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If FDR Could Be Dragged From The Grave... (Warning: Controversial)

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Daniel M. Ryan Posted: Sun, Oct 21 2007 7:03 AM

If it were possible to drag President Roosevelt from the grave and show him U.S. government actions as they are now, what could be said if he held up the material on the War on Drugs and averred:

"Sir! This is why I issued many chits, and made many promises, to get the Prohibition amendment repealed! How else to recompense the people who rather preferred the unruly police in that time?"

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Uhh... If he could be, we should beat him up and throw him back, prohibition aside... 

"If tyrants fight, let them fight; let free men stand aloof... As God has cut us off from Europe by a boisterous sea, so let us be kept apart from all the broils and turmoils into which tyrants and their slaves may fall." -The Reverend Charles H. Spurgeon, from the Sermon Delivered on Sabbath Morning, May 1st, 1859.
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Even better, wheel him into the path of a wildfire and take his wheelchair away.  That'll teach him to give government power (like "protecting" forests.)

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Thorgold replied on Sun, Nov 25 2007 10:20 PM

Daniel M. Ryan:

If it were possible to drag President Roosevelt from the grave and show him U.S. government actions as they are now...

 

 

Are you kidding? FDR would rejoice seeing how once proud and free country was turned into a police state, not without his help.

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Dynamix replied on Wed, Nov 28 2007 11:02 PM

In one of his videotaped constitution classes, previous LP presidential candidate Michael Badnarik said that he would "piss on FDR's grave" at least once before he died. I once thought that to be admirable; now, mostly just detestable.

"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears." - Gian Carlo Menotti

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