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<DIV class=heading> "The U.S. has routinely destroyed democracy throughout
the globe while its leaders claimed to be spreading democracy. I spent 33 years
in active military service as a high class muscle-man for Big Business, Wall
Street and bankers. I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism "</DIV>
<DIV class=heading>U.S. Marine Corp General Smedley Butler</DIV>
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<DIV class=heading><STRONG>Bush Treason Exposed by Smedley Butler</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV class=author>by The Business Plot By John Burl Smith <BR><EM>Sunday Nov
8th, 2009 8:37 PM </EM></DIV></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=summary>An outspoken critic and author of War Is A Racket,
Gen. Butler, a true American patriot, opposed using US military power to
support "Big Business."</BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV class=article>The Business Plot <BR>By John Burl Smith <BR><BR>The Business
Plot was a conspiracy to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Major
General Smedley Butler exposed the attempted coup d'état in 1934. It involved
some of the wealthiest businessmen in the United States (US). The twice
decorated WWI veteran and former Commander of the Marine Corps testified before
the McCormack-Dickstein Congressional Committee and laid out an amazing saga,
detailing how the conspirators attempted to recruit him. <BR><BR>An outspoken
critic and author of War Is A Racket, Gen. Butler, a true American patriot,
opposed using US military power to support "Big Business." "The U.S. has
routinely destroyed democracy throughout the globe while its leaders claimed to
be spreading democracy. I spent 33 years in active military service as a high
class muscle-man for Big Business, Wall Street and bankers. I was a racketeer, a
gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for
American oil interests in 1914, then made Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the
National City Bank boys to collect revenues. I helped rape half a dozen Central
American republics for the benefits of Wall Street and did the same to Nicaragua
for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912."
<BR><BR>Buried beneath a wall of silence until American journalist John Buchanan
dredged it up in July 2007, the story was picked up by the Guardian newspaper
(UK). The BBC followed with a full documentary. A kaleidoscope of treason, "The
Business Plot" is shrouded in secrecy and is a testament to how wealthy people
in the US are held to a different standard of criminal justice. <BR><BR>The
McCormack-Dickstein Congressional Committee hearings confirmed Gen. Butler's
story and swore initially it would question all parties involved. However, the
Committee's final report was a whitewash. It called only Gerald MacGuire, a
go-between, who possessed neither resources nor connections to organize such a
plot. It covered up the involvement and protected the reputation of wealthy
conspirators by not determining the source of the large sums MacGuire spent or
said higher ups would provide. No prosecutions or further investigations
followed. <BR><BR>There is an old maxim which says, "If you want to get to the
bottom of a conspiracy, follow the money!" Preserving their wealth and power is
the reason US businessmen plotted to overthrow FDR. First and foremost,
businessmen like Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, John and Allen Dulles,
Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker admired Hitler and Mussolini. Although
at the point of the gun, fascists used a strong hand protecting business. They
were ruthless dealing with labor unions and social unrest, which is what these
men wanted in the US. <BR><BR>Next, the Great Depression brought thousands of
WWI veterans to Washington, D.C. on July 17, 1932. Led by a former sergeant,
Walter W. Waters, they pitched tents around the city and demanded payment of
bonuses granted them under the Adjusted Service Certificate Law of 1924. Gen.
Butler encouraged them to fight Hoover as though he was the Kaiser to get what
they deserved. Hoover refused to meet with them and ordered the US Cavalry to
remove them and their campsites. A Republican, Gen. Butler threw his support to
Roosevelt for president. <BR><BR>By the end of Roosevelt's "First 100 Days,"
America's richest businessmen were in a panic. They felt Roosevelt intended to
conduct a massive redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor. Gen.
Butler's testimony described a plot only powerful men with money could design.
First, they planned to create a fascist army, like Italy's Black Shirts and
Germany's Brown Shirts, for Butler to lead. MacGuire claimed to have 500,000 war
veterans from the American Legion and each man was a leader of 10 others,
equaling 5 million men, if needed. A second fascist army was to be recruited
from the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and financed with $700 million. Arms
and equipment would be obtained from the Remington Arms Co. and supplied by the
Du Pont family. They would model their forces after the Croix-de-Feu in France,
one of several fascists groups MacGuire studied while touring Europe.
<BR><BR>Backed up by such manpower, Wall Street plotters wanted Gen. Butler to
deliver an ultimatum demanding either Roosevelt pretended to be incapacitated by
polio and allow Butler to takeover or be forced out with the army of 500,000 war
veterans from the American Legion. <BR><BR>Money was no object according to
MacGuire. He provided a bank account with $100,000 and told Butler that his Wall
Street backers had $300,000,000 if necessary. Principal conspirator and founding
member of the American Liberty League, the primary source of funds for the plot,
Robert Sterling Clark, a New York banker, told Butler he would spend $30
million. Other major backers were leaders of U.S. Steel, General Motors,
Standard Oil, Chase National Bank, and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
<BR><BR>Most astoundingly, the Bush family was a major backer of the coup.
Prescott Bush, a founding partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., (1931)
was the Wall Street front for several Nazi companies and U.S. financial
interests of Fritz Thyssen. Thyssen was an early financial backer of the Nazi
party. Bush was a director and shareholder, along with George Herbert Walker,
his father-in-law, in the Union Banking Corporation (UBC) which also ran a
complicated financial web that supported Hitler until 1942. UBC's assets were
confiscated that year by the government, after Pres. Roosevelt signed the
Trading with the Enemy Act. <BR><BR>The following is a list of some of the
fascist coup leaders: Irenee Du Pont, founder of the American Liberty League,
which executed the plot; Grayson Murphy, Director of Goodyear, Bethlehem Steel
and a group of J.P. Morgan banks; William Doyle, former state commander of the
American Legion and a central plotter of the coup; John Davis, former Democratic
presidential candidate and a senior attorney for J.P. Morgan; Al Smith, bitter
political foe of Roosevelt, former governor of New York and a co-director of the
American Liberty League; and John J. Raskob, officer and a former chairman of
the Democratic Party. Raskob later became a "Knight of Malta," a Roman Catholic
Religious Order with a high percentage of CIA spies, including CIA Directors
William Casey, William Colby and John McCone. <BR><BR>Years later, retired US
Rep. John W. McCormack, former Speaker of the House and Chairman of The
McCormack-Dickstein Congressional Committee said, "If the late Major General
Smedley Butler of the U.S. Marine Corps had not been a stubborn devotee of
democracy, Americans today could conceivably be living under an American
Mussolini, Hitler, or Franco." <BR><BR>Nevertheless, America did not escape the
2000 coup d'état, which was facilitated by the US Supreme Court, that
successfully put George Walker Bush in the White House. Moreover, Barack Obama
was expected to undertake some FDR type programs to redistribute wealth from the
rich to the poor but just the opposite occurred. Could it be the country
underwent a coup d'état and Mr. Obama is merely a figurehead, as Roosevelt would
have been had Major General Smedley Butler not been
there?</DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>