Thank you Sir, for bringing your insight and recollection to a new generation of readers who may overlook the great thinkers... Me included.

 

On a different note -
There's a scene at the beginning of Spartacus where the slaves are forced to work under threat of death.
That scene haunts me more and more every day as I follow the events of the world.
As I'm sure you're aware, for most of human history mankind has lived under tyranny and slavery, not all that different than what was depicted in Spartacus. Those huge castles and temples around the world, I just feel sick inside when Rick Steves goes on about how grand they are on PBS, he barely mentions the slave labor that was used to make them.
That's the "norm" in human history. The freedom we take for granted could easily wind up just a brief experiment. It can all disappear in a heartbeat. But no one seems to care, or even notice.
I tell my draft age nephews -
 "In the future, your generation will be the most hated in history, because it'll be your generation that finally lets freedom slip away, once and for all, never to return. That is, of course, until he powers that be remove the last 500 years from the history books."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc

 

Kirk Douglas, meet Brigitte Dale
http://brigittedale.blip.tv/
I know it's a little off topic but I'm sure she'll brighten your day.

 

Excellent speech. Hope you are doing well.
 

Eleanor Roosevelt, his wife, was great, and she had very high hopes for the United Nations. She wanted universal human human rights for everyone in the human family, but unfortunately the USSR and others blocked her wishes. Now that the USSR crumbled more progress has happened, and more people have attained better human rights, but progress must continue to happen, especially in China, North Korea, and in the Middle East. With our help in liberating Iraq and Afghanistan more people are gaining better human rights in those areas, including better human rights for women, and hopefully improved human rights continue to spread. I would like to see Eleanor Roosevelt's vision happen.
 

I'm sharing this with my friends on Facebook and MySpace. I believe Barack Obama offers the same ethics today. And most Americans agree with him, according to all the polls. Unfortunately, far too much press time is being given to those who whose virulent hatred of him may at some point lead to his death. Everyone I know is afraid he will be assassinated, because you never know who might be listening.

 

I love you Kirk! You are a humble GIANT in the entertainment world!! May God bless you forever~ sir!!!  ~xo
 

Thank you for this It was written so long ago, and it's words are still vitally important today as then.

 

I couldn't agree more!  Mr. Douglas, Thank you for bringing this up for all too read!!

 

Hhhmmnnn? I don't think we will ever see an end to war or violence sir but I do admire your positive outlook of the future. I know too that you have come full circle having lived through WWII. I am one however who thinks atomic bombs are like gunpowder. Since its invention in China, we have never seen and never will see a world without it. Just as when the first man ape hit a fellow primate with a club, we have never seen or never will see a time where man never strikes his fellow man.
 

AMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNN !!!!! Now these are really GREAT words.

 

I have a great deal of hope for this world. FDR's words ring as true for today as they did nearly 70 years ago.  There ARE crazies out there, but others who are sane are pulling together to deal with them.
 

If America England and other countries couldn't even revise diagnostics and law to protect the people from the dangers of the technology that has been used to pupeteer people into both violence and the sickest breeches in military and other so called accidents with the task forces and loads else outlined on my blogs since 1983 with the stimocievers Shakur and others got from Oxford and many suicides, overdoses accidents etc. And the courts and law enforcement refuse to take these things into consideration in the courts because they never revised on the technologies applied and continue to lock up innocent people...Mr. Douglas thats not what our countries are supposed to be about. Since initial reports by 1986 and all I asked the security services to verify and they don't, School shootings plane crashes many many people outlined on those blogs including my peers in the entertainment industries murdered children etc. are ignored. Well, I hope everyone gets their flu jabs!
Shakur goes on about overpacking the jails to destroy the economies and in simple code these rap and ragga guys have issued orders and highly technical terms on many worldwide and other incidents they have done (hence why these rap huys sound the same. Basic code like Mutulu Shakur was caught at in his jail cell at Fla. in coded conversation) They want reperations for the New Black Africans and destroyed everything this way for that.
The evidence stands in international military court and it is an atrocity. I hope the main music industries make sure america and U.K. stop ordering attacks on us, Russia and China and stop carrying them out to the rappers and black panther orders. The music and other companies are libel for such serious breeches and I hope the lyrics qouted, the events on my blogs are finally verified and people catch up to how all this happened in the first place and they understand that it was a half assed militant plot. No one wins in biological and counter bio. or this type of technological war. I think that screening of all personell in Tasforces or TasKforces worldwide need to be done to make sure that people don't have these vibrotactic 2mm. pieces of glass Prof. Franklin developed here at Oxford that Shakur and his friends got hold of in 1983 take a few minutes to stud into the skull and the person wakes up and then someone else using a computer makes him slaughter his school or friends or friendly fire his unit in the militaries etc. All N.W.A. and others lyrics show this.
The personal references by Shakur to me and Oxford and the Leysio or Greater Leys where I was held and tortured with these devices and so much slaughter of main events was reported a head of time is evil and hasn't even been verified.
I hope a lot of stars and their children some mentioned on the blogs know that they would not end up in rehab or overdosed if they just caught up to 1983 first. The plane incidence would come down and breeches I knew about at the time and mentioned in the Karus report would stop occurring.
These guys are sick militants and I'm sad they think they got so far when by 1985-86 I drew out viruses etc. and the hurricane of 1985, (By the way they can make small tisters and the CNN Building was done with one of these and the other examples given) I wonder how these drawings ended up in the Tupac Shakur book of selected poetry 2005 in his own hand. These were drawn by me including the pistashio nut, while they got the Kuru base breeched and put it in the concentrate and Professor Roberts of Harwell and the Soviet-U.K. exchange program was messed with with these and Chernobyl ensued. 7 years before and 3 mile island and the china syndrome at the sametime....So many events, so much carnage...
The rap guys ask"war crimes, war crimes yours or mine?" If someone else is pumping someone full of homocidal mania and makes them shoot up their schools or units whose crime is it?  The person using the technologies to make that person do these things in the first place!!
While they are still with me and doing sick things I hope this explains.

 

Thanks Kirk. It was before I was born, but interesting to read what Franklin D. Roosevelt said.

 

Thank you for this from a President I remember well.  When this was written I was just five years old, so am very pleased to read it now.  I remember Pearl Harbor Day in December of 1941 too well, as I heard FDR come on the radio to tell us aboui it and I ran to tell my father.

I trully wish we could follow exactly what President Roosevelet stated in this beautiful statement which provides essentially for everyone.
 

What an interesting fellow. I wonder how long we can avoid the "New order of tyranny" of which he spoke.

 

Thank you so very much for sharing this Mr. Douglas. In 68 years, we still have not accomplished this, and have lost so many lives. I pray for a world where people will cease killing others in the name of "GOD" I can't imagine this was ever His plan!

Thank you for all your insights, and for keeping us all thinking!

With Deepest Regard,
 Tamara Strohauer

 

Hey.........who in the world can argue with any of that.....however I bet there's a few  who would argue the point
 

They are still so true. We need more people that agree and less people fighting about it.
 

Great words, Mr. Douglas. Unfortunately many of those in power may have their own agendas, and those agendas don't exactly have the consideration of the many in mind. 
 

I AM FOR DISAMAMENT!
It is disturbing that in nations with nuclear facilites, terrorists can easily get Weapons of Mass Destruction, if we are not careful.
Paula Two Eagles 

 


 

They were the great ones and the wise ones who saw more than others ever did......Great Men!
 

I love you.

 

i read them again and i couldn't agree more. your blogs are soooo interesting. love em.....
 

 

i agree with everything said by roosevelt, at that time, with the exception of reducing our nuclear arsenal, the cat is out of the bag, and should not try to be put back in, dictators of rogue nations, are struggling to obtain them,  and in the hands of these modern day hitlers, would be a costly mistake for all mankind.  President obama,  has chosen the wrong path to take, and for his actions in his first year in the white house, will be costly for him he has lost all confidence of very bright people, who have the knowledge of how a nation should be run, he will be a (1) term president, only, because at this time in history a way of keeping safe is to have a strong defense.
 

 

Thank You for sharing this-needed to hear these words again. Very insightful. Godspeed
 

 

Dear little Issur, FDR did a lot of experimentation to help dig us out of the Great Depression, but it still took WWII to turn our economy around. FDR forgot to mention one very basic freedom we enjoy...the freedom NOT to worship any god of our chosing. I know the Duke was not religious and I prefer to believe the rumor that he only embraced the church because Pilar begged him to on his death bed. Of course, I've never had to crouch in a fox hole or lie on my death bed (67 and counting) or fall on a grenade, so stay turned for further developments. Now I must get back to my space system patent that is going to revolutionize manned space exploration. Exercise, don't just sit there in front of your computer!!!! Daniel Sterling Sample in Hollywood  http://www.cyrus-space-system.com 
 

F.D.R. was the closest thing we had to a king.  He was President for longer than anyone else.  He was able to get things done through persistence, and the force of his personality.  I hope our current President may be able to accomplish great things as well.  He also has force of personality.

Patrick Edgington

 

Four terms sums up the man and what his nation thought of him, respect.  Respect seems to be a word that this society today has long forgotten.  Thank you for bringing it back!
 

My daughter who is in colledge for Crime Scene Investigations, was just doing an essay on FDR. and I read everthing she does. It is fascinateing how intelligent our fore Fathers were. How humane and deeply spiritual most were. 
If only we had men...such as these.. now. 
 

Touché!

We need a common man/woman to help achieve such a world - someone who knows how it is to live the life of an average Joe and not the luxury of the top 10%...

 

So simple--why have we made it so difficult?
 

 

It's over!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMe5dOgbu40&feature=player_embedded

 

If terrorists get control, these freedoms will be lost. Rational choice is a great crime theory. There are way more interesting things than crime in life to choose. Honestly religious activities sometimes work better than opiates when we need intoxication and pain relief. Religion is called, correctly, the opiate or pain reliever and intoxicant of the masses. Terrorists are so intoxicated on religion, that they stumble many times.
 

  "Thank you, once again, Mr. Kirk Douglas, for your timely contributions to the national public discourse. It is timely since the Capitol and White House, the media, and the public TV networks, the print media and the national populace are having a public and private debate on a national public health-care debate. This health-care initiative was begun during Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt's term of office as he initiated it but was soundly defeated by a Republican Congress and here we are again in the 21st century trying to get it passed for the American people. We have had a Federal "public option" that has worked very well since World War II. It has been administered by the Veteran's Administration("VA")since World War II exclusively for veterans of the armed forces. Yet, it serves as a model, or paradigm, for what could be done for the American people who could least afford the patch-work quilt of health plans administered by private health insurance companies and negotiated with hospital and doctors' clinics throughout the land. The private health insurance plans are inadequate and too expensive to cover all the citizens of the U.S. who need health coverage. A public option is necessary and a Federal "czar" or referee, is necessary to insure fair and equitable coverage and enforcement and direction to proper administration of procedures. Tort reform could also be resolved as the VA resolves it. The "Four Freedoms" speech of FDR is a declaration of what America thinks about itself in terms of government: what our government thinks and intends to do about its own people and what we as a people have determined to do for each other. Our individual security is bound up with the collective security of serving each other. The "Four Freedoms" speech is a promise made, not merely by one President to secure popularity approval for himself at that time and place. It is a covenant promise made by our government to our people that we as a people and our government have a compact, a marriage, if you will, and that we have covenanted and agreed by promise to serve each other to the best of our will and abilities so that all may be treated accordingly as one and give each other the best efforts we can to make our whole nation stronger, better, more educated, and wiser, and a light to all nations that they can do the same.
 

There has never been another FDR and there probably never will be. Man and moment merged in his case. He deserves the lion's share of the credit for dragging this country kicking and screaming into the twentieth century, destroying in the process the vile Social Darwinist thinking that had taken root in the previous century. The problem is, one still hears echoes of it to this day in the mindless, reactionary rantings of the extreme right.
 

We should send this letter to every Senator and Congressman in D.C.
Some might remember why they entered politics to begin with...