Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "rexcurrydotnet" Newsgroups: fj.soc.agriculture,misc.rural,dc.politics,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.radio.talk Subject: End the USDA ( Department of Agriculture ) & socialism in the USA's food Date: 22 May 2005 09:12:32 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 176 Message-ID: <1116778352.793724.233150@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.234.65.212 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1116778358 7170 127.0.0.1 (22 May 2005 16:12:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 16:12:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.234.65.212; posting-account=f_M9owwAAAAV7OfXTZ_zOFBZc2pQKyu8 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.soc.agriculture:65 At the height of Nazi power in 1934, the USA stepped onto the same socialist path by expanding the Department of Agriculture (USDA) with the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA). The socialism copied the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) and the soviet-style schemes of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It used a new broad power scheme to levy taxes for the so-called "general welfare" as the basis for its program of agricultural socialism, government spending and price controls. http://rexcurry.net/usda.html The National Socialist German Workers' Party used a National Food Estate membership stickpin that is shown at http://rexcurry.net/usda.html It has a swastika with a barley stalk and a sword and was the emblem of the Reichsnahrstand (National Food Estate) the organization that was similar to our Department of Agriculture and that that interfered with the production of foodstuffs, as well as price distortions). In 1934 lower courts had begun overturning major parts of F.D.R.'s socialism. The most courageous court opinions came from rulings invalidating the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA). Lower courts ruled the AAA unconstitutional and the Supreme Court followed in January 1936, ruling that ".... a statutory plan to regulate and control agricultural production, [is] a matter beyond the powers delegated to the federal government...." There was a dark cloud around that silver lining, however, because the same opinion stated that: ".....the power of Congress to authorize expenditure of public moneys for public purposes is not limited by the direct grants of legislative power found in the Constitution" and began to dig the grave of liberty. The Supreme Court's ruling on the AAA was a major rebuff for F.D.R.'s socialism and it was important for Social Security as well since it seemed to portend what lay ahead for the Social Security Act. The AAA was a cynical attempt to shift blame from the government for the collapse of the farm economy when earlier government acts caused the Depression. The AAA was soviet style "agrarian reform" similar to that tried in openly socialist countries for the government to take control of all agriculture. The actual mechanism by which this control was to be achieved was to levy taxes on the processing of foodstuffs and to use the proceeds from this tax to fund agricultural socialism --in effect, using the subsidies as "incentives" to take control of free farmers. Fearing how the courts would see this new function of government, the socialists who contrived the AAA deliberately placed the tax provisions and the subsidy provisions in separate titles of the act, so they could argue that they were not necessarily connected to each other; that is, so they could argue that the purpose of the tax was not to control production but was merely to raise revenue. This was the same cynical strategy adopted by the socialists who contrived the Social Security Act, as can be seen in the separate Titles II and VIII of the original Social Security Act. In early 1937 President Roosevelt made what turned out to be the biggest political blunder of his career, and it was a blunder that became a disaster for liberty. F.D.R. was bitter about the Supreme Court striking down his socialism in favor of liberty and F.D.R. would derisively refer to the justices as "those nine old men." It didn't matter that only four of them consistently opposed his socialism. The Court was split down the middle in political terms. There were three justices sympathetic to the F.D.R.'s socialist programs (Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo); There were four justices who voted against everything the Congress and the Administration tried to do (McReynolds, Butler, Van Devanter and Sutherland). There were two, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Justice Owen Roberts, who were often "swing votes" on many issues. In the spring of 1935 Justice Roberts joined with the four justices to invalidate the Railroad Retirement Act. In May, the Court threw out a leviathan piece of F.D.R.'s socialism, the National Industrial Recovery Act. In January 1936 a passionately split Court ruled the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional. In another case from 1936 the Court had the good sense to rule New York state's minimum wage law unconstitutional. The upshot was that liberty was being protected from massive statism. F.D.R.'s response to all of this was to seek even more socialist power. On February 5, 1937 he sent a special message to Congress proposing legislation granting the president new powers to add additional judges to all federal courts whenever there were sitting judges age 70 or older who refused to retire. Fraudulently couching his argument as a reform to help relieve the workload burden on the courts, F.D.R.'s made it clear what he really had in mind. F.D.R. would be able to appoint six new Justices to the Supreme Court (and 44 judges to lower federal courts), rip up the constitutional protections for liberty, and force socialism upon everyone. The debate on this proposal was heated, widespread and over in six months. F.D.R. was rebuffed, his reputation in history tarnished for all time. Even so, the Court cravenly buckled. Beginning with a set of decisions in March, April and May 1937 (including the Social Security Act cases) the Court sustained a series of socialist legislation. Despite the intense controversy the court-packing plan provoked, and the divided loyalties it produced even among F.D.R.'s supporters, the legislation appeared headed for passage, when the Court itself made a sudden change. In March 1937, in a pivotal case, Justice Roberts unexpectedly turned his back on liberty, shifting the balance on the Court from 5-4 against to 5-4 in favor of most of F.D.R.'s socialist schemes. In the March case Justice Roberts voted to uphold a minimum wage law in Washington state just like the one he had earlier found to be unconstitutional in New York state. Two weeks later he voted to uphold the National Labor Relations Act, and in May he voted to uphold the Social Security Act. This sudden reversal in the Court meant that the pressure on F.D.R.'s cohorts lessened and they felt free to oppose the craven court-packing plan. This sudden switch by Justice Roberts is referred to as "the switch in time that saved nine" or "the switch in time that socialized nine." It has been downhill ever since. As an attorney, I consider the court decisions under FDR to be the most shameful decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. Though all of those justices (and F.D.R.) are long gone, the Court has never reversed it's humiliating disgrace. It is not too late for the Court to reverse its betrayal of liberty. It is never too late to stand for freedom. The unconstitutionality of FDR's socialism was clear. Under the "reserve clause" of the Constitution (the 10th Amendment) powers not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved for the States or the people. The federal government cannot expand its influence because federal laws must be based in the Constitution. Obviously, the Constitution did not mention any method for interfereing in farms and agriculture, nor for Americans to be robbed by the government for that purpose. The cynical Committee on Economic Security (CES) schemed to circumvent the Constitution, either by claiming the commerce clause or by claiming broad power to levy taxes and expend funds to "provide for the general welfare," as the basis for the scams. Ultimately, the CES propagandized the taxing power as the basis for the new program, and Congress rubber stamped it. The courts were the last defenders of liberty, and were striking down F.D.R.'s socialist legislation for a while. The time was during the Depression. The Depression had been caused by the federal government and by socialistic legislation (e.g. the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act). F.D.R. heaped on more socialism that worsened the Depression, into a disaster that lasted all the while that F.D.R. remained in office. That is why F.D.R.'s depression is called the "Great Depression." The government still hides the chilling fact that the AAA and the Social Security Act and so much of the USA's socialism was enacted in the mid 1930's, and that the National Socialist German Workers' Party had been in existence since 1920 (with electoral breakthroughs in 1930 and dictatorship in 1933), expanding Otto von Bismarck's socialism. In 1935, U.S. politicians intentionally stepped onto the same path that had already led to a police state for the National Socialist German Workers' Party. http://rexcurry.net/ssnswastika.html Earlier, the USA betrayed liberty and embraced socialism's dark side for agriculture in 1862 when the Department of Agriculture was imposed. The USDA's shield is set against a dark blue circle with 44 white stars, representing the states of the Union at the time the seal was adopted. Below the shield is a scroll inscribed "1862 Agriculture is the foundation of manufacture and commerce 1889," 1862 being the date the department was originally established and 1889 the date it was given cabinet rank. Despite going out of existence in 1857, the Senate Agriculture Committee was revived in 1863. The federal government was in the "War of Northern Aggression" against the Southern States. In expanding his wartime government, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law three Acts in rapid succession in the spring and summer of 1862; first, the Organic Act creating the Department of Agriculture; second, the Homestead Act; and third, the Morrill Land Grant College Act. (Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, Vintage Press, New York, 1973, p. 119.) As early as 1838, socialist farmers in the USA had been petitioning Congress for the establishment of a Department of Agriculture. A Petition of 1840 received an unfavorable report by the House Agriculture Committee. In the 1850s, support had grown for increasing federal theft from taxpayers so that the government could throw more money at agriculture, and for consumers to be forced to pay higher prices dictate by government regulations and price controls. The Department of Agriculture was finally created when President Lincoln signed the Department of Agriculture Organic Act, on May 15, 1862. (Oppose socialism and support libertarianism. To learn more see Rex Curry at http://rexcurry.net or contact rexy@ij.net or rexatious@hotmail.com or ecurry@interaccess.net ).