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The second President, John Adams, a founding father (a forefather of
Yours Truly), someone who should have known better, got the Alien and
Sedition Acts passed. That law allowed the deportation of any non-citizen
who was judged to be dangerous to the United States even if the country was
not actually at war. No trial was required. The Sedition Act made criticizing
the government a prison offense. These laws were passed and used to silence
the public’s opposition to Adam’s foreign policy, especially used to imprison
newspaper publishers of the opposing political party (Thomas Jefferson’s
Democratic Republicans). A long time ago, right? That may be so, but it was
the beginning of a tradition within our body politic.
In the twentieth century, there was the infamous Sedition Act in World
War I. It was used to jail social reformers, activists, and other people with
whom the government disagreed and, if they were non-citizens, to expel them.
Specifically, it made speaking out against war a prison offense. Prominent
journalists and civil libertarians were jailed for merely reading from the
Constitution. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the famous “liberal” Supreme Court
justice, voted to uphold this curtailment of the First Amendment with his
now famous statement comparing the activism for peace during war to
“shouting fire in a crowded theater.” I have often believed that a judge is a
lawyer with a 50 I.Q. – nothing more.
The next shameful event in our history which still plagues us to this day
was the “War Powers Act of 1933.” This Act permitted President Roosevelt
to make law in the form of Executive Order, bypass Congress and create his
socialist state. We (citizens of this country) were ever after to be considered
enemies of the United States who must be licensed to engage in any
commercial activity. With the aid of the Federal Reserve (the same people
who created the Depression), the President confiscated our gold and silver
coin and replaced it with worthless pieces of paper and a debt system that will
eventually destroy this great country. Our land and our labor were pledged to
the Federal Reserve Bank, Inc., as collateral for a debt system that could never
be paid. How can this most important event in our history not be taught in
school?
Everyone knows about the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during
the Second World War. All people of Japanese descent, even natural-born
Americans, were subject to detention in prison camps. The federal government
jailed 120,000 men, women, and children for three years for the crime of
being Japanese. The Supreme Court upheld the capture, internment, and the
effective seizure of their property. That fact alone confirms my theory that
they all have IQs of 50 or lower.
The Smith Act, also passed during this period – in 1940, before America’s
entry into WWII – mandated the fingerprinting and registration of all aliens