Lucid American
12-28-2007, 08:31 PM
Stopped off at the grocery store this afternoon with my kids, and we weren't in there but 20 minutes, and when I got back to my car there was a paper under my wiper. I reached for it thinking how cool it would be if it was a Ron Paul flier but fully expecting some kind of sale promotion or something.
Ended up an interesting twist on a subject I've read a decent bit about but I bet 99% of people have no knowledge of. The typed / xeroxed flier simply read:
"I spent 33 years . . . being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. . . .
"I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1916. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cubaa a decent place for the National City [Bank] boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. . . .
"In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. . . . I had . . . a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. . . . I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three cities. The Marines operated on three continents. . . .
"In the Spanish-American War we didn't have any bullets to shoot, and if we had not had a war with a nation that was already licked and looking for an excuse to quit, we would have had hell licked out of us. . . . "
MARINE CORPS COMMANDANT
SMEDLEY R. BUTLER
SPEECH BEFORE AMERICAN LEGION
31 AUGUST, 1931
So, needless to say, I thought it kind of a tangent. What exactly was the objective of the person leaving this on my windshield? The rear windshield of my car is decorated in Ron Paul stuff, so there might be a connection there. But if I was just an everyday joe, what would I make of this? There's not even any mention of the fact that Butler was the most highly decorated Marine in history at the time of his death, nor of the fact that he was approached to lead a military coup to overthrow FDR and establish fascism in the US -- so, the average guy finding this on his windshield would have to take the initiative to research a little or he would be left just as puzzled as I am. Perhaps it was just a random flier drop hoping to resonate somewhere . . . maybe someone put it on my windshield because of my Paul signs? Anyway, I just thought it was interesting.
Ended up an interesting twist on a subject I've read a decent bit about but I bet 99% of people have no knowledge of. The typed / xeroxed flier simply read:
"I spent 33 years . . . being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. . . .
"I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1916. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cubaa a decent place for the National City [Bank] boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. . . .
"In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. . . . I had . . . a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. . . . I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three cities. The Marines operated on three continents. . . .
"In the Spanish-American War we didn't have any bullets to shoot, and if we had not had a war with a nation that was already licked and looking for an excuse to quit, we would have had hell licked out of us. . . . "
MARINE CORPS COMMANDANT
SMEDLEY R. BUTLER
SPEECH BEFORE AMERICAN LEGION
31 AUGUST, 1931
So, needless to say, I thought it kind of a tangent. What exactly was the objective of the person leaving this on my windshield? The rear windshield of my car is decorated in Ron Paul stuff, so there might be a connection there. But if I was just an everyday joe, what would I make of this? There's not even any mention of the fact that Butler was the most highly decorated Marine in history at the time of his death, nor of the fact that he was approached to lead a military coup to overthrow FDR and establish fascism in the US -- so, the average guy finding this on his windshield would have to take the initiative to research a little or he would be left just as puzzled as I am. Perhaps it was just a random flier drop hoping to resonate somewhere . . . maybe someone put it on my windshield because of my Paul signs? Anyway, I just thought it was interesting.