[Peace-discuss] The Day They Arrested President Roosevelt

[Ricky Baldwin]

Nice list (if 'nice' is the right word for an accounting of such heinous crimes).

We could go back further, of course - right to Washington, if I'm not mistaken.  Pretty close, anyway.

Ricky



"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn

--- On Fri, 7/17/09, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:

From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] The Day They Arrested President Roosevelt
To: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com
Cc: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 2:33 PM

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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