Bush's rotten to the core

[Skate Bait]

While driving home from work yesterday, I heard the host of a show that I was listing to mention a book called, The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR. This morning I was browsing around the 'net to what I could learn about it and what I found is interesting to say the least. I figured this crowd may enjoy it as well. I plan on ordering the book.

 

 

The Real Plot to Overthrow FDR's America

by Steven D

Sun Feb 27, 2005 at 08:29:36 AM PST

[Preliminary Note: Some of you may wonder about the relevance of this diary, but trust me, by the end you'll see how it all ties in with our present day situation.]

 

Time for a trip in the way-back machine to recall a bit of history of which most of us have never heard. Last year, Phillip Roth had a bestseller with his novel, The Plot Against America, a fictionalized alternative history involving a fascist plot to take over the government of the USA and turn it into a fascist state under President Charles Lindbergh. But how many of you know of the real plot to overthrow FDR during the early years of his administration, a plot conceived by rich industrialists and bankers concerned that Roosevelt was about to conduct a massive redistribution of wealth?

 

It's a sordid tale of fascist intrigue by some of America's most famous corporate and political families (including members of FDR's own party) which was deliberately covered up by both the only Congressional Committee to investigate the plot, and also by the leading media outlets of the day including the New York Times. And the truly scary part is that the plot might very well have succeeded if not for the bravery of a single, progressive leader: Marine General, Smedley Butler.

 

The life of Smedley Butler is an uniquely American story. A decorated soldier (he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor twice) and warrior who ascended through the ranks to become one of the most admired soldiers of his era, he also grew to deeply despise war, and to distrust the reasons he had been sent to fight in distant places. As he stated himself in a speech he gave on August 21, 1931 to an American Legion convention in New Britain, Connecticut.

 

They chose MacGuire as the point man to approach Butler with their proposal. The plot would be funded by Dupont and Morgan money funneled through an organization they had recently created to oppose Roosevelt, the American Liberty League. (The League was funded by donations from US Steel, General Motors, Chase Manhattan Bank, Standard Oil, Goodyear and the Dupont family, among others. Not surprisingly, the League would later actively oppose almost every major piece of New Deal legislation, including, but not limited too Social Security).

 

Butler was supposed to be the "famous name" who would recruit an army of out of work war veterans to march on Washington. It was thought that his popularity with the troops would make it easy for him to rally them to the cause of supplanting Roosevelt as the effective head of government..................

Daily Kos

....and who was in the middle of this treasonous act?

 

A BBC Radio 4 investigation sheds new light on a major subject that has received little historical attention, the conspiracy on behalf of a group of influential powerbrokers, led by Prescott Bush, to overthrow FDR and implement a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. based around the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler.

 

In 1933, Marine Corps Maj.-Gen. Smedley Butler was approached by a wealthy and secretive group of industrialists and bankers, including Prescott Bush the current President's grandfather, who asked him to command a 500,000 strong rogue army of veterans that would help stage a coup to topple then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

 

According to the BBC, the plotters intended to impose a fascist takeover and "Adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression."

_BBC_

[fishnmagician]

this resulted in the committee for UnAmerican Activities or whatever it's called.

 

today we see it as a commie hunting endeavor,

but it's roots are with treasonous fascist American Corporatists.

 

the story is something they do NOT teach in Public schools.

[Little]

daily kos

[Plug and teaser]

FDR himself in many ways was the closest thing this country has seen to a Fascist leader.

 

Google National Recovery Administration, and read about his attempts to form a collaboration between industry and government to control the country.

 

Read about his attempts to stack the Supreme court.

 

FDR's policy's kept the country mired in Depression until WW11 bailed him out.

He was the most dangerous president we've had to date. You can approve of some of the policy's that are left over from those times, but he had little regard for the law or liberty.

 

Even if the worst case with Obama comes true, there is know way he will come close to the takeover of the economy that FDR tried to implement.

[fishnmagician]

so the attempted coup was a group of Patriots?

[Wraith]

You were goin' good up until, "According to the BBC". That there was the 'deal breaker'.......