Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Smedley Butler, War is a racket

[Bhairitu]

Rick Archer wrote:
> >From a friend:
>  
> Hi Rick
>  
> For much more on the truly heroic Gen. Butler, I've got a lot more on his
> life and revelatory political teachings at
> http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/General_Butler_Revelations.html.
> Every American should know about this true American hero and his deep
> concerns for this country.
>  
> --timothy
And of course nothing has changed since Butler blew the whistle on the 
corporatists.  They still run the show.  Someday the people will wake 
and take the country back.  Probably unlikely though.

"The corporations should be more afraid of the people than the people 
afraid of the corporations."

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Smedley Butler, War is a racket

[I am the eternal]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Rick Archer  wrote:

>  From a friend:
>
>
>
> Hi Rick
>
>
>
> For much more on the truly heroic Gen. Butler, I've got a lot more on his
> life and revelatory political teachings at
> http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/General_Butler_Revelations.html.
> Every American should know about this true American hero and his deep
> concerns for this country.
>
>
>
> --timothy
>
>
>
"In an incident whose history is suppressed today, Gen. Butler was
approached by representatives of the Morgan Bank who wanted him to lead a
fascist military coup d'état against the Roosevelt government in 1932.
Butler refused and went to the press. A Congressional investigation was
eventually suppressed."

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Smedley Butler, War is a racket

[Rick Archer]

>From a friend:
 
Hi Rick
 
For much more on the truly heroic Gen. Butler, I've got a lot more on his
life and revelatory political teachings at
http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/General_Butler_Revelations.html.
Every American should know about this true American hero and his deep
concerns for this country.
 
--timothy
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Smedley Butler, War is a racket

[off_world_beings]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 , I am the eternal
 wrote:
>
> http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

>
> "I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and
during that
> period I spent most of my time as 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 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 revenues in. I helped in the raping
of
> half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall
Street. I
> helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown
> Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for
the
> American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the
> American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it
that
> Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might
have
> given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his
racket
> in three districts. I operated on three continents."
>
> - Maj.Gen.Smedley Butler, 1935, awarded twice the Congressional Medal
of
> Honor>


Maj.Gen.Smedley Butler - like some indeciferable kôan - was known as
"The Fighting Quaker".

The Peace Testimony of the Quakers: "We utterly deny all outward wars
and strife and fightings with outward weapons, for any end or under any
pretence whatsoever. And this is our testimony to the whole world."

>From "A Declaration to Charles II," 1661. Full text at:
http://www.quaker.org/peaceweb/pdecla07.html



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