FDR attempted to REFORM the JUDICIAL branch of government in his own Marxist progressive image. I had not read of it, and only just came across it in reference to Pearl Harbor.

The Roberts Commission. According to Richardson it was Felix Frankfurter, then on the U.S. Supreme Court, who suggested to FDR the creation, under a carefully drawn precept, of a mixed commission composed of officers of the armed forces, with a civilian counsel and headed by a member of the Supreme Court, to investigate the attack on Pearl Harbor. Such a commission would not be led by rules of evidence governing a civilian court or a military court of inquiry. In the opinion of Richardson, the report of the Roberts Commission was: ” … the most unfair, unjust, and deceptively dishonest document ever printed by the Government Printing Office.”
Richardson finds that the military members of the Roberts Commission were: “… later rewarded for their services by favorable assignment and promotion, for employment after retirement.” Richardson tells us that the decision to relieve Kimmel and Short was made prior to the initial meeting of the Roberts Commission. In effect, the Roberts Commission could not have been intended to determine culpability or blamelessness, since that had been decided beforehand.
According to Richardson:
A more disgraceful spectacle has never been presented to this country during my lifetime than the failure of the civilian officials of the Government to show any willingness to take their share of responsibility for the Japanese success at Pearl Harbor.
When reference is made in books and articles by academic historians – and even by high government officials, including the military, of dereliction of duty by men such as Kimmel and Short — without their having been given a trial, permitted to introduce evidence or being represented by counsel, we are in effect departing from those rules of jurisprudence which our constitution guarantees even the meanest criminal in our midst.
(When we consider the moral values of Franklin D. Roosevelt, we should not overlook his plan for judicial reorganization presented to the Congress on 5 February 1937. It was no more and no less than a plan to bring the third branch of government under popular control. Regardless of the willfulness of the justices in opposing New Deal legislation, is the step pursued by FDR one of which we can approve? The fact is that FDR was, to say the least, a willful man, who did not readily brook opposition. This quality of Roosevelt may help us understand his behavior in the Pearl Harbor controversy.)

ADMIRAL JAMES O. RICHARDSON

ON THE TREADMILL TO PEARL HARBOR: THE MEMOIRS OF ADMIRAL JAMES O. RICHARDSON (USN RETIRED), AS TOLD TO VICE ADMIRAL GEORGE C. DYER (USN RETIRED). Washington DC: Naval Historical Division, Department of the Navy, 1973, 471 pages.

This book was withheld from publication for 15 years by the
DNC parties of interest perfidious piece of chicanery: censorship.

ubertard virus

Marx’s dream come true.

John Feingold-Kennedy-Hernandez McCain hasn’t a clue as to what it’s like living amidst this illegal Mexican invasion. Watching the police tackling shaved and tatoo headed Mexican car theiving thugs in your parking lot… seeing the local hospital emergency rooms filled with illegal Mexicans and their children, using the emergency rooms like (free)doctors offices….. hearing gun battles and reading about them in the news paper as being “Hispanic gang related”…having your daughter’s last three job applications fail because she couldn’t speak Mexican (not to be confused with Spanish). Does anyone think this Jerk or Obama for that matter, has a clue about “real life” outside a gated community or the Washington beltway.

What’s worse is the mccain koolaid drinkers here who don’t give a damn, maybe because this scenario hasn’t yet come to some of their little pollyanna towns. Others, well I have to wonder if they employ illegals.

ubertards from California

They’ve completely ruined their own state with liberalism, so now they’re going to spread the poison.

Our Washington politicians are oblivious to how divorced from reality they really are and yet they continue to give lip service to the notion they can make the necessary “Changes” that will fix our ailing nation. How long will we Americans condone these horrible conditions in the politics of our beloved country?

Hard choices need to be made and the hardest choices our politicians are going to deal with are which peices of pork to attach to which legislation. Damn them all.

Iran’s military said it might hit the Jewish state with missiles and stop Gulf oil exports if it came under attack. Israel “is completely within the range of the Islamic republic’s missiles,” said Mohammed Ali Jafari, head of the feared Revolutionary Guard. “Our missile power and capability are such that the Zionist regime cannot confront it.”

Given the MidEast War between Iran and Israel to begin within the year, McCain will have his hands and plate FULL TO THE BRIM in monsterously proportioned warfare and ensuing energy crisis the likes to marginalize the shortages of the 1970s. Immigration reform for McCain will be the No Child Left Behind education reform from Bush’s first campaign: well publicized, well intentioned, pushed to the back burner out of gas. Terrorism strikes home in horrible ways that demand full attention. A military man dividing America on immigration reform at the very moment when national unity is critical? Let’s focus this election on ENERGY, JOBS AND SECURITY!

Even with the physical borders of the US hermetically sealed, we could still have millions a year coming in as visa overstays.progressoverpeace on June 28, 2008 at 5:46 PM

You are correct. You and I and many others see the National Security problem that we are inviting into our own backgrounds.

Unfortunately, McCain identifies “the problem” as a way to provide amnesty to them.

Terrye on June 28, 2008 at 6:14 PM

I haven’t read the whole thread, so tell me, Terrye, have you once again mentioned that your immigration hawk Representative got defeated by a Democrat, without mentioning that the Democrat ran to his right on immigration?

Because it just isn’t an immigration thread without that.

Terrye on June 28, 2008 at 6:11 PM

Do I honestly think we will? No…

Do I think we SHOULD? Yes…

And the National Guard on the border is a joke. The VERY few who are still there are doing things like vehicle maintenance. They are NOT enforcing border security.

Fact: The US Army’s mandate is to DEFEND the US. Not defend Germany. Not defend Japan. Not defend Saudi Arabia… I understand all about power projection, but the fact that we still defend Germany and Japan 60 YEARS after WWII??? With the COLD WAR OVER? When OUR OWN BORDERS ARE NOT SECURE????? HUH?

Nnnnnoooooo, we need the oil.;)

Terrye on June 28, 2008 at 6:14 PM

no they arent

as for your “hardliners” not being pleased, your full of it. youve shown yourself to be a shameless mccain apologist time and time again. you must have a lot of points!!

1} resolve the immigration problems

2} keep those problems alive and use them to beat people over the head with

They would pick #2. There is no pleasing them, nothing is or ever will be enough.

Romeo:

Do you honestly think that we will close the bases in Europe and send all those troops to the border? Why not just nuke Mexico and be done with it?

rockmom on June 28, 2008 at 5:30 PM

put down the crack pipe. he works with the dems, not with the republicans. and they were very happy w/ the bill last year. no reason to think they wont jump back on board w/ it.

Do you and your family live near a border?

nottakingsides on June 28, 2008 at 4:16 PM

No. I am not against physical borders (I am for militarizing ours) but I am only explaining that the general problem of having large numbers of illegal aliens in the US does not end with the physical borders. McCain likes to spin a tale that secure borders mean that we won’t have to deal with millions of new illegals turning up in the US (thus requiring interior enforcement, which McCain refusees to do) and that is just incorrect. Even with the physical borders of the US hermetically sealed, we could still have millions a year coming in as visa overstays.

Good point, however interior enforcement becomes very difficult with the amount of ID fraud that goes on, some of which, I assume, is driven by foreign governments. I’m not referring to the Mexican government, by the way.

a capella on June 28, 2008 at 4:41 PM

ID fraud is a problem for employers, though it can be mitigated, but it’s not a problem for ICE, really. When I speak about enforcement I am talking about the larger issue of being able to check for residency status in common sense situations and having illegal aliens deported promptly upon discovery. I would also charge their native countries with the cost if the number of deportations hits some threshhold.

If you were referring to foreign governments issuing fraudulent US documents to their nationals then that is something completely different. That’s well outside of the realm of ‘illegal aliens’, I would say.

rockmom on June 28, 2008 at 5:30 PM

Yeah, your right, it will be 20-30 million… and he’ll do it with the wave of his Magic Presidential Pen.

The Dems will pass this in a heartbeat, and McCain will bend over backwards to sign it…

Get a clue.

Want MY vote?

Stop the seizing of land in Colorado for an expansion of an Army Base, and MOVE IT TO THE STINKIN BORDER!!!

Close the bases in GERMANY and JAPAN, and move those troops TO THE BORDER.

We are being invaded, we need to treat it like an invasion.

Heck, use it as insurgent training exercises!

We have economic and humanitarian responsibilities as well, and they require no less dedication from us in meeting them.

No, you corporate whore, you do not have “economic and humanitarian responsibilities”. It is not your place to use the United States goverment either to line the pockets of your friends or to play Lady Bountiful on our dime.