This isn't the first time the U.S. has been exposed to a coup d'etat

some things simply can't get enough exposure... i posted on this bbc documentary [RealPlayer file] back at the end of july... it links george bush's grandfather, prescott bush, to the attempted coup exposed by general smedley butler in 1933, during the presidency of fdr... we seriously need to keep in mind just what kind of family is running our country...

The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.

scott horton wrote this in harper's at about the same time as the bbc documentary was aired...

A key element of the plot involved a retired prominent general [Smedley Butler] who was to have raised a private army of 500,000 men from unemployed veterans and who blew the whistle when he learned more of what the plot entailed. The plot was heavily funded and well developed and had strong links with fascist forces abroad. A story in the New York Times and several other newspapers reported on it, and a special Congressional committee was created to conduct an investigation. The records of this committee were scrubbed and sealed away in the National Archives, where they have only recently been made available.

The Congressional committee kept the names of many of the participants under wraps and no criminal action was ever brought against them. But a few names have leaked out. And one is Prescott Bush, the grandfather of the incumbent president. Prescott Bush was of course deep into the business of the Hamburg-America Lines, and had tight relations throughout this period with the new Government that had come to power in Germany a year earlier under Chancellor Aldoph Hitler. It appears that Bush was to have formed a key liaison for the group with the new German government.

Prescott Bush, of course, went on to service as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut, and his son, George H.W. Bush emerged from World War II as a hero.

The Plot Against America portrayed in this episode of the BBC series “Document” gives fascinating insight into a dark and little known piece of American history in which the nation stood on the brink of betrayal. The role of the most powerful political dynastic family in the nation’s history in this whole affair is shocking.

it's truly astounding that prescott bush went on to become a u.s. senator AFTER his involvement in the plot... and no less astounding that the records were sealed...

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Prescott Bush and the attempted overthrow of the United States government

i would be doing everyone, including myself, a disservice if i neglected to post on this bbc radio documentary on the infamous - and too-little-known - attempted overthrow of the united states government and president roosevelt in 1933, engineered by, among others, george w. bush's grandfather, senator prescott bush...





it's both interesting and timely that this should come out now, given the increasing cry for impeachment... it's also coincidental because the story of the attempted coup is included in the documentary, the corporation, a film that i used in two of my graduate classes this summer... the segment in the movie, however, did not mention the involvement of prescott bush...

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