Here are the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto which should be engraved on every statue of FDR, every school named after him, and every book about FDR: 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. (FERA acquired 25 million dollars of land by mid-1935; the Resettlement Administration later bought many millions of Acres; FDR called for national land redistribution in his 1st inaugural) 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. ("...the duty rests upon the government to restrict such incomes by very high taxes." FDR, PPA 1935:274; 1935 Wealth Tax Act; FDR imposed a 90 percent rate on corporations and issued a decree that no one could make more than $25,000 after taxes - overridden by Congress.) 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. (1935 Wealth Tax Act with its confiscatory inheritance taxes) 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. (cf. 117,000 Americans of Japanese descent 1941 which the ACLU calls "the worst single wholesale violation of civil rights of American citizens in our history." FDR wanted to put ethnic Germans in concentration camps too, but there were too many.) 5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. (Banking Act of 1935, gold confiscation by Proclamation 2039 in March 1933 and formalized in the 1934 Gold Reserve Act, etc.) 6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state. (Federal Communications Act of 1934, Railroad Coordination Act, ICC, FTC; FDR put private air mail carriers out of business and had the Army deliver mail in '34) 7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. (TVA (FDR proposed 7 other TVA-like projects), Rural Electrification; the NRA was business and industrial planning; on 8/14/41 the House rejected FDR's Property Seizure Bill passed by the Senate which would have given him dictatorial power over all business and industry as well as confiscated all private arms; Resettlement Administration) 8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. (CCC, CWA, PWA, WPA, etc) 9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. (Subsistence Homestead Division, Rural Rehabilitation Division of FERA, and the Resettlement Administration) 10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. (NRA)
On Christmas Day 1942 Frenchman Bonnier de la Chapelle, a paid U.S. agent under the control of the State Department's Robert Murphy, assassinated our ally the French leader Darlan. After seeing how that went down FDR cabled Churchill with a copy to Eisenhower on New Year's Day 1943 stating that if Free French leader Charles De Gaulle did not "play ball" that they would have to assassinate him. Eisenhower was horrified and told aide Harry Butcher that if directly ordered to do it that he would set the assassination in motion and then resign from the Army. Churchill also was shocked by the idea and managed to nix it. FDR ordered the assassination of Chiang kai Shek because he was not knuckling under to Mao and the Communists fast enough for FDR. In December 1943, FDR's military representative in China, General Joseph Stilwell told a subordinate, Col. Frank Dorn, that FDR was "fed up with Chiang and his tantrums, and said so. In fact, he told me in that Olympian manner of his, 'if you can't get along with Chiang, and can't replace him, get rid of him once and for all. You know what I mean, put in someone you can manage.'" Col. Dorn prepared a plan for an airplane mishap, in which there would be engine problems and, in the process of bailing out of the plane, Chiang and his wife would be given faulty parachutes. Fortunately Chinese security was too good and foiled the plot.(Freidel, p 561) On August 12, 1944, Ensign Joe P. Kennedy, Jr. volunteered for a highly risky mission officially called "Operation Aphrodite" (also known as "Project Anvil") to pilot a PB4Y-1, the Navy version of the B-24, loaded with 21,470 pounds of explosives â a flying bomb -- across the English channel towards the German V-1 missile sites on the other side. His orders were to aim his plane at the sites and bail out before the plane was exploded by radio from an accompanying plane. On this mission Col. Elliot Roosevelt, the President's son, was in the control escort plane. Immediately after its take-off from Winfarthing-Fersfield airfield Roosevelt detonated the bomber killing Kennedy and the other officer on the plane, Lt. Wilford J. Willy. Joe Kennedy, Sr. always believed that FDR had arranged the death of his son. We have the anomolous case of a US President murdering the brother of a future US President. In 1974, after Truman's death, Merle Miller published a 1961 interview with Truman done on tape in front of three witnesses in his best seller entitled Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. Truman, according to Miller, was in Boston in 1944 in the Ritz-Carlton hitting up Joseph Kennedy for campaign funds for FDR's run for fourth term, and "Old man Kennedy started throwing rocks at Roosevelt, saying he'd caused the war and so on. And then he said, 'Harry, what the hell are you doing campaigning for that crippled son of a bitch that killed my son Joe?'"
REFERENCES Cook - Eleanor Roosevelt, vol 1, 1992, Blanche Cook, NY:Viking. Flynn - The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn, NY, 1948, has many of the facts on this page. Freidel - FDR A Rendezvous with Destiny, Frank Freidel, 1990. From Major Jordan's Diaries by George Racey Jordan, Harcourt, Brace 1952. It gives a complete listing of Lend Lease to SU. Goodwin - No Ordinary Time, 1994, Doris Kearns Goodwin. Pathetically bad book by the well-known plagerist. Morgan - FDR A Biography, 1985, Ted Morgan. Nisbet - Roosevelt and Stalin, Robert Nisbet, DC:Regnery, 1988, covers FDR's betrayals at Teheran and Yalta. Roosevelt's Road to Russia by George Crocker, Chicago 1959, is an excellent book also online. The Yalta Betrayal by Felix Wittmer, 1953. The single best resource on FDR. WWW.rooseveltmyth.com has the book online as well. Ward - First Class Temperament, 1989, Geoffrey Ward. Wyman - Abandonment of the Jews, 1984, David Wyman. Pearl Harbor, Mother of All Conspiracies, the book <--click here to buy paperback (424 explosive pages) for only $16 or to buy ebook.For further information on FDR get the whole story. More Info on book Books may be ordered: online: http://www.xlibris.com/PearlHarbor.html email: orders@xlibris.com by fax: (215) 923-4685 by telephone: 1-888-795-4274 x.276 by mail: Xlibris Corp. 436 Walnut St. 11th Fl. Philadelphia, PA 19106 LINKS Why FDR sacrificed 31,095 Americans at Bataan The definitive analysis of the New Deal and one of the greatest speeches of all time is "The Facts in the Case" by Al Smith given January 25, 1936, to the American Liberty League. Communism at Pearl Harbor
Do you think we could find some negative articles on Ronald Reagan and his administration that would equal those articles on FDR? No, of course not. Not possible. Reagan single handedly ended communism and the "evil" empire, didn't you know that? Funny how selective we all are when it comes to defending our opinions.
That SOB FDR, he won't get my vote again! Seriously, it is posts like those that have me convinced that ET is a magnet for deranged whackos.
Pabst, Awesome. I was aware of bits and pieces of that sordid history but never the whole story. It speaks volumes about our elected representatives that FDR has a giant monument on the Mall. Certainly he is a legitimate hero and inspiration to the tax and spend big government crowd that controls our country. In a way this story is encouraging to me though. If we can survive this man, we can survive anyone.
Sorry RS, but a single post couldn't sum up my feelings of disdain for FDR. IMO, every present ill of American government can be traced to Roosevelt. He alone ushered in the socialist mess we now pay for. And no, I don't believe all I read. BUT this piece is well footnoted and only corroborates many FDRisms that I have heard of previously.