TOWN MEETING (Selecting Our Leaders)

[SamIam]

Fred,

I received this via email today!
TAlk about timing!

It's an incredible 1974 book, re-released earlier this year (2007), about the
conspiracy of US financial barons to stage a military coup to overthrow FDR in
1934. The connections to current corporate ambitions make it very pertinent to
US politics today. And it's a very good read, very detailed and well researched
by historian Archer.

Tristram Lozaw
Boston MA

BuzzFlash has covered this plot through
a recent long BBC piece that detailed
it, through the book
"War is a Racket"

by the military hero who
disclosed the coup plans, Smedley Butler,

and through
other articles posted on BuzzFlash. This is not some conspiracy theory; it is a
true story. (And Prescott Bush was, apparently, a co-conspirator. Figures.)

From the publisher:

"Most people will be shocked to learn that in 1933 a cabal of wealthy
industrialists?in league with groups like the K.K.K. and the American Liberty
League?planned to overthrow the U.S. government in a fascist coup. Their plan
was to turn discontented veterans into American ?brown shirts,? depose F.D.R.,
and stop the New Deal. They clandestinely asked Medal of Honor recipient and
Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler to become the first American
Caesar. He, though, was a true patriot and revealed the plot to journalists and
to Congress. In a time when a sitting President has invoked national security to
circumvent constitutional checks and balances, this episode puts the spotlight
on attacks upon our democracy and the individual courage needed to repel them."

Read the Complete Review >>>
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/750

Other Reviews

"The long forgotten story of what would have been America's serious armed
insurrection since the Revolution."

-- Boston Sunday Herald

"General Butler's story was . . . alarmingly true."

-?Time magazine

"James E. Van Zandt, a Republican congressman, corroborated Butler's story."

-- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

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http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/750

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