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WW II Internment of Italian Americans

By Bob Small

Previously, we had discussed the hidden history of the German-American WW2 Interments,

Now we move on to the equally unknown internment of the Italian-American population. Some 1,881 Italian-Americans were taken into custody and detained during the war.

In 2010, the California Legislature passed a resolution apologizing for US mistreatment of Italian residents during the war.”

Though there were WWII restriction zones for Italians in places like San Francisco these were only on the West Coast, even though Eastern cities such as Philadelphia had large amounts of Italian-Americans.

Among the Italians affected were Giuseppe Dimaggio, who son Joe was possibly the most famous professional baseball player of his time. Even more bizarre, Ezio Pinza, possibly the most famous Opera singer of his time, was even arrested and imprisoned, albeit briefly, on Ellis Island.

Finally on Columbus Day, 1942, the US Attorney General announced the lifting of the stigma of “enemy” status.

According to this article, Fort Missoula Camp Help during World War 11” Most of the men were deemed a risk because the hearing officers couldn’t be sure they were not a risk “ One notable member of the Alien Enemy Board members was Democrat Senator Mike Mansfield, who would go on to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

There are a number of discussions of this time, including Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American …, Public Law 106-451 106th Congress An Act, and A Review of the Restrictions on Persons of Italian Ancestry …

See also

Proclamation 2527 and the Internment of Italian Americans

POW Camps in Pennsylvania – GenTracer

Alleged Cult Murder in Delco

By Bob Small

Very rarely does a Delco Murder catch the nation’s eye, but the alleged murder in Chester Heights by Michelle Zajko of her parents Rita and Richard Zajko seems to be all over Fox News and other outlets. It could be because she is a “person of interest” in the previous killing of Border Patrol Agent David Maland Jan. 20 in Coventry, Vt.

Or it could be her membership in a cult-like group known as the Zizians.

Or it could be that she’s a transexual.

She’s certainly aware of the Zizans’ status, saying of the coverage of the group “ has painted them as “Satan’s lapdogs, the devil and the Manson family all rolled into one.”

There are many articles on the Zizians most of which tirelessly remind us that Ziz Lasota, the alleged founder, is a transexual as are many o Zizians. Many of them are also vegetarians, but that’s not as frequently mentioned.

One fascinating tidbit can be found in this BBC article. In 2022 after her failure to show up at a court hearing her lawyer said she was “now deceased after a boating accident in the San Francisco Bay area”. She even received an obituary in an Alaska Newspaper. How many of us, besides her and Mark Twain, have been able to claim to have read their own obituary?

Forget the noise about the Zizians being transexual and vegetarian. According to the Desert Sun quoting the San Francisco Chronicle, many Zizians had worked previously at either Google or NASA. Poulami Saha, a professor at UC, Berkeley said “The internet culture and the absolute immersion that’s possible there means there are forms of connection that only appear only after the fact” She went on to add, “We are kind of grasping for a story that makes sense of it. … People on the outside can never fully know what’s happening on the inside.” Basically, this is not an hour documentary, more like a twelve chapter mini-series.

As we get closer to trial date, in Maryland, it gets curiouser and curiouser. Stay tuned!

The German American Internment

By Bob Small

When we hear about US Internment Camps, we automatically think of the Japanese Internment Camps that occurred during World War 2, both for the massive publicity they have been given and for the public apologies and reparations that have occurred, both of which, in my opinion, were deserved.

Less well-known are the German-American Internment Camps, the only group interned during both World Wars.

A total of 2,048 were incarcerated by 1918 and the Internment of German Americans was coordinated by the Department of Justice Alien Registration Section, headed by the then 23-year-old John Edgar Hoover, the future FBI director.

Prior to that, evacuees from two German Cruisers, Prinz Eitel Friedrich and Kronprinz Wilhelm were moved on Oct 1916 to The Philadelphia Navy Yard where their lodgings became known as “The German Village”.

During World War II, 11,507 persons of German ancestry were interned which was 36.1 percent of the total internments. Approximately 4,500 Germans were deported from 15 Latin American countries and landed in other US Internment camps. Some internees were not released until 1948.

Following the example of the interned Japanese, in 2005, activists formed The German American Internee Coalition: Home. There is also the proposed S.1356 – Wartime Treatment Study Act 107th Congress (2001 … brought up a number of times.

Of course, this history has been denied and distorted. One frequently cited source, Personal Justice Denied lists only four of the 50 internment sites. It should also be noted that 64 percent of those arrested during World II, were either European or European Americans.

For a more thorough review, see Fear Itself: Inside the FBI Roundup of German Americans …

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798, issued during the Presidency of John Adams says that all 14 old males and up from the warring nation, “who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.”

According to A History of the Alien Enemies Act, this act was first used during the War of 1812.

See also

WWII: U.S. Germans Were “Enemy Aliens”

How does the Alien Enemies Act work?

Dr Oz And Bobby And A Wobble of Canadian Ostriches

By Bob Small

Due to Avian Flu fears the Canadian Health Dept. was preparing to cull 400 Ostriches from a a British Columbia farm. However, RFK, Jr. requested the Canadian Food Inspection Authority (CFIA) not proceed with the cull.

Bobby Kennedy Jr., of course, is our Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Universal Ostrich Farms of British Columbia had requested an exemption but was denied.

They are not going to take it, it should be noted.

And some experts oppose the cull.

“Only one exemption to a cull order has been granted in Canada,

Fiona Brinkman, from Simon Fraser University’s Molecular Biochemistry and Biology wants the CFIA to conduct new tests because so much time has passed since the initial cull order was given.”\

MAGA supporters and the Canadian Freedom Convoy are working together against what they – and Bobby — perceive as “government overreach”.

Dr. Mehmet Oz is also supporting the big birds even offering to house them at his Florida ranch”.

Dr. Oz told the New York Post “The Canadians should stop putting their heads in the sand,” he said. “ and study herd immunity by keeping them alive.

Billionaire John Catsimaditis of the Save our Ostriches believes the birds have “life- saving antibodies.

The plight of the “wobble”– a term for a group of ostriches — has Canadians on both sides of the issue.

Gozmodo has a fairly snide article — RFK Jr. Begs Canada to Pardon 400 Ostriches — about it.

They quote Dr. Oz, however, saying “We’re sticking our necks out for the birds.”

Mostly, though, this was an opinion piece masquerading as a news article.You have to read Ostriches facing cull at Canada farm find unexpected allies to discover some of RFK Jr’s other allies and co-signers,

See also RFK Jr wants Canada to pardon 400 ostriches

If you search the March 5^th letters section of Northeast Times: Home there’s an interesting letter entitled RFK Jr, the new Elliot Ness.

No Kings Protest Brought To You By The Democratic Party

By Bob Small

There’s no denial that the NoKings protest was a Democratic plot. This is only disappointing if you expected that this came from “the people” to use a socialism. A few examples from this article:

Already, I established in analysis for the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative, that the protests are organized by 197 organizations aligned with the Democratic Party.

At least 70 unique Democratic Party committees and clubs are organizing at least 140 protest events across the country in at least 19 states and the District of Columbia.

Democratic Party clubs are also organizing protests in at least four countries overseas: Australia, Italy, Mexico, and Norway, with groups like Democrats Abroad Norway.

Lastly, one anonymous democratic volunteer said , “It feels less like a movement and more like a performance.” They were told which graphics to share, how to word the signs and even how to answer reporters.

“It is like the whole protest is a campaign rollout — but in protest clothes,” the volunteer said.

Not that other, non-Democratic groups weren’t involved but the big money came from the “Big D”.

See No Kings: A Rigged, Paid Uprising (As Usual) That Seems … and also“No Kings” Demonstrators Acknowledge Soros NGOs Paying … both these similar

Articles citing an outreach for “the toughest dudes in the area”. There’s also a listing of what we can safely call “Dem support groups”, much as there are also “GOP support groups”.

Under the second cited article, under the Craigslist ad title “Operator”, we learn that a weekly pay of $6,500 to $12,500 to those willing to “go into dangerous situations and work as “a select team of the toughest men in the area”. This ad was taken down before I could contact anyone in Swarthmore I knew who qualified for this position.

Since Larry Krasner no longer needs him, I guess “old George” has to do something.

California Governor Gavin Newsom responded to the posting, on X, of a photo of a burning car, with the citation “Another “mostly peaceful protest” brought to you by @Gavin Newsom. Deport”.

Newsom’s Press Office responded by asking “Are you going to send the marines the next time the Philadelphia Eagles win, too?”

Make of the above what you will.

Who else is behind No Kings

By Bob Small

There’s a plethora of agitation groups involved in the No Kings/No ICE Demonstrations. Some truly believe they’re on the right side of history by being on the “left side”.

Antifa has a long history of disruption and refuses to return any of my electronic messages, so they could present “their” side. Leads one to conclude they don’t have one.

BAP (The Black Alliance for Peace) is much more communicative. “Nuestra America” they have translated into “Our Americas” “to help bridge the gap between the US usage “America” that describes the United States as the only “America” and the concept put forth by revolutionary forces.” “

From Canada to Chile” as they say.

Their website is rather thick due to the inclusiveness of Spanish and “Haitian Kreyo;” for nearly every paragraph. They are currently working on a “Zone of Peace Campaign”.

Chirla is a pro-immigrant organization that is mainly based in California and was founded in 1986. They have along history of advocating for immigrant rights.

Their is a dedication to immigrant rights. Note, one of the listings under CSO is the Chicago Symphony Orchestra but nothing about immigrant rights.

For another viewpoint

Fire Dangerous LAUSD Educator Ron Gochez

In Defense of Ron Gochez and Unión del Barrio

The 1942 Attack On Ellwood

By Bob Small

The residents of Goleta, CA were preparing to listen to FDR deliver his “fireside chat” on the radio on Sunday Night, Feb 23, 1942, less than three months after the Dec 7 attack on Pearl Harbor At approximately 7:15 pm, a Japanese I-17 submarine began to fire at the Ellwood Oil Field’

The only injury was a soldier who had tried to deactivate an unexploded shell for which he later received a purple heart. This sub was later sunk in August 1943 by the Royal New Zealand Navy and US Navy Planes around Australia.

This gave birth to a large number of conspiracy theories. For one of these see Goleta the Good Land: Tompkins, Walker A.

Meanwhile, two days later, Radio Tokyo falsely reported “Santa Barbara, California was devastated by enemy bombardment.”

The American Oil and Gas Historical Society fills in some missing details Japanese Sub attacks Oilfield as the effects.. This not only fanned the flames of a Japanese invasion , “but quickly led to the largest mass UFO sighting in U.S. history.”

Meanwhile in LA “The U.S. Army’s 37th Anti-Aircraft Brigade fired at elusive “unidentified airplanes.” The brigade fired 1,340 rounds. “ Many Los Angelinos feared an alien invasion, either from Japan or from another planet.

The Carriage and Western Art Musem of Santa Barbera has a more succinct view of the incident. Monies were collected to build a bomber to be named “The Flying Santa Barbara” It remains unbuilt.

Besides influencing the decision to create the Japanese Internment this was “the furthest direct attack on a land target that the Japanese Empire” made during the war. This was the first bombardment of the US since the 1814 Battle of Baltimore.

Lest we state incorrectly that only Japanese and Japanese-Americans were interned during World War 2. both Germans Internment of German Americans and Italians were also interned, albeit at a much lower level.

Lastly, a John Belushi movie was made, based on “The bombing of Los Angelos” 1941 (film).

Based on the IMDB reviews it may be the worst movie associated with the name of Steven Spielberg.

Reparations For Tulsa Riots Ignore History

By Bob Small

A friend of mine in poetry, Lamont B. Steptoe, first told me about the 1921 Tulsa Race “Massacre”, This hadn’t been taught in any history course I had taken, including Black History.

Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols says  “There is not one Tulsan, no matter their skin color, who wouldn’t be better off today had the massacre not happened…or if generations before us would have done the hard work to restore what was lost.”

This plan was announced on June 1. It’s called Road to Repair to be managed by the Greenwood Trust without requiring City Council approval.

Evanston, Ill., was the first US city to offer reparations.

The Justice Department says there are ‘credible reports’ that law enforcement members participated in the Tulsa arson and murders.

But the first article written about this in 1971, Never A Massacre In Tulsa & Not Hidden paints a different, but still terrible, picture of what had happened 50 years before There were a number of failures of the municipal authorities to take control of the situation, perhaps unsurprising in a city where the Ku Klux Klan had a headquarters.

There were close to a thousand of both races either injured or killed and “thirty-five city blocks were completely looted and burned to the ground.” The Negro community was denied compensation, due to the rioting or civil insurrection clause in their insurance policies.

A white woman had claimed rape by Dick Rowland. A white mob was gathering to raid the county jail and lynch Rowland.

This is the point, if not before, that the authorities needed to take strong direct action. They did not.

The subsequent grand jury led to “the impeachment and conviction of chief of police John A. Gustafson who was suspended and later convicted in a district court trial” “for failure to take proper precautions for the protection of life and property during the rioting . . . and conspiracy to free automobile thieves and collect rewards.” 

My idea for reparations is the inclusion of the 1921 Tulsa events, the 1985 MOVE Events, and the toll that reconstruction meted out to the South in all our future Histories.

See also Black Wall Street’ Before, During and After

Has Capitalism Saved the World?

By Bob Small

It’s been a while since I’ve read a book, partially because there are all these fifteen to twenty-page articles. However, upon receiving notification that Roy Minet has published his third book The Savior of the World — Comprehending the Free Market … and that it was only 60 pages, well there we are.

Why Roy? We met many years ago when the Greens and the Libertarians worked together, “fighting the good fight” to get places on the Pennsylvania Ballot, despite the massive efforts of the Duopoly to keep us from the Ballot. Mostly, this was like the myth of Sisyphus and the rock won. Occasionally there was an upset.

The subtitle is “Comprehending the Free Market Economic System”, which is basically an explanation and defense of capitalism. This would be a good book for middle schoolers.

This is a quote he uses from Adam Smith “ How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.”

Roy, disagreeing with many, sees socialism and communism as crazy failed schemes. Naturally, he aligns with the idea that “central planning systems will never work well”.

He also rails against government interference, such as “excessive taxation” and regulations, etc. and the Federal Reserve manipulation. Again, this is the Libertarian gospel.

He also refers us Frédéric Bastiat‘s book The Law and his essay “That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen”.

We are discussing here the Invisible hand as Adam Smith (see above) had discussed.

Roy later says that “Profits are always food for everyone”, which some may find questionable.

Towards the end of this tome, Roy boldly states “Unequal wealth distribution is absolutely necessary and required for the proper functioning of a free market economy”.

On the topic of “the safety net”, He finds it “highly likely that private charities could do this job better if government force were completely eliminated.”

The last line of the book is “Freedom works, and freedom works best.”

One thinks he might have chosen another title, though.

See also

Roy Minet . Org – Think about it !