6 Reasons Franklin D. Roosevelt was the WORST
By Joe Jarvis
TheDilyBell.com
July 22, 2020
Can you believe that there are at least three statues of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington DC? There is one in South Dakota too, another in Virginia, and even more in London.
It appears all these places are overrun by racists and fascist sympathizers. How can people celebrate a man who:
1. Literally Rounded Up 120,000 Japanese Americans, and put them in Concentration Camps.
Executive order 9066 authorized the arrest and detention, without charges, or American citizens of Japanese ancestry. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed it into law on February 19, 1942.
Two reports which Roosevelt commissioned in the years prior to their internment found that Japanese Americans posed little to no risk to the government. But FDR ignored the reports’ recommendations.
70,000 of those arrested and detained, sometimes for years, were American citizens. And a simple executive order–no due process– allowed them to be arrested for no reason other than their race and nationality.
How is FDR not widely accepted as the biggest American racist of the last century?
2. FDR Outlawed Private Ownership of Gold.
With Executive Order 6102, signed on April 5, 1933, everyone living in America was given 25 days to turn in their gold. Their property–gold coins and bullion–was confiscated. It became a criminal offense for any American to own or trade gold anywhere in the world– except for some exceptions like jewelry and collector’s coins.
The government paid about $20 per ounce for the gold they forced citizens to sell them. Shortly after, the government set the price of gold to $35 per ounce.
They could do that, because at that point, a dollar was still backed by a set amount of gold. Increasing the dollar value of gold, allowed them to print more money. That is even easier today, unhindered by a gold standard.
The law wasn’t repealed until 1974. Only then was private ownership of gold once again fully legal in the US.
3. FDR was Pen Pals With Mussolini, Whom he Admired.
Benito Mussolini was the fascist Dictator of Italy in league with Adolf Hitler during World War II.
The book, Three New Deals, shows how similar the movements of the 1930’s were in America, Italy, and Germany.
It also recounts how Roosevelt said:
‘I don’t mind telling you in confidence,’ FDR remarked to a White House correspondent, ‘that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman,’
And Mussolini reviewed FDR’s book Looking Forward.
“Reminiscent of Fascism is the principle that the state no longer leaves the economy to its own devices.… Without question, the mood accompanying this sea change resembles that of Fascism.”
The Rest…HERE
