Tule Lake Committee wants to protect a latrine that no longer exist (Part One) UPDATED

Answering "No-No" on the So-Called "Loyalty Questionnaire - Yukio Kawaratani

The Tule Lake Unit, which is currently part of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, is among the nation's newest national parks. Created by President George W. Bush in 2008, the park preserves the site of the Tule Lake Detention-Segregation Center, one of 10 detention centers created following Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

The Unit also includes the 1,277-acres Peninsula, also called Castle Rock, and the 35-acre Camp Tulelake, which are both owned and administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and co-managed with the National Park Service.

Klamath Falls, OR— Setting history straight on the Japanese Interment camp (Part One)

The problem is many disillusioned inmates renounced their American citizenship in favor of repatriating to Japan.

Now comes the Tule Lake Committee wanting to change history and give disloyal Japanese honor and glory for revoking their US citizenship during a time of war. Are the Japanese willing to do the same for Americans that were in Japanese concentration camps in Japan?

There is a piece of a concrete slab that was once a latrine located near the Tulelake Airport that they are concerned will not be preserved. For those of us who have been out there know that a fence would not affect their history because a fence can be built around the section they are wanting preserved and still not interfere with a fence being constructed around the airport.

Who are the Japanese thinking of their history or the people that have to live and work in that area and make use of the airport for the local farming community?

Yet, there is no mention of the migrant buildings that have been constructed on their past history of the interment camp in Newell, CA.

Is this not a big to do over nothing, only to appease a group who seems to think their past history is more important than those who live there?

Where the Japanese make a pilgrimage once every two years, while putting those people who live there, their lives in danger by not having a fence around the airport constructed and built as it should be and should have been done a long time ago if it were not for the nonsense that the Japanese keep complaining about, a latrine that no longer exist.

All over a piece of cement slab that was once a latrine.

Wildlife concerns

Modoc County officials previously said the fence is required by the Federal Aviation Administration to prevent wildlife from going onto the airport runway and possibly colliding with airplanes. The airport is leased to Macy’s Aviation and is used for agricultural crop dusting, a vital aspect of the region’s economy. The city of Tulelake, which is located in Newell in Siskiyou County, owns the airport land and leases it to Modoc County to operate the airport.

The airport issue has created ill feelings between the TLC and Tulelake Basin residents, and have impacted ongoing planning efforts to develop the Tule Lake Unit of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. The Unit does not include but is adjacent to the airport.

Case 2:18-cv-02280-KJM-CMK

FIRST AMENDED VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF (42 U.S.C. § 1983, RALPH M. BROWN ACT)

Case 2:18-cv-02280-KJM-CMK Document 5 Filed 08/22/18 Page 1 of 17

JURISDICTION; VENUE

Case 2:18-cv-02280-KJM-CMK Document 5 Filed 08/22/18 Page 2 of 17 Paragraphs 1.-2. below:

1. Subject matter jurisdiction is granted to This Honorable Court by 28 U.S.C. § 1331 because of federal questions; 28 U.S.C. § 1343 because of civil rights claims; and 28 U.S.C. § 1367 because of other claims forming part of the same case or controversy. 2. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1391, venue lies in the Eastern District of California because the historic property that is the subject of the action is situated in Modoc County, California, and because a substantial part of the events and omissions giving rise to the claim occurred in Siskiyou County, California.

Case 2:18-cv-02280-KJM-CMK Document 5 Filed 08/22/18 Page 5 of 17 Paragraph 21. below:

21. In 2014, the County proposed a multi-year, $3.5 million airport improvement plan that included construction of a massive 3-mile-long, 8-foot-high fence, topped with barbed wire, which would close off most of the concentration camp land where Japanese Americans had lived and died.

The Tule Lake Community filed a “Petition for a Writ of Mandate” on the 25th day of July, 2014, at Glen Ellen, California.

Tulelake, CA— Agenda for Tulelake City Council Meeting on Sept 15, 2014 at 7:00 PM at City Hall.

#6 Appointment legation Committee for Tulelake Committee v. Modoc County et,al. Government code 54956.9 (Mayor Cordonier)

Note: “Government Code 54956.9 basically says that the governing body of a public agency may meet in closed session with legal counsel when there is pending litigation against the agency or there is a "significant exposure to litigation" against the local agency.”

#7 Closed Session regarding Tulelake Committee v. Modoc County et,al. (Mayor Cordonier)

#8. Announcement of closed session by Mayor Cordonier at conclusion of meeting.

Agenda September 15, 2014               Minutes September 15 2014

Letter to the Editor: Writ of mandamus against City of Tulelake is unjust Jan 10, 2015

"In July, a writ of mandamus was filed generally against the County of Modoc, the City of Tulelake, and the operators of the Tulelake Airport. It appears that the driving issue is an objection on the part of former internees, etc., of the Tule Lake Segregation Camp (via the Tule Lake Committee) to the construction of an airport safety fence designed to keep aircraft from dangerously conflicting with humans and animals." (See the movie “Unbroken.”) By Rudy Hiley Tulelake Jan 10, 2015

Airport access an issue

A meeting in late Nov 2016 took place at the Tulelake-Newell Family Resource Center in Tulelake on a Monday, while the Tuesday gathering was at the Klamath County Library, 126 S. Third St.

"Discussion briefly touched on efforts by the Tule Lake Committee, which sponsors the biannual pilgrimages, to sue Modoc County and Macy’s Flying Service over plans to build a fence around the Tulelake Airport. The airport was part of the original camp and is 1,000 feet from the existing NPS Unit. The airport is used for regional agricultural chemical and fertilizer applications. The proposed fence, which would be funded with a Federal Aviation Administration grant, is wanted to prevent airplanes from possible collisions with wildlife.

“Both Modoc County and the FAA anticipate that Modoc County will be able to partner with the NPS and other groups to develop an ongoing program to provide access for tours of former (Camp Tule Lake) facilities on the Tulelake Municipal Airport while still meeting FAA requirements,” according to a Nov. 22 letter from Douglas Pomeroy, environmental protection specialist for the FAA’s San Francisco office.

Following the meeting, Nick Macy repeated promises that he’s willing to work with the Tule Lake Committee and Japanese Americans on providing access to the airport." 'Not ambitious enough' Tule Lake plan draws comments By LEE JUILLERAT For the Herald and News Dec 1, 2016

Opened in May 1942, Tule Lake was the largest of 10 camps run by the War Relocation Authority following President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s issuance of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the U.S. military to incarcerate U.S. residents of Japanese descent.

Tule Lake held up to 18,700 Japanese Americans and was designated the nation's only segregation center in 1943. Many Japanese Americans were considered disloyal after failing to answer "yes" to what have since been regarded poorly worded questions about their loyalty to Japan and their willingness to serve in the U.S. military. Along with "no-nos," others chose not to move their families to other detention centers were held at Tule Lake, which had 28 guard towers along with tanks and machine-gun emplacements.

“Tule Lake’s atmosphere of anxiety, anger, confusion, and distrust helped set the stage for the largest mass renunciation of American citizenship in U.S. history,” the management plan states. Because of the controversy, 5,461 Tule Lake detainees protested and renounced their U.S. citizenship. A subsequent legal battle ensued through the 1960s.

"UPDATED: Tule Lake Committee wants to protect a latrine that no longer exist (Part Two) "

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4. Tule Lake Committee wants to protect a latrine that no longer exist (Part One) UPDATED

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