Just saw this on George Takei's Facebook, had to share!

[AgingAmerican]

George Takei shared a link.
about an hour ago

Now, this is just wrong. But I have to admit, I laughed. And if it helps people understand what we Japanese Americans went through, then why not. (And if I can laugh at an internment joke, then the rest of Netizenry should just relax.)

Thousands Of Elderly Japanese-Americans Rounded Up For Internment Camp’s 70th Reunion



POSTON, AZ—Commemorating the internment during World War II of nearly 120,000 innocent Japanese-Americans, U.S. authorities this week reportedly tracked down and apprehended thousands of the now-elderly detention camp survivors for a 70th anniversary reunion.

Packing the onetime detainees into buses, armed guards forcibly returned them to their cramped, ramshackle barracks at the Poston War Relocation Center—just one of many sites across the country in which aging Japanese-Americans accused of nothing more than their ancestry have been given the chance to revisit a powerful, formative event from their pasts.

“After finding out where all the internment alumni now live, we removed them from their homes and hospital beds and brought them here, to the camp, so they could reconnect with old friends and take part in the ongoing festivities,” said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Grant Lowry, who oversees the recently reactivated prison in the Arizona desert. “We’re hoping that by rounding everyone up and getting them back behind the barbed wire, they’ll be able to relive some memories from long ago, and maybe even make a few new ones!”

“The celebration is mandatory,” Lowry added.

More here...

[AgingAmerican]

1. Oops

Heres the links...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/thousands-of-elderly-japaneseamericans-rounded-up,31744/?ref=auto

http://www.facebook.com/georgehtakei

[HarveyDarkey]

2. I knew it had to be The Onion

Brain farts, one of the features of getting older.

[AnneD]

3. So wrong...

and yet so funny.

[bluesbassman]

4. George is a national treasure.

Internment was not this country's finest hour, not by a long shot.

[AgingAmerican]

5. He posts a lot of funny stuff on facebook

n/t

[MiddleFingerMom]

6. GOOD for George -- there are assholes today who would STILL ship groups off to internment camps...

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... simply based on their religion or ethnicity. The type of assholes who never learn from history and
are doomed to repeat it. If they could.
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Luckily, they're fringe, clownish (though frighteningly ignant) and mostly impotent.
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[Kali]

8. would? are

Immigration detention in the United States has reached crisis proportions. In 2011, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) held a record-breaking 429,000 immigrants in over 250 facilities across the country, and currently maintains a daily capacity of 33,400 beds—even though, in the overwhelming majority of cases, detention is not necessary to effect deportations and does not make us any safer.

http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/detention



more reading: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/10-worst-immigration-detention-centers-america

[UTUSN]

7. (stepping into it) Well, I a nam vet will never take a "tour' there/nam

I really shouldn't step anywhere if I don't get a joke.