“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period 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. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.”



“During those years, I had as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best that he could do was operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

War Is A Racket

War Is A Racket

WAR is a racket. It always has been.



It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.



A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.







How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?



Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few – the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill. And what is this bill?



This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.



For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.

The Business Plot

inaugural speech

Primarily this is because rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and have abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men. True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence....The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

The country was in tatters as a result of the Republican Great Depression and strong leadership was essential to beat back the wolves and imbue the common man with a long forsaken dignity. An argument that I often hear from conservatives is that FDR was a dictator and while he was able to amass great power he unlike the current occupants of the White House used it to help normal Americans, reign in the oligarchs and bring about the end to the economic disaster through the implementing of the New Deal and the WPA as well as regulations that have since been overturned by the treasonous looters who have seized control of the system and whose continuing hatred for Roosevelt drive their every move as they seek to dismantle the social safety net. Gasbag pundit Rush Limbaugh (our modern day Father Couglin) has said “Roosevelt is dead, his programs live on but we are in the process of doing something about that as well” and the neocons along with their fascist packed court system are going to be raping and pillaging the land on behalf of the greed mongers and blood barters for at least a generation barring any sort of intervention by a reinvigorated public or a bought and sold congress.



The business plotters attempted to recruit Butler to lead their march on Washington due to his great popularity with veterans for his speech to the Bonus Army during their 1932 protest. The demonstration was broken up through the domestic use of military forces led by George S. Patton and Douglas MacArthur that was in clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act which should be especially relevant today with the rise of the Bush-Cheney neocon junta. The renegade occupying force in Washington has established a domestic military force with Northcom and tasked it with defending The Homeland in the event of an ‘emergency’ of which the definitions are intentionally vague to facilitate the rogue government when it deems that a declaration of martial law is necessary in order to protect the illegitimate administration that currently has a stranglehold on state power.





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