[Peace-discuss] The Day They Arrested President Roosevelt

[C. G. Estabrook]

Of course, it might have been a good idea to arrest

  --Truman before he bombed Japan;
  --Eisenhower before he overthrew the governments of Iran and Guatemala;
  --Kennedy before he invaded Cuba and South Vietnam;
  --Johnson before he attacked North Vietnam and the Dominican Republic;
  --Nixon before he attacked Cambodia and domestic dissidents (e.g., Fred 
Hampton, not G. McGovern);
  --Ford before he allowed the attack on  E. Timor;
  --Carter before he increased military aid to near-genocidal Indonesia;
  --Reagan before he killed tens of thousands in LA and Lebanon;
  --Bush before he launched wars in Panama and the Gulf;
  --Clinton before he attacked Iraq and Serbia;
  --Bush jr. before he invaded Iraq
  --Obama before he devastated AfPak...

and perhaps even Roosevelt in 1937, before he manipulated an anti-war populace 
into war with Japan.

We might also have noticed that the Constitution nowhere gives the Supreme Court 
the right to overrule an act of Congress.


Robert Naiman wrote:
> 
> What a dark day for American democracy it was - February 5, 1937, the day the
> crisis over President Roosevelt's struggle with the Supreme Court's blocking
> of the New Deal was "resolved" when Roosevelt was deported to Canada. How
> might America be different today, if minimum wages, the National Labor
> Relations Act, and Social Security had not been overturned by the Supreme
> Court? Maybe 60% of our fellow citizens wouldn't still be living in poverty.
> 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/the-day-they-arrested-pre_b_237678.html
> 
> 
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/17/112828/523
> 
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/265
> 
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