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General Smedley Butler on life in the military, 1935:
"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service in the
country's most agile military force, the Marines. I served in all ranks from
second lieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent most of
my time being 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 suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it.
Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought
until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended
animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with
everyone in the military service.
"Thus 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 revenue in. I helped in the raping of
half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The
record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the
international banking house of Brown Brothers and Co. in 1909-1912. I
brought light to the Dominican Republic for the sugar interests in 1916. I
helped make Honduras "right" for American fruit companies in 1903. In China
in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
"During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell
racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, and promotion. Looking back on
it, I feel that I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could
do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on
three continents."
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Butler on the American Legion:
"You know very well that it (the American Legion) is nothing but a
strike-breaking outfit used by capital for that purpose, and that is the
reason we have all those big clubhouses and that is the reason I pulled out
of it. They have been using the dumb soldiers to break strikes."
Testimony before House of Representatives' Committee, Investigation of Nazi
and Other Propaganda. 1935
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Butler not only refused to join in the Roosevelt coup, he was also apalled
by the use of the military and the national guard to put down legal strikes
and oppress union organizers. He was also a loud opponent of American
imperialism. This guy was a _true_ patriot. Watch the show (Friday 8pm
E.T.) on the History Channel)!
A longer article by Butler:
http://www.shss.montclair.edu./english/furr/butler1.html
Lucio
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