Symbol for the Nazi version of the USDA (Department of Agriculture)
Identical to the example illustrated and described in
Angolia's Labor Organizations of the Reich, page 50.
END
THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) AND SOCIALISM IN THE USA'S FOOD
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. See the video documentary at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4
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
Socialism's dog-eat-dog dogma caused poverty and misery. It was the same
dogma that led to the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a
part): ~60 million dead under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; ~50
million dead under the People's Republic of China; ~20 million dead under
the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
The USA's Department of Agriculture was similar to the National Socialist
German Workers' Party bureaucracy known as the National Food Estate. Both
bureaucracies interfered with the production of foodstuffs, as well as
dictating price distortions. The National Food Estate's membership stickpin
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).
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. The court decisions under FDR to be
the most shameful decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court according to the noted
historian and attorney, Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets).
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
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.
The socialist dogma is the same dogma that was touted in the late 19th century
by National Socialists in the USA. Francis Bellamy (author of the "Pledge
of Allegiance") and his cousin and cohort Edward Bellamy (author of the pathetic
book "Looking Backward") wanted the government to take over all food, clothing,
shelter, goods and services and create an "industrial army" to impose their
"military socialism." See the video documentary at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4
That was the motiviation behind Francis Bellamy's "Pledge of Allegiance"
to the flag, the origin of the stiff-armed salute adopted later by the National
Socialist German Workers Party (see the work of the historian Dr. Rex Curry,
author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg
It is the same dogma that led to the socialist Wholecaust (of which the
Holocaust was a part): ~60 million killed under the former Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics; ~50 million under the Peoples' Republic of China;
~20 million under the National Socialist German Workers' Party. http://rexcurry.net/socialists.html
Today, the flag symbolizes authoritarianism in the USA. The
historical facts above explain the enormous size and scope of government
today, and the USA's police state, and why it is growing so rapidly.
They are reasons for massive reductions in government, taxation, spending
and socialism.
