IN THE PAST WEEKS THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS AND THE LEFTIST LEANING MAIN STREAM MEDIA HAVE BEEN BOMBARDING US WITH CHARGES THAT PRESIDENT BUSH AND HIS ADMINISTRATION HAVE USED POWERS NOT GRANTED TO A SITTING PRESIDENT. THE FUROR OVER THE USE OF "WIRE TAPPING" IS NEVER ENDING!WHAT THE DEMOCRATS AND THEIR ILK NEED TO BE REMINDED OF IS THAT AN ICON OF THE DEMOCRATS, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO INSTITUTE THE USE OF POWERS NOT GRANTED TO THE PRESIDENT, OR TO THE CONGRESS.
HE DID THIS IN 1933 FOLLOWING HIS INAGURATION AS PRESIDENT DURING THE "GREAT DEPRESSION". WITH EXECUTIVE ORDER 6102 BASED ON THE MISINTERPRETATION OF THE "TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT" WHICH WAS PASSED IN 1917 TO FORBID AMERICANS FROM ANY TRANSACTIONS IN FOREIGN EXCHANGE,EXPORT OR EARMARKINGS OF GOLD, SILVER COIN,BULLION OR CURRENCY. A LAW TO PREVENT ANY AMERICANS FROM AIDING GERMANY DURING WORLD WAR I.IN HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CALLED A SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS TO DECLARE A BANK HOLIDAY. THE VERY NEXT DAY HE ISSUED ANOTHER EXECUTIVE ORDER (6073) CLOSING ALL BANKS AND FORBADE BANKS FROM PAYING OUT, EXPORTING EARMARKS, OR ALLOWING ANY WITHDRAWLS. VIOLATION OF THIS ORDER COULD RESULT IN 10,000 DOLLAR FINE AND 10 YEARS IN JAIL! HE HAD NO LEGAL JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS ACTION AS THE U.S. WAS NOT AT WAR, THUS, THE "TRADING WITH ENEMY" ACT DID NOT APPLY!
THE CONSTITUTION GAVE NO POWER TO THE PRESIDENT OR CONGRESS TO PROHIBIT DEALING IN GOLD. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME IN OUR HISTORY THAT CONGRESS TOOK AWAY A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF A U.S. CITIZEN TO DEAL WITH THEIR PROPERTYAS THEY SAW FIT.
ROOSEVELT WASN'T FINSHED WITH HIS TRASHING THE CONSTITUTION. ON 3/9/33 HE CALLED ON CONGRESS TO HELP WITH "HOUSEKEEPING MATTERS". THE RESULT WAS THE PASSAGE OF HR 1491 GIVING ROOSEVELT RETROACTIVE POWER TO DO WHAT HE ALREADY DID 3/6/33. IT ALSO GAVE THE TREASURY UNFETTERED DISCRETION TO COMPEL HOLDERS OF GOLD COINS,GOLD BULLION OR GOLD CERTIFICATES FROM REMOVING OR EXPORTING THEM FROM THE U.S. IT ALSO EXTENDED THE FOUR DAY BANK HOLIDAY TO A DATE WHEN THE SEC.OF TREASURY DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO REOPEN THE BANKS. NEITHER CONGRESS OR THE PRESIDENT HAD DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY OR PASSED A LAW STATING SUCH A CONDITION EXISTED. ROOSEVELT PLANNED TO REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH AND IN 1934 HE AUTHORIZED TEH BORROWING OF ONE BILLION DOLLARS FOR "BUILDING THE ARMED FORCES".WHICH BY THE WAY ON 12/7/41 WAS FOUND TO BE TOTALLY UNPREPARED FOR OUR DEFENSE. THIS EFFECTIVELY BROUGHT THE U.S. OUT OF THE "GREAT DEPRESSION". OFFICIAL GOVT. RECORDS INDICATE THE DEPRESSION ENDED IN 1938.
MAYBE THE LIBERALS SHOULD BRUSH UP ON THE HISTORY OF THEIR PARTY BEFORE THEY THROW ANYMORE STONES. BUT I WILL NOT HOLD MY BREATH!
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