I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
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I told anyone that would listen that this outdated ridiculous law would be utilized by Trump at some point. He can and will apply to any marginalized group of people who don't fit into the racist guidelines of Project 2025.
If he manages to dispense of the Capitol there'll be no more opposition. I believe there's a real possibility that you might then enter the single party rule era, ref. NSDAP, Germany 1933.
The last residential school in Canada closed in 1996. It's a source of national shame, and for us who were affected by the system, it's absolutely horrifying to understand the intergenerational trauma this is going to cause.
North America didn't even make it a half century before it happened again.
Nothing ever good from opression, If it was not branded as opressor you were the opressed and when covid came we were told to shut up . When reckognition came we were forced to pay it with money that was owed to my family. The Insults never end and go on and on and on.
My grandparents & aunts faced same. Mom was born after indonesian independance war. My heart goes out to you sir;no child should have to go through that fear. I grewup hearing the stories. Helping the vets in fight for backpay. Holding survivors hands at memorials. It's a sicking thought. Each time.
"February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II."
As soon as I heard about this order, you were the first person I thought of @georgetakei.bsky.social What terrible memories this must be bringing back. Big Hugs from your Canadian fans & friends. I hope change happens soon down there. We're doing all we can up here.
And for those whxte Americans thinking they're safe: don't forget that Irish, Italians, Slavs, etc. were all branded as "non-whxte" and discriminated against in the past.
They may not be used to bluesky - saying white or cis on twitter can sometimes cause some automatic censorship. Fortunately I don’t think that happens here.
I've heard of the word "cisgender" being blocked on Twitter, but "white??" That's absurd. What if you want to talk about the color white or someone with the surname White?
I’m not deranged. I’m a human being who sees others as human beings and should be treated as I expect to be treated. With Republicans cruelty is the point and I see the ugliness of to many American people
George you should go to Congress and let them know what a shitty idea this is. See if you can reach out to some of these loser lame stream media places and book a gig so you can tell America how fucked up this is. That is if anybody will listen to you. Where the fuck are you congress?
And I think both in Germany and in our own USA we turned a blind eye. I hope we don't now. This is a true case of empathizing and trying to understand how you might feel if this happened to you. You know, like maybe you said you hate Frump. Or FElon? or their policies.
April 5th. We the people will rise up. We will flood the streets. We will join hands across the country. We will be heard. We will not bend we will not break. I will hold my brothers and sisters tightly through this storm. We are unstoppable together. No storm to strong to change our course.Together
This is what worries everyone in the left, yet we are cartooned as people who want to be nice to criminals. I have reason to doubt this administration’s ability to determine criminality.
I myself was not interred in the concentration camp in the United States during World War II. I wasn’t even born yet. My brother and sister who are 13 and 11 years older than I am and our mother and their father. Only babies who drank out of bottles got milk, real cows milk their main source of
Animal protein was goat. My had to be family lost everything. They were only given a few days to get out to get on the truck or whatever only take what you can carry.
I can't do this anymore.The book is " The Red Slippers".I think please correct me if I am wrong. It was about Japenese American citizens being put into interment camps. I hate fuckinf nazis.
I am Ashamed the country I was born in supposed be land of the free and home of the brave did this unconstitutional unlawful acts on her own people and yall asian americans are just that Americans that was evil and they right back to it cuz no one stopped it the first times.
Maybe I’m just too young and naive, but…why can’t we be better than this? The racists used to hide in basements. They knew they weren’t welcome in polite society, and people were “cancelled” for their hate before the term became widespread. Now they flaunt their hate and they are rewarded for it.
That was a dark time in history, one that I'd hoped would never be repeated. But we are too close for comfort to a repeat of the days when ignorance and fear created the Japanese internment camps.
At this stage we should believe the opposite of anything posted or claimed by any and all US government sources! The same is true for red state agencies. No truth just lies.
They are immigrants and it's a huge problem and a massive violation of individual due process, guaranteed by the Bill of Rights regardless of immigration status.
I am so sorry George. It was wrong then, it is wrong now. I don't understand how the States devolved into such a terrible place. We Canadians must fight ferociously.
You’re welcome here in Europe George, we love you👍
Can’t imagine twice in a lifetime trauma from this if I’m honest.
That’s shitty as, especially from
What you’ve given to the world😔
You have my heartfelt sympathy for what you endured. No-one should be subjected to that... That is why we learned about it in school, when I was a child. And THAT is why R's want to control what is taught in schools. God Save America!
75M voted against 47. Resist. Get on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
The “criminals” they illegally deported have never been given a chance to show anything in a court that might have proven their innocence. They were deported with no due process against a federal court’s order.
Which means they weren't criminals without due process of the law. The president is not trial, judge, and and jury whether they knew who they were or not. That's a problem with a vengeful president. That's what dictators do. They dictate everybody's fate.
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As far as I can tell these migrants were rounded up, rushed to El Salvador for incarceration where the captors outnumber them almost 50-1. They're double-shackled, bent over, riding in buses w/big guns aimed at their heads, shaved & shoved into stark cells. No names, no trials. https://x.com/GP_HTR/status/1901266679612486126
Because they were not legally removed from the US, a judge ordered them returned immediately, the planes were to turn mid-air. But Trump claimed the planes were over international waters so US commands were not legal. If the "Gulf of America" is "international waters" why did Trump claim it as ours?
If these people are as horrible as they say, then the courts will find that out and we will all be in agreement, how is due process going to delay justice?
And in addition, farms and homes and livelihoods were lost during those years. Bainbridge Island, Washington was greatly affected as were so many communities.
We have a lot of dark history that we never learned about in school. I learned of this as an adult and am horrified each time I am reminded of this. I am heartbroken to hear of your family suffering through this along with all the others 💔
Terrible but true. There is a majority of individuals that are unable to learn either from history or experience. And it ruins the lives of so many worthy citizens!
I'm from Utah, which had the premiere Japanese American internment camp in the town of Topaz. It was a black stain on state history that will never be erased.
What's Title 18:Code 2381
Part I: Crimes, including assault, arson, and counterfeiting
Part II: Criminal procedure
Part III: Prisons and prisoners
Part IV: Juvenile delinquency
Part V: Witness immunity...and
§1030: Covers fraud and related activity involving computers. TREASON
A heartbreaking and shameful chapter of history. No one should have to endure that kind of injustice, yet echoes of it persist today. We must remember, speak out, and ensure it never happens again
I grew up a block away from where this happened ("internment camp" "relocation camp" "concentration camp") in my hometown. It is ingrained in our local history. It is taught about in our classrooms. I fear that they will use the same grounds again. #FDT #WeAreTheFlood #PuyallupFair
Been thinking of you during all this, @georgetakei.bsky.social and hoping the trauma triggers aren't causing you too much trouble. Solidarity from Canada.
They were told to send the planes back to the US. The first plane landed an hour later. The El Salvador president who accepted them along with $6mil tweeted, oopsie.
I've thought George, that the felonious wannabe king with dementia is using this exact disgraceful experience of the past as his playbook for today. I'm so sorry this happened to you, your family and community.
Oh, and pardoning every single one of the J6 rioters - whom he referred to as "hostages" - many of whom were convicted of factual, grave violence against law enforcement officials.
Stephen Miller will tell you the Feds supplied your family gov’t subsidized housing with security provided. He would have sent your families away. FDR was soft in MAGA thinking.
Exactly, the stories I have read about the concentration camps were not good ones I couldn't imagine being torn away from my home and watching my loved ones being hurt. This is what happens when fear, lies, deceit are spread over a country we all have to stand up to them. Tell the truth!!
I’ll never understand that line of thinking or that all Muslims are terrorists. I live in a mixed neighborhood and have had Hispanic neighbors on either side of me for decades and have never had a single issue. I don’t know if they are here legally or not and I don’t care
There are similarities but Trump doesn’t have the balls of Hitler or Putin when it comes to murdering his own people. He has a major flaw in that he thinks everyone is as unethical and corrupt as he is. They aren’t
And we don’t know the legal standing he has to do it yet authorize Musk to do it in his place. Bannon is correct when he warned Trump against going after SS, Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans benefits. They are lying to the public and shredding the proof of their lies
I just finished “Adolf Hitler” by John Toland. Probably the most comprehensive book about Hitler. Immediately, I was shocked by Hitler’s obsession about “crowd size.” Early on, while he was trying to gain power, he actually moved a rally to a smaller location to make it full.
If by “his own people” you mean white rich men. He’s basically carrying out an ethnic cleansing by erasing heroic minority groups who valiantly fought for America in our previous world wars from our history on military websites.
True enough. I’m on both SS and Medicare that I paid for. The deaths caused by their decisions starting with overturning Roe and being documented and made public. Trump and his ilk don’t care and it’s becoming more obvious every single day
But the people he has surrounded himself with this time are as unethical and corrupt as he is. There are no guardrails, nobody telling him that’s not a good idea. He’s established the rule of law, the constitution, none off it matters. We are losing our democracy so fast, and nobody seems to care.
I more than care and I know that at least half of elected Republicans despise Trump. They fear him and their constituents. They disgust me now with their silence as do those who quietly retired and still remain silent. I have a clear conscience and can look at myself in the mirror
Many Evilvangelical White Folk continues to misinterpret their King James Bible passages.
"It's Always God's Will" without connecting "God Helps Those Who Helps Themselves"
Sciences & Nature has it "All Wrong"?🙃👽😻😡
POC not White's Enemy; ignorance has it all Wrong!
CCP Myths & isms, asms, spasms!👀
Oh my God, have you seen these people when Trump is in the room they act like teenagers. If daddy tells her to do it, it doesn’t matter if it’s legal or not, daddy gets what daddy wants.
Trump's Parents were actual NAZI from NAZI GERMANY and also Trump slept with Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf, all this time Trump was bidding his time to Resurrect NAZI Germany in the United States and its showing.
Trump's father was born in NYC. His mother was born in Scotland and emigrated here in 1930. His grandfather emigrated to the US from Germany (illegally) to avoid conscription in the German military. The Hitler book story is correct and avoiding military service seems to run in the family.
Steven miller gave him the book He is the Nazi ( tho Jewish) & he has advised him on all Goebbels policies Trump has bragged never read a book in his life ( Playboy doesn't count) & Mein Kampf is boring as H. Trump has no ideology He is now given free reign by repub congress to gut democracy
We are already a fascist state in 6 wks we are overrun with the scum. Where are the majority of white evangelical ministers that led the charge in 2015 to put trump in power Their huge voting block pushed the narrative trump was sent to them to get rid of separation of church & state & rule of law
That's a reason why it was important that Trump be treated as any other prisoner, back when you had a chance. That visual would have helped fix some of the pertinent facts in the minds of more people.
The law being used to justify these deportations was most famously used to create the archipelago of concentration camps for "persons of Japanese ancestry."
The republicans in congress don't give a shit if it's unconstitutional. They control everything, and they're going to destroy the union. The red states, primarily the former slave owing states are getting their revenge. If you're not white or some kind of christian, you should think about moving.
My father stood on the pier at Pearl Harbor, even he did not blame the Japanese people, he blamed their government.
It was a sad moment in history for many innocent people.
Yep. Violent actors who were found guilty but walked free. I guess there’s a difference between violent Americans and foreign violent criminals. Who knew?
Yes, the lies and broken promises of Trump & his GOP accomplices have turned our world upside down. And the impacts are being felt worldwide. None of it beneficial...except for the oligarchy, of course.
Monday Monday
Call your terrified
self-sacrificing
Steers
once you get
WOKE-UP
Remind them YOU ARE the American they are supposed to protect from enemies both foreign and domestic.
Right now
dictator donny and his pal Elon fall under
BOTH
It is very hard to feel safe.
202-224-3121 speed dial
Thank you for reminding everyone of this. I was raised in a BC, Canada, town near Vancouver that - pre-1942 - had a large number of Japanese immigrant families who had farmed for a few generations in Canada. Today, we only have a few street names to show that they were ever here. It is our shame.
He is a sort of Nero: psychopath, egolatra, greedy, ruthless...
Hi is ruining America plus a large part of the world. He is negotiating with Putin how to divide Ukraine between them, just like gangsters cutting a chart of the city with a knife... Only mafia gangsters were more honourable.
What I'm saying is that he is not even resorting to a wartime pretext for these illegal deportations, just a law that only grants authority should Congress declare war, the only body that constitutionally can.
Sorry, but after 10 years of Brexit bullshit in the UK, I don't have much time for arguments that rely on fascists and dictators following the democratic rules and obeying court orders. We're so beyond that now.
Read the White House announcement. He implies the Venezuelan government has been captured by the gang and thus is it’s a state sponsored invasion of war.
For as much of an idiot he is and as far fetched as the concept may be; this is the first time he combined two or more complex ideas to do policy
Again, it has no legitimacy whatsoever, and that remains the finding of the judiciary at this hour. Why cede such an immense power without a fight? I'm not talking Congress, I'm talking about you as a citizen with representation and a stake in how the country is run.
And I grew up in Arizona, down the road from at least one of those camps, and I never learned about them in school. My father’s best friend in architecture school had been sent to a camp in Arizona and refused to visit us because it was too upsetting to return to that state.
For Canadians our voice on the subject for these paranoid fascist treatments is David Suzuki. He speaks of barbed wire and freezing uninsulated cabins they were forced to endure.
Every day, Trump is telling his supporters he's not going to lower gas, grocery, and egg prices. Every day, he shows his supporters he's self-centered and does not care about them. Every day, he shows his supporters they are nothing but collateral damage as he burns our country down.
Just saw an exhibit on the Japanese internment camps in Boise. Sad and sickening, then and now. 😔 Especially knowing that the real terrorists are running our government.
Trump & TomHoman kidnapping & deportationing people off the streets of America & throwing them into Central American prisons; without due process of law.
#EdwardZwick #lawrenceWright & the late #LyndaObst "Fictional movie", #TheSiege, is now becoming reality.
But you all didn't speak out when Biden & co were doing this to the Palestinians and now angry when Trump does it to others. You should all have voted Green and broken the duopoly.
Yep, that word has become a catch all for anyone the dear leader dislikes.
It’s Animal farm, it’s 1984, it’s in multiple books warning us for decades, including yourself but to no avail as we still got trapped and are now in serious danger that we were warned about multiple times in several ways.
Being labelled as 'the enemy' by the likes of this regime and its minions is an honor; when that name-calling is used as an excuse to round people up, it's fascism. We've been there before, as Mr. Takei witnessed... never again.
That's true, and makes 'never again' just a nice slogan. We have no idea who has been disappeared, either, or why. We ARE already there, in the early days of 'there'.
They're currently expanding the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial in my heavily impacted area of the US. Its historical lesson doesn't seem to be raising the alarm that at this very moment we're teetering on the brink of history repeating itself. It starts with one group & then spreads to others.
The republican party is a terrorist organization by any definition of terrorism.
Shut them down at every turn, kick them out of the country.
Reject our Constitution, you have no rights or freedoms or any right to be in the U.S.
As a military brat I always enjoyed listening to VOA and Armed Forces Radio. The old radio shows were broadcast. Like “The Shadow” “Jack Armstrong, The All American Boy” and others. Paul Harvey was one of my favorites. It’s a shame how they are dismantling our country, bit by bit. We must unite!
😢 I remember Jack Soo talking about it. When he died, Barney Miller did such a lovely tribute show for him in which they discussed his ability to deal with his experience. To this day, no other show has done that. Extraordinary.
A Federal Investigation in 2009 found that reports that boys at Dozier Reform School had been raped/tortured/murdered by guards/staff at the facility. Fla AG Bondi REFUSED TO PROSECUTE THEM. Sold in 2012, horrified construction crews found almost 100 boys' bodies, most showing signs of torture.
When the president does something designed to create fear in the populace, doesn't that make him a terrorist? This whole Republican accusation/confession thing wears me out.
Reposting--This is from Tacoma, where trusted and needed neighbors, including farmers and retailers, were subject to internment, with many forced to live inside animal stalls at a local fairground. It was wrong then and it is wrong now!
Three generations of my family were held in the Puyallup stalls before being shipped to Minadoka. My father can't believe its happening again in his lifetime.
JD Vance literally said they fabricate things about immigrants when he was talking about the Haitians. Maybe most of them were bad, but it would be an easy way to sneak a few people that the administration didn’t like onto a flight like that.
Look, expect that,what theyre doing is the plan. Name 1 thing ever that didnt serve them 1st. Theyll fuckn say Ukraine strarted war, for their gain, even tho they voted for it all, freedom wout cameras no value. If u think thats all , not even close, its private, its a Putin/Trump deal nothing else
Come on we already know, its predictable, they united for Syria, this about$ power, blame Nato, there will be no blame on Putin. This is a guarantee only 2 each other, same goals, same neuroset, ceasefire w smirk, nato and ukraine just dont want peace, the lives lost humanity card, holding trigger
We also don’t label all persons from a certain country, or race, or religion as being criminals, terrorists, or drug dealers. I’ve only been a victim of a crime once in my life and it was an 18 yr old white male from Indiana who kidnapped me and held a gun to my head for 10 hours
Mr. Takei I cannot even imagine the trauma you could be reliving. I’m sorry any of this is being replayed! And it’s not okay. All flags should to turned upside down right now…
USA needs to make an abrupt turn!
I fear it will happen again. Only it won't stop with South Americans. I figure Sufis will be rounded up because we believe in love and tolerance and celebrate and support the LGBTQ community.
They'll be coming for the queers before long, too. Remember, we're mentally ill according to them. It will only be a matter of time before people "need to be kept safe" from us.
Bc our mere existence makes them ask themselves questions they don't wanna ask, just in case they are like us too...
Which is so said. I've lived around LGBTQ folks my whole life. Always felt safe around them. Oh, and none of their queerness changed my heterosexuality, either. Proud and honored to officiate at same-sex weddings.
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
Please, I urge you to be careful, vigilant, and peacefully organize resistance before it goes to far.
And yet, here we are. Confounding!!
North America didn't even make it a half century before it happened again.
- Xavier Becerra
The ones who didn’t LEARN from our own history are the SAME ones who DON’T ALLOW THAT HISTORY TO BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS!🤬
🐔 💩
All created by AI and Shady Vance.
Don't believe it for a second. They have to show something to justify the payouts they are about to take.
Look at the video that is being shown, it's from an Iphone in segments.
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All you MAGA MONSTERS 👿 should know, 47 can use these “laws” to come after YOU, YOUR KIDS, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR CHURCH FRIENDS, you FOOLS.
It's wild that people didn't see this coming when he first started caging children away from their parents.
That was practice.
(crickets!)
What dreadful times!!!
Can’t imagine twice in a lifetime trauma from this if I’m honest.
That’s shitty as, especially from
What you’ve given to the world😔
https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
Then we do the same inhumane thing.
The “criminals” they illegally deported have never been given a chance to show anything in a court that might have proven their innocence. They were deported with no due process against a federal court’s order.
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No lessons learned.
Part I: Crimes, including assault, arson, and counterfeiting
Part II: Criminal procedure
Part III: Prisons and prisoners
Part IV: Juvenile delinquency
Part V: Witness immunity...and
§1030: Covers fraud and related activity involving computers. TREASON
is this the exception or the norm?
Discard people as soon as they're deemed unnecessary.. Chinese Exclusion Act-
even rejection of Jewish refugees during ww2.
They fool (lie) themselves to say 'we are a christian nation'.
Point it out to them make them look it in the eyes and tell them it’s the same as back then!
Please call this evil out for what it is and call on everyone of good conscience to stop everything by and shut this country down!
They were told to send the planes back to the US. The first plane landed an hour later. The El Salvador president who accepted them along with $6mil tweeted, oopsie.
It happened. They're not coming back. Ever.
Trump is not done yet!
"It's Always God's Will" without connecting "God Helps Those Who Helps Themselves"
Sciences & Nature has it "All Wrong"?🙃👽😻😡
POC not White's Enemy; ignorance has it all Wrong!
CCP Myths & isms, asms, spasms!👀
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/alien-enemies-act-explained
they’re not allowed to take my state
or my city
or my place
not without a fight.
It was a sad moment in history for many innocent people.
Call your terrified
self-sacrificing
Steers
once you get
WOKE-UP
Remind them YOU ARE the American they are supposed to protect from enemies both foreign and domestic.
Right now
dictator donny and his pal Elon fall under
BOTH
It is very hard to feel safe.
202-224-3121 speed dial
We have failed, Mr. Franklin. Miserably.
Hi is ruining America plus a large part of the world. He is negotiating with Putin how to divide Ukraine between them, just like gangsters cutting a chart of the city with a knife... Only mafia gangsters were more honourable.
On friday he announced we are officially at war as the Venezuelan government is currently invading our country
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-invokes-18th-century-law-declaring-invasion-by-gangs-to-speed-mass-deportations
For as much of an idiot he is and as far fetched as the concept may be; this is the first time he combined two or more complex ideas to do policy
They think they will win.
They won't!
#EdwardZwick #lawrenceWright & the late #LyndaObst "Fictional movie", #TheSiege, is now becoming reality.
It’s Animal farm, it’s 1984, it’s in multiple books warning us for decades, including yourself but to no avail as we still got trapped and are now in serious danger that we were warned about multiple times in several ways.
After WW2 they welcomed us as migrants.
Shut them down at every turn, kick them out of the country.
Reject our Constitution, you have no rights or freedoms or any right to be in the U.S.
I didn’t think Kari Lake could do too much damage because of the law & VOA “firewall”.
I was wrong!
The queen of propaganda declared VOA & Radio Free Europe “propaganda” & DT gutted it.
Horrifying!
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-signs-order-gut-voice-america-other-agencies-2025-03-15/
WTF .. so disgusted by what is done 'in the name of 'god''
But a nation of laws, NO.
Norwegian Resistance fighters against Nazis in World War 2.
NEVER AGAIN IS NOW!
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/never-again-is-now-for-japanese-americans-protesting-tacomas-immigration-jail/
This is from just a few months ago:
https://m.kuow.org/stories/new-memorial-honors-japanese-americans-incarcerated-at-washington-state-fairgrounds
Please stop hedging your bets and come down firmly on the side of the Bill of Rights and individual due process and innocent until proven guilty.
USA needs to make an abrupt turn!
Bc our mere existence makes them ask themselves questions they don't wanna ask, just in case they are like us too...
“Blondi” for a reason. She is a hooker for Trump in a different, more dangerous way
Terrifying.