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Two time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler wrote: "I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."
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In 1933 America's most senior, most decorated Marine, General Smedley Butler, told the House of Representitives that wealthy businessmen tried to recruit him to overthrow President Roosevelt in a coup, and install a fascist government.
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In 1933 America's most decorated Marine, General Smedley Butler, told the House of Representatives that wealthy businessmen tried to recruit him in a coup to overthrow President Roosevelt and install a fascist government.
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Two-time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler recommended in his 1935 book 'War is a Racket' that industries should be conscripted before soldiers to limit war profiteering after his experiences in the Banana Wars and WWI.
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The 1933 coup planned by the wealthy to hire 500k ww1 vets to overthrow the U.S gov. The plan was foiled when their chosen General (smedley Butler.) turned them over to the government. Nobody was charged with any crime.
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Major General Smedley Butler -- Major General US Marine Corps, Antiwar Activist who told the truth as he saw it.
