Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
The different forces, however, which are doing secret service work, or investigation of different kinds are not the parts of the government which it would seem wise to me to consolidate. There have grown up under various forms of government in different parts of the world, secret investigation branches under one head, and they times have practically superseded all the other arms of the government and have spread terror among the population. It seems to me that it is better for us to have these necessary forces divided up under different department heads. There may be a certain amount of rivalry but that will do no harm, and if the heads have the proper spirit of cooperation the men themselves will understand that when they need to assist each other, they should do so in the interests of law and order and justice which they are all serving. As long as they remain separate there will, however, be no danger of a secret octopus growing up to control in harmful ways.
There had been a proposal to consolidate the secret service and the FBI into a single organization. What is fascinating, over and above her very sophisticated reasoning, is that fact that the First Lady not only takes a position but writes about it in her daily newspaper column, but she did this while the Congress and her husband the President were weighing the issue. This is another example of Mrs. Roosevelt’s unique role in American politics. To many feminists, they find the fact that the President could and would function with his wife making all these public, independent and uncoordinated judgment, almost unique in political history. He was an admirable role model of a relationship with a wife from a gender equality point of view.
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, First Lady (Franklin Delano Roosevelt), U. S. Delegate to the United Nations, Column, My Day, July 16,1937
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This is one of the major reasons that the relations between police and the communities they are policing is so important. Also, the style and courtesy that the IRS tax collectors exhibit is very important.
The article he wrote was the first serious plan and proposal to repeal Prohibition which was opposed by most people after the country had experienced the negative unintended consequents of making alcohol illegal. This was not unlike the second thoughts that many Americans began to develop regarding the War on Drugs at the end of the 20th century. Many felt the good that prohibition did (it improved the nation’s healt) was not worth the bad that came with it (crime, corruption, police brutality, disrespect for the law.)
The NRA has not only become extremely right wing organization from its early non-partisan posture, but a few of the officers have demonstrated an anti-government paranoia that most extremists would think extreme such as this quotation. Here he is on political company with the Black Panthers, the KKK, the Aryan Nation and the most extreme of the “lunatic fringe”
The irony of this quotation is that he is the architect and controller of the Russian system that he is criticizing.
Note that his principle goes beyond the usual call for transparency, but places the responsibility for getting the information to those who should have it on the political leader and the government. Active communication is required; not simply making information public/
Not all police take bribes from drug dealers and operators but many do. Of the minority who are corrupt, the drug dealers are the source of most of the money.
This interesting historical quotation illustrates the fact that in almost every American generation there are those who believe that society has gone too far in protecting the rights of criminal suspects at the expense of law and order in the general society. This is nothing new. This is a classic argument given by those who would deny a defendant the Constitutional protection against self-incrimination. The belief that an innocent man has nothing to fear from the police is refuted by the many cases of innocent men being convicted by evidence they have given in the belief that they were innocent, and served long jail sentences only to later be proved by DNA evidence that they could not possibly have been guilty. Since Nott’s day, society has not only found many cases where honest error was made by the police or prosecutors, but many where there was venal prosecutorial misconduct and defendants were jailed even though the authorities were aware of evidence of innocence and kept it secret. There have been a number of these cases where a defendant was on death row and about to be executed when it was found he was innocent. Probably there have been men wrongly executed. See {629444} for a probable example.
Because of the discretion and lack of transparency of prosecutors, she argues that the prosecutors are the weak link in the criminal justice system. Others believe that the weak link is the judges who are the most protected. See {631729}.
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His plan was that at the end of WWII, the 4 nations would police the world to be sure that the “4 Policemen” would be sure that no other Hitler could ever even start to invade neighboring countries. Ironically, he strongly suspected that the Nationalist Chinese would not be able to do this for the Pacific and assumed that the US would have to carry that area as well, but he didn’t doubt the ability of the Russians to police Eastern Europe but didn’t suspect that it would be Russia herself who militarily and covertly would encroach on other Eastern European countries.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat and activist. She served as the First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest-serving First Lady of the United States. Roosevelt served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
