Statist, Traitor, Liar: FDR vs the American Constitution.
Want to know why much of America is so messed up today? How the federal government has been able to institutionalize a power grab at the expense of the individual (while doing so, like some Orwellian double-speak) in the "name" of the people? Much of it can be traced back to one man... one anti-American President, a socialist, betrayer of the Constitution he swore to protect, and violator of the sacred oath of office he had taken when accepting the role of President of the United States the majority of Americans at the time had bestowed upon him.
Despite the fact that state-sponsored history (read: propaganda) books do their utmost to deify him, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was, perhaps, the most evil person ever to inhabit the White House. FDR almost single-handedly turned a free country of individuals into a socialistic state and in the process laid much of the foundation for the erosion of individual rights and usurpation of power from both individual citizens and individual states of the Union.
The following details some of the atrocities this man, the closest thing the USA has ever had to a dictator, committed during the events leading up to Pearl Harbor on the eve of America's entry into the battlefields of WWII:
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The Real Crime Of Pearl Harbor
By Lawrence Reed
mises.org
5-30-1
In casting for the almost three-hour epic, "Pearl Harbor," Hollywood forgot seventeen-year-old Lawrence McCutcheon, a U.S. Navy seaman from Gridley, California. No character in the movie portrays McCutcheon, the first of 2,476 Americans killed on that fateful day, December 7, 1941.
The young patriot was serving his country high up in the foremast of the battleship Maryland when the first of hundreds of Japanese planes began machine gunning the men on the decks of American vessels lined up like sitting ducks.
Leaving heroes like McCutcheon to the footnotes of the history books, to make room for airheads such as Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck to strut their stuff, is par for the course in Hollywood these days.
Thatís not by a long shot the most offensive element of Jerry Bruckheimerís "Pearl Harbor." The sappy, drawn-out love story that almost begs for Japanese intervention isnít the primary faux pas either. No, the real crime of this film is the preposterous portrayal of the American commander-in-chief, the man every statist lives to cover up foróFranklin Delano Roosevelt.
FDR (played by John Voight because Barbara Streisand was too busy banging out deep treatises in political theory) sits at the left hand of God in this movie. Surprised and stunned by the Japanese attack, he summons the righteous indignation of a wounded nation. From his wheelchair, he stands tall and strong, inspiring even reluctant military men to do their duty. What a hero! Rumor has it that Bruckheimer cried when advised that the movie was already too long to include the scene where FDR wins a fifth term.
Anyone afflicted by watching this historical poison should rush out immediately and get the antidote in the form of Robert B. Stinnettís blockbuster book, Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor. Judged by the Chicago Sun-Timesí Tom Roeser as "perhaps the most revelatory document of our time," the Stinnett book appeared in hard cover last year and in paperback just in time for the movie. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified material, the author proves beyond all doubt that FDR could not possibly have been surprised by what the Japanese did or where and when they did it.
For at least a year before the attack, FDR pursued a policy of goading the Japanese to do it. He saw no other way to overwhelm American isolationist sentiment and get the country to enter the war against the Axis powers.
For key command posts, he carefully picked and placed naval officers who would not obstruct his provocation plans. Vice-Admiral James O. Richardson, commander-in-chief of the United States Fleet, strenuously objected to White House orders to bottle up the main elements of our Pacific navy in one place, Pearl Harbor. He was sacked. To fill Richardsonís place, FDR vaulted Admiral Husband Kimmel over 32 others. Kimmel was a decent man and no stooge, but the White House systematically denied him information that the Japanese were targeting Hawaii.
Indeed, on his own initiative in late November 1941, Kimmel dispatched a portion of the fleet to the sea north of Hawaii where he suspected a gathering of Japanese carriers. It turned out to be the staging area of the ultimate assault on Pearl Harbor, but Kimmel was stopped short of confirming that by strange orders from the White House to get his ships back to Oahu.
Thereís a scene in the movie where Kimmel receives a cable from Washington, well after the attack had started, that hostilities with Japan were imminent. He tosses the untimely scrap of paper to the ground. No mention is made of what Stinnett proves: "By the closing months of 1941, America was intercepting and breakingówithin a matter of hoursómost every code that Japan could produce."
No less than seven Japanese naval broadcasts intercepted between November 28 and December 6 confirmed that Japan was planning to wipe out the bulk of Americaís Pacific fleet ensconced at Pearl Harbor, but Kimmel was kept completely and deliberately in the dark. He was later the designated fall guy for the whole debacle, when the treacherous FDR relieved him of his command and demoted him unceremoniously to rear admiral.
The film shows an utterly flabbergasted FDR muttering upon hearing the first report of the attack, "My God. An entire fleet at anchor!" Perhaps at that critical moment FDR betrayed no foreknowledge when an aide brought him the news, but the indisputable record as presented by Stinnett shows that it could only have been an example of good acting.
To be sure, the pyrotechnics in the movie are superb. Hollywood really knows how to blow things up, whether it be bombs doing it to battleships or a script accomplishing the same thing to historical fact.
Perhaps the most interesting utterance from John Voightís FDR is this line: "Now I wonder every hour of my life why God put me in this chair." Read Robert Stinnettís Day of Deceit and youíll wonder the same thing, but for very devastatingly different reasons. The attack of December 7, 1941 is not the only thing that should live in infamy. The character and behavior of the man "Pearl Harbor" deifies is another.
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FDR's 'Infamy Speech' Was
Written BEFORE Pearl Harbor Attack
Inside the Beltway
By John McCaslin
The Washington Times
usni.org
washtimes.com
6-2-1
Dredging Pearl Harbor
Exactly two years ago, Sen. John W. Warner, Virginia Republican and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined the debate on whether to posthumously promote Army Maj. Gen. Walter Short and Navy Rear Adm. Husband Kimmel, both commanders of Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese attack.
A series of official inquiries between 1941 to 1946 blamed both officers for lack of readiness, and though neither was ever officially charged with wrongdoing, both were relieved of their commands and ultimately retired at the lower ranks of major general and rear admiral.
The question now is whether government and military leaders were too quick to render judgment. Were the two officers made scapegoats? Were there failures at higher levels of the chain of command in Washington?
Mr. Warner told colleagues: "There's no new evidence. . . . Why should we now at this late date in history make a different finding?"
Well, contemporary researchers who accepted Mr. Warner's challenge now answer his question. Not only has new evidence surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor been uncovered, but historian and author Daryl S. Borgquist, a Justice Department official in Washington, believes the U.S. Navy and others are keeping crucial documents "under wraps."
Inside the Beltway has learned that, in a lengthy paper being presented today at a World War II conference at New York's Siena College, Mr. Borgquist will offer new findings about Pearl Harbor. He'll say the verdict on Pearl Harbor was reached too soon (upon conclusion of the 1940s investigations), well before crucial documents were declassified and other materials uncovered.
Of note, Mr. Borgquist draws attention to a "major historical error" based on the typed text of the first draft of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech.
Mr. Borgquist says the text was drafted by a State Department team led by former Assistant Secretary of State Adolph Berle between 8:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. -- after the first 13 parts of the 14-part Japanese reply to the American ultimatum had been intercepted, decoded, and delivered on Saturday night, Dec. 6, 1941.
The attack came on Dec. 7.
That supports Mr. Borgquist's earlier argument, published in 1999 by Naval History Magazine,
see: usni.org
that the attack on Pearl Harbor was no surprise at all. He wrote that Helen E. Hamman, the daughter of Don C. Smith, who directed the War Service for the Red Cross before World War II, wrote a letter to President Clinton revealing a conversation she had with her dad:
"Shortly before the attack in 1941, President Roosevelt called him to the White House for a meeting concerning a top-secret matter. At this meeting, the president advised my father that his intelligence staff had informed him of a pending attack on Pearl Harbor, by the Japanese.
"He anticipated many casualties and much loss; he instructed my father to send workers and supplies to a holding area. When he protested to the president, President Roosevelt told him that the American people would never agree to enter the war in Europe unless they were attack[ed] within their own borders. . . .
"He followed the orders of his president and spent many years contemplating this action, which he considered ethically and morally wrong." |
