For your evening reading enjoyment, let me introduce you to Smedley Darlington Butler. Actually, he was a member of the US Marines and is called Major General Smedley Butler. In 1935 he wrote a very interesting article in the magazine Common Sense: 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 [corporatism]. 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. He published the book “War is a Racket”. When he died in 1940 he had TWO Congressional Medals of Honor.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 02:21:13 +0000
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