So they didn’t prosecute a single individual in this attempt. Guess our government as always allowed insurrection go unpunished in our country. Just like Trump and his J6th people.
Even better, it allowed for a political dynasty to come from it anyways. Prescott Bush, the father of George H. W Bush and grandfather of George W. Bush and Jeb Bush, was one of the parties involved with the Business Plot, and the Bushes seemed to do a fine job carrying on his legacy.
Wow. This makes so much sense.
Stop making me sad sir! I see you reciting facts, and putting reality on full display. This only means that it doesn’t matter what we do, fascism will always be a lurking and sometimes more than lurking threat. Even if you stop it’s current plans, it’s always there, unpunished, ready to rear it’s ugly head in future generations.
STOP MAKING ME SAD, SIR!!!
No, it means next time the world goes to war with fascists, they need to finish the job.
Should’ve been executed tbh.
We’d have a much better country if they’d done that, no doubt.
If we had executed all of the traitors after the Civl War, instead of letting them return to their basically untouched power structures, we wouldn’t be in this situation.
There were no consequences for taking up arms against the United States a century and a half ago - why would there be consequences for something like a coup?
Fair point.
This whole mentality of forgiving treason so the country can move forward is a nice get out of jail free card for the rich assholes that keep getting us all killed.
The Elite of the Confederacy should have been hanged and their property distributed to former enslaved people and poor free men.
FDR waved prosecution in exchange for the fascist senators involved. Voting for his legislation.
Some things about the Dems never change do they?
He at least got Social Security and a few other things passed. Though they set to work immediately gutting it all. And this was before the worst of world war ii. But they didn’t learn from that and they haven’t learned since.
They didn’t prosecute anyone because there was essentially no evidence beyond the accusation of one man, and even then no-one was accused of doing anything beyond talking about it
Found a conspirator.
Although seriously, it’s mentioned in the Wikipedia article that the investigating committee said there is strong evidence of the plotting. They didn’t prosecute anyone becaus of course rich people won’t be prosecuted. I have read rumours that Franklin Roosevelt may have made some backroom deal.
He 100% did. In return for not releasing the evidence and basically scrubbing it’s from the history books. He got some of his Great Society legislation passed. Which they promptly gutted and rendered useless. Because fascists are remorseless sociopaths.
I love that I never learned about this until I read history books for fun as an adult. You’d think that young students, growing up in this country, should know what the wealthy class has done in full to try and keep them oppressed, whether it’s the Business Plot, the Battle for Blair Mountain, the violent government response to rail strikes, etc. etc. etc.
But no.
Schools don’t teach this stuff on purpose.
And guess who was one of the conspirator? Big daddy (Prescott) Bush.
Gods, in the span of 20 years we’ve gone from a president descended from an attempted fascist overthrow to watching the fascist overthrow happen through “legal” means.
This is why it is important to hang traitors.
Smedley Butler’s healthy distrust of those in power was developed at an early age when his parents named him Smedley.
Heh, sometimes you learn by seeing what wrong looks like. Well put, Squid!
Man, Smedley Butler underwent a hell of an arc. From being a proud soldier of American imperialism, to becoming the father of modern police forces, to foiling a fascist plot to overthrow the country and becoming an outspoken anti-war advocate. He went from one end of the political spectrum to the other.
He also won the Congressional Medal of Honor twice.
I listened to an audiobook about him.
I’m not sure I e ever been so impressed by the conduct and ethics of any other individual on earth.
I remember learning about this as a kid from, of all places, a 1976 detective show called City of Angels (starring Wayne Rogers). Ten-year-old me thought it was so cool they would even broach such a topic on TV. As ways to become radicalised go …
Huh that’s really interesting. I had heard of Smedley Butler but was unaware of the plot until I watched the movie Amsterdam. It doesn’t pretend to be an accurate depiction, even the names are changed but the coup attempt is the same
Margot Robbie, Christian Bale, and John David Washington, were in a movie about that plot, Amsterdam(2022).
I can’t believe I had to scroll down this far to find someone mentioned this. THANKS
Thanks, I thought there was a movie but I was having trouble finding the name.
Interestingly nobody was prosecuted for this, even though the House of Reps determined that it was real. Apparently “conspiracy” isn’t always the crime it’s supposed to be.
In light of the final outcome of Jan 6, it seems to be exactly what one should have expected.
We really need better laws and an independent law enforcement agency to enforce them. A modern day group of untouchables.
I think what we need is to take away money’s influence on politics. The most effective way I know to do that is by capping wealth.
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Ingrate Ostriches Kill in Yosemite Antique Auction Rehearsals. Jesus Christ, someone should do something about this
Took them damn well long enough but they finally saw it through
