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75 years ago today President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which forced 80,000 American citizens (and 40,000 more immigrants) out of their homes (losing their businesses and most if not all they owned) and into concentration camps with appalling and inhumane conditions including being forced to live in horse stables. Roughly ONE THIRD of those forced into the concentration camps were school age children.
Before Rod comes rumbling in with his revisionist history saying they "weren't concentration camps" that term is exactly what FDR used himself: "What arrangements and plans have been made relative to concentration camps in the Hawaiian Islands for dangerous of undesirable aliens of citizens in the event of national emergency?"
At the Lordsburg facility where prisoners were forced to build war machinery, physically disabled prisoners who were incapable of running were shot in the back by a guard who claimed they were trying to escape - he was pronounced not guilty by an army court-martial board.
Timely reminder of what paranoia and populism can do.
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