[Peace-discuss] The Day They Arrested President Roosevelt

[C. G. Estabrook]

"After the Americans invaded Iroquois towns in the Susquehanna Valley in 1778,
George Washington, determined to exterminate the Indian threat once and for all,
ordered a massive sweep of Iroquois country, specifying that it should 'not
merely be overrun, but destroyed.' Following orders by Washington to 'lay waste
all the settlements," Gen. John Sullivan's men ravaged 40 villages, burned 500
houses, and destroyed 100,000 bushels of corn. Some units stopped to plunder
graves for burial goods; others skinned the bodies of dead Iroquois to make
leggings."

I was once asked if there wasn't a US president worthy of admiration.  After 
some thought I suggested Cyrus Griffin, the last president under the Articles of 
Confederation, who resigned in 1788, when the plan of government produced by the 
treasonous assembly at Philadelphia the previous summer seemed to be accepted. 
(Griffin, a Virginian, went on to negotiate with the Creek nation for the new 
government.)


Ricky Baldwin wrote:
> 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
>> 
>> --