The Bloodless Coup
A recent BBC documentary addressed a plot to overthrow the U.S. government in 1933. After 12 years of Republican control of the government implementing flawed supply side economic theories, the stock market had crashed and the nation plummeted into the Great Depression. The voters ousted the Republicans and put Democrats in control of every part of government except the Supreme Court. Many Republicans believed the nation was on a path to socialism, so some of them decided they had to change the outcome of the elections. They began planning a revolution. The plotters wanted a Fascist government like those in Italy and Germany, which they believed naively would restore the economy. Fascism, a merger of the state and business interests, seemed to be working in Italy and Germany.
The plotters included wealthy executives of top U.S. corporations including Prescott Bush, the grandfather of the current U.S. President, the DuPont family and executives in GM and several other corporations. Chase Manhattan Bank would manage the funds. The traitors selected a patriotic name for themselves: "American Liberty League." The ALL was ready to assassinate the president, install a strongman as a coexecutive, or recruit and arm hundreds of thousands of WW I veterans. The plotters chose General Smedley Butler to lead the coup since he was popular with the troops. Unlike members of today’s officer corps who are undistinguished, unimaginative, unthinking, jingoistic sychophants, Smedley Butler was a true patriot. He was a Marine major general and willing gunslinger for corporation aggression and plunder in third world countries. He had undergone an epiphony and realized the evil in his role and that of the corporations. Butler exposed the treasonous plot to Congress.
What happened next was very telling about the U.S. system of government, its representatives and its people. The Democrat committees held hearings and whitewashed the whole event claiming they could find no direct link to Fascism. The greatest act of treason in U.S. history, after the Civil War, and Democrats proved to be too skittish and cowardly to do anything about it. The roots of liberty, justice, equality, democracy and ethics still had not taken hold in the U.S.
The greatest irony of the whole incident occurred 67 years later. The retarded and sociopathic grandson of Prescott Bush, his criminally insane sidekick and a group of 40 accomplices, mostly Jewish, executed a bloodless coup. The Congress and American people, still oblivious and clueless about the text and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and the nation’s traditions and principles, failed to recognize that their government had been overthrown and replaced by a deranged man obsessed with killing (he held the record for people killed by a U.S. governor) and a bunch of “crazies” as the Central Intelligence Agency referred to his cohorts. To this day, most U.S. citizens have not figured out what happened.
We can blame the insidious proclivities of the wealthy and powerful. We can blame the naivete of the people. We can blame the corrupt political parties and national institutions. Ultimately, we must lay the blame at the feet of the ignorant and stupid people. Bush’s 40 accomplices, known as the neo-conservatives, claim people are inherently ignorant, and childlike and function at an animal level. Like animals, they must be closely controlled and watched or held on tight leashes. An abundance of pens or prisons are necessary. Otherwise the people will cause chaos and disorder breaking down social order to the detriment of all of society.
Are the neo-cons right?
The plotters included wealthy executives of top U.S. corporations including Prescott Bush, the grandfather of the current U.S. President, the DuPont family and executives in GM and several other corporations. Chase Manhattan Bank would manage the funds. The traitors selected a patriotic name for themselves: "American Liberty League." The ALL was ready to assassinate the president, install a strongman as a coexecutive, or recruit and arm hundreds of thousands of WW I veterans. The plotters chose General Smedley Butler to lead the coup since he was popular with the troops. Unlike members of today’s officer corps who are undistinguished, unimaginative, unthinking, jingoistic sychophants, Smedley Butler was a true patriot. He was a Marine major general and willing gunslinger for corporation aggression and plunder in third world countries. He had undergone an epiphony and realized the evil in his role and that of the corporations. Butler exposed the treasonous plot to Congress.
What happened next was very telling about the U.S. system of government, its representatives and its people. The Democrat committees held hearings and whitewashed the whole event claiming they could find no direct link to Fascism. The greatest act of treason in U.S. history, after the Civil War, and Democrats proved to be too skittish and cowardly to do anything about it. The roots of liberty, justice, equality, democracy and ethics still had not taken hold in the U.S.
The greatest irony of the whole incident occurred 67 years later. The retarded and sociopathic grandson of Prescott Bush, his criminally insane sidekick and a group of 40 accomplices, mostly Jewish, executed a bloodless coup. The Congress and American people, still oblivious and clueless about the text and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and the nation’s traditions and principles, failed to recognize that their government had been overthrown and replaced by a deranged man obsessed with killing (he held the record for people killed by a U.S. governor) and a bunch of “crazies” as the Central Intelligence Agency referred to his cohorts. To this day, most U.S. citizens have not figured out what happened.
We can blame the insidious proclivities of the wealthy and powerful. We can blame the naivete of the people. We can blame the corrupt political parties and national institutions. Ultimately, we must lay the blame at the feet of the ignorant and stupid people. Bush’s 40 accomplices, known as the neo-conservatives, claim people are inherently ignorant, and childlike and function at an animal level. Like animals, they must be closely controlled and watched or held on tight leashes. An abundance of pens or prisons are necessary. Otherwise the people will cause chaos and disorder breaking down social order to the detriment of all of society.
Are the neo-cons right?
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