The 1934 plan to eliminate the US government

In two previous blog entries, I touched on the WWI veteran's march of 1932. The first blog entry was about Reason's right to own a bazooka, and the second post corrected some details Reason overlooked in their initial story.

It turns out the original story is just a part of a much, much bigger plot.

The article I found online today adds previous and past events to frame the veteran's march of 1932 in a great cause-and-effect twist worthy of a best selling novel.

The march does have its origins in the great depression, but its direct cause was the wealthy barons of the 1930s.

The story begins with a secret meeting in New York City...

"In the early 1930s, a secret collection of prosperous men are said to have assembled in New York City to discuss the dissolution of America's democracy. As a consequence of the Great Depression, the countryside was littered with unemployed, and the world's wealthy were watching as their fortunes deflated and their investments evaporated. As men of action, the well-financed New York group sought to eliminate what they reasoned to be the crux of the catastrophe: the United States government. "

The article continues...

"To assist them in their diabolical scheme, the resourceful plotters recruited the assistance of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, a venerated, highly decorated, and considerably jaded former Marine. It was the conspirators' earnest hope that their army of 500,000 Great War veterans, under the leadership of General Butler, could overpower the US' feeble peacetime military and reconstitute the government as a more economical fascist dictatorship."

Funded by a hundred million dollar bankroll from these secret companies, the United States government was almost attacked and overrun at one of its most vulnerable points in history.

Now 500,000 soldiers is still 500,000 soldiers no matter what year you are in. But that hundred million dollars is in 1932 currency. How much is that today?

A hundred million dollars in 1932 is $1,475,841,874.08 today (using the Consumer Price Index.) Its only $1,278,179,824.56 if you use the GDP deflator.

That's a well funded revolution.

The story reads like some sort of fantastic movie. Plots, betrayals, spies inside the government... Its all there for Jerry Bruckheimer to run with!

The march of 1932 figures into the middle of this story, and has a major role in the outcome of the plot and actions of the key players.

And, as usual, all the über wealthy criminals walked away.

In the story, it is very obvious that only the honor and pristine integrity of one man, Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, kept the United States from falling victim to a corporate sponsored uprising. Had this one man not stood his ground, the United States would have become a fascist country controlled by corporate entities.

Its a great read for a Friday. Take a look at the website in this link for the full story.

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