In the early 1930s, some of
America's wealthiest industrialists and bankers plotted to overthrow the
government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and replace it with a
fascist dictatorship. Thanks to one of the greatest whistleblowers of all
time, we know the names of the prominent Wall Street financiers and
politicians (both Democrat and Republican) who organized and backed this
plot. The whistleblower who exposed the fascist plot was a U.S. military
hero named Major-General Smedley Darlington Butler.
For 33 years, Butler -- a two-time recipient of the prestigious U.S. Medal
of Honor -- had fought with the Marines. He helped invade numerous
countries, subdued native revolts, oversaw fraudulent elections and forced
regime changes on nations to bring them in line with U.S. economic
interests. (Sound familiar?) All this, Butler later said, was done in order
to protect America's foreign investments. In 1935, describing himself as a
"racketeer for capitalism," Butler said, "I might have given
Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was operate his racket in three
city districts. We Marines operated on three continents" (Common Sense
magazine, Nov. 1935).
In 1933, the year Hitler took control of Germany, some of Wall Street's top
financiers sent representatives to recruit the recently-retired General
Butler into a fascist coup d'etat to overthrow FDR. Butler played along in
order to find out who was behind the scheme and then, in 1934, he testified
under oath before the MacCormack-Dickstein House Committee that was
examining Nazi propaganda in the United States. Butler named names and
exposed the key fascist plotters. He also identified a high-powered,
business organization, the American Liberty League, as the
"super-organization" behind the plan for an American coup.
Thanks to General Butler, this Wall Street plan to subvert U.S. democracy
was thwarted. However, none of the multi-millionaire behind the plot were
ever questioned by legal authorities, let alone charged or put on trial for
treason. In fact, they continued to work behind the scenes, through the
American Liberty League, to sabotage FDR's "New Deal"
administration.
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