The Capitol rioters have joined a small but notorious cadre in the annals of history: a duo that since the end of World War II has attempted to stage coups against the United States of America, a university tracking project finds.
Really reaching with this one. Late 1940s? 11 people? ok.
Yeah, I think their wires got crossed. Smedley Butler was the man who revealed the plot after the Fascist conspirators attempted to recruit him. He's also the author of War is a Racket.
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. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
Yeah, I think their wires got crossed. Smedley Butler was the man who revealed the plot after the Fascist conspirators attempted to recruit him. He's also the author of War is a Racket.
That shit is what radicalized me
shit was fundamental to me. can only imagine the blowback someone in his position got for telling truth like that.