Dems scream Trump is "acting like a king!" But when FDR confiscated all gold from Americans...

Democrats have been wailing and screaming about Trump using "a state of emergency" to impose matching tariffs or blow up drug-smuggling powerboats.

But amusingly, when the Democrats' hero Franklin D. Roosevelt ORDERED Americans to surrender their gold coins and bullion to the government or face a fine of up to $10,000 (equivalent to a staggering $250,000 in today's currency) "or" ten years in prison, "or both,"  Dems didn't utter a peep of protest.

Democrat: "NOOooo, dat a LIE!  Dat jus' a right-wing scare story!  Ouah beloved FDR wud NEVAH have done dat!
    "Maybe he signed a LAW, passed by a bipartisan congress, to do something sort of like that.  But Orange Hitler has imposed tariffs and ordered the military to blow up drug boats by Executive Order, like a king!  At least FDR got congress to pass a LAW..."

Eat shit and die, lying scum.  Or maybe just stupid--I'll go either way you like.

The facts: On April 5, 1933, Roosevelt signed "Executive Order 6102" ordering Americans to turn all their gold coin and bullion over to the government, for $20.67 per ounce.

If that doesn't strike you as outrageous enough, the son of a bitch gave Americans just 25 DAYS to comply or be prosecuted!  He knew if he gave them six months to comply, some rebellious Americans would sue the son of a bitch.  Or start a business turning gold coins and bullion into gold chains or other jewelry, which weren't subject to the ORDER.

You think I'm kidding about this order.  Democrats: "Dat not possible!  Cud nevah happen in dis 'Land of duh Free,' citizen!!!"

Well certainly not under a Republican president.  Only a New York Democrat could get away with it.

Roosevelt claimed he had the power to unilaterally order this under a WW1 law called "The Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917," even though WW1 (which had triggered that law) had ended 15 years earlier.  To make it fly, the Dems cunningly amended that 1917 law just one month earlier with the "Emergency Banking Relief Act," which FDR signed on March 9th of 1933--just 29 DAYS before Roosevelt issued his confiscation order!

And if you think that wasn't the Democrats' plan all along you're too stupid to breathe.

The reason FDR ordered all gold coins and bullion owned by American citizens seized was that at the time the dollar was backed by gold, which limited the amount of paper money the government could spend to just 2.5 times the amount of gold the government owned.

Ordering an end to gold backing would likely have caused havoc in the stock market--already reeling from the crash of 1929.  So instead the Dems planned to confiscate gold at $20.67 an ounce, and then a few months later declare that gold was NOW worth $35 per ounce--increasing the amount of worthless paper dollars Roosevelt could spend by 69%.  

Seems almost impossible to believe Americans would put up with that crap.  But because Roosevelt was a Democrat, and the Media--then as now--were devoted fellators of the Democrat party, Americans just shrugged and did as the Dems ordered.

Just like the Soviet Union or China, eh?

The Media ran with the meme that the crash of 1929 and ensuing depression had caused "hoarding" of gold.  Just ONE DAY after Roosevelt issued his ORDER, the damn New York Times ran a slobbering, fawning piece supporting it, under the headline "Hoarding of Gold:"

"The Executive Order issued by the President yesterday amplifies and particularizes his earlier warnings against hoarding. On March 6, taking advantage of a wartime statute that had not been repealed, he issued Presidential Proclamation 2039 that forbade the hoarding 'of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency', under penalty of $10,000 fine or ten years' imprisonment or both."

For young Americans: Before being elected prez, FDR had been governor of New York, so the NY Times and all other NY newspapers, and the hugely influential national radio networks, all supported him in everything.

Here's part of the text of his Executive ORDER.  Note the cunning techniques used to make morons support this:

I, Franklin Roosevelt, President, do declare that said national emergency still continues to exist, and do hereby prohibit the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States...and hereby prescribe the following regulations for carrying out the purposes of this order:

Section 1. For the purposes of this regulation, the term "hoarding" means the withdrawal and withholding of gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates from the recognized and customary channels of trade.

Notice how just owning something has now been unilaterally declared, by the Democrat hero/messaiah, to be "hoarding."  "Withholding of gold coin."  And notice the Jupiter-size loophole for FDR's wealthy friends: "...within the continental United States..."   Wonder how many tons of gold were quietly shipped to England or France before the May 1 deadline, eh?

Section 2. All persons are hereby required [sounds SO much nicer than "ordered" or "commanded," eh?] to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve Bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933...

Again note Americans were given just 25 days to obey the ORDER or be harshly prosecuted, so no time to mount effective lawsuits challenging the thing.  (Today the left's law firms have every lawsuit ready to go before Trump makes a move.) 

Even foreign companies that had gold in the U.S. for business purposes had their gold confiscated and were forced to accept paper money in exchange.  A Swiss banking company (the Uebersee Finanz-Korporation) had $1,250,000 in gold coins--$30 million in today's dollars--for business use.  The Swiss were stunned to find that Roosevelt and his merry band of grifters confiscated their gold (but of course paid 'em $20.67 per ounce in paper money).  The Swiss company appealed, but FDR-loving judges ruled against them.

And here's the topper: The leftist, Democrat-fellating pieces of shit who run Wikipedia have an article on this.  But instead of being titled "FDR ordered Americans to surrender all gold coin and bullion" or similar informative title, they titled it "Executive Order 6102."

Now for all the leftists who claim "The government would NEVAH confiscate private firearms!  Dat jus' not possible!" consider how lightning-fast FDR and his band of Democrat thieves moved to seize ALL gold coins and bullion legally owned by Americans:  First Amending the 1917 law on March 6, 1933 with a new law titled "Emergency Banking Relief Act," then just 30 days later (April 5, 1933) dropping the hammer with the executive ORDER.  

Then just months later, de-valuing the dollar by decreeing the "price" of gold was now $35 per ounce.  Brilliant.  Cunning.  Typical of Democrat rule.

How many of you would have thought ANY of that was possible, eh?  But then, how many of you thought bribem would have the power to ORDER your employer to fire you if you didn't take the bullshit "vax" for the Chyna virus, eh?  Of course the Supreme Court later decided that order was illegal--that he did NOT have that power after all.  But of course by then it was too late, eh?  You had to take it or be fired, leaving your family destitute.

SO classic. 

Source: Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102