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To: Smart_Money who wrote (2529)	2/6/2002 2:01:48 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5185

Smart Money, Re: We have been following the JPM for sometime together. Seems all the pieces are coming into the vortex. Here's some thoughts on how JPM was joined at the hip with Enron's crooks: Message 17018228 And in 1934, lawyers for the J.P. Morgan bank attempted to hire General Smedley Butler (USMC-retired) to perpetrate a coup d'etat, removing Franklin Roosevelt from the Presidency. Butler, to his credit, blew the whistle. But the Morgan men got away with the attempt, "too big to fail" even in this tawdry and sleazy effort to thwart democracy. chss.montclair.edu Additionally I have this 1933 Speech by Major General Smedley Butler...former Commandant of the USMC on local file: <Copy> "One Man who spoke his Truth before it was to late". "War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6% over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100%. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism. It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service. I helped make Mexico, 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 benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could 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. <End Copy> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It would be wise for us to keep these words in mind, "war is just a racket", as we think about the "axis of evil". I think a very reasonable case can be made for the argument that the real axis of evil is the White House, the War Department and the Profit-Mad War Contractors. Cordially, Ray