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brooklynite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-23-06 02:42 PM Original message |
Idaho WWII prison camp controversy flares |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-23-06 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. Those who do not study their history . . . n/t |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-23-06 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
2. Ummm... lots of US citizens interned there |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-23-06 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
3. Will Guantanamo be a historic site some day? |
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WannaJumpMyScooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-23-06 09:10 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Yes with the Cuban National Park Service |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-23-06 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
4. It was an INTERNMENT camp. No bullshit rewriting of history changes that. |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-23-06 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
5. I like "concentration camp" better |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-24-06 10:42 AM Response to Reply #5 |
17. The guards in an SS Camp were cute too |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-24-06 11:11 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. That's the Bitch of Buchenwald in the center of the photo |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-24-06 11:25 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Yup that's Irma Griese |
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nealmhughes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-23-06 09:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. Let me do a little research and see what the camps were actually called |
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nealmhughes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-23-06 09:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Technically they were "Enemy exclusion areas". |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-23-06 10:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. "Concentration Camp" was coined by the British in the Boer War |
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nealmhughes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-24-06 12:58 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Yes, Kitchener coined the concept and the idea. |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-24-06 01:01 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Yes, before Hitler it was far less evocative of genocide |
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vixengrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-23-06 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. If Minidoka and Manzanar should match in name-- |
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kskiska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-23-06 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
11. Why not just call it "Best Western?" |
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anotherdrew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-24-06 02:34 AM Response to Original message |
14. we should have imprisoned the american bund movement, traitors all |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-24-06 07:49 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Bingo -- the difference is that they were "white" and not "yellow" |
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anotherdrew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-25-06 01:23 AM Response to Reply #15 |
22. at least we need to advocate for a nation holliday: Smedly Buttler Day |
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anotherdrew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-25-06 01:29 AM Response to Reply #14 |
23. "We let the god-damned traitors take over america instead." |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-24-06 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
16. America rounded up citizens like cattle and put them behind barbed wire |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-24-06 10:44 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. The Bush Criminals would like to see Union Leaders rounded up and jailed |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-24-06 11:31 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. True that...and all other "non-compliers" to their way of thinking |
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