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November 21, 2007 at 23:44:02

Did You Know? Of a plot to overthrow FDR in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen

by Mike Thomson BBC (Posted by jcalderjr) Page 1 of 1 page(s)

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml

The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush's Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.

Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

Purported details of the matter came to light when retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler testified before a Congressional committee that a group of men had attempted to recruit him to serve as the leader of a plot and to assume and wield power once the coup was successful. Butler testified before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee in 1934 [1]. In his testimony, Butler claimed that a group of several men had approached him as part of a plot to overthrow Roosevelt in a military coup. One of the alleged plotters, Gerald MacGuire, vehemently denied any such plot. In their final report, the Congressional committee supported Butler's allegations on the existence of the plot,[2] but no prosecutions or further investigations followed, and the matter was mostly forgotten.

General Butler claimed that the American Liberty League was the primary means of funding the plot. The main backers were the Du Pont family, as well as leaders of U.S. Steel, General Motors, Standard Oil, Chase National Bank, and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. A BBC documentary claims Prescott Bush, father and grandfather to the 41st and 43rd US Presidents respectively, was also connected.[3]

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Virginia Simson is a spiritual journalista/activist who runs a visionary planetary tutorial blogspot, www.ladybroadoak.blogspot.com as well as a blog on the uranium industry and depleted uranium at www.lowlevelradiation.blogspot.com. She feels that we must educate the young as to the real issues of the day - economics, clean energy, a drug free lifestyle, friendship and concern for the environment. We must plan for seven generations in the future. She unconditionally supports impeachment and...

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ladybroadoakVirginia Simson is a spiritual journalista/activist who runs a visionary planetary tutorial blogspot, www.ladybroadoak.blogspot.com as well as a blog on the uranium industry and depleted uranium at www.lowlevelradiation.blogspot.com. She feels that we must educate the young as to the real issues of the day - economics, clean energy, a drug free lifestyle, friendship and concern for the environment. We must plan for seven generations in the future. She unconditionally supports impeachment and...

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and here's to Smedly Darlington Butler!!

A true MUST read

War is a racket, available in pdf

http://grace.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/WarIsARacket.pdf

But victory or defeat will be determined by the skill and ingenuity of our scientists.
If we put them to work making poison gas and more and more fiendish mechanical and explosive
instruments of destruction, they will have no time for the constructive job of building greater prosperity
for all peoples. By putting them to this useful job, we can all make more money out of peace than we
can out of war-even the munitions makers.
So . . . I say,
TO HELL WITH WAR!
Biography: Smedley Darlington Butler
• Born: West Chester, Pa., July 30, 1881
• Educated: Haverford School
• Married: Ethel C. Peters, of Philadelphia, June 30, 1905
• Awarded two congressional medals of honor:
1. capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914
2. capture of Ft. Riviere, Haiti, 1917
• Distinguished service medal, 1919
• Major General-United States Marine Corps
• Retired Oct. 1, 1931
• On leave of absence to act as director of Dept. of Safety, Philadelphia, 1932
• Lecturer-1930's
• Republican Candidate for Senate, 1932
• Died at Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, June 21, 1940
• For more information about Major General Butler, contact the United States Marine Corps.
MAJOR

by ladybroadoak (38 articles, 20 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 391 comments) on Friday, November 23, 2007 at 2:53:01 AM

I live in Ohio, born in 1947 and I am retired.I like baseball(Go Tribe) and F1.I am a liberal and a socialist.I am a follower of the Living Church of God.My music goes from DooWop to geezer rock to classical and opera.I still have a beta-max and a 8track player.
Willard RussellI live in Ohio, born in 1947 and I am retired.I like baseball(Go Tribe) and F1.I am a liberal and a socialist.I am a follower of the Living Church of God.My music goes from DooWop to geezer rock to classical and opera.I still have a beta-max and a 8track player.

The plot

I am always surprised that so many people know nothing about this. I had a story about this in my blog a couple of years ago, but the link died. I am still trying to find an alternative link.

by Willard Russell (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 41 comments) on Friday, November 23, 2007 at 7:40:37 AM

A man of reason!
imanA man of reason!

Yes, I Have!

I first learned about this rather "grey" segment of US history back in the early 1970's. It seems that the perpetrators were all connected to what we now know as the "New World Order". FDR had failed to go along with the plot to merge the US into a one world government that would include the fascists & soviets. His New Deal programs had apparently outraged them to the point where a coup de'tat became imperative. It's most unfortunate that very little is actually recorded in the annals of American history about this incident. That's all I really can remember & I'm sure there is a lot more to this than what is now known.

As far as Smedley Butler, one of the greatest Americans in our nation's 231 year history. Too bad he is not that well known & is usually ridiculed. "War is a Racket" is a great expose' on what wrong with the US & its foreign policy in the early part of the 20th century. We are now paying the price here in the infancy of the 21st. His support for the "Bonus Army" marchers in 1932 was indicative of not only a military hero but also of humanitarian.

by iman (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 89 comments) on Sunday, November 25, 2007 at 1:44:07 PM