The Japanese American Internment of World War II

A documentary about the Japanese American Internment Camp. Includes interviews, pictures and textual information as well as a soundtrack by Elliott Smith.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Japanese
• Internment
• Camp
• World
• War
• II
• WWII
• video
• documentary
• tak
• shirasawa
• shimizu
• elliott
• smith
• alexi
• robbins

[mongoose704]

@Keysteeze Right.

Being a patriot also means having nealy no trust for government authority and waging permanent revolution against the tyranny of government power. A true patriot is always ready to defend its country against its own government.

I am a Republican that denounces wars of aggression, tyranny, bigotry, big government and the elimination of liberties.

[mongoose704]

@Keysteeze This republican commends you. It also means being anti war unless in defense of a direct attack upon our nation. It also means being skeptical of government and questioning authority.

Slavery. Yep our founding fathers allowed it but thank goodness they left us a system where we can undo our own evil and stupidity.

Patriotism is LOVE OF LIBERTY and the unwavering desire to fight for it, it is not worship of GOVERNMENT and the unquestioning duty to fight for it.

[arkvoodl1996]

Our government was originally a democracy but slowly but surely it has evolved into this pile of unjust laws and corrupt public officials who seek only betterment for them selves instead of what they promised, a good senator,mayor,governor,preside­nt, or any other person of greater power should put themselves in the face of danger rather than go out of their way to screw everyone but himself over. i may be only 14 but I've experienced first hand what a bad job some of these people can do.

[arkvoodl1996]

The government sucks!!! Al they do is sit on their high horses and take control of what even the president of the united states does! if you ask me I think that we should overthrow the government and establish our own command! We as american citizens have the right! oh wait.the government controls that too! I think that they take their power way too far when they control the fact of us liking or hating them! Why are we just waiting around for them to fuck up when we can keep that from happening!

[sare1327]

Thank you for posting this. I will use this in my classroom when I introduce The Journal of Ben Uchida

[toria555]

Under NDAA all US Citizens who question their government are next, no matter where their ancestry is from.

[TheGreaterGood80]

They were our countrymen. It was wrong.

[colorfulpride]

@TheEnviroFriend Your absolutely right. My high school history teacher provided "his" facts and said write a paper on why the Japanese internment camps was not abuse and it was done for the protection. 7 years later and I realize how easily I was brainwashed into believing it was "ok". I'm ashamed that I ever wrote a paper supporting the opression of a minority group. Until this day it still bothers me :(

[school40000]

@TheEnviroFriend I read a history book a few years ago that mentioned that their were thousands of German and Italian Americans interned, but not on the same numbers as Japanese/Americans. Yet it doesn't take away the pain of the German and Italian Americans.

[TheEnviroFriend]

@SamBuddwing that is not my point, my point is that american schools flatout deny that it ever happened.

i know, it was worse for the japanese americans.

are you saying it was right for them to intern germans just because less were interned?

it was mostly because there were so many german americans they couldnt take them all, and they have some of the same surnames as many other nationalities.

we don't want reparations, we just want the gov to admit they were wrong for detaining our ancestors.

[SamBuddwing]

@TheEnviroFriend My understanding is, German nationals and Italian nationals were interned, and if they had American-born children, then those children went with their parents. In the case of the Japanese-Americans, they were interned regardless of how many generations they went back in the U.S.

[am220uss]

 There is some hanky panky going on here, Including the picturers of Africa in a documentary on the internment is just a trick o make internment seem worse