There's a man out there who's trying to get your three-year-old hooked on hard-core drugs. He's a guy you respect and look up to. He's a guy you know and trust: someone who's been in your children's lives since they were born.
He's a friend of the family: just looking out for you. And he'll convince you he's doing this for your kids: that they need these drugs for their own good. He may even set your kids up for free - at first. "Just a sample: it's on the house. Give it a try - you're gonna like it..."
And he's got a big bag full of tricks: all kinds of pretty pills. Pretty pills that will help your kids: colorful candy that will improve your kids.
This bag of tricks can do almost anything for your children:
Take kids who are hyper and calm 'em down.
Help troubled children toe the line.
Turn failing students into star scholars.
And chances are, you'll fall for it. After all, why wouldn't you? He's even got a license to prove he knows what he's doing.
He'll tell you what these pills will do for your kids. But he won't tell you what they'll do to your kids. You might not be so sure that he's got their best interests at heart then. Not when they start changing and getting sad...not when they get angry because they need their fix. Your once-happy, rambunctious kids are suddenly day-dreaming about suicide. Your once-healthy children are having heart palpitations and coronary complications.
They've left childhood behind and stepped through a door into a dark world. A world of addiction: a world of need. And that's their world for the rest of their lives.
Think it can't happen in your world? Think this "family friend" would be exposed...run out of town? The media would warn you about him...the government would protect you from him. Think again. They know about him. They endorse him. They even gave him his license.
Because this pusher is your children's doctor and the drugs he's pushing are all legal.
Sound like a punch line to a bad joke? Sadly, it's not: I'm deadly serious. The big pharmaceutical companies are pushing dangerous drugs to your kids, and they want get them before they can even say "no." Don't think that they would really dope up your beautiful baby? Sure they would: they have at least 4.8 billion reasons to do so.
Dangerous Drugs
What are these drugs that doctors can legally peddle to your kids? The most identified ones are amphetamines and methylphenidates: drugs that calm and focus the brain. You'll know them by their brand names: Adderall, Ritalin and Strattera. These drugs help reduce excess energy and heighten attention. They're prescribed to kids diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
So, if you have kids who are acting up at school, or are always "on-the-go," they may be diagnosed with ADHD. If they're diagnosed with ADHD, a doctor may prescribe ADHD drugs. ADHD drugs don't sound too dangerous. But these drugs can literally kill your child. ADDitude Magazine lists six common side effects of taking ADHD medications.
Loss of appetite, weight loss
Growth problems
Trouble falling asleep
Dizziness
Irritability, sadness, moodiness, or agitation within one to two hours after taking the drug
Sadness, irritability, or worsening of ADHD symptoms as the drug wears off
Perhaps you consider these to be minor side effects. Your children may be happier and more focused. They might even score higher at school. Just don't think too much about those symptoms worsening "as the drug wears off." And don't look too closely at the descriptions put out by Drugs.com. That language is pretty scary. A quick review of the generic versions of those drugs tells us that they may:
Have a high potential for abuse
Be habit forming
Impair vision
Cause serious heart problems
Create blood-vessel problems
Result in sudden death
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Corporate Cover Up
If ADHD drugs can cause death, surely the newspapers would be all over that, right? Well, actually no, they wouldn't be, as I'll explain later. But the information is out there - you just have to know where to find it.
"ADHD drugs are linked to sudden death in children." That's what an American Journal of Psychiatry study found in June 2009. It revealed that ADHD stimulants posed a risk in children who previously had no underlying heart conditions.
"The association is...real," said study author Madelyn S. Gould, Ph.D. Gould is a professor of psychiatry and public health at Columbia University, in New York. "There probably does need to be more careful monitoring."
Gould studied medical records of 10 children who had all died from unexplained heart problems. In those 10 cases, the children were all taking methylphenidates.
The medical community was keen to bury the report. Dr. James Perrin, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, dismissed the study.
"The study adds very little to what we already know - that some children who receive stimulants experience sudden unexpected death," said Dr. Perrin. "The current study should not change the use of any medications or treatments."
The parents of the 10 children who died would probably disagree.
In April 2008, the American Heart Association (AHA) recommended that kids get an electrocardiogram (EKG) before taking ADHD drugs. EKG's detect cardiac ailments that increase a child's risk for sudden heart problems. The recommendation drew swift criticism from the medical community. The drug manufacturers remained silent, allowing doctors to speak for them. The AHA bowed to pressure and issued a revised recommendation a month later. The new recommendation? Kids did not need an EKG before starting ADHD drugs. An EKG was "reasonable, but not mandatory."
In February 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted to include black-box warnings on ADHD drugs. Black-box warnings are the government's strongest safety alert.
The proposed warning referenced the risk of sudden unexplained death. A month later, the FDA advisory panel rejected the stringent black-box warning. Once again, just like the AHA, the FDA later revised their recommendation. Manufacturers were asked to add a warning label: the medications should not be used in children with structural heart problems.
There's a clear pattern: a report is released showing that these drugs are dangerous. The report is dismissed. A governing health body advises extreme caution regarding these dangerous drugs...and then mysteriously revises the warning to cast a more favorable light on the drugs.
Why the Cover UP?
If ADHD drugs can result in sudden death, why would we possibly consider prescribing them to our kids? Well, that's really the point of the cover up. The medical industry keeps the truth hidden so you don't have the information you need to protect your kids.
At the beginning of the article I told you there were 4.8 billion reasons why the drug industry would be willing to dope your kids up for life. In 2008 U.S. sales of ADHD drugs totaled $4.8 billion. Those sales enjoyed a further 9.1 percent rise in 2009.
That's big business for the pharmaceutical companies. So big that they made a $16 billion investment and gave drugs away for free! You heard that right: Pediatrics Journal reported that Big Pharma gave away $16 billion in free drug samples in 2004 alone. Over 10 percent of all U.S. kids taking prescription meds scored free drugs. And among those freebies were Adderall and Strattera.
Want to know who was hooking your kids up with freebies? Doctors were the primary pushers. The same friendly doctors who are diagnosing ADHD and prescribing related drugs.
Not convinced that ADHD drugs are over-prescribed? What would you say if I told you prescriptions for amphetamines rose 133 percent in five years? Prescriptions for methylphenidates rose by 52 percent. That's from data collected by the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
But don't take my word for it. There are real-life professionals willing to testify about the conspiracy.
Dr. Emmett Harrington has operated his own wellness practice for over 25 years in Winter Haven, Florida. He's had first-hand experience of the system pressuring parents to medicate their children. Dr. Harrington was brave enough to tell THB the real truth. His own grandson was diagnosed with ADHD and he was powerless to intervene.
"My daughter was advised by her son's teachers that if he wasn't put on Ritalin he could no longer be allowed to attend their classes," said Dr. Harrington. "My daughter felt she had no choice but to comply even though she respects that her father (a clinical nutritional physician) offered a more natural solution."
So how are the pharmaceutical companies getting away with this? Because doctors are pushing the drugs for them. And if a doctor tells us it's good for us, we believe them. It's all "comes from the erroneous philosophy that an M.D. knows best," explained Dr. Harrington. "It's been ingrained by the American Medical Association."
Doctors Pushing Drugs
A recent online Q&A between a "concerned" parent and an ADHD book-publishing doctor went something like this:
Parent: What's the youngest age at which a child can be diagnosed with, and treated for, ADHD? My three-year-old is hyperactive and I worry about his safety.
Doctor: It's unusual for a child to be diagnosed before the age of five. But since your son is showing signs of ADHD, there's no need to wait. Have the doctor evaluate your three-year-old and ask about starting medication. The latest research shows that stimulants are now safe and effective - even for preschoolers.
That's an actual online exchange between a doctor and a parent. The salient point: doctors hooking up three-year-olds with drugs.
A parent tells a doctor that their three-year old is hyperactive. This doctor considers that adequate evidence that the child has ADHD. That seems like quite a leap, and one the doctor was eager to make. Surely a sensible series of tests and procedures might reveal that the child doesn't have ADHD? Perhaps there's another solution available - other than drugs?
Surely drugs should not be the first response?
"Absolutely not," said Dr. Emmett Harrington. "Most medical doctors [do not] take the appropriate time to properly dig for the initiatory cause."
ADHD Drugs: Safe and Effective?
Our online doctor assures the parent that ADHD drugs are "safe and effective." But how can that be when you read reports like this:
According to Consumer Reports, all ADHD drugs may have long-term risks. Those risks include heart attack, stunted growth and sudden death. Not so "safe" then.
Sami Timimi is a child psychiatry professor at England's Lincoln University. She says there is no evidence that ADHD drugs ensure long-term success. Multiple U.S. studies agree: the brain-focusing-drug methylphenidate only works for a couple of years. Not so "effective" then either.
Overdoses, Suicide and Teen Abuse
The similarities between ADHD drugs and recognized hard-core drugs are impossible to ignore. They are behavior-altering, brain-changing and highly addictive. Here are three clear warnings about the most recognized brand-name ADHD drugs:
Consumer Reports advises that children on Adderall need close monitoring. Why? To ensure the drug is not abused, given away to friends, or sold.
Strattera is mood altering. It carries a warning that children who take it are at high risk for contemplating or committing suicide.
A 2001 study found that Ritalin had a more potent effect on the brain than cocaine.
Reuters reported in 2009 that teen overdoses linked directly to ADHD drugs rose by 76 percent over eight years. This figure paralleled the 80 percent rise in ADHD drug prescriptions during the same period. The report was coordinated by Dr. Jennifer Setlik of the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
"Clearly, we are seeing a rising problem with the abuse of these medications," reported Dr. Setlik. "The findings suggest that more teens are abusing and misusing stimulant ADHD medications because they have access to those medications, not because a higher percentage of those treated have turned to abusing their medication."
That report is not an isolated one. The National Institute on Drug Abuse is also reviewing over 7 million methylphenidate-related abuse reports. The big concern? That the drugs are being abused to score artificial highs or to get better school grades.
Don't think there's a connection between methylphenidate and drug abuse. The same "medication" also popped up on a list of "Most Dangerous Drugs" in March 2007. The list was compiled by the U.K. Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. They sandwiched the ADHD drug in between LSD and Anabolic Steroids. Nice company. So here's a question for you: would you be happy giving your kids LSD or Anabolic Steroids? I don't think so. But you still think ADHD drugs are okay?
"Safe and effective"? You must be joking...Have no doubt: this is big business. And the only one looking out for your child's best interests is you.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
“FBI escorts known Hamas operative through top-secret counterterrorism center”
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File the story below under “it’s so unbelievable it can’t be true.”
Stunningly, it is.
Let your voice heard. Let government officials and candidates for elected office know you’re outraged about this. Take one or both of the recommended actions below. YOUR VOICE COUNTS!
Contact the national FBI office to register your strong disapproval of this and demand an investigation as to how this could have happened. Phone: 202/324-3000
Talk to candidates running for office in your area and educate them on this as an example of government actions motivated by political correctness that are jeopardizing our national security and putting us all at greater risk. (Members of Congress are heading to their districts tomorrow to campaign. This is a great opportunity to bring this to their attention when they are in your area.)
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FBI Escorts Known Hamas Operative Through Top-Secret National Counterterrorism Center as “Outreach” to Muslim Community
Posted by Patrick S. Poole Sep 27th 2010 at 3:52 am in Featured Story, Islamic extremism | Comments (75)
Sheikh Kifah Mustapha (third from left) touring the National Counterterrorism Center
(Photo: FBI)
A known Hamas operative and unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history – Kifah Mustapha – was recently escorted into the top-secret National Counterterrorism Center and other secure government facilities, including the FBI’s training center at Quantico, during a six-week “Citizen’s Academy” hosted by the FBI as part of its “outreach” to the Muslim Community. The group was accompanied by reporter Ben Bradley of WLS-Chicago (ABC), who filed a report on the trip to Washington D.C. on Sunday, who observed:
Sheik Kifah Mustapha, who runs the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, asked some of the most pointed questions during the six week FBI Citizens’ Academy and trip to Washington. He pushed agents to fully explain everything from the bureau’s use of deadly force policy to racial and ethnic profiling. “I saw a very interesting side of what the FBI does and I wanted to know more,” Sheik Mustapha explained after returning from D.C. He hopes the FBI’s outreach runs deeper than positive public relations.
Yes, I bet he wanted to know everything about the FBI’s policies.
Curiously, Bradley’s report on the Citizen’s Academy fails to make note Mustapha’s extensive terrorist ties and support for Hamas, including his former employment with the Holy Land Foundation, which was listed as a specially designated terrorist group by the U.S. government in December 2001, and whose executives were convicted of terrorism support in 2008 and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. Mustapha was personally named unindicted co-conspirator (#31) in the case and employment records submitted by federal prosecutors during the trial showed that he received more than $154,000 for his work for the Holy Land Foundation between 1996 and 2000. During the trial, FBI Special Agent Lara Burns testified that Mustapha also sang in a band sponsored by the Holy Land Foundation that regularly featured songs dedicated to killing Jews and glorifying Hamas. In a deposition he gave in a civil trial concerned with the murder of a Chicago teenager killed by Hamas while waiting for a bus in Israel, Mustapha admitted that he was the registered agent for the Holy Land Foundation in Illinois, and also to his involvement with other Hamas front groups, including the Islamic Association for Palestine. He was later hired as an imam by the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, which the Chicago Tribune reported in 2004 has long been a hotbed of Hamas support.
Bradley’s omission of this information about Kifah Mustapha in his report on Sunday is all the more curious since his own station aired an extensive investigative report of Mustapha’s terrorist ties earlier this year.
The WLS investigation into Mustapha’s terrorist ties was prompted by a report published by the Investigative Project on Terrorism in January, which noted that Mustapha had been selected and trained as a chaplain by the Illinois State Police despite his documented terrorist support. The State Police eventually withdrew Mustapha’s appointment as chaplain and just last month he filed a lawsuit against the agency claiming discrimination aided by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, another FBI-identified Hamas front group.
There are several obvious problems with this episode, the first being the FBI’s “outreach” to a known Hamas operative (identified as such by federal prosecutors) and walking him through some of our country’s most sensitive counter-terrorism facilities. Why should terrorist operatives have to covertly case potential targets when the FBI will happily escort them and taken them into areas they would never be able to reach on their own? Who’s next on the FBI’s “outreach” calendar, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow GITMO detainees?
This ongoing “outreach” to terror-linked individuals and leaders of known terrorist front groups by senior leaders of our national security, homeland security and law enforcement agencies is the kind of behavior criticized by my colleagues and I in the Team B II’s report released earlier this month, “Shariah: The Threat to America“. As I observed last week here at Big Peace, Matt Duss of the Center for America Progress and ThinkProgress.org demands that we continue this insane national policy of embracing the same individuals and organizations who have been caught openly cheerleading for Islamic terrorists and have called for the destruction of the U.S. and Western Civilization.
The other glaring problem is that a reporter working in one of the largest media markets in the country can travel to such an event and be unaware of or unwilling to mention his own station’s reporting on his travel partner’s terrorist support activities. Such is the state of the establishment media today.
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Stunningly, it is.
Let your voice heard. Let government officials and candidates for elected office know you’re outraged about this. Take one or both of the recommended actions below. YOUR VOICE COUNTS!
Contact the national FBI office to register your strong disapproval of this and demand an investigation as to how this could have happened. Phone: 202/324-3000
Talk to candidates running for office in your area and educate them on this as an example of government actions motivated by political correctness that are jeopardizing our national security and putting us all at greater risk. (Members of Congress are heading to their districts tomorrow to campaign. This is a great opportunity to bring this to their attention when they are in your area.)
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FBI Escorts Known Hamas Operative Through Top-Secret National Counterterrorism Center as “Outreach” to Muslim Community
Posted by Patrick S. Poole Sep 27th 2010 at 3:52 am in Featured Story, Islamic extremism | Comments (75)
Sheikh Kifah Mustapha (third from left) touring the National Counterterrorism Center
(Photo: FBI)
A known Hamas operative and unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history – Kifah Mustapha – was recently escorted into the top-secret National Counterterrorism Center and other secure government facilities, including the FBI’s training center at Quantico, during a six-week “Citizen’s Academy” hosted by the FBI as part of its “outreach” to the Muslim Community. The group was accompanied by reporter Ben Bradley of WLS-Chicago (ABC), who filed a report on the trip to Washington D.C. on Sunday, who observed:
Sheik Kifah Mustapha, who runs the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, asked some of the most pointed questions during the six week FBI Citizens’ Academy and trip to Washington. He pushed agents to fully explain everything from the bureau’s use of deadly force policy to racial and ethnic profiling. “I saw a very interesting side of what the FBI does and I wanted to know more,” Sheik Mustapha explained after returning from D.C. He hopes the FBI’s outreach runs deeper than positive public relations.
Yes, I bet he wanted to know everything about the FBI’s policies.
Curiously, Bradley’s report on the Citizen’s Academy fails to make note Mustapha’s extensive terrorist ties and support for Hamas, including his former employment with the Holy Land Foundation, which was listed as a specially designated terrorist group by the U.S. government in December 2001, and whose executives were convicted of terrorism support in 2008 and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. Mustapha was personally named unindicted co-conspirator (#31) in the case and employment records submitted by federal prosecutors during the trial showed that he received more than $154,000 for his work for the Holy Land Foundation between 1996 and 2000. During the trial, FBI Special Agent Lara Burns testified that Mustapha also sang in a band sponsored by the Holy Land Foundation that regularly featured songs dedicated to killing Jews and glorifying Hamas. In a deposition he gave in a civil trial concerned with the murder of a Chicago teenager killed by Hamas while waiting for a bus in Israel, Mustapha admitted that he was the registered agent for the Holy Land Foundation in Illinois, and also to his involvement with other Hamas front groups, including the Islamic Association for Palestine. He was later hired as an imam by the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, which the Chicago Tribune reported in 2004 has long been a hotbed of Hamas support.
Bradley’s omission of this information about Kifah Mustapha in his report on Sunday is all the more curious since his own station aired an extensive investigative report of Mustapha’s terrorist ties earlier this year.
The WLS investigation into Mustapha’s terrorist ties was prompted by a report published by the Investigative Project on Terrorism in January, which noted that Mustapha had been selected and trained as a chaplain by the Illinois State Police despite his documented terrorist support. The State Police eventually withdrew Mustapha’s appointment as chaplain and just last month he filed a lawsuit against the agency claiming discrimination aided by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, another FBI-identified Hamas front group.
There are several obvious problems with this episode, the first being the FBI’s “outreach” to a known Hamas operative (identified as such by federal prosecutors) and walking him through some of our country’s most sensitive counter-terrorism facilities. Why should terrorist operatives have to covertly case potential targets when the FBI will happily escort them and taken them into areas they would never be able to reach on their own? Who’s next on the FBI’s “outreach” calendar, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow GITMO detainees?
This ongoing “outreach” to terror-linked individuals and leaders of known terrorist front groups by senior leaders of our national security, homeland security and law enforcement agencies is the kind of behavior criticized by my colleagues and I in the Team B II’s report released earlier this month, “Shariah: The Threat to America“. As I observed last week here at Big Peace, Matt Duss of the Center for America Progress and ThinkProgress.org demands that we continue this insane national policy of embracing the same individuals and organizations who have been caught openly cheerleading for Islamic terrorists and have called for the destruction of the U.S. and Western Civilization.
The other glaring problem is that a reporter working in one of the largest media markets in the country can travel to such an event and be unaware of or unwilling to mention his own station’s reporting on his travel partner’s terrorist support activities. Such is the state of the establishment media today.
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Thursday, September 9, 2010
"I'm Going To Kansas City"
As my case of auto theft was adjudicated, consideration seemed to sway in favor of finding a suitable environment where I might adjust. It is hard to specualte just what reasoning went into the courtws descision or who even were the decision makers. Eventuall the Catholic Charities got involved and I was sent to a boys homne out side of kansas City, Mo.
Ozanam Home for Boys was a small school as far as instituiions went only 30 boys were in it. situated outside Kansas City, Mo. I arrived in June of 1959. I recalled a popular song at that time, "I'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come." by Wilbert Harrison. I would start High School in Kansas City but first the school was going on vacation. California here I come. I recall we traveled in a Nash Rambler, a Station wagon and a Volkswagon bus.
I have little recall of how the fight started but therfe I was in the midst of a fight with "hillbilly" Ofcourse 'Hillbilly' wasn't his real name. but distinguisehd from the other boys he was a hillbilly.
Ozanam Home for Boys was a small school as far as instituiions went only 30 boys were in it. situated outside Kansas City, Mo. I arrived in June of 1959. I recalled a popular song at that time, "I'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come." by Wilbert Harrison. I would start High School in Kansas City but first the school was going on vacation. California here I come. I recall we traveled in a Nash Rambler, a Station wagon and a Volkswagon bus.
I have little recall of how the fight started but therfe I was in the midst of a fight with "hillbilly" Ofcourse 'Hillbilly' wasn't his real name. but distinguisehd from the other boys he was a hillbilly.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
Sept 7
A Re-Birth of Faith in Our Future
A FREEDOM LINKED TO SECURITY
By THOMAS E. DEWEY, Governor of New York, and Republican Presidential Nominee
Broadcast from Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., September 7, 1944
Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. X, pp. 719-721.
TONIGHT we open a campaign to decide the course of our country for many years to come. The next national Administration will take office Jan. 20, 1945, and will serve until 1949. Those years 1945 to 1949 will be largely—and we pray, wholly—peace-time years.
For nearly three years our nation has been engaged in a world war. Today our armed forces are winning victory after victory. Total, smashing victory is in sight. Germany and Japan shall be given the lessons of their lives—right in Berlin and Tokyo.
America—our America which loves peace so dearly—is proving once again that it can wage war mightily . . . that it can crush any aggressor who threatens the freedom which we love even more than peace. The American people have risen to the challenge. The war is being won on the battlefronts. It is also being won in the factory, the office, the farm, the mine and the home.
Yes, we are proving that we can wage war. But what are the prospects of success as a nation at peace? The answer depends entirely on the outcome of this election.
At the very outset I want to make one thing clear. This is not merely a campaign against an individual or a political party. It is not merely a campaign to displace a tired, exhausted, quarreling and bickering Administration with a fresh and vigorous Administration. It is a campaign against an Administration which was conceived in defeatism, which failed for eight straight years to restore our domestic economy, which has been the most wasteful, extravagant and incompetent Administration in the history of the nation and worst of all, one which has lost faith in itself and in the American people.
This basic issue was clearly revealed in the recent announcement by the Director of Selective Service in Washington. He said that when Germany and Japan have been defeated it will still be necessary to demobilize the armed forces very gradually. And why? Because, he said, "We can keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we could create an agency for them when they are out."
For six months we have been hearing statements from the New Deal underlings in Washington that this was the plan. Now it is out in the open. They have been working up to it. Because they are afraid of peace. They are afraid of a continuance of their own failures to get this country going again. They are afraid of America.
I do not share that fear. I believe that our members of the armed forces should be transported home and released at the earliest practical moment after victory. I believe that the occupation of Germany and Japan should very soon be confined to those who voluntarily choose to remain in the Army when peace comes. I am not afraid of the future of America—either immediate or distant. I am sure of our future, if we get a national Administration which believes in our country.
The New Deal was founded on the philosophy that our frontiers are behind us and all we have left to do is to quarrel over the division of what we have. Mr. Roosevelt himself said in 1932: "Our industrial plant is built . . . our I task is not . . . necessarily producing more goods. It is the soberer, less dramatic business of administering resources and plants already in hand." The New Deal operated on that philosophy for seven straight peace-time years with unlimited power. At the end of that time in 1939, the New Deal gave its own official verdict on its failure by this cold admission: "The American economic machine is stalled on dead center."
The Administration knows that the war, with all its tragic toll of death, debt and destruction, is the only thing that saved it. They are deadly afraid that they will go back to resumption of their own failures. That is why they are afraid to let men out of the Army. That is why they say it is cheaper to keep men in the Army than to let them come home.
Now let us get another point straight for the records right here at the beginning. In the last hundred years we have had eleven periods during which business and employment were well below normal. During that period, the average depression lasted two years. In the entire hundred years the longest depression of all was five years and the next longest was four years—up to the last one.
When this Administration took office the depression was already over three years old. Then what happened? In 1933, when the depression was then five years old—longer than any other in a century, we still had 12,000,000 unemployed. By 1940 the depression was almost eleven years old. This Administration had been in power for seven straight years and there were still 10,000,000 Americans unemployed.
It took a world war to get jobs for the American people.
Let's get one thing clear and settled. Who was President during the depression that lasted from 1933 until some time in 1940, when war orders from all over the world began to bring us full employment again? The New Deal kept this country in a continuous state of depression for seven straight years. It made a three-year depression last eleven years—over twice as long as any other depression in a whole century.
Now, Washington is getting all set for another depression. They intend to keep the young men in the Army. TheNew Deal spokesmen are daily announcing that reconversion will be difficult, if not impossible. They say that relief rolls will be enormous. They drearily promise us that we will need to prepare for an army of unemployed bigger than the armies we have put in the field against the Germans and the Japanese. That's what's wrong with the New Deal. That's why it's time for a change.
The reason for this long-continued failure is two-fold. First, because there never was a worse job done of running our government. When one agency fails the New Deal just piles another on and we pay for both. When men quarrel, there is no one in authority to put a stop to it. When agencies get snarled up there is no one in authority to untangle them. Meanwhile, the people's business goes to pot and the people are the victims.
Right in the final crisis of this war, the most critical of all war agencies—the War Production Board—fell apart before our eyes. This is also the board in charge of reconversion and jobs. Yet, we have seen quarreling, disunity and public recriminations day after day as one competent man after another resigned and the head of the board was sent to China. We have seen this happen in agency after agency. The cost to the war effort to the country can never be calculated. And it's time the people put an end to it.
When the W. P. B. fell apart, so did your chance under this Administration for jobs after the war. For now the New Dealers have moved in, and their handiwork, their promise for America is not jobs—but the dole.
The other reason for this long continued failure—the reason why they are now dismally preparing for another depression—is because this Administration has so little faith in the United States. They believe in the defeatist philosophy that our industrial plant is built, that our task is not to produce more goods but to fight among ourselves over what we have.
I believe that we have not even begun to build our industrial plant We have not exhausted our inventive genius. We have not exhausted our capacity to produce more goods for our people. No living man has yet dreamed of the limit to which we can go if we have a government which believes in the American economic system and in the American people.
This Administration is convinced that we can achieve social security only by surrendering a little bit of freedom for every little bit of security. That is exactly what our enemies thought. So their people first lost their freedom and then their security. I cannot accept that course for America. I believe—I know—that we can achieve real social security only if we do keep our freedom.
There can be—there must be—jobs and opportunity for all, without discrimination on account of race, creed, color or national origin. There must be jobs in industry, in agriculture, in mines, in stores, in offices, at a high level of wages and salaries. There must be opportunity and incentive for men and women to go into business for themselves.
The war has proved that despite the New Deal, America can mightily increase its frontiers of production. With competent government America can produce mightily for peace. And the standard of living of our people is limited only by the amount of goods and services we are able to produce.
The New Deal prepares to keep men in the Army because it is afraid of a resumption of its own depression. They can't think of anything for us to do once we stop building guns and tanks. But to those who believe in America there's lots to do. Why, just take housing, for example. If we simply build the homes the American people need in order to be decently housed, it will keep millions of men employed for years. After twelve years of the New Deal the housing of the American people has fallen down so badly that just to come up to the standards of 1930 we will need to build more than a million homes a year for many years to come. And this does not include the enormous need for farm housing repairs and alterations.
By the end of this year we will have an immediate need for 6,000,000 automobiles just to put the same number of cars back on the road that were there in 1941. We will need after the war 3,500,000 vacuum cleaners, 7,000,000 clocks, 23,000,000 radio sets, 5,000,000 refrigerators, 10,000,000 electric irons, 3,000,000 washing machines and millions of other household appliances. There are 600 different articles made of steel and iron which have not been manufactured since 1942. All this means production and production means jobs. But that kind of production and that kind of job are beyond the experience and vision of the New Deal.
The transportations industry—rail, air and motor—is waiting to get going.
The mighty energy we found lying dormant and unused in this country at the beginning of the war must be turned from destruction to creation. There can and must be jobs for all who want them and a free, open door for every man who wants to start out in business for himself.
We know from long experience that we will not provide jobs and restore small business by the methods of the New Deal. We cannot keep our freedom and at the same time continue experimentation with new policy every day by the national government. We cannot succeed with a controlled and regulated society under a government which destroys incentive, chokes production, fosters disunity and discourages men with vision and imagination from creating employment and opportunity.
The New Deal really believes that unemployment is bound to be with us permanently. It says so. They will change this twelve-year-old tune between now and election. They have done it every time. But they've always come back to it after election. The New Deal really believes that we cannot have good social legislation and also good jobs for all. I believe with all my heart and soul that we can have both.
Of course, we need security regulation. Of course, we need bank-deposit insurance. Of course, we need price support for agriculture. Of course, the farmers of this country cannot be left to the hazards of a world price while they buy their goods on an American price. Of course, we need unemployment insurance and old-age pensions and also relief whenever there are not enough jobs. Of course, the rights of labor to organize and bargain collectively are fundamental. My party blazed the trail in that field by passage of the Railway Labor Act in 1926.
But we must also have a government which believes in enterprise and government policies which encourage enterprise. We must see to it that a man who wants to start a business is encouraged to start it, that the man who wants to expand a going business is encouraged to expand it. We must see to it that the job-producing enterprises of America are stimulated to produce more jobs. We must see to it that the man who wants to produce more jobs is not throttled by the government—but knows that he has a government as eager for him to succeed as he is, himself.
We cannot have jobs and opportunity if we surrender our freedom to government control. We do not need to surrender our freedom to government control in order to have the economic security to which we are entitled as free men. We can have both opportunity and security within the framework of a free society. That is what the American people will say at the election next November.
With the winning of the war in sight, there are twoovershadowing problems. First, the making and keeping of the peace of the world so that your children and my children shall not face this tragedy all over again. This great objective to which we are all so deeply devoted, I shall talk about at Louisville tomorrow night on the radio.
The other problem is whether we shall replace the tired and quarrelsome defeatism of the present Administration with a fresh and vigorous government which believes in the future of the United States, and knows how to act on that belief.
Such action involves many things: Tax policies, regulatory policies, labor policies, opportunity for small business, the bureaucracies which are attempting to regulate every detail of the lives of our people—these are all of major importance. I shall discuss each of them in detail before this campaign is over. I will discuss them in plain English and say what we propose to do about them.
I am interested—desperately interested in bringing to our country a re-birth of faith in our future. I am deeply interested in bringing a final end to the defeatism and failure of this Administration in its domestic policies. I am deeply devoted to the principle that victory in this war shall mean victory for freedom and for the permanent peace of the world. Our place in a peaceful world can and will be made secure. But nothing on earth will make us secure unless we are strong, unless we are productive and unless we have faith in ourselves. We can and we will recover our future and go forward in the path of freedom and security. I have unlimited faith that the American people will choose that path next November.
A FREEDOM LINKED TO SECURITY
By THOMAS E. DEWEY, Governor of New York, and Republican Presidential Nominee
Broadcast from Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., September 7, 1944
Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. X, pp. 719-721.
TONIGHT we open a campaign to decide the course of our country for many years to come. The next national Administration will take office Jan. 20, 1945, and will serve until 1949. Those years 1945 to 1949 will be largely—and we pray, wholly—peace-time years.
For nearly three years our nation has been engaged in a world war. Today our armed forces are winning victory after victory. Total, smashing victory is in sight. Germany and Japan shall be given the lessons of their lives—right in Berlin and Tokyo.
America—our America which loves peace so dearly—is proving once again that it can wage war mightily . . . that it can crush any aggressor who threatens the freedom which we love even more than peace. The American people have risen to the challenge. The war is being won on the battlefronts. It is also being won in the factory, the office, the farm, the mine and the home.
Yes, we are proving that we can wage war. But what are the prospects of success as a nation at peace? The answer depends entirely on the outcome of this election.
At the very outset I want to make one thing clear. This is not merely a campaign against an individual or a political party. It is not merely a campaign to displace a tired, exhausted, quarreling and bickering Administration with a fresh and vigorous Administration. It is a campaign against an Administration which was conceived in defeatism, which failed for eight straight years to restore our domestic economy, which has been the most wasteful, extravagant and incompetent Administration in the history of the nation and worst of all, one which has lost faith in itself and in the American people.
This basic issue was clearly revealed in the recent announcement by the Director of Selective Service in Washington. He said that when Germany and Japan have been defeated it will still be necessary to demobilize the armed forces very gradually. And why? Because, he said, "We can keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we could create an agency for them when they are out."
For six months we have been hearing statements from the New Deal underlings in Washington that this was the plan. Now it is out in the open. They have been working up to it. Because they are afraid of peace. They are afraid of a continuance of their own failures to get this country going again. They are afraid of America.
I do not share that fear. I believe that our members of the armed forces should be transported home and released at the earliest practical moment after victory. I believe that the occupation of Germany and Japan should very soon be confined to those who voluntarily choose to remain in the Army when peace comes. I am not afraid of the future of America—either immediate or distant. I am sure of our future, if we get a national Administration which believes in our country.
The New Deal was founded on the philosophy that our frontiers are behind us and all we have left to do is to quarrel over the division of what we have. Mr. Roosevelt himself said in 1932: "Our industrial plant is built . . . our I task is not . . . necessarily producing more goods. It is the soberer, less dramatic business of administering resources and plants already in hand." The New Deal operated on that philosophy for seven straight peace-time years with unlimited power. At the end of that time in 1939, the New Deal gave its own official verdict on its failure by this cold admission: "The American economic machine is stalled on dead center."
The Administration knows that the war, with all its tragic toll of death, debt and destruction, is the only thing that saved it. They are deadly afraid that they will go back to resumption of their own failures. That is why they are afraid to let men out of the Army. That is why they say it is cheaper to keep men in the Army than to let them come home.
Now let us get another point straight for the records right here at the beginning. In the last hundred years we have had eleven periods during which business and employment were well below normal. During that period, the average depression lasted two years. In the entire hundred years the longest depression of all was five years and the next longest was four years—up to the last one.
When this Administration took office the depression was already over three years old. Then what happened? In 1933, when the depression was then five years old—longer than any other in a century, we still had 12,000,000 unemployed. By 1940 the depression was almost eleven years old. This Administration had been in power for seven straight years and there were still 10,000,000 Americans unemployed.
It took a world war to get jobs for the American people.
Let's get one thing clear and settled. Who was President during the depression that lasted from 1933 until some time in 1940, when war orders from all over the world began to bring us full employment again? The New Deal kept this country in a continuous state of depression for seven straight years. It made a three-year depression last eleven years—over twice as long as any other depression in a whole century.
Now, Washington is getting all set for another depression. They intend to keep the young men in the Army. TheNew Deal spokesmen are daily announcing that reconversion will be difficult, if not impossible. They say that relief rolls will be enormous. They drearily promise us that we will need to prepare for an army of unemployed bigger than the armies we have put in the field against the Germans and the Japanese. That's what's wrong with the New Deal. That's why it's time for a change.
The reason for this long-continued failure is two-fold. First, because there never was a worse job done of running our government. When one agency fails the New Deal just piles another on and we pay for both. When men quarrel, there is no one in authority to put a stop to it. When agencies get snarled up there is no one in authority to untangle them. Meanwhile, the people's business goes to pot and the people are the victims.
Right in the final crisis of this war, the most critical of all war agencies—the War Production Board—fell apart before our eyes. This is also the board in charge of reconversion and jobs. Yet, we have seen quarreling, disunity and public recriminations day after day as one competent man after another resigned and the head of the board was sent to China. We have seen this happen in agency after agency. The cost to the war effort to the country can never be calculated. And it's time the people put an end to it.
When the W. P. B. fell apart, so did your chance under this Administration for jobs after the war. For now the New Dealers have moved in, and their handiwork, their promise for America is not jobs—but the dole.
The other reason for this long continued failure—the reason why they are now dismally preparing for another depression—is because this Administration has so little faith in the United States. They believe in the defeatist philosophy that our industrial plant is built, that our task is not to produce more goods but to fight among ourselves over what we have.
I believe that we have not even begun to build our industrial plant We have not exhausted our inventive genius. We have not exhausted our capacity to produce more goods for our people. No living man has yet dreamed of the limit to which we can go if we have a government which believes in the American economic system and in the American people.
This Administration is convinced that we can achieve social security only by surrendering a little bit of freedom for every little bit of security. That is exactly what our enemies thought. So their people first lost their freedom and then their security. I cannot accept that course for America. I believe—I know—that we can achieve real social security only if we do keep our freedom.
There can be—there must be—jobs and opportunity for all, without discrimination on account of race, creed, color or national origin. There must be jobs in industry, in agriculture, in mines, in stores, in offices, at a high level of wages and salaries. There must be opportunity and incentive for men and women to go into business for themselves.
The war has proved that despite the New Deal, America can mightily increase its frontiers of production. With competent government America can produce mightily for peace. And the standard of living of our people is limited only by the amount of goods and services we are able to produce.
The New Deal prepares to keep men in the Army because it is afraid of a resumption of its own depression. They can't think of anything for us to do once we stop building guns and tanks. But to those who believe in America there's lots to do. Why, just take housing, for example. If we simply build the homes the American people need in order to be decently housed, it will keep millions of men employed for years. After twelve years of the New Deal the housing of the American people has fallen down so badly that just to come up to the standards of 1930 we will need to build more than a million homes a year for many years to come. And this does not include the enormous need for farm housing repairs and alterations.
By the end of this year we will have an immediate need for 6,000,000 automobiles just to put the same number of cars back on the road that were there in 1941. We will need after the war 3,500,000 vacuum cleaners, 7,000,000 clocks, 23,000,000 radio sets, 5,000,000 refrigerators, 10,000,000 electric irons, 3,000,000 washing machines and millions of other household appliances. There are 600 different articles made of steel and iron which have not been manufactured since 1942. All this means production and production means jobs. But that kind of production and that kind of job are beyond the experience and vision of the New Deal.
The transportations industry—rail, air and motor—is waiting to get going.
The mighty energy we found lying dormant and unused in this country at the beginning of the war must be turned from destruction to creation. There can and must be jobs for all who want them and a free, open door for every man who wants to start out in business for himself.
We know from long experience that we will not provide jobs and restore small business by the methods of the New Deal. We cannot keep our freedom and at the same time continue experimentation with new policy every day by the national government. We cannot succeed with a controlled and regulated society under a government which destroys incentive, chokes production, fosters disunity and discourages men with vision and imagination from creating employment and opportunity.
The New Deal really believes that unemployment is bound to be with us permanently. It says so. They will change this twelve-year-old tune between now and election. They have done it every time. But they've always come back to it after election. The New Deal really believes that we cannot have good social legislation and also good jobs for all. I believe with all my heart and soul that we can have both.
Of course, we need security regulation. Of course, we need bank-deposit insurance. Of course, we need price support for agriculture. Of course, the farmers of this country cannot be left to the hazards of a world price while they buy their goods on an American price. Of course, we need unemployment insurance and old-age pensions and also relief whenever there are not enough jobs. Of course, the rights of labor to organize and bargain collectively are fundamental. My party blazed the trail in that field by passage of the Railway Labor Act in 1926.
But we must also have a government which believes in enterprise and government policies which encourage enterprise. We must see to it that a man who wants to start a business is encouraged to start it, that the man who wants to expand a going business is encouraged to expand it. We must see to it that the job-producing enterprises of America are stimulated to produce more jobs. We must see to it that the man who wants to produce more jobs is not throttled by the government—but knows that he has a government as eager for him to succeed as he is, himself.
We cannot have jobs and opportunity if we surrender our freedom to government control. We do not need to surrender our freedom to government control in order to have the economic security to which we are entitled as free men. We can have both opportunity and security within the framework of a free society. That is what the American people will say at the election next November.
With the winning of the war in sight, there are twoovershadowing problems. First, the making and keeping of the peace of the world so that your children and my children shall not face this tragedy all over again. This great objective to which we are all so deeply devoted, I shall talk about at Louisville tomorrow night on the radio.
The other problem is whether we shall replace the tired and quarrelsome defeatism of the present Administration with a fresh and vigorous government which believes in the future of the United States, and knows how to act on that belief.
Such action involves many things: Tax policies, regulatory policies, labor policies, opportunity for small business, the bureaucracies which are attempting to regulate every detail of the lives of our people—these are all of major importance. I shall discuss each of them in detail before this campaign is over. I will discuss them in plain English and say what we propose to do about them.
I am interested—desperately interested in bringing to our country a re-birth of faith in our future. I am deeply interested in bringing a final end to the defeatism and failure of this Administration in its domestic policies. I am deeply devoted to the principle that victory in this war shall mean victory for freedom and for the permanent peace of the world. Our place in a peaceful world can and will be made secure. But nothing on earth will make us secure unless we are strong, unless we are productive and unless we have faith in ourselves. We can and we will recover our future and go forward in the path of freedom and security. I have unlimited faith that the American people will choose that path next November.
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I am sick and tired.
For over 30 years I have advocated for the prisoners in this country. I have advocated for prison minstries ever since I accepted Jesus Christ. I have advocated for the 2nd Chance Act, for jobs programs, for education. I have encouraged others and my church to get involved in prison minsitries, but after this morning's reading of the paper I have to tell you, I am tired. I am tired of reading about one more child slain in the street, one more honor roll student who won't be attending school because he was killed in cold blood, I am tired of my neighbors being burglarized and the church which owns the building merely saying "to bad, so sad", I'm not advocating anymore for mercy unless justice comes first...
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