LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

there to PUT INTO effect the will of the nation and the laws made by the
representatives of the People. When he violates and passes beyond his
legal powers, he acts TOWARD the destruction of ALL legal
government of the United States of America, all government by law and
by the laws.
I mean by ANY law, he moves toward a total illegality. This is evil, this
is extremely dangerous in the long run, it is myopic, it is short-sighted.
In fact, the man is an ass. No good American objects to the U.S.A.
assuring the tranquility of the Caribbean.
There is no need to violate the mandate of the people in making QUITE
sure that there be no submarine bases, poison factories, etc. immediately
off the coast of Florida or in easy reach of Georgia, Alabama, and the
mouth of the Mississippi. There are even ways [for] America [to]
occupy foreign territory after at least attempting to do it legally.
One can offer to buy, even if one thinks one will have to take over, and
make reparations later. I do not think Congress would have objected to
the taking over of ALL Guiana, not merely the gotterdamn Dutch part.
When a politician’s WHOLE policy has been indirect, when his whole
political strategy has consisted in indirectness, in the carom shot (not the
straight shot), it is unwise to accept any act of his at its face value.
If Roosevelt’s aim had been Dutch Guiana, he would probably have
turned public attention elsewhere. It is reasonable to assume, on the
basis of Roosevelt’s public career since the end of his second year in the
White House, that his aim in this case was NOT Dutch Guiana.
It is legitimate at least to suspect that his MAIN purpose was to grab yet
more ILLEGAL power, to put a hot one over such fools as Senator
Pepper and the other fools in the Senate and Congress. Like balloonfaced
bumbustuous Churchill, Roosevelt follows every error by a
demand for more personal power.