All right, joining us now is David Bado.

He's an emeritus professor of history at the University of Alabama.

Right now, he is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, an excellent organization.

And we're going to talk to him about freedom issues.

The book that he has here, published by the Independent Institute,

is the New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights,

the untold story of FDR's concentration camps, censorship, and mass surveillance.

Thank you for joining us, David.

Thank you.

This is something that I think everybody's going to find very interesting

because we know so much about FDR and what he did with the war. People talk about Pearl Harbor.

They talk about the economic takeover. But this civil liberties aspect is something that's not

usually talked about much. Yeah, it isn't talked about. And I'm interested in those issues, certainly.

But I said to myself, why don't I just zero in on this?

And the more I found, the more I found there was a story here that really has not been told,

or it's only been lightly told about FDR's attitudes toward the Bill of Rights, towards the protections

of the First Amendment, toward privacy, and so forth. And FDR's record is atrocious. I would

say worse than Woodrow Wilson, and that's saying a lot.

It really was. And of course, it was a major change and so many things were restructured.

You know, it's when we look at him, he really did rule as a tyrant.

And we've always had this kind of construct that, well, you know, liberals are for civil liberties.

And Republicans and conservatives for economic liberties, you know, they're good on liberties and Republicans and conservatives for economic liberties.

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