President Roosevelt's 1936 Democratic Acceptance Speech

We'll get to a substantial chunk of that eventually - but first here is all the other stuff

They finally had the June 23, 2014 “Ring of Fire” on.  The Republican 1972 platform endorsed the idea of gun regulation.  This platform also voted DOWN a balanced budget platform plank.  In 1977 the American Rifle Association underwent a major change in structure and even make-up of the organization.  It was no longer a gun use and safety organization, but now a shill for the firearms and ammunitions manufacturers.  Up until the seventies according to Papentonio, the Supreme Court had never actually started in a judicial opinion that the average American citizen had an inherent right to a firearm.  And when they finally did it was 2008 according to Mike, and Scelia even write that a man had the right to a gun to defend his house, but not to parade around in public to the local Chick Filet.  And for another Nixon connection, Justice Warren Burger said in 1990 that the gun lobby was working a gigantic fraud on the American people.  We would also remind you that not one time was the idea of an individual citizen on his own having the unqualified right to use of a firearm even argued about.  Every one of the arguments pertained to the power of State Militias.  But the tea party doesn’t know it’s history, so they really carry that name as a gigantic presumption on the American people.  One of the Mike Papentonio stories of June 15^th centered around this climate of fear and “the other”, which can be used to psych up the unwashed red state yahoos out there into voting for “whatever measures are necessary” to protect them from “The other”, no matter who it is.

Hospitals are death traps and 440,000 people in hospitals die needless of medical or other hospital error.  They don’t have qualified nurses attending to patient now but 2^nd or 3^rd stringers while the head nurses are buried in paper work.  It didn’t used to be that insurance companies had the right to dictate that hospitals must cut corners and compromise patient’s welfare, in fact so I’m told, it used to be illegal for health care providers to make a profit.  In another area we are informed that there is 300 Billion dollars- - this year and every year, that could be collected by the IRS to go after tax cheats breaking the law, but both the Obama administration and the tea party don’t want to do it.  In fact the reason why the Republicans came up with that bogus Louis Learner story about IRS so called abuses, is because the IRS had decided at the beginning of 21013 that they were going to go after tax cheats with off shore accounts.   They will go after you and me.  And if you or I were in private business they would nab us for even failing to send in a proper “estimate” of our quarterly earnings.  But the big boys get away.

The Faith and Freedom Convention is in town.  Rand Paul spoke for eighteen minutes and I listened to the entire speech.  Faith without freedom is something other than genuine "Faith".  Think about it.  Conversely Freedom without virtue - - is saying "evil has license" or Neil of KFI might go so far as to say "Evil has - - Rights" at least when it comes to Satan.  I don't believe in compromising with Satan or negotiating with him or just "learning to live with it".  The only satisfactory solution is to Defeat Satan, and I believe that.  Governor Christie is Satan, and naturally he spend a large portion of his time up on stage to talk about his favorite topic- - himself.  Rand Paul for all I know besides being anti foreign intervention- - just might be pro gay marriage, for all I know.  He made a compelling argument for his own Christian constituancy for not going to War alleging that this Country - - the Obama Administration - - has given arms to those who seek to kill Christians, whereas Bashier Assad seems content to leave these ancient Christians alone.  You can easily tell which Faiths are truely as "ancient as they claim and I'll give you an example to demonstrate what I mean.  When I entered Criss business college in the fall of 1979 I only spaced once after a sentence.  From then on I spaced two after a period, and you can date all of my writings from this basic fact as pre or post Criss.  In the same manner- - all Churches after the Fourth century believed in the Trinity, that Jesus was God Incarnate and co equal with God.  This is something God condemned Satan for endeavoring to be, equal with God.  All churches prior to the Forth century did Not believe that Jesus was God.  So to say that "The Copts have an ancient tradition" is just shown to be a false statement.

My fear politically obviously is that no matter how bad things get for the political left, there seems to be no “turning point’ where things either “bottom out” or suddenly rich benefactors let loose of their purse strings, any more than Jerry Brown will restore the many cuts to the services of the poor, and there seem to be new cuts virtually every year.  We know Dr Levy’s not showing up was due to a budget cut made last year.  People are operating on this post hypnotic suggestion that if somehow they “orient their thoughts to conservatism” that all will be well and they will somehow discover that far right politics is wonderful, and the only way to live.  In that spirit I copied President Roosevelt’s 1936 democratic convention acceptance speech where he lays it all out, exactly the way things really are.  (Selah)  At this point I'd say if you believe in God you better pray to him really hard for Deliverance.  I have no problem with others being able to accomplish things I don't feel up to the task of doing myself.  I watched “Ring of Fire’ partly before and partly after lunch.   Of course I am still not entirely used to the idea that Randy Rhodes is “gone” seemingly for all times, just disappearing off the face of the earth, and Ed Schultz not having his daily live radio program.  We need to hope and pray that Stephanie Miller or someone else doesn’t suddenly decide to move to Costa Rica or something.  But in fact survey after survey had indicated if you take the L word label off of things, Americans agree with progressives on most all of the substantive issues, so by that reasoning, we should win.

In those days we feared fear. That was why we fought fear. And today, my friends, we have won against the most dangerous of our foes. We have conquered fear.

But I cannot, with candor, tell you that all is well with the world. Clouds of suspicion, tides of ill-will and intolerance gather darkly in many places. In our own land we enjoy indeed a fullness of life greater than that of most Nations. But the rush of modern civilization itself has raised for us new difficulties, new problems which must be solved if we are to preserve to the United States the political and economic freedom for which Washington and Jefferson planned and fought.

Philadelphia is a good city in which to write American history. This is fitting ground on which to reaffirm the faith of our fathers; to pledge ourselves to restore to the people a wider freedom; to give to 1936 as the founders gave to 1776—an American way of life.

That very word freedom, in itself and of necessity, suggests freedom from some restraining power. In 1776 we sought freedom from the tyranny of a political autocracy—from the eighteenth century royalists who held special privileges from the crown. It was to perpetuate their privilege that they governed without the consent of the governed; that they denied the right of free assembly and free speech; that they restricted the worship of God; that they put the average man's property and the average man's life in pawn to the mercenaries of dynastic power; that they regimented the people.

And so it was to win freedom from the tyranny of political autocracy that the American Revolution was fought. That victory gave the business of governing into the hands of the average man, who won the right with his neighbors to make and order his own destiny through his own Government. Political tyranny was wiped out at Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.

Since that struggle, however, man's inventive genius released new forces in our land which reordered the lives of our people.. The age of machinery, of railroads; of steam and electricity; the telegraph and the radio; mass production, mass distribution—all of these combined to bring forward a new civilization and with it a new problem for those who sought to remain free.

For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital—all undreamed of by the fathers—the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

There was no place among this royalty for our many thousands of small business men and merchants who sought to make a worthy use of the American system of initiative and profit. They were no more free than the worker or the farmer. Even honest and progressive-minded men of wealth, aware of their obligation to their generation, could never know just where they fitted into this dynastic scheme of things.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over Government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property. And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

The hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of their labor—these had passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship. The savings of the average family, the capital of the small business man, the investments set aside for old age—other people's money—these were tools which the new economic royalty used to dig itself in.

Those who tilled the soil no longer reaped the rewards which were their right. The small measure of their gains was decreed by men in distant cities.

Throughout the Nation, opportunity was limited by monopoly. Individual initiative was crushed in the cogs of a great machine. The field open for free business was more and more restricted. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

An old English judge once said: "Necessitous men are not free men." Liberty requires opportunity to make a living—a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor—other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.

Against economic tyranny such as this, the American citizen could appeal only to the organized power of Government. The collapse of 1929 showed up the despotism for what it was. The election of 1932 was the people's mandate to end it. Under that mandate it is being ended.

The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the Government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the Government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the Government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live.

Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

The brave and clear platform adopted by this Convention, to which I heartily subscribe, sets forth that Government in a modern civilization has certain inescapable obligations to its citizens, among which are protection of the family and the home, the establishment of a democracy of opportunity, and aid to those overtaken by disaster.

But the resolute enemy within our gates is ever ready to beat down our words unless in greater courage we will fight for them.

For more than three years we have fought for them. This Convention, in every word and deed, has pledged that that fight will go on.