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The Plot to Seize the Whitehouse
- The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR
- Narrated by: Ken Maxon
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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The Plot to Seize the White House tells the story of how, in 1933, a group of industrialists (including J. P. Morgan) working with the Ku Klux Klan and the American Liberty League, hatched a plan to take over the White House from President Franklin Roosevelt. Had they succeeded world history would have been completely changed.
With novelistic detail, Jules Archer shows how the plan included turning half a million disgruntled veterans into American versions of Nazi "brown shirts" and installing General Smedley Darlington Butler, Medal of Honor recipient, as the leader of a new Fascist government. Archer details Butler’s patriotic decision to reveal the plot to the news media and congress.
Ken Maxon delivers a measured, well-paced performance of this real-life conspiracy.
Summary
Most people will be shocked to learn that in 1933 a cabal of wealthy industrialists - in league with groups like the K.K.K. and the American Liberty League - planned to overthrow the U.S. government in a fascist coup. Their plan was to turn discontented veterans into American "brown shirts," depose F.D.R., and stop the New Deal. They clandestinely asked Medal of Honor recipient and Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler to become the first American Caesar. He, though, was a true patriot and revealed the plot to journalists and to Congress. In a time when a sitting President has invoked national security to circumvent constitutional checks and balances, this episode puts the spotlight on attacks upon our democracy and the individual courage needed to repel them.
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- Adrian Chan-Wyles Ph.D
- 17-01-22
Butler was a Good Choice of Fascist Leader!
This achieves two objectives. The first is that it aptly describes how the Zionists and financiers (together with the KKK and American Legion) nearly succeeded in establishing a fascist dictatorship in late 1933 - early 1934 and it was that General Butler was the ideal man to lead such a change of government! Butler had participated in dome of the most outrageous militaristic and imperialist crimes to be carried-out by the US military between 1880-1930 (Butler and his troops murdered 50,000 men, women and children in their attack on Beijing in 1900) - but this book seems to eulogises such behaviour! Basically, Butler denied other 'non-White' ethnic groups from achieving the freedom the Americans had from the British in 1776 - because the US began behaving just like the British they had overthrown! Butler had one more betrayal up his sleeve in that he betrayed the Zionists and financiers who had so admires his military record!
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