Comments on: John T. Flynn and the Myth of FDR

By: Mark Humphrey

Mark Humphrey — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:31:23 +0000

Many thanks to Dr. Raico for his outstanding review of the career of John Flynn, including Flynn’s criticims of FDR’s massive and egregious abuses of power.

FDR was a twisted malevolent political operator. He was, by all appearances, a spiritual soul mate to Stalin, whom he affectionately dubbed “Uncle Joe”; and to whom he cheerfully turned over the lives and property of millions of helpless Eastern Europeans at Tehran and Yalta. Franklin Roosevelt was a hard-eyed and envious enemy of the productive and successful, whom he slandered as “economic royalists” and “malefactors of great wealth”, and against whom he imposed draconian taxes and various forms of legalized expropriation. He was a murderous thug who ordered “pop-up cruises” of American war ships into Japanese territorial waters, fully intending to induce the Japanese to sink “one or two” U.S. heavy naval cruisers, together with their hundreds of sailors, for the purpose of provoking war with Japan and Germany. (Recordings of cabinet meeting conversations record FDR’s orders, as do the minutes of the proceedings.)

I can’t adequately express my contempt for FDR, or my admiration for Raico’s brave superlative writing about that chapter of American history.

By: Delgado

Delgado — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:07:44 +0000

We must not forget that, in the wake of the collapse of the “Berlin Wall” and the events that followed in Russia and its satellites, the aperture of the Moscow archives in the years following, revealed us (notably the historians) a lot of information with concern to the huge spying and propaganda network founded first by Lenin and pursued after by Stalin, allover the world, especially in America as to our concerns here, and as you mention it, “antifascist” patriots in Hollywood and elsewhere, were largely manipulated by this whole propaganda network, directed by what we, in France, name “compagnons de route”, in fact a group, globally spread, of professional spies (mainly directed by the most influential of them, a german one recruited by the Lenin’s agents, a certain “Willi MÃ¼nzenberg”, who, for a long time, directed all the “operations” in Europe first, and then extended his network, with a professional conciousness, in America, where he travelled, much than one time, to meet with his dedicated agents here, in order to give them information and orders). No doubt that a lot of them (spiers) were introduced even in the White House, in the nearest circle of the President, namely FDR, and acted to influence all the decisions taken in the wake of the governement. Note that the same thing occured in France, later, in the quasi-totality of the governments issued after the end of the second world conflict (say 1945). He (W. MÃ¼nzenberg) disappeared in june 1940, in the south of France, probably murdered by soviet agents who pursued him in the wake of the french “debÃ¢cle”, after they discovered he had betrayed them, and was on the point of fleeing from Europe; but sadly, he did’nt succeed.

So, many thanks for these noticeable indications on what represents a big and important chapter of american history.

A LvMI’s daily reader.

E. Delgado

By: BK Marcus

BK Marcus — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:45:07 +0000

The address given on the Mises Institute's Faculty page is rraico@adelphia.net. This is now the link given at the end of the article, as well.

By: gabriel

gabriel — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:14:37 +0000

Fascinating article.

Does anyone know Mr. Raico’s email? (The one provided is invalid.) I want to send him a note with my praise.

thx.

By: Mathew Lazare

Mathew Lazare — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:37:37 +0000

It is an absolute crime that Dr. Raico does not write more frequently.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:57:30 +0000

Great article.

By: DickF

DickF — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:18:35 +0000

Think back a bit before the Roosevelt Myth to the failure of Hoover and then listen to McCain. We are amazed that a man like Roosevelt would be given so much power, well hold on to your seats when McCain fails and a Democrat rides in to save our world. Many have forgotten that Hitler was a National Socialist who was going to save Germany.