Friday, October 28. 2005Queer Me Up Scotty - Mr. Sulu is GayTrackbacks
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Though somewhat irrelevant to the point here, I have a sneaking suspicion that Mr. Sulu is playing fast and loose with his memory of the relocation camps.
There were a couple of tough, prison-like compounds in the system, for die-hard Japanese (and some Jap-American) nationals who made no bones about their loyalty to Japan and their desire to kill the enemy (us). These were exclusively adult compounds, and they did have towers, guards and machine guns, and internees were fenced in. In the vast majority of camps -- which were VOLUNTARY, by the way -- the only fencing was to keep livestock out of planted areas; internees farmed and sold their produce. Aside from those in Japanese military reserve status (of which we had many thousands), everyone else had a choice of relocating anywhere in the U.S. except for the Pacific coast; tens of thousands did just that (both with and without US govt help), both before and after the deadline for leaving the Coast. Almost everything you read about the camps in the last 2o years is largely propaganda and crap, including the famous Congressional Report. Not that anyone gives enough of a crap to look into this --- but I don't like to leave a lie sitting around unchallenged. I don't give enough of a crap myself to dig into which of the two Arkansas camps (Jerome or Rohwer) Takei lived in, but I suspect neither had towers or machine guns. Warp speed, Mr. Sulu, and let's not let the truth get in the way of a good sob story.
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2005-10-30 19:58
Ok. G.L., so you know his story better than he does? That seems awfully patronizing.
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2005-11-02 09:30
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