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Prescott Bush & Smedley Butler

Plot to overthrow the US government
The “Business Plot” a self-described fascist conspiracy to overthrow FDR. Fascism did not yet have the bad reputation it does now. Many people saw it as a viable alternative to Capitalism with its wild swings between bust and boom. Roosevelt’s policies helped slow the swings to a more manageable level.
Conservative businessmen are horrified by FDR economic policies. "This is despotism, this is tyranny, this is the annihilation of liberty," one senator [Republican Senator Henry D. Hatfield] wrote to a colleague. "The ordinary American is thus reduced to the status of a robot. The president has not merely signed the death warrant of capitalism, but has ordained the mutilation of the Constitution, unless the friends of liberty, regardless of party, band themselves together to regain their lost freedom."

When The Bankers Plotted To Overthrow FDR

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Prescott Bush & German Nazi Party

The Bush Family Dynasty and Prescott Bush’s Love Affair with Fascism
I was involved in pro-peace, anti-war, anti-US Imperialism efforts during the most hideous years of the Reagan/Bush administrations (from 1980–1992) that resulted in the deaths and sufferings of millions of innocent people in virtually every South and Central American nation you can think of.

As I remember the many innocent – often “disappeared” - war-refugees who suffered, starved and died at the hands of my war-profiteering national leaders, I am unable to shed any tears for the guilty ones, even if they are now dead or dying, for they were war-mongers that never apologized for their misdeeds. They were members beholden to Wall Street and War Street whose intentions made them responsible for brutal massacres, assassinations, torturing, mass killings, starvation and the impoverishment of millions of innocents that wanted to live in peace in their homeland that had been targeted for exploitation by my once-beloved homeland.

When our past history of US-inflicted economic and military cruelty is forgotten (or never learned in the first place, as is the case of our current president), our people and politicians can’t make the connections between 1) America’s Wall Street and War Street exploitation of the rest of the world and 2) the current global crises of Big Business-induced global warming, Wall Street-induced economic disparities/oppression/refugees and War Street’s perpetual wars that have been going all over the planet since the Reagan/Bush administrations went into deep debt by lavishing trillions of dollars on America’s military, nuclear weapons and its conventional arsenals.

I know that many of my readers also grew tired of the endless accolades for ex-president George Herbert Walker Bush (US President # 41) who died Novermber 30, 2018 at 94. Having to endure listening to the repetitive accounts of the small handful of good and decent things that he was given credit for made me turn off the radio and TV for that week. One such accolade that was particularly undeserved was his signing – not authoring or proposing or even politicking for - the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. There are many points that need to be made when powerful US leaders die, especially presidents. But the accolades need to be balanced with what are often unwelcome truths. And, in my opinion, that balance needs to be applied particularly to those leaders that have been legitimately accused of being guilty of crimes against the peace, international war crimes or war-profiteering.
Therefore, presidents and other national leaders that have been war-mongers, serial liars, sociopaths, narcissists, megalomaniacs, greed-heads or simply traitors to democratic ideals are particularly deserving of scorn – not accolades - even if they are recently deceased. I recall cringing as I listened to the endless accolades given to pro-war presidents like Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan in the lead-up to their funerals. And I know that I will have to think twice before I mourn the inevitable deaths of our living but unrepentant, war-mongering presidents and their advisors (everyone since Carter?). If I had been aware years ago, I also wouldn’t have mourned the deaths of the many evil-doers that were behind the fascist “Business Plot” to overthrow Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1934 (see details in the two articles at the end of this piece).
One of the “Business Plot” coup-plotters was banker Prescott Bush, the father of George H W Bush and grandfather of George W Bush. None of Prescott Bush’s progeny have been willing to talk about Prescott’s traitorous deeds. At the time of the plot, Prescott Bush was deeply involved in the business of the Hamburg-America Lines (co-owned by industrialists from both pro-Hitler Germany and pro-Hitler America). Bush was also involved in the ascendance of Adolf Hitler to his becoming dictator in 1933. Prescott Bush was slated to be the liaison between the coup-plotting group and Hitler’s new regime. The defeat of the Democrat FDR in his runs for re-election were important goals. The attempt to defeat FDR in the 1940 re-election campaign was actually heavily-funded by Nazi Germany. (A reminder of the alleged Russian involvement in defeating Hillary Clinton.) Prescott Bush became an FDR-hating Republican US Senator from Connecticut who must have been privately ambivalent about going to war against his old allies in Germany. Another irony is that Prescott’s son George H W Bush became a World War II war hero – albeit in the Pacific war against Japan. For much more on Prescott Bush’s deep involvement with the Third Reich, including Nazi Germany’s efforts to defeat FDR in his re-election campaign in 1940, go to http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-475-pryor-offenses/ For a good source of information on the Bush family, including the “Business Plot” against FDR, read Russ Baker’s book:
The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America Some of the Unmentionables in George H W Bush’s Legacy.
I’m certain that many of us aware of the many omissions concerning the legacy of George H W Bush. I list some of them below:

1. Bush 41’s veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1990;
2. His nefarious actions while he was CIA chief in Gerald Ford’s administration;
3. His role in the US support of the uncountable South and Central American dictatorships during the Reagan administration;
4. The illegal invasion of Panama (Operation Just Cause!);
5. Starting the un-provoked Persian Gulf War;
6. His Christmas Eve pardoning of former defense secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, Elliot Abrams and four other government officials that were involved in the Iran-Contra affair;
7. His complicity in the thousands of corpses that rotted on the Highway of Death in Iraq in 1991;
8. His playing the “race card” in the use of Willie Horton in the Dukakis campaign;
9. Bush 41 and the CIA’s role in the Contra War-era’s flooding of the US with crack cocaine that facilitated the epidemic that has persisted to this day;
10. His appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court;
11. The intentional targeting of the air-raid shelter in Baghdad that killed over 400 Iraqi civilians;
12. A host of other items. Just google Bush plus: a) Operation Black Eagle; b) Oliver North; c) El Salvador; d) Nicaragua; e) Honduras; f) Felix Rodriguez; g) etc, etc, Oh, and there was also no mention of
13. His admitted groping of at least 8 young women – acts that brought down in disgrace many of his contemporaries.

(NOTE: The Iran-Contra affair, referred to above, was an illegal action that Bush was involved in when he was VP under Reagan. It was likewise never mentioned by any mainstream media outlet that I heard that week. Because of US congressional laws prohibiting the continued use of US taxpayer dollars to fund the right-wing Contra “rebels” that were fighting against various left-leaning nations in Central America, the Reagan/Bush administration secretly and illegally raised the money to keep the Contra’s terrorist operations going by selling missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of American hostages. They then used the illicit money from those weapons sales to illegally fund the Contras in Nicaragua, Honduras and surrounding areas, an action which was forbidden by Congress. Oliver North was one of the point men in the illegal operation.)
In the 101st Congress (during the first 2 years of Bush 41’s presidency), Democrats had sizable majorities of 55/45 in the Senate and 251/183 in the House of Representatives. It was during that time that the Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill occurred. The Big Oilman Bush surely collaborated in the mishandling, the cover-up and the failure to punish Exxon justly. The capture, imprisonment (in a US prison!) and silencing of one of Bush 41’s many military dictator buddies, Panama’s Manuel Noriega. Military strongman Noriega was a CIA intelligence asset and paid informant during the time when Bush 41 was CIA Director (1976 - 1977), which was just one more motivating factor in the deceptively labeled “Operation Just Cause”.
Another major motivation for the Panama invasion – during which uncounted numbers of innocent Panamanian civilians were killed by the US troops - was the fact that both Wall Street and War Street had been upset with President Jimmy Carter’s 1977 treaty with Panama. That treaty promised to gradually relinquish US control over the Canal Zone and gradually eliminate US military bases by the year 2000. The Bush invasion ultimately didn’t reverse the treaty as probably intended, and all US military installations were eventually handed over to Panama in late 1999 – much to the dissatisfaction of powerful economic and military elites. Operation Just Cause was not authorized by the Democratic Party-controlled Congress. But there was a lot of progressive legislation that came to Bush’s Oval Office desk for his signature during his term, and he had little choice but to sign most of it.
(See a partial list of the legislation at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101st_United_States_Congress).

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'Belief' in UFO's

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Emperor of Icecream by Wallace Stevens, 1954

Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Stop pretending your too dumb to know your full of shit.