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To: TobagoJack who wrote (27113)12/30/2007 11:59:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 217771
 
Interesting. I didn't know this, if it's true. Will ask Google later: <Alarmed by Roosevelt's plan to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, a group of millionaire businessmen, led by the Du Pont and J.P. Morgan empires, plans to overthrow Roosevelt with a military coup and install a fascist government modelled after Mussolini's regime in Italy. The businessmen try to recruit General Smedley Butler, promising him an army of 500,000, unlimited financial backing and generous media spin control. The plot is foiled when Butler reports it to Congress. >

It can't be so.

Mqurice



To: TobagoJack who wrote (27113)12/31/2007 12:18:59 AM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217771
 
That timeline left out an important detail...

FDR, Thief of America's Gold
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To: TobagoJack who wrote (27113)12/31/2007 10:09:12 PM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217771
 
Thinkable then. Unthinkable now. Masses only raise when they've got nothing left to lose. Do not forget the role communications play on how masses behave and are manouevered.

Today? The masses are easily fed and comfortable and communication is so widespread that such coup in many countries is totally unthinkable.