gives
new meaning to the term "corporate
fascism":More on LABOR UNREST (below)
More on NAZI HISTORY
Under Cover -- Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America (1943) (below)
"Forward-March!" a photographic memorial of World War I
The White House Putsch was an
Congressionally-investigated conspiracy of moneyed interests which
tried to overthrow President
Franklin D. Roosevelt during the early years of the Great Depression. The allegations of
the plot came to light when Marine Corps General Smedley
Butler testified to the existence of the
plot before the McCormack-Dickstein
Committee in 1933 [1].
In this testimony, Butler claimed that a group of several men had approached him as part of a plot to overthrow Roosevelt in a fascist military coup using the recently created American Liberty League constructed for the purpose of the coup with the model being the 1930's French fascist Croix de Feu.
In their final report, the Congressional committee supported Butler's allegations on the existence of the plot [2], but no prosecutions or further investigations followed.
In this testimony, Butler claimed that a group of several men had approached him as part of a plot to overthrow Roosevelt in a fascist military coup using the recently created American Liberty League constructed for the purpose of the coup with the model being the 1930's French fascist Croix de Feu.
SO
the American Liberty League
was FASCIST?
They wanted a dictatorship like the Nazis?
What does that say about "labels" and "slogans"?
They wanted a dictatorship like the Nazis?
What does that say about "labels" and "slogans"?
In their final report, the Congressional committee supported Butler's allegations on the existence of the plot [2], but no prosecutions or further investigations followed.
... John W. McCormack and Samuel Dickstein.
It was called the Special Committee on Un-American Activities
Authorized to Investigate Nazi Propaganda and Certain Other Propaganda
Activities. In 1934, it held public and private
hearings in six cities, questioned hundreds of witnesses and collected
testimony filling 4,300 pages. Its mandate was to get
“information on how foreign subversive propaganda entered the U.S. and
the organizations that were spreading it.”
It did not do well in dealing with homegrown U.S. fascists, nor did it consider how Americans helped spread fascism abroad. It did investigate the fascist plot to seize the White House, but was criticized by John Spivak, Smedley Butler and others, for not revealing – let alone questioning – the powerful men behind the plot.
General Smedley D. Butler testified under oath
before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee, the first of the
Un-American Committees, that he
had been offered the leadership of a Fascist coup d'etat in America not
once but forty-two times.
Of these the only important one was that backed by leaders of the American Liberty League, Wall Street bankers and brokers, and the ruling clique of the American Legion.
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In 1932, while many Americans felt it was the way out of the Depression, a powerful group of financiers and industrialists saw the New Deal as a threat. THE PLOT TO OVERTHROW FDR reveals this group's plan to either overthrow the newly-elected president or force their agenda on him. They intended to use a paramilitary organization of disgruntled WWI veterans inspired by Marine General Smedley D. Butler to coerce the government. But Butler, discovering the details of the conspiracy, blew the whistle, triggering a Congressional investigation. Leading scholars, historians and government officials reveal the details of one of the most bizarre schemes in American history.
Of these the only important one was that backed by leaders of the American Liberty League, Wall Street bankers and brokers, and the ruling clique of the American Legion.
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In 1932, while many Americans felt it was the way out of the Depression, a powerful group of financiers and industrialists saw the New Deal as a threat. THE PLOT TO OVERTHROW FDR reveals this group's plan to either overthrow the newly-elected president or force their agenda on him. They intended to use a paramilitary organization of disgruntled WWI veterans inspired by Marine General Smedley D. Butler to coerce the government. But Butler, discovering the details of the conspiracy, blew the whistle, triggering a Congressional investigation. Leading scholars, historians and government officials reveal the details of one of the most bizarre schemes in American history.
America
refused to listen to the few newspaper
correspondents and the still fewer experts, such as Professor Robert
Brady ("The Spirit and Structure of German Fascism"), who before the
Second World War tried to warn the nation that
reaction and Fascism were the real dangers because there was money in
them, and because there was big money back of them.
[Think Warren Commission, 9-11 Commission, Commission investigating Pearl Harbor, Abu Ghraib Army investigation, etc., etc., etc.]
Butler
saves Amerika from Nazi fascism and
even possibly saves FDR's life, and the great Fraudulent Despotic Ruler
fires him for calling Mussolini exactly what he was: "a fascist!"
(true?)
Look at all these American
Supporters of European Fascism
prominent and wealthy American businessmen
helped to support fascist regimes in Europe from the 1920s through the
1940s. These people helped to support Francisco Franco during the
Spanish Civil War of 1936, as well as Benito Mussolini, and Adolph
Hitler.
famous
Americans and companies that were involved with the fascist regimes of
Europe are: William Randolph Hearst,
Joseph Kennedy (JFK's father), Charles Lindbergh,
John Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon (head of Alcoa,
banker, and Secretary of Treasury), DuPont, General Motors,
Standard Oil (now Exxon), Ford,
ITT, Allen Dulles (later head of the CIA), Prescott Bush,
National City Bank, and General Electric. (And of course
Thomas Watson of IBM.)
Standard Oil, DuPont, Alcoa, and Dow
Chemical were crucial in supplying the Nazi regime with the
materials needed for war.
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Fascist
organizing in 1933 was
apparently (no, obviously) a reaction
to labor unrest and
labor demands (hence
the term
"reactionary") and to libertarianism in
general (which
used to be called "liberalism" and was pro-business but also pro-labor
and pro-freedom ... LIBERTY), emerging
over the previous decades during the Rise
of the Industrial Age and the desire for lots of cheap labor. The Industrial
Workers of the World was the first big union
effort in which workers
fought for
rights above slavery and for a decent standard of living.
(AFL, CIO and other labor groups became controlled adjuncts of govt via the corporate-compliant and corporate-run NLRB -- yes, corporate mgmt controlled the top level of the "tamed" labor movement -- most would consider such an arrangement to be a conflict of interest). "The IWW, whose members were and are known commonly as Wobblies, advocated such radical ideas as an eight hour work day and a forty hour work week, fought and sometimes won bitter freedom of speech fights, ..." The industry owners naturally fought back, individually and collectively, using the brute force of hired thugs and brute force of the police, state militia, and Feds, as well as legal maneuvers. In most cases the political power sided with the money, not the workers. In at least one case, Matewan, the sheriff Sid Hatfield who sided with miners was later killed by Baldwin-Phelps "detectives" hired by the feudalistic coal company to force miners to work for scrip. It is more than interesting that the Pinkerton detective firm BECAME the FBI, and a retired FBI agent later formed Wackenhut. Both were labor-busting detective agencies, and the FBI was just an extension of that, with law enforcement powers of the government. Of course, they didn't enforce the Constitution, they violated it. Pro-Corporate Business propaganda costing billions of dollars tried to equate labor movements with anti-Americanism and later totalitarian Communism, in the public mind. Hear Alex Carey's talk at the bottom. Note: At that time, labor was not a domesticated animal controlled by the National Labor Relations Board appointed by the President. It was independent, run by workers not by management. That made it "dangerous and seditious". I'm sure there emerged some IWW members who DID push for an outright Marxist government, but I think in the beginning it was mostly for Constitutional protection for workers against criminal violence by hired thugs and govt agents. This was of course a global struggle, not just American, and it's what the Hitler Project and the Mussolini Project and Franco, etc. were created to fight against. IWW fought to organize workers into worldwide labor solidarity. Naturally the aristocrats in Europe and the capitalist/aristocrats in America fought in the opposite direction, to splinter and/or neutralize radical labor and human rights groups, to deny freedom, and to organize the whole world in their interests. These globalists (global capitalists) count NAFTA as a watershed moment, as this and other new trade laws undermine and virtually eliminate popular governance. Some old school conservatives say the march to centralized "socialistic" control goes back to 1913, the unconstitutional creation of the centralized cartel of private banks called the Federal Reserve System, and 1916 the creation of the Federal Income Tax, sold as a way to get even with the rich robber barons, but actually designed to tilt the playing field towards the richest robber barons. The anti-communist Palmer Raids rounded up tens of thousands of American citizens for having political views the govt didn't like. Conservatives who opposed Woodrow Wilson's war were charged under the Sedition Act. That's quite totalitarian too. But the fascism angle is not just despotism, it is for the systemic militarization of civilian society. Reign of
Terror in Defense of Freedom
Joseph Stromberg remembers the Woodrow Wilson precedent. Buckley, Limbaugh, Trotsky, Bush Jeffrey Tucker on conservatism. Jane Fonda Wrote Your Last Article The Peace ArchiveI'm open to comments and criticism on this viewpoint, but I think it works in a nutshell, and there's much evidence and context to back it up. Alex Carey Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy,
Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty
Are we in
fact with the
terrorists or against them?
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