Posted on 12/28/2013 7:38:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv
...The founders of this country had a vision of freedom and liberty that they tried to ensure for generations to come. They tried to design a democracy so full of checks and balances that it was bulletproof. So that no matter how many crooks managed to get themselves elected, the republic still prevailed.
There have even been a few brief shining moments when the real potential of that original vision took hold. One such moment was Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. A decimated work force that was shell-shocked from the Great Depression was struggling for its very survival. FDR came to the rescue with the New Deal, a program that redistributed wealth from Wall Street to workers who'd lost their jobs as a result of corporate greed and government corruption...
Another great moment was the presidency of John F Kennedy in the early 1960s. This time the world was reeling from the Cold War, and a military gone so mad with power and war-like policies... created a very real threat of nuclear annihilation...
...What are our elected officials hiding, 50 years later?
...They've looted the treasury, pulled the rug out from under the working middle class, and re-routed our country's resources back to the war machine and the wealthiest 1%.
On top of that, they've destroyed our Fourth Amendment rights, the Bill of Rights, and our basic civil liberties by spying on us. They continue to stand in the way of offering us one form of government-run health care while our tax dollars pay for their four separate options...
Let's give the 1% the big wake-up call that they truly deserve. There's a time for observing history and there's a time for making it. We can take back our country. And if we don't do it, nobody else will.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
can’t wait for jesse to tell america who killed JFK
10 posted on 8/31/2008 6:15:47 PM by machogirl
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2072014/posts?page=10#10
Jesse Ventura exclusive: Conspiracy Theory host talks 9/11, JFK, and Vietnam [2009]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2398954/posts
They rejected democracy quite early in the negotiations.
Dude is at best a lunatic.
Was Jesse drunk when he wrote this?
We are a REPUBLIC and not a democracy.
All those “checks and balances” were destroyed by FDR. Court packing? Ponzi schemes for votes? Massively enlarging the federal government that did nothing to solve the great depression. Confiscation of gold. Etc.
JFK by his own ineptitude brought us to the brink of nuclear war. He was an idiot in foreign affairs who had no idea what he was doing,
BO is part of that 1%. So was FDR and JFK, though neither was as destructive of the middle class as BO.
As a political thinker and commentator, Jesse Ventura is a heck of a professional wrestler.
Yes,his private life was a bit of a mess....
But he abandoned people in the Bay of Pigs. His weakness emboldened the Soviet Union and that led into Vietnam.
Problem is, he STOLE the Presidency. The more you learn about him, the less respectable he becomes.
More OWS garbage? Not this sh7t again!
Most of Europe had recovered while Roosevelt was still raising taxes on a stagnant U.S. economy. What saved the U.S. was the advance of the Nazis in Europe. Europeans began shifting their money and other portable assets to U.S. banks and U.S. markets. Eventually whole corporations uprooted themselves and moved to America. By the beginning of the war the British government had to freeze bank accounts in the UK because of the cash flight to the U.S.
I liked Jesse Ventura until he demonstrated over and over again that he's as crazy as a dung beetle.
Completely bananas. FDR is the poster boy for an unchecked executive. The New Deal pretty much turned the Founders’ vision on its head. You’d think this was written by a guy in a pink tie-dyed suit with feathers on his head or something...
oh great it’s Alex Jones and Jesse Ventura time…. pass the duct tape and the tin foil please
I get “emotional” about you trying to sue a national hero’s wife, you sack of sh!t!
A buddy of mine insists that getting killed was the best thing to happen to JFK's legacy. I tend to believe he's right.
A careful review of the history books shows that his old man,a truly despicable piece of excrement,very possibly stole Illinois and that LBJ very probably stole Texas (he had a history of political chicanery).Was JFK aware of any of this? Who knows.
Who said “You’ve never hunted until you’ve hunted man.”
1. Lee Harvey Oswald.
2. Jesse (James Janos) Ventura.
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