ROOSEVELT’S FOUR FREEDOMS FRAUD ............ Proclaiming a goal of freedom from fear meant that the government henceforth must fill the role in daily life previously filled by God and religion. His list was clearly intended as a “replacement set” of freedoms, since otherwise there would have been no reason to mention freedom of speech and worship, already protected by the First Amendment.
Roosevelt’s list of new freedoms liberated government while making a pretense of liberating the citizen. It offered citizens no security from the state, since it completely ignored the rights protected by the Second Amendment (the right to keep and bear firearms), the Fourth Amendment (freedom from unreasonable search and seizure), the Fifth Amendment (due process, property rights, the right against self-incrimination), the Sixth Amendment (the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury), and the Eighth Amendment (protection against excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments). Roosevelt’s revised freedoms also ignored the Ninth Amendment, which specifies that the listing of “certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people,” as well as the Tenth Amendment, which specified that “powers not delegated” to the federal government are reserved to the states or to the people.
And, even though Roosevelt included freedom of speech in his new, improved list of progressive freedoms, he added,
A free nation has the right to expect full cooperation from all groups…. … We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests….
The best way of dealing with the few slackers or troublemakers in our midst is, first, to shame them by patriotic example, and, if that fails, to use the sovereignty of government to save government.
Thus, the “new freedom” required that government have power to suppress any group not actively supporting the government’s goals. (The United States was still at peace at the time of Roosevelt’s speech.)...........
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