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There is an organization that wishes to do this all over the world.

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What does it mean?

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It means there's a cabal in this country tied to another in Germany who supports these clinics.

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Who want to rule the world.

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Rule the world.

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Exactly correct.

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Who's in the cabal?

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Maybe who is the wrong question to ask.

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Instead ask why.

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The друг.

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The church.

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The group.

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The church.

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Is it?

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Well.

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Do.

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Is.

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ول.

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ồihh.

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The last few years of the American political scene have seen a fierce debate over the influence

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of corporations, debt currency, and insurrection.

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I'm going to put it out there.

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I'm probably going to go to jail for it.

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Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol.

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Into the Capitol.

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What?

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No!

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Peace, boys!

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Zen! Zen! Zen! Zen! Zen! Zen! Zen! Zen!

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But in the 1930s, America was in a similar state of political ferment and economic distress.

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During the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the 1932 election and

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conducted a series of controversial reforms to try and alleviate the crushing, unemployed

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unemployment and poverty that had swept the nation. But his reforms were not popular with

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everyone. Many fringe groups made the president a hate figure, including the Ku Klux Klan.

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America's elite decided that Roosevelt, a former member of their old boys' club,

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was messing with their wealth a little too much and had to be removed. Thus, they decided to

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emulate Europe's totalitarian dictators and seize the state through a proxy general.

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Roosevelt had messed with their gold and their banks. Now they were going to mess with his

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presidency. America's elitist class looked across the sea towards Europe for ideas on how to fight

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Roosevelt, who had empowered unions to their detriment and was now confiscating their hard

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money. So they looked to two regimes that had eradicated organized labor, Benito Mussolini's

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Italy and Adolf Hitler's Germany.

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No nation can appease the Nazis. No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There

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can appease the Nazis. No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement

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with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

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Hitler and Mussolini had been incredibly successful at union busting, placing Italian and German

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corporations in the driver's seat with state sponsorship. These corporations wielded enormous

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power with their respective governments, often with financial partnerships with America's corporate

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elite. Fascist Europe's biggest financial supporters were Henry Ford, Prescott Bush, President George W.

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Bush's grandfather, the DuPont family, and John D. Rockefeller, who for business and eugenics interests

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supported these regimes. When the countries of the Western world were plunged into the economic depression

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of the 1930s, out of which only another war could lift them, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said,

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60 families in America control the wealth of the nation. One third of the nation's population is ill-housed,

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ill-fed, and ill-clad. 20% of the men working on WPA projects are in such an advanced state of malnutrition

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that they cannot do a day's work. I intend to drive the money changers from the temple.

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Roosevelt knew that unless he could drive the international bankers out of the modern temple of international finance,

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only a full-scale world war could relieve the chronic financial condition they had brought about on an international scale,

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by withdrawing currency, restricting credits, and other financial manipulations.

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They grew richer, while everyone outside their circle grew steadily poorer.

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The only fly in the ointment on my trip has been that I have put on about 10 pounds.

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What do you want?

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He's finished talking?

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No, he hasn't finished talking.

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So that means that among the other duties I shall have to perform when I get north,

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is taking these 10 pounds off.

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Money back.

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Mr. Roosevelt concluded his pleasant and formal speech of only 162 words at 9.35.

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At this moment, a man from a local florist stepped up to show Mr. Roosevelt a large telegram bearing the words of welcome.

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At 9.37, Mayor Cermak of Chicago stepped down from the bandstand to pay his respects to the president-elect,

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who greeted him warmly.

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And at this moment, Giuseppe Zangaro got the chance he had been waiting for all his miserable years.

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Oh, John.

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Too many are starving!

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Elliot Ness, in silent, unbelieving horror, tried to make himself realize what had happened.

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The man he had saved, not five minutes ago, from death, had been struck down without planning or purpose.

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The victim of a wayward bullet that had been intended for another man.

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The secret service agents rushed the president-elect out of the place,

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but in spite of their frantic objections,

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Roosevelt ordered the car stopped and had Cermak placed on the seat beside him.

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Before he lapsed into unconsciousness,

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the mortally wounded Cermak looked in the face of the man who had held him cradled in his arms,

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and spoke seven words.

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What did Cermak say?

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You heard what he said.

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What did he say to Mr. Roosevelt?

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He said,

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I'm glad it was me,

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not you.

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On February 15th, 1933,

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President-elect Franklin Roosevelt was at a political rally in Miami's Bayfront Park,

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17 days before his inauguration.

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In attendance was Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.

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FDR spoke for about two minutes from the rear seat of an open car to a crowd of roughly 10,000 supporters.

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As soon as the speech was over,

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dignitaries in the crowd, including Cermak, closed in on FDR and surrounded the car.

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Also in the crowd that day was 33-year-old Italian immigrant Giuseppe Zangara.

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But the large crowd made it impossible for Zangara to get closer than 25 feet from his intended target.

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Short in stature,

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Zangara was forced to stand on a chair to get a clear view of the president-elect.

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After he fired the first shot, a woman standing close grabbed Zangara's arm.

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It caused him to shoot wildly, but he managed to get off four more shots, hitting Mayor Cermak in the chest and wounding for others.

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Cermak would later die in the hospital of complications from his wound.

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Amazingly, Zangara's intended target, Franklin Roosevelt, survived unscathed.

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That the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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Zangara maintained to the end that FDR was his intended target, and he had acted alone, but there were various reports of a Zangara relationship to the mob that wanted to kill FDR.

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There was also speculation that Cermak was the intended target.

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The good Mayor had taken on the mob in Chicago, and there was talk his shooting was done in retaliation.

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Unfortunately, local authorities never had time to investigate properly because justice was extremely quick for Zangara, who seemed determined to die for his deed as he was in chronic pain due to a stomach illness.

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The ailment caused him so much suffering that Zangara in effect committed a very public suicide.

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He was tried, found guilty, and was sentenced to death in Florida's old sparky electric chair, a sentence that was carried out a mere two weeks later on March 20th.

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The deep state learned that it was best to frame a patsy for the entire plot and quickly dispose of said patsy, which foreshadows what we see in the JFK assassination.

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The President-elect finishes his impromptu talk and prepares to drive on to the railway station when...

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The startled onlookers suddenly realize what has happened.

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Pandemonium reigns.

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And the crowd, led by American Legionnaires in their glistening helmets, counts assassin Zangara.

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They've got him.

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The Secret Service man load him on the rear of the car and hustle him away to jail.

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Why do you kill, Mr. Roosevelt? What for, in your mind?

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I told you before.

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I have all time on the mind of the capitalist killing me.

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I suffer from this pain in the stomach for the capitalist.

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So no reason for the capitalist, I know I have this sickness in my stomach.

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He make you work.

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He make me work.

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Joe, you get a chance tonight.

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You shoot the President?

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Tonight?

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I can't shoot no more.

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If you give me a chance.

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If you give me a chance, I shoot again.

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You don't like him for President?

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That's all.

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As a man, he's all right.

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As a man, he's all right.

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As a man, he's all right.

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As a man, he's all right.

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But the President is all right.

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Yeah, well, that's Smedley Butler, right?

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That's Smedley Butler, yeah.

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War is a racket.

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That's really the extent of his argument, or his article, rather, is when he wrote that,

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he thought, when he first enlisted into the Army, and by the way, I believe that's 33,

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what year was that?

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Smedley Butler, War is a Racket, I want to say it's 19, it's in the 1930s.

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And he wrote this 35, eerily accurate account of what we're dealing with today, when it comes

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to why we really take military action on certain countries.

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And they really, in his case back then, he was talking about protecting bankers and

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all right.

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Oh, here it goes, perfect.

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War is a racket, it always has been.

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It's possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

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It is the only one international in scope.

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It is the only one in which profits are reckoned in dollars and losses in lives.

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A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority

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of the people.

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Only a small inside group knows what it's about.

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It's conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many.

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Out of war, a few people make huge fortunes.

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He said, I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, save for American oil interest in 1914.

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I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues

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in.

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I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall

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Street.

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The record of racketeering is long.

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I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1909 to 1912.

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Where have I heard?

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Where have I heard that name before?

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I bought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar business interest rather in

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1916.

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In China, I helped see to it that standard oil went its way unmolested.

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I mean, this is, he was writing about this in the 1930s.

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We are.

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In 1934, a colossal claim reached the American news media.

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A conspiracy of a plot to overthrow the government was uncovered in which right-wing elements of

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big business, namely the DuPont family and the Morgan banking interests, planned to finance

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and arm a veteran's army to march on the White House and hold President Franklin D. Roosevelt captive

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in favour of a fascist government.

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Supposedly in the works since 1933, the claims of the conspiracy came from a very conspicuous

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and reliable source.

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Major General Smedley Butler, one of the most decorated war heroes of his time.

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Even more unbelievable were his claims of who was involved in the plot.

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While news media at the time mocked Butler's story, recently discovered archives have revealed

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the truth behind Major General Butler's claims.

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General Butler was a true American patriot, a double medal of honour recipient, a pacifist

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and vehement opponent of America's deep state elite.

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Best described as a constitutionalist firmly dedicated to the Bill of Rights, the American

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corporate foreign ventures thoroughly disturbed the General.

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His philosophy was simple.

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War is a racket, it always has been.

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Poor men fight, rich men profit.

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According to the secret plan, Butler was told he would be the ideal leader of these veterans,

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promising him an army of 500,000 men and financial backing from an assortment of rich businessmen,

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so long as he would be willing to lead a peaceful march on the White House to displace Roosevelt.

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Astonished by the plans, Butler knew he would need to stop the intended coup,

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so went along with the plan to get as much information as possible before bringing what he had to the authorities.

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You see the man downstairs when you came in?

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Every couple of weeks he comes and he brings, did you see a bag?

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A bag of money he offers to me.

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Money for what?

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To give a speech.

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He won't tell me who's behind him, I ask him.

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And say, who's this from? And he doesn't give me an answer.

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They're paying you to be their mouthpiece.

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That's right, exactly.

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And they know the veterans will follow.

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Like a committee of the five.

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Well, somebody's trying to do something dark and treacherous.

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Come here.

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Ask him if they'll speak to the gala.

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Push him further.

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Like Henry said.

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Sir, um, if these guys are meeting you and you want to find out who's behind it all,

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why not go further and lead them to our reunion gala?

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Whatever event they might show themselves in some fashion.

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McGuire, can you tell me, why do you come every month?

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Well, General, I can't speak about it in front of other people.

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Well, why not?

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I mean, you say there's nothing to hide and it's in the name of a good cause.

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Well, yes sir, but not everyone understands it.

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What I don't understand is who or what you represent.

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Can you tell me?

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I'm not at liberty to say who I represent, sir, but they are very important people

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and they have a very important organization that's going to change everything for the better.

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The purpose, as I've told you, sir, is to lead this nation properly in this time of economic crisis.

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There's a cripple in the White House.

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Roosevelt is weak.

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We'd like you to speak on behalf of the veterans and new leadership.

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Well, that's what elections are for, McGuire.

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Don't you believe in the Constitution?

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Of course, but we feel that action is urgently needed now.

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From a retired general before the election?

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Do you want me to be your dictator?

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Is that what your big sponsors want?

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A dictator? No, it doesn't have to be said like that.

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Okay, Chancellor. Does that make it better?

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It still violates the Constitution.

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They did this with veterans in Germany and Italy.

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Very successful.

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18,000, sir.

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From the Committee of the Five. Committee for a sound dollar.

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For who?

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Committee of the Five?

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Committee for a sound dollar.

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The nation needs your leadership.

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Do you see where I'm going, sir?

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Mr. McGuire, I've changed my mind. I've decided I will do the speech.

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This is very exciting.

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I'll choose the event. I'm most comfortable speaking with the veterans Bill Meekins knew from the regiment he created.

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I'll speak at their reunion.

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Of course, but...

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Because I want to see the men who put the money in that bag.

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And I want to look them in the eye and I want to shake their hand.

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Given that we're partners now, I can guarantee that you will meet the distinguished gentleman on the committee for a sound dollar.

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They'll be there to meet you personally, although we might need to be in a private room.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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This is wonderful.

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This is the speech.

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Mr. McGuire, take that bag.

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Yes, sir.

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So you still won't tell me who they are.

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Is that true?

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At the event, sir.

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I believe you wanted to meet.

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Is that right?

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Yes.

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Yes, I would like to meet.

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I've learned that I spent my whole life avoiding these people.

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I feel the exact same way, General.

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These might be some of the better ones worth giving a chance.

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General Dillenbeck, this is Mr. Nevins, Nevins Telecommunications, Mr. Bellport, Bellport Chemicals, Mr. Jeffers at Jeffers News Chain.

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I wanted to have Mr. Tomlinson, legendary auto inventor, but he couldn't be here tonight. He has a fantastic operation in Munich.

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Gil. May I call you Gil?

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No. You can call me General.

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He prefers General.

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Gil. I understand. We understand.

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He prefers to be called General.

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How's it going Gil? I'm Andrew Nevins.

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You can call me Andy.

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No, I'll call you Andy. You call me General.

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What is that?

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This is one of the finest innovations from Zurich.

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It removes all pain, all anxiety.

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All needless thoughts that occupy the mind.

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My back is killing me.

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Normally, guys like me, we have to turn to booze, the morphine, and that can lead to addiction.

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Oh, that's fast.

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That is advanced.

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That is tremendous energy.

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I feel no pain.

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It's good, isn't it?

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That is good.

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And there's more where this came from, Bert.

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I want to know more about this.

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I would love to have the chemical compound.

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When I get together with my sisters at the Brill Society, we hold a seance where we let our hair down,

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and it acts as a kind of antenna that allows us to communicate with the greater race.

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Honestly, they come from a different galaxy.

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It's truly fascinating.

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I fought in five wars on three continents.

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People shot at me my whole life.

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My whole life.

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I know fear.

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And I know facing fear.

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But the one thing I truly detest, the one thing I truly, truly detest, is cruelty.

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I've been offered money to become the self-appointed leader of the veterans, veterans like you,

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to be put in the White House, without an election, as some sort of advisor by popular demand, of you.

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These same people want me to emulate a certain European leader named Mussolini.

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They think he's the type of leader that this country needs.

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The type of leader who ran over a child and never stopped his car.

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The type of leader whose excuse was, what's one person in the affairs of the state.

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General Bill Meekins was in that car.

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General Bill Meekins was in that car.

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He was a friend of mine.

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He was a good person.

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But when he told that story, when he intended to tell it again here on this stage, he became

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another person whose life was worth nothing in the affairs of the state.

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He was murdered.

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Yes, he was murdered and dishonored.

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As I might be murdered or dishonored for telling that story here tonight.

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What kind of country does this become when that happens?

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I became a Marine to serve the Constitution which intends for us all to be equal in the brotherhood

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of mankind.

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But what good is it when powerful people make exceptions for the people who stand in their

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way?

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Some people of influence and power like it when regular folks are fired up by hatred because

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it distracts us from the fairness and kindness.

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They don't want us to think about too much just so they can get more and more of what they

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already have, which is vast wealth.

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This is your country.

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This is your country.

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Don't let the big men take it away from you.

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I appeared before the Congressional Committee, the highest representation of the American people

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under subpoena to tell what I knew of activities which I believe might lead to an attempt to set

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up a fascist dictatorship.

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The plan as outlined to me was to form an organization of veterans to use as a bluff or as a club at least

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to intimidate the government and break down our democratic institutions.

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The upshot of the whole thing was that I was supposed to lead an organization of 500,000 men

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which would be able to take over the functions of government.

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My main interest in all this is to preserve our democratic institutions.

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I want to retain the right to vote, the right to speak freely, and the right to write.

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If we maintain these basic principles, our democracy is safe.

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No dictatorship can exist with suffrage, freedom of speech and press.

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Butler was an honorable man, and he leaked the information concerning the plot to Roosevelt.

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Roosevelt knew he could not simply dismiss it when it was connected with several leading industrialists and bankers.

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So, to foil the plot, Roosevelt leaked information about it to the press.

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The resulting commotion on the front pages of the country's newspapers undermined any efforts by the plotters to proceed.

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Butler appeared before the McCormick Dickstein Congressional Committee, also known as the Special Committee on Un-American Activities,

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to reveal what he knew about the plot to seize the presidency in November 1934.

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Not one single alleged conspirator was called to testify let alone be arrested, tried or imprisoned.

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This would not have been possible without the complicity of the media which went into full cover-up mode.

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But a few names have leaked out.

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And one is Prescott Bush, who had tight relations throughout this period with the new government that had come to power in Germany a year earlier under Chancellor Adolf Hitler.

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Prescott Bush of course went on to serve as a United States Senator from Connecticut.

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And his son, George Herbert Walker Bush, emerged from World War II as a hero.

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Soon, President Roosevelt was docile as he found he couldn't break or even curb the power of the bankster cabal.

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On the 12th of April 1945, after he had grown haggard and grey doing the bidding of the men whose money and influence had placed him in the office of President of the United States.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt collapsed and died of a cerebral hemorrhage while sitting for a portrait.

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Vice President Harry Truman took the oath of office the same day.

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And so a plot to overthrow the United States government vanished into the wind just as quickly as it had came.

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At least for a few decades anyway.

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So completely was it scrubbed from public conscience that most Americans are completely unaware of it today.

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There's no telling how far the plot to overthrow the President may have gone without Butler's intervention.

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But one thing is certain.

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Its failure was the work of one patriotic major general and his lifelong love of freedom.

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Its failure was the end ofMr.

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ocupation Station in the cylinder Н.

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World War II

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The Business Plot or the White House Coup gives a fascinating insight into a dark and

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little-known piece of American history, in which the nation stood on the brink of betrayal.

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One thing is for sure, the role of the most powerful political dynastic family in the nation's

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history, the Bushes, in this whole affair is extremely shocking.