DEMOCRATIC
DESPOTISM
Raoul E. Desvernine
April, 1936 |
“The Founding Fathers
were realists.
They isolated the very germ of practical freedom
from philosophical abstractions.
The Prophets of the New Deal, . . .”
“speak of economic freedom
theoretically, but when, . . .”
“their ideas are given a practical application
they prove to be regimentaton.”
“The Founding Fathers
liberated the mind:
the new Prophets destroy the
independence of the mind.”
(Chapter XIII, p. 235.)
“Tradition is our anchorage
to the past, our ballast in the present,
and it should be our compass
for the future.
In distress
an experienced mariner
might jettison his cargo
to save his ship,
but he certainly would not throw his chart, compass,
and rudder overboard; and leave himself adrift
without any knowledge of,
or control over,
his direction.”
(Chapter I, p. 7.)
“It is being claimed that
the New Deal has a clear and definite tendency toward
the Totalitarian State, in one or other of its modern
European versions: Fascism, Nazism,
or Sovietism.”
Raoul E. Desvernine
“resolved to explore the teachings
and to analyze the activities of the New Deal,”
to examine the accusation
“that the Roosevelt Administration
has adopted measures, is pursuing policies,
and is engaged in activities which are intended to
transform our political institutions
and to remodel our social and economic order,”
in that manner.
In his book
Mr. Desvernine chose
“the method of letting some of the official leaders
of the New Deal speak for themselves
and explain their ideas and actions
in their own words.”
“My concern is primarily with principles,
not personalities.”
( Foreward.)
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Last word.
LandGrab.US
Eminent Domain -
Condemnation:
reduces Private Property
to a priviledge,
and creates Nomads.
Isonomia.US
The
Butler Act,
Trial,
ReTrial Petition,
Repeal
(P. 147).
Friday,
4 May, 2007
Mike Huckabee said:
He “can accept that
others believe that
they and their families
come from apes.”
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