For those who call Bush was a Nazi…it’s not really far from the truth.
This is a brilliant video with audio from BBC Radio 4.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml
Intro here by Harpers Magazine
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000651
Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen
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.Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy
Video posted to by MikeNobodyIsHere




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grudger // Jan 31, 2008 at 10:57 am
And to think that we let the Grandson succeed. *sigh*