February 19, 2005

9066

Posted by Anthony Gregory at February 19, 2005 07:52 PM

63 years ago FDR signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the internment of Japanese Americans that eventually numbered more than 100,000.

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This is actually him signing the Social Security Act; it's harder to find photos of him signing 9066, but he usually looked basically like this whenever he was signing away American freedom.

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Here are some of the enemy threats that some people still amazingly insist were rightly interned.


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