tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post5063036624315088201..comments2024-03-28T06:31:29.549-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: When the US government censored free speechPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-72456336958763630052017-05-11T15:52:47.915-05:002017-05-11T15:52:47.915-05:00Sorry, "her" world wars. ;)Sorry, "her" world wars. ;)Chas S. Cliftonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00923547685265741325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-32276586659835623312017-05-11T15:48:48.063-05:002017-05-11T15:48:48.063-05:00Someone has his world wars confused. Italy was par...Someone has his world wars confused. Italy was part of the Allies in World War One -- that is why Ernest Hemingway was there driving an ambulance. So speaking Italian at home should not have suggested treasonous activity, although some Americans mistrusted Italians for other reasons.Chas S. Cliftonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00923547685265741325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-428560870519131872017-05-10T21:29:54.620-05:002017-05-10T21:29:54.620-05:00I remember in the 60's, converting POW barrack...I remember in the 60's, converting POW barracks in Campo CA into apartments.<br />German/Italians were housed there and worked in the fields.Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05684179171065794525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-38647107032650294992017-05-10T18:04:16.138-05:002017-05-10T18:04:16.138-05:00kamas716. Wilson's detainment camps were the ...kamas716. Wilson's detainment camps were the basis of FDR's internment camps for Japanese-, Italian- and German-Americans during WWII. FDR did nothing if not on a grand scale, compared to Wilson.<br /><br />My grandmother used to tell the story about how she caught her family's housemaid speaking German on a trolley and turned her in to her father, who got the maid arrested and eventually the lady was detained as a spy. Sounded really neat when I heard it as a kid, but now as a adult, not so much.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-24262391899593938622017-05-10T16:59:05.553-05:002017-05-10T16:59:05.553-05:00I remember in High School reading an account of Ge...I remember in High School reading an account of German-Americans being detained and harassed during WWI. I can't remember the name of the book now, but it was for the local interest history section we were doing (lots of people of German ancestry in ND). My grandmother spoke only German until she entered grade school, and my great grandparents learned to speak English from the kids coming home from school. This part of history seems to get glossed over by the schools these days.kamas716https://westfargomusings.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-3979732374136305392017-05-10T13:22:18.399-05:002017-05-10T13:22:18.399-05:00Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism covers Wilson...Jonah Goldberg's <i>Liberal Fascism</i> covers Wilson's attack on the Constitution at some length; there's a 40 page chapter entitled "Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of Liberal Fascism."Peter Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-43391979844619830662017-05-10T13:15:04.425-05:002017-05-10T13:15:04.425-05:00For more recent suppression of free speech look at...For more recent suppression of free speech look at McCain's campaign finace "reform" which banned political speech by groups like the NRA. Fortunately, the supreme court eventually lifted the restrictions, which horrified the Left, esp Obama and Hillary Clinton.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-53825394696456670912017-05-10T12:40:47.570-05:002017-05-10T12:40:47.570-05:00FDR's internment camps, and the treatment of J...FDR's internment camps, and the treatment of Japanese-American property rights, were all firmly based upon Wilson's policies towards German-Americans during WWI. Loss of property, et all.<br /><br />Funny, these and other heinous policies like eugenics and sterilization of 'useless' persons, forced separation of minorities from the main culture, seizure of minority property for 'government' purposes and then selling the properties to the correct private individuals, all these were used by another government. The government of Adolf Hitler, who was a bit of a Wilson fan-boy.<br /><br />Yet you hear people praise Wilson and profane Hitler.<br /><br />What a sell-job. <br /><br />We probably would not have needed the Civil Rights movement if it hadn't been for the full-scale segregation movement by Wilson's people.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-35407064978825461182017-05-10T12:28:02.849-05:002017-05-10T12:28:02.849-05:00Interesting how Wilson is presented as a hero by t...Interesting how Wilson is presented as a hero by the left, who gloss over this sort of stuff.Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.com