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From: "M.A. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Meet Your Enemy
Date: Saturday, December 23, 2000 8:48 AM
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[Title 17 U.S.C. section 107]
Meet Your Enemy
by Joseph Sobran
It has now been 59 years since the Japanese attacked
Pearl Harbor, and the debate continues: Did Franklin
Roosevelt know of the attack in advance and deliberately
refrain from informing the American commanders in Hawaii?
The controversy has been renewed by Robert B. Stinnett's
recent book, Day of Deceit, which argues that Roosevelt
did know and did withhold the information for the purpose
of allowing the United States to be drawn into the war
the great majority of Americans passionately wanted
to stay out of. The interesting thing is that Stinnett
thinks Roosevelt was justified in doing this, on grounds
that only the United States could prevent a German
victory in the war and had a duty to do so.
Critics retort that Stinnett hasn't fully proved his case.
Roosevelt did try to provoke the Germans and Japanese into
some military strike that would inflame American opinion
and lead to war, they agree, but he didn't necessarily
know that Pearl Harbor would be the site of the crucial
incident. Besides, he couldn't have known that Adolf Hitler
would be foolish enough to declare war on the United States
a few days later, thereby giving Roosevelt license to enter
the war in Europe.
What nobody now disputes is that Roosevelt lied to the
American public for two years when he continually insisted
that he was trying to keep America out of the war. He was
secretly scheming with Winston Churchill for precisely the
opposite purpose, and he told his advisor Harry Hopkins
that he could be impeached if the extent of his illegal
aid to the British were discovered. Roosevelt knew very
well what he was doing.
Apart from being diabolically treacherous, keeping the
people in the dark about the fateful decision to go to war
is the antithesis of everything democracy is supposed to
be. Like most demagogues, Roosevelt flattered the people
and pandered to them while holding them in profound
contempt. Those who defend him are forced to defend lies
that are no longer deniable.
The alleged "lesson of Pearl Harbor" is that we must
always be ready for war. But the real lesson is broader:
your own government is your natural enemy. Those in power
can't be trusted. They will take your money, your freedom,
and if necessary your life.
That's why we have constitutional safeguards, dividing
power to prevent the sort of one-man rule Roosevelt, like
Hitler, Stalin, and so many others, aspired to. One of the
evils of monarchy, as opposed to the republican form of
government envisioned by the Framers of the U.S.
Constitution, was that a king could, by his own arbitrary
will, plunge his nation into war. Roosevelt saw the
Constitution purely as an obstacle to be surmounted.
But the wars of the old kings were minor skirmishes
compared with the total wars waged by modern rulers who
don't call themselves kings. Men like Stalin and Roosevelt
didn't wear jeweled crowns and ermine robes; they styled
themselves "men of the people." But they were far deadlier
than any George III or Ivan the Terrible.
Over two centuries our rulers have learned to outflank,
ignore, or destroy many of the limits on their power.
They pose a greater threat to us than the foreign
countries and "terrorists" they warn us against and claim
to protect us from. It's not a hypothetical threat, either:
by expanding the taxing power and debasing money, they
have made government a system of organized plunder.
The most successful terrorist organizations on earth are
government tax agencies, which are called revenue
"services." When the government gives things names, you
should keep your sense of irony handy. These "services"
serve only the state; they control the rest of us by force
and fear.
There are many evil governments around the world, but
they are chiefly the enemies of their own subjects. By
the same token, our own enemies are not in Baghdad or
Tehran or Peking, but in Washington. That is where the
immediate peril to our freedom resides. Saddam Hussein
may be a beast, but you aren't forced to work for him
five months of every year.
Fifty-nine years ago the real enemy of the American
people was not Hitler or Hirohito. It was the man they
had elected to a third term as their president.
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