The Whitehouse Coup

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Why So Much Feels So Familiar to Anyone Who's Read the History of Europe during the 1930's

Monday 23 July 2007

Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell House & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.

Follow up in the UK.

To those so firmly and dogmatically on the Right who constantly accuse those on the Left of being Stalinist, Marxist, Leninist, commie, pinko, socialist bastards ... it would do well to keep in mind that the analog of those unkind labels on the Right would be Fascist and Hitlerian. Be careful of the company you keep! Communism is what happens when government runs the corporations. Fascism is what happens when the corporations run government. Neither has worked especially well.

Here's a little more about the coup attempt ... for those who think it can't happen here.