Folks, I don't know how many here are into history, but I think you will find this very interesting.... WE HAVE GOT TO GET OBAMA ELECTED THIS TIME!!!
"They" have almost succeeded in a coup d'état in 2000 and 2004, this may be our last chance. Don't mean to be alarmist, but I fear our democracy may be at greater risk than many think. This is an exchange with my sister... who is also alarmed. Please read on, and if you do not believe it, please do your own historical research (not hysterical).
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
"In 1934, he (General Butler) informed the United States Congress that a group of wealthy industrialists had plotted a military coup known as the Business Plot to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt."
This episode was laid out in a book I read a few years back, I thought it was in "When Corporations Rule the World" by David C Korten, that you just returned to me, Betty. But it was not in that book, I spent last night looking for it. So it was in another book, I'll try to remember which.
The event was that a number of industrialists, including the "robber barons" wanted to appoint General Butler as a "special assistant" to the President on the pretext that Roosevelt was not healthy enough to be president. However, Butler was a true patriot and blew the whistle on them. End of story.
I did some more GOOGLEing and found this! This is more of the story than was in the book I read... Note that the BUSHIES were involved... looks like they have almost succeeded after all this time. We have got to get Obama in office this time.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk...
"Butler went to Senator John McCormack and told him that there was a fascist plot to overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt. Butler claimed that on 1st July 1934, Gerald C. MacGuire a Wall Street bond salesman and Bill Doyle, the department commander of the American Legion in Massachusetts, tried to recruit him to lead a coup against Roosevelt. Butler claimed that the conspirators promised him $30 million in financial backing and the support of most of the media.
Butler pretended to go along with the plot and met other members of the conspiracy. In November 1934 Butler began testifying in secret to the Special Committee on Un-American Activities Authorized to Investigate Nazi Propaganda and Certain Other Propaganda Activities (the McCormack-Dickstein Committee). Butler claimed that the American Liberty League was the main organization behind the plot. He added 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.
Butler also named Prescott Bush as one of the conspirators. At the time Bush was along with W. Averell Harriman, E. Roland Harriman and George Herbert Walker, managing partners in Brown Brothers Harriman. Bush was also director of the Harriman Fifteen Corporation. This in turn controlled the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation, that owned one-third of a complex of steel-making, coal-mining and zinc-mining activities in Germany and Poland. Friedrich Flick owned the other two-thirds of the operation. Flick was a leading financial supporter of the Nazi Party and in the 1930s donated over seven million marks to the party. A close friend of Heinrich Himmler, Flick also gave the Schutz Staffeinel (SS) 10,000 marks a year.
On 20th November, 1934, the story of the alleged plot was published in the Philadelphia Record and the New York Post. Four days later the McCormack-Dickstein Committee released its preliminary findings and the full-report appeared on 15th February, 1935. The committee reported: "In the last few weeks of the committee's official life it received evidence showing that certain persons had made an attempt to establish a fascist government in this country... There is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient."
Although the McCormack-Dickstein Committee claimed they believed Butler's testimony they refused to take any action against the people he named as being part of the conspiracy. Butler was furious and gave a radio interview on 17th February, 1935, where he claimed that important portions of his testimony had been suppressed in the McCormack-Dickstein report to Congress. He argued that the committee, had "stopped dead in its tracks when it got near the top." Butler added: "Like most committees, it has slaughtered the little and allowed the big to escape. The big shots weren't even called to testify. Why wasn't Colonel Grayson M.-P. Murphy, New York broker... called? Why wasn't Louis Howe, Secretary to the President of the United States, called? Why wasn't Al Smith called? And why wasn't General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, called? And why wasn't Hanford MacNider, former American Legion commander, called? They were all mentioned in the testimony. And why was all mention of these names suppressed from the committee report?""
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I recently finished reading The Tepot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country by Laton McCartney (2008), so I'm not really surprised at this announcement. After I read Teapot. . ., I immediately looked up who the Secretary of Interior is now. What has obviously been going on recently doesn't look too different from the early 1920s and before when Big Oil plotted to get control of the U. S. Naval Reserves. Secretary Kempthorne released a statement on his government site where he is "appropriately scandalized" that such could happen on his watch.
From Wikipedia:
Dirk Kempthorne: A Republican, Kempthorne previously served as Governor and as a U.S. Senator from Idaho. Kempthorne is notable for his conservative views, particularly on economic issues.
Oil brokers sex scandal, conflicts of interest may affect offshore drilling debate
H. JOSEF HEBERT
AP News
Sep 11, 2008 05:51 EST
A scandal involving sex, drugs and -- uh, offshore oil drilling. It's a strange mix, and it couldn't have come at a worse time for those in Congress pressing to expand oil and gas development off America's beaches while trying to stave off an election-year rush by Democrats to impose new taxes and royalties on the oil industry.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...