:40:02
The entire countrys
behind you.
:40:04
thrilled with hope
and patriotism...
:40:08
But the country
was not entirely
:40:09
behind
the populist president.
:40:11
Large parts of
the corporate elite
:40:13
despised what Roosevelts
new deal stood for.
:40:16
And so in 1934
:40:18
a group of conspirators
sought to involve
:40:20
General Butler in
a treasonous plan.
:40:24
..The plan as outlined tome
was to form an organization
:40:26
of veterans to use as a bluff
or as a club at least
:40:29
to intimidate
the government...
:40:32
but the corporate cabal
had picked the wrong man.
:40:35
Butler was fed up
being what he called
:40:37
a gangster for capitalism.
:40:44
... I appeared before
the Congressional Committee
:40:47
the highest representation
of the American people
:40:49
under subpoena to tell what
I knew of activities
:40:53
which I believed might lead
to an attempt to set up
:40:55
a fascist dictatorship.
:40:58
The upshot of the whole
thing was that I was supposed
:41:01
to lead an organization of
500000 men which would
:41:04
be able to take over
the functions of government...
:41:08
A Congressional Committee
ultimately found evidence
:41:10
of a plot to overthrow
Roosevelt.
:41:13
According to Butler
the conspiracy included
:41:16
representatives of some
of Americas top corporations
:41:19
including J. P. Morgan
Dupont and Goodyear tire.
:41:27
As today's chairman
of Goodyear knows
:41:30
for corporations
to dominate government
:41:32
a coup is no
longer necessary.
:41:36
Corporations have gone
global and by going global
:41:40
the governments have lost
some control over corporations
:41:45
regardless of whether
the corporation can be trusted
:41:47
or can not be trusted
:41:49
governments
today do not have
:41:51
over the corporations
the power that they had
:41:55
and the leverage they
had 50 or 60years ago.
:41:59
And thats a major change.