WHEN THE BANKERS PLOTTED TO OVERTHROW FDR - 1933:
"It was a dangerous time in America: The economy was staggering, unemployment was rampant and a banking crisis threatened the entire monetary system.
The newly elected president pursued an ambitious legislative program aimed at easing some of the troubles. But he faced vitriolic opposition from both sides of the political spectrum.When Roosevelt finally took office, he embarked on the now-legendary First Hundred Days, an ambitious legislative program aimed at reopening and stabilizing the country's banks and getting the economy moving again.
Critics on the right worried that Roosevelt was a Communist, a socialist or the tool of a Jewish conspiracy. Critics on the left complained his policies didn't go far enough. Some of Roosevelt's opponents didn't stop at talk.
Though it's barely remembered today, there was a genuine conspiracy to overthrow the president. The Wall Street Putsch, as it's known today, was a plot by a group of right-wing financiers.
"They thought that they could convince Roosevelt, because he was of their, the patrician class, they thought that they could convince Roosevelt to relinquish power to basically a fascist, military-type government," Denton says.
"It was a cockamamie concept," she adds, "and the fact that it even got as far as it did is pretty shocking."
The conspirators had several million dollars, a stockpile of weapons and had even reached out to a retired Marine general, Smedley Darlington Butler, to lead their forces.
"Had he been a different kind of person, it might have gone a lot further," Denton says. "But he saw it as treason and he reported it to Congress."
This is NOT an 'alleged' plot. And at some point, the corporate/banking coup d'etat of our government actually took place.
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/12/145472726/when-the-bankers-plotted-to-overthrow-fdr
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/Plot1.html
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/McCormack-Dickstein_Committee
The Business Plot & Prescott Bush:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA29F12D5812133B9
