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jakem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:21 PM
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So long as Bush is bringing up talking with Nazis... a little history.
The Business Plot

The Plan: In 1933, group of wealthy businessmen that allegedly included the heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family and Senator Prescott Bush tried to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the United States. And yes, we're talking about the same Prescott Bush who fathered one US President and grandfathered another one.

How did that work out?: A good rule of thumb: never trust a man named Smedley to run your hostile military coup for you. Besides being no fan of fascism, Smedley Butler was both a patriot and a vocal FDR supporter. Apparently none of these criminal masterminds noticed that their prospective point man had actively stumped for FDR in 1932.

Smedley spilled the beans to a congressional committee in 1934. Everyone he accused of being a conspirator vehemently denied it, and none of them were brought up on criminal charges. Still, the House McCormack-Dickstein Committee did at least acknowledge the existence of the conspiracy, which ended up never getting past the initial planning stages.

Though many of the people who had allegedly backed the Business Plot also maintained financial ties with Nazi Germany up through America's entry into World War II.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15974_7-insane-conspiracies-that-actually-happened.html


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thanks again, Bush family!
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:25 PM
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1. Ahhh Yes. Bush Forgot How His Family Made It's Legacy
interesting isn't it?
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:30 PM
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2. a family of traitors to the US, Nazi collaborators, and arms dealers to Iranian terrorists
the Bushes

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jakem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:32 PM
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3. Interesting history here if interested-
Edited on Thu May-15-08 01:39 PM by jakem
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:41 PM
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4. The Bush Family still names their children after Prescott Bush. They must be proud. n/t
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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:44 PM
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5. And as Bush will insist - you are either for them, or you are against them! n/t
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:46 PM
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6. K&R -- I don't know how
George HW Bush and then W, escaped this being BIG NEWS. Even Prescott went on to lead a charmed life.
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jakem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:49 PM
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7. It is not like this info isn't out there. Shit, if 10% is true, they should be run out of town.

We are as a whole, complacent fucking sheep. Thats how.
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AzDar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:50 PM
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8. People in glass houses, Bushie......
:mad:
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jakem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 02:01 PM
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9. This is really interesting stuff-
Edited on Thu May-15-08 02:01 PM by jakem
Check out the Bio of Smedley Butler:

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


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"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."[
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