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99th_Monkey

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6. Were it not for Smedley Butler, history would have taken a much different turn
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 05:40 PM
Apr 2013

In 1933, he became involved in a controversy known as the Business Plot, when he told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialists were planning a military coup to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt. The purported plotters wanted Butler to lead a mass of armed veterans in a march on Washington and then become a dictator. Butler never met with any of the principals, and the individuals supposedly involved all denied the existence of a plot. The media ridiculed the allegations. Biographer Hans Schmidt portrays him as the victim of a small-time trickster.,[2] though Congressional hearings found Butler's claims to be factual.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

We used to actually listen to whistleblowers, at least to some extent. Now, not so much.

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