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War is a racket.

https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html


The famous writings of Smedley Butler, decorated Marine and general who once said he was high class muscle for corporate interests. (He also exposed a business plot to take the white house with 10,000 men, with him approached to lead.)



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Smedley Butler?

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Smedley Butler?




A Republican marine who was anti big business, anti corporation, anti war.


I know, it sounds strange in this day and age.



Here's what he's most famous for:


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot


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The Business Plot was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933 in the United States. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with Butler as its leader and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1934, Butler testified before the United States House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the "McCormack-Dickstein Committee") on these claims.[1] No one was prosecuted.

At the time of the incidents, news media dismissed the plot, with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a "gigantic hoax".[2] While historians have questioned whether or not a coup was actually close to execution, most agree that some sort of "wild scheme" was contemplated and discussed.[3][4][5][6]



Parts in bold for emphesis.


What gets me, is how the news roundly marginalizes this man, as though he were a random crackpot, instead of a highly decorated marine and general.


This is the supposedly liberal New York Times protecting big businesses that were allegedly behind this scheme.


I completely believe this happened, as surely as businessmen plotted a coup in Hawaii, which succeeded and resulted in it becoming a US state. If that is history, then these people are capable of literally anything.


Maybe they even succeeded in their little coup, and reports of failure are part of the misdirection. It's the type of lie no one would question.


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