Posted on 8/5/2004, 2:44:11 AM by doug from upland
In an unprecedented move, a group of musicians and actors will be touring the country for three months in an effort to unseat President Franklin Roosevelt.
Never have entertainers conducted an effort like this during wartime. Some are calling them traitors and have sent them threatening notes about stringing them up if they are ever caught. Others intend to launch a boycott.
Word has been leaked that Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito that are very pleased with the effort and plan to support it by sending contributions.
The entertainers are part of a growing group of angry Americans who are unhappy that the U.S. lost so many troops in the Normandy Invasion and seem to be in a no-win quagmire in Western Europe.
The 34-show tour will kick off with weekend performances at the Savoy and Roseland in New York City. From there will head to the Midwest, Rocky Mountain states, and then the West Coast.
Among those performing will be Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Glen Miller, Woody Herman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Kate Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Joe Williams. For most of the tour they will be accompanied by Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Bob Hope, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, James Cagney, Jimmmy Steward, Katherine Hepburn, Orson Welles, and Spencer Tracy.
According to a spokesman, the group believes that Roosevelt told lies, it is America's fault that we were bombed at Pearl Harbor, and that we could learn from Benito Mussolini about how to make our trains run on time. They demand that our troops be brought home immediately and want Roosevelt to continue to negotiate with Hitler because, if we are willing to hear his side, we may be able to make a compromise and avoid any more bloodshed.
Roosevelt Knew!
The world of foreign affairs and national interest is very fluid. Yes, it is almost unimaginable that we would ever be pals with Joe Stalin. But, at the time, it was necessary.
Michael Moore is a modern day Lord Haw Haw or Axis Sally. I'd like to see him meet the same court mandated end.
And yet...there were Hollyweirdos who defended Stalin and did until his death...similar to the dunderheads of today.
When you have a constitutional declaration of war in effect rather than a "congressional resolution authorizing the use of force", the rules change. "In time of war, the laws are silent," goes the expression.
In wartime, all news is propaganda. Take a look at any World War II newsreel to see what that looks and sounds like. No matter how bad the news from the front, you had Ed Herlihy and Lowell Thomas explaining how our latest setback was merely a bump in the road on "our way to total victory."
In wartime, the people are fully mobilized. Gasoline is rationed, people plant victory gardens, and the public service radio announcement begins, "Ladies, bring your fat cans down to the corner butcher." (Referring to cans of rended fat, not oversize buttocks.) Everybody contributes. The Boy Scouts scavenge metal and rubber "for the war plants." People are encouraged to buy war bonds because, "It's bonds or bondage!" (The use of that motto in San Francisco today would cause mass hysteria.)
In wartime, all news is censored. Reporters censor themselves, editors censor reporters, and publishers censor editors. If a publisher publishes something that undermines the war effort, the local FBI field office head pays the publisher a visit. If a broadcast outlet does the same thing, the chairman of the FCC makes a call explaining how licenses are lost.
In wartime, people take matters into their own hands. After Pearl Harbor, you never saw demonstrators from the German-American Bund take to the streets to protest "the fratricidal war against poor, peace-loving Germany". Had such a thing happened, an angry crowd would have lynched the demonstrators before the police could have arrested them for sedition.
Let's put some things in perspective. Had there been a constitutional declaration of war in effect today:
This just scratches the surface of what governments can and often do during an officially declared war. But in the absence of such a constitutional declaration, the (lack of) rules we have today are what you have to live with.
Damn shame.
Prescott Bush that is.
Brilliant
Good points. It is a shame that the political left does not realize how serious this war is. Hundreds of millions of Islamists want our civilization to end and would kill Barbra Streisand just as soon as they would kill anyone on this forum.
Your last bullet would be partially correct. Yes the DU would be shut down tight and quick but not FR.
JimRob might get an assigned War Office Censorship Officer Staff but FR would most likely remain up.
Clever and entertaining. Good Post.
Good one.
Of course, the hard left *was* opposed to American and British resistance to Hitler in WWII...until Jun 22, 1941
Stalin's an Atheist. America is too religious to deal with him.
In 1942, at the peak of his civilian career, Glenn Miller decided he could better serve those in uniform by putting one on himself. By doing this, the band gave up a $20,000 weekly income. Too old to be drafted at age 38, Glenn first volunteered for the Navy but was told that they didn’t need his services. Not giving up, Glenn wrote to the Army’s Brigadier General Charles Young on August 12, 1942. Miller persuaded the Army to accept him so he could in his own words, "put a little more spring into the feet of our marching men and a little more joy into their hearts and to be placed in charge of a modernized army band." After being accepted in the Army, Glenn’s civilian band played their last concert in Passaic, New Jersey on September 27th, 1942. It was such a sad event that the band couldn’t finish playing the closing theme song, Moonlight Serenade.
On December 15, 1944, Glenn boarded a single engine C-64 Norseman aircraft to travel to Paris, France where he was to make arrangements for a Christmas broadcast. Tragically, the plane never reached France and was never found.
I would suspect that perhaps none of their names would be there. Those were the days when even Hollywood supported their country while we were at war.
Very true. But Glenn Miller's name literally jumped off the "page" at me.
I propose internment camps for seditious scum like Springsteen, the Dixie Chicks, Raitt, Browne, etc. Particularly infectious vermin like Moore and Maher need a good stretch of solitary confinement. Let them work out their issues in the Cooler, with minimum rations.
Sorry, just fantasizing again.
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