterwards.
scottg4520 1 year ago
Very funny.But its fake.I cant believe somone may think its real.I you stupid man ? 1:31 kills me
MPozitiv 1 year ago
same as that holiday camp in cuba did they turn the ovens off ,think of global warming
RICHARDTOMLEY10WHARF 1 year ago
Onion news network gets more views than the new company they are mimicking CNN granted you only need three views to have more than CNN.
houkou1 1 year ago
the onion is fake... but the japanese internment camp were 100% real
kandykornknight 1 year ago
i must be seeing things? Some of the people on this comments link actually thought this was real? They have no idea what The Onion is? I have heard that Americans can be naive as far as history goes and it certainly seems by this that it might just be the case.
swannie52 1 year ago
@swannie52 internment camps were real bud
ATDaBoss5793 1 year ago
"who's gonna be held responsible for this?" is he naive or just stupid? lol. love the onion new network.
akaskyscraper 1 year ago
for the clueless, roughly 100,000 Asian Americans were dragged out of their homes after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and put into camps. just picture Auschwitz with the stars and stripes in the background instead of the swastika banner.
congratulions, you have found the underlying truth in a Onion vid, now watch the rest of the vids.
i love you onion
Tw1St3DSt33L 1 year ago
@Tw1St3DSt33L there were also 20000 itailians and some 50000 germans interned on the east coast. oh, and none of them were used as fuel to start fires or gased, so no not like Auschwitz. 120,000 Japaness desendednts is not equall to the fate of Six million jews and five million other ethnic minorities. think before you post these things
stunt4203 1 year ago
@stunt4203 yes, but the US is a nation where this should not happen. A nation of freedom contradicts itself by not allowing people of an ethnic minority to become citizens, then destroying what little lives they had built for themselves by herding them into concentration camps.
GenralMajors 1 year ago
@GenralMajors I agree with you, in America this should not happen. But to say it is compareable to the german camps, is a lie. They were U.S. citizens when they were put into camps.
stunt4203 1 year ago
@stunt4203 The Jews, Catholics, and Confessing Christians thrown into German concentration camps were German citizens, and many of those German citizens were killed there. The Japanese in California were US citizens, and were not killed. That is the major difference.
DonMeaker 1 year ago 8
@DonMeaker
Catholics and Confessing Christians? What a stupid fuck do you learn?
tommi7678 1 year ago
@tommi7678 Look up Martin Niemoller or Dietrich Bonhoffer. Learn something. Sure of the 11 millions murdered in the German concentration camps, about 6 million were Jews. Others included Catholics, Gypsies, homosexuals, Confessing Christians. 5 million murders is small potatoes compared to the ~60 million murdered by USSR, but it is a big number.
DonMeaker 1 year ago
@DonMeaker I stand corrected. THIS is the face of modern conservatism: Shameless moral relativism.
rubino83 1 year ago
@DonMeaker Hundreds died from diseases and sudden-bullit-in-the-neck syndrome. Timeline was long enough for major atrocities
Tw1St3DSt33L 10 months ago
@Tw1St3DSt33L Did American gov. kill them? Nope. But I do agree that internment camps for jap-americans was a little bit too much...
LocoGroove 10 months ago
@DonMeaker
The nicest prison is still a prison.
TheGrayWolf96 10 months ago
@TheGrayWolf96 And prison is different from a camp, such as the camps where soldiers were trained. Many US soldiers got to go to prison as a result of the war. They had done nothing wrong, yet were confined, and partially starved in prisoner of war camps. In Japan, prisoners of war were treated harshly, denied Geneva convention rights (though Japan was a party to that agreement). Why? Japan didn't intend to lose, and if they won, nothing they did on the way would matter.
DonMeaker 9 months ago
@DonMeaker Dude your government put its citizens in an internment camp which is basically a prison & denied them basic civil liberties.It was wrong, you need to accept that and stop making excuses & trying to spin it like it was not so bad.I can assure you that Japanese americans who were placed in those camps simply for being Japanese viewed it for what it was imprisionment.This awful act does't mean America is a bad country it just means that at a stressful time the country did a bad thing.
trinapinks 9 months ago
@trinapinks The US also drafted millions of soldiers, many of whom died in agony, screaming from their wounds. That isn't so nice either. Soldiers who tried to get away after being drafted were shot. Compared to being drafted into combat units, the detainment camps were a picnic. Some of the draftees were Japanese from the camps. What would you have done to prevent japanese agents from committing sabotage, without giving away that we were reading Japanese signals?.
DonMeaker 9 months ago
@DonMeaker
Principle, dude, principle. The principle is that you are supposed to be better than your enemies.
I suggest you have a look at the fifth amendment. Says nothing about taking civil properties in a time of war.
arsenelupin123 9 months ago
@DonMeaker
And check amendments 4, 6, 7 and 8 while you're at it. Japanese internment camps can be tackled over all amendments from 4 through. Half of the bill of rights right there.
arsenelupin123 9 months ago
@arsenelupin123 and in like manner so can conscription used to build armies. When war is declared, rights get abridged.
DonMeaker 9 months ago
@DonMeaker It wasn't until 1949 that Geneva defined rights on POWs.
davidhlusko 5 months ago
@davidhlusko there have been several Geneva Conventions that discussed POW rights. Some occurred before WWII, and some after. Japan in WWII violated the conventions that occurred before WWII. Germany did also, but mostly with the Russians and Poles. Jews in the US services knew to hide their Jewish identity, and most served with their ID tags marked as Protestant.
DonMeaker 5 months ago
@davidhlusko Not so. Ceneva Convention 3 adopted in 1929 defined POWs and their rights. GC1 adopted in 1864 governed treatment of captured sick and wounded. CG3 also stressed "laws and customs" of warfare which are generally referred to as the Hague Conventions.
Robbob9933 4 months ago
@DonMeaker allied pow camps were often in worser condition than the axis camps...
irony...
Darusdei 1 month ago
@Darusdei The US camps didn't have Zyclon D dispensers like German concentration camps. Soviet camps were horrific. German POWs in US had serious problems with gaining weight. Due to Germany's criminal destruction of ports and civilian facilities in France the US was unable to import enough food. German POWs were put on half rations so that civilians would not starve.
DonMeaker 1 month ago
@DonMeaker yes germany's criminal destruction of ports and how is that criminal? well anyhoo, meanwhile allies bomb city of dresden to ruins. which basically only killed civilians. yep yep the evil evil germans... lol
Darusdei 1 month ago
@Darusdei Germany's criminal destruction of ports and other civilian facilities prevented import of food to feed civilians. Germany had earlier bombed British (and Polish and Netherlands) cities, and so lost any claim to having their cities protected. Also note that General Blaskowitz was only Wehrmacht General to protest German atrocities in Poland. for that he never was promoted, vs. others not only were promoted, but also were paid secret tax free NSDAP party money to shut up.
DonMeaker 1 month ago
@DonMeaker oh now i get it. because terrorists are evil it's okay to torture them. yes that's the same braindead logic. yours is probably even more weird...
no one protested? well some did but why no one did is called self-preservation
Darusdei 1 month ago
@Darusdei Terrorists are evil. Waterboarding is not torture, as it causes no permanent damage, and US servicemen are waterboarded as part of their training. by contrast, "Water torture" is torture, consisting of forcing cloth or a tube into the stomach, and forcing or wicking water into the stomach, causing stretching or rupture of the stomach. See "Daniel Pearl" for what the terrorists think is appropriate for their prisoners.
DonMeaker 1 month ago
@DonMeaker "terrorists are evil" is rather naive statement. waterboarding causes no permanent damage, again wrong and it really seems you don't know enough about the subject to even comment on it.
it's torture just like it was when the japanese did it and you told it was (ironic i know)
yes some u.s. military personel are waterboarded in some training, which is a far cry from a real situation.
Darusdei 1 month ago
@Darusdei Yes, a difference between Japanese water torture, and US waterboarding, one is torture, the other is not. German field marshalls didn't move to a dictatorship, they were its highly paid servants, the ones who implemented German war crimes, in return for money and promotions. Germans killed millions of POWs in 1941, by orders given by Wehrmacht officers.
DonMeaker 1 month ago
@DonMeaker yes i've heard that before. when someone else does it, it's torture but not when you do it. there's another word for it and it's "hypocrisy"
german generals were paid to do war crimes? did the allies get paid when they did their share of warcrimes? now what does that tell you about allies? lol...
Darusdei 1 month ago
@Darusdei Introducing water under pressure to the stomach cavity is torture. That is what the Japanese did. Pouring water over the face is not torture. German fieldmarshalls were paid by the Nazi party to support their crimes. 3.5 million Soviet POWs were murdered. In the west a total of 8194 US and UK POWs died in german custody in the whole war. In the east that many USSR POWs died every day of 1941.
DonMeaker 1 month ago
@Darusdei Seems to me the 'share' of warcrimes you would impute to the US is scant.
DonMeaker 1 month ago
@DonMeaker nah... if you start looking into the wars you will see that the germans were mainly demonized because of the ethnic cleansing.of the nazis
for example read about how different sides treated their prisoners of war, there is a huge difference. so to me it's always amusing to see people ranting how the "good guys" didn't do anything bad ;)
Darusdei 1 month ago
@Darusdei The Germans were particularly harsh to Poles and Soviets.Soviets were harsh to Poles and Germans (no idea how they treated Japanese.) US soldiers didn't waste many lives giving Japanese extra chances to surrender. German soldiers in US tended to gain weight, but were sometimes given half rations so that German civilians wouldn't starve. German death camps were well documented. Soviet gulag too.
DonMeaker 1 month ago
@DonMeaker yep they are well documented. so well in fact that when you compare, the allied camps were actually in worser condition than their axis counterparts...
and your comment about u.s. not giving japanese a chance to surrender is in fact a war crime.
it's amusing how americans tend to justify acts that were in fact much more horrible than the oppositions.
Darusdei 1 month ago
@Darusdei
'Worser condition'? Where is the evidence to support that grammatically incorrect statement The lack of gas chambers and firing squads would certainly be an improvement.
EuchridEucrow1 1 month ago
@EuchridEucrow1 yes the grammar may suck, but you do understand that the anglosphere doesn't consist the whole world.
we were talking about pow camps not concentration camps.
Darusdei 1 month ago
@Darusdei Every WWII German field marshall was paid money by Nazi party, secretly, off the books, so they would support illegal German war crimes. About 24,000 RM, when a common laborer was paid 1400 RM a year. Paulus' stipend stopped, after he made broadcasts critical of Hitler and Nazis.
DonMeaker 1 month ago
@DonMeaker yes move to a dictatorship and then start broadcasting critical views of that dictator, lets see how fast you get a rope around your neck. whole argument is just ridiculous...
Darusdei 1 month ago
Dude, that girl can ACT!
The mistake she made at :24 came out so natural lol.
joeboi85 1 year ago
WOOHOO The president's gunna meet Kevin Rudd! :)
... oh, that's not the point - but it's about time he met Kev.
aprilhareau 1 year ago
Are we sure this wasn't actually cspan? this sounds like something that the government might actually discover and how they would act.
hiroshi42 1 year ago 2
oh my god. youtube comments are the worst things in the world.
recordingautist 1 year ago 15
Every single person here commenting is a fucking retard.
WilliamBatley 1 year ago 50
@WilliamBatley Every single person here commenting is a fucking retart? I have a question for you.Did you also comment here? Well, what makes that you then? :D
cyberdaemon 1 year ago
@WilliamBatley what does that make you then ASSHOLE your just as bad retard.
jdpolaski129 1 year ago
@WilliamBatley dont u think that comments a bit ironic?
kolby206 1 year ago
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@WilliamBatley That makes you a fucking retard too!
TheCrawler333 1 year ago
@WilliamBatley ..thus making you a retard aswell. Great job, champ!
gamerblood 1 year ago
@WilliamBatley lol, and you are not exception.
Alkku 1 year ago
Is this a show? Nice jokes.
tokyocityrat 1 year ago
hahahhahahahahaha this is funny.
clownafye 1 year ago 2
There really were camps in the US back then though, FDR signed the orders...
MrSpieldose 2 years ago 65
@MrSpieldose They did the same in Canada but it was worse. They took the japs belongings and buisnesses and sold them. David Suzuki was actually placed in a internment camp when he was a child and his families dry cleaning store was taken and sold by the government. All the interned japanese really got was a shitty pay from the goverment 20 years later for the incident.
bloodezach 1 year ago
@MrSpieldose They were all spys!!!
StaticID 1 year ago
@StaticID LETS FUCK THERE WOMEN TO DEATH.
michaelwright999 1 year ago
@MrSpieldose Canada too...
fzappa 1 year ago
lol where do they come up wit this.
GeneralSuvarov 2 years ago
Please don`t tell me thatyou think this is serious ? It`s obviously a `joke` although not very funny.
jimbo1847 2 years ago
Agreed - this is clearly a joke. But who found this funny enough to spend the time and money to film it? It's dumb.
nojyt 2 years ago
tojo shot cottons shins off
harley1450000 2 years ago
wooooo K-Rudd.
baggygreen111 2 years ago
this isn't even funny
OneEyeWonderWeasil 2 years ago
i mean id threaten the us if they had held me for 60years after the war was over i mean id be Pissed 0ff
firstgovs 2 years ago
especially when you were a native born American, and didn't in fact do anything at all
luke666808g 2 years ago
yep
only in america aye
firstgovs 2 years ago
Nope. It happened in Canada too. And Canada wasn't even at war with Japan.
alukuhito 2 years ago
lol fail
firstgovs 2 years ago 2
@alukuhito
Canada declared war on Japan on Dec 8, 1941, when Japan attacked British/Canadian/Indian forces in Hong Kong.
balios1 2 years ago 2
If you call that being at war with Japan, well... Japan wasn't attacking Canada, Canada wasn't attacking Japan. The point is that Canada was interning Canadian citizens that happened to be of Japanese descent, treating them as if they weren't Canadians. But thanks for the info.
alukuhito 2 years ago
@alukuhito Canada declared war on Japan December 7, 1941. Do some research before posting retarded comments.
mrrobotica 1 year ago
The point is that Canada interned people simply for being of Japanese descent. Canadians interned by Canadians.
alukuhito 1 year ago
@alukuhito I know. My grandparents (born in Canada) were in one.
mrrobotica 1 year ago
lol fail
firstgovs 2 years ago