[tacticalogic]

FWIW, I think they just did not understand what the consequences were going to be. They let fear get the better of them, and the politicians cultivated and played on it.

They should have shot Wickard, and sent Filburn to Congress.

[justiceseeker93]

They let fear get the better of them, and the politicians cultivated and played on it.

But I thought that Roosevelt declared that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."/(sarc.)

They should have shot Wickard, and sent Filburn to Congress.

Have to confess that I chuckled at that one. But literally speaking, I don't think that shooting Wickard would have helped the cause of freedom at the time, since he would probably have been replaced by another bureaucrat of the same ilk. As for Filburn, he should be admired for his pursuit of his very important case to the Supreme Court, but I don't know if he had any interest in a political career.

[Darren McCarty]

They should have shot Wickard, and sent Filburn to Congress.

(standing ovation!)