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As Alan Stang, Robert Stinnet, John Denson and many other investigators document, President Franklin D. Roosevelt conspired to arrange the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, thereby officially costing the lives of 2,345 military and 57 civilians on December 7, 1941. Yet Roosevelt, repeatedly declared a "great president" by historians, campaigned for an unprecedented third presidential term on a promise to keep America out of war. Roosevelt, for example, famously declared in a campaign speech in Boston on October 30, 1940:

Roosevelt did everything he could to ensure the success of the Japanese attack on the United States for "our own good." Suppose we grant for a moment that the use of evil means was employed for a worthy cause in this case, the so-called Noble Lie, but what of a government of laws, not of men? Roosevelt betrayed the American servicemen at Pearl, his oath of office and everything sacred. In truth, the end never justifies the means but rather the use of proper means is the real end. Roosevelt was a traitor, pure and simple, the lowest form of human life, if all too typical of the occupants of the oval office. Roosevelt should have been hung, after a nice trial proving his treason.

The Constitution of the United States, the alleged law of the land, states in part in Article II,

Question: Did Roosevelt "faithfully execute the office of President" by arranging the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Question: Did Roosevelt "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States" to the best of his ability?

Question: Did Roosevelt as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy serve and protect American Servicemen at Pearl Harbor?

Question: Did Roosevelt as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy serve and protect the United States of America to the best of his ability?

Question: Did Roosevelt "take care that the laws be faithfully executed"?

Question: Why was Roosevelt not removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of, treason and other high crimes?

Question: Why did the cover up of Roosevelt's crimes succeed? How come not one of the hundreds of insiders to the plot, if not thousands, stepped forward to rat out this treason?

Question: Why did the media aid and abet the cover up of Roosevelt's betrayal?

Question: Are the American people willfully deaf, dumb and blind to the treason of their government leaders? Why? Are the American people self-governing? Are they capable of self-government? Are they even interested?

Question: Did Roosevelt's plan and actions to ensure a successful Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor constitute levying war against the United States?

Question: Did Roosevelt's plan and actions to ensure a successful Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor constitute "adhering to their (the United States') enemies, giving them aid and comfort"?

And what of the warmaking power? It is reserved to the Congress and Congress alone.

Question: Is misleading the Congress and thereby provoking it into declaring war, grounds for impeachment and conviction and removal from office?

To ask these questions is to answer them.

As John Denson concludes in his magnificent article, "Roosevelt and the First Shot: A Study of Deceit and Deception":

"We must impeach those presidents who ignore that the Constitution grants the warmaking power exclusively to Congress, and certainly impeach those who mislead Congress into a declaration of war with false information" (p. 525).

--John V. Denson, editor, Reassessing the Presidency, Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Further, Denson has a delightful suggestion: "A huge monument has been erected in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the 'greatness' of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. On the monument is a quotation from Roosevelt--'I hate war'--indicating falsely to the public that he was a president who sought peace rather than war. It is the ultimate example of false propaganda...after the attack ended, some of the crew of the battleship Oklahoma were still alive and trapped inside the hull of the partially sunken ship. The survivors outside could hear the trapped men knocking against the hull with metal objects desperately seeking rescue, but no rescue was possible (Beach, Scapegoats, p. 111). A recording should be made to duplicate their desperate sounds and have it played every hour at the Roosevelt Memorial to remind Americans of the treachery of their commander-in-chief" (pp. 518-9).