FDR is heralded by the Progressives as one of their Icons. In times of War, we are tempted to give away our freedoms by being manipulated into believing that by suspending these freedoms we will gain security. Keep in mind our past history. Both on the right and left side of the politcal spectrum. Things are not always as they appear.
The Progressives have a nastiness toward others that they will not acknowledge. Especially at times of war, this nastiness tends to be revealed. Watch out for it. Obama is a war President. We have much to fear if we do not remain alert. War time Presidents can be dangerous.
I caught this story at The Astute Blogger. It reminded me of comments made last fall by Pat Buchann. Here are parts from both posts:
H/T Astute Blogger:
FDR OPPOSED REPEALING ANTI-JEWISH VICHY LAWS IN NORTH AFRICA
From the Jewish Journal
But there turned out to be a discrepancy between FDR’s public rhetoric and his private feelings.
On January 17, 1943, Roosevelt met in Casablanca with Major-General Charles Nogues, a leader of the new “non-Vichy” regime. When the conversation turned to the question of rights for North African Jewry, Roosevelt did not mince words: “The number of Jews engaged in the practice of the professions (law, medicine, etc) should be definitely limited to the percentage that the Jewish population in North Africa bears to the whole of the North African population… The President stated that his plan would further eliminate the specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore toward the Jews in Germany, namely, that while they represented a small part of the population, over fifty percent of the lawyers, doctors, school teachers, college professors, etc., in Germany, were Jews.” (It is not clear how FDR came up with that wildly exaggerated statistic.) Full story Jewish Journal
Pat Buchanan:
Constantly, we hear praise of Lincoln, Wilson and FDR as war leaders.
Yet President Lincoln arrested thousands of citizens and locked them up as security risks, while denying them habeas corpus. He shut newspapers and sent troops to block Maryland’s elections, fearing Confederate sympathizers would win and take Maryland out of the Union.
President Wilson shut down antiwar newspapers, prosecuted editors, and put Socialist presidential candidate and war opponent Eugene Debs in prison, leaving him to rot until Warren Harding released him and invited the dangerous man over to the White House for dinner.
California Gov. Earl Warren and FDR collaborated to put 110,000 Japanese, 75,000 of them U.S. citizens, into detention camps for the duration of the war and ordered the Department of Justice to prosecute antiwar conservatives
During Korea, Harry Truman seized the steel mills when a threatened strike potentially imperiled production of war munitions. Richard Nixon went to court to block publication of the Pentagon papers until the Supreme Court decided publication could go forward. TownHall
It is important to keep in mind our liberties are just a stroke away from being taken away from us. It has in the past, and can be again.
BUNKERVILLE | God, Guns and Guts Comrades! 