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Poemer
Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Location: Mullae
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: The Plot Against America |
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Commonly referred to as The Business Plot; a plan was hatched during the great depression by American businessmen and financiers, including the Heinz and Bush families, to employ half a million war vets to overthrow FDR and his "leftist" policies and install a fascist regime. Major General Smedley Butler was popular with troops and the plotters tapped him to gain the trust of disgruntled vets and organize them. Butler went along with the plot in order to expose it, and ultimately revealed the plot to congress in order to defeat it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml
If people are not vigilant in their role as voters and informed citizens, then the rights commensurate with those responsibilities can be lost. The passive acceptance of a corporate driven political agenda is not an option. It isn't the Islamists that REALLY hate your freedom. . .
Here's a link to the article that the thread title comes from.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000651 |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee

Joined: 25 May 2003
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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thers is a good novel with the same name |
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Poemer
Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Location: Mullae
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:21 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I had never heard of the novel before. Apparently the novel is based, at least in part, on the 1933 coup plans. |
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