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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-10-06 04:38 PM
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RW'ers are waging war upon the American People
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The Business Plot (1933) - The Business Plot was a conspiracy involving several wealthy businessmen to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. Purported details of the matter came to light when retired Marine Corps General Smedley Butler testified before a Congress committee that a group of men had attempted to recruit him to serve as the leader of a plot and to assume and wield power once the coup was successful. Butler testified before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee in 1934. In his testimony, Butler claimed that a group of several men had approached him as part of a plot to overthrow Roosevelt in a military coup. Gerald MacGuire vehemently denied any such plot, but in their final report, the Congressional committee supported Butler's allegations on the existence of the plot, but no prosecutions or further investigations followed, and the matter was mostly forgotten (went down the memory hole).

Operation Northwoods (1962) - Operation Northwoods, or Northwoods, was a 1962 plan to generate U.S. public support for military action against the Cuban government of Fidel Castro as part of the U.S. government's Operation Mongoose anti-Castro initiative. The plan, which was not implemented, called for various false flag actions, including simulated or real state sponsored terrorism (such as hijacked planes) on U.S. and Cuban soil. The plan was proposed by senior U.S. Department of Defense leaders, including the highest ranking member of the U.S. military, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lyman Louis Lemnitzer.

The Information War against the American People (2001 - Present) - The Bush Administration has been becoming more secretive while feeding the American people propaganda and finding ways to spy upon them. This fits the definition of an Information War.

Executive Order 13233 - restricts access to the records of former United States Presidents, was drafted by then White House counsel (now the US Attorney General) Alberto R. Gonzales, and issued by President George W. Bush on November 1, 2001, shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Bush administration issued the order just as the National Archives was preparing to release a small portion of Presidential records from the Ronald Reagan administration, some of which might prove embarrassing to the previous president, Bill Clinton, due to his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair. Section 13 of Executive Order 13233 revoked Executive Order 12667, of January 18, 1989.

Bush administration payment of columnists - The Bush administration payment of columnists refers to the payment of public funds to right-wing media commentators by several U.S. executive departments under Cabinet officials to promote various policies of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration. Thousands of dollars were paid to at least three commentators to promote Bush administration policies.

White House Iraq Group - The White House Iraq Group (aka, White House Information Group or WHIG) was the marketing arm of the White House whose purpose was to sell the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the public. The task force was set up in August 2002 by White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and chaired by Karl Rove to coordinate all the executive branch elements in the run-up to the war in Iraq. One example of the WHIG's functions and influence is the "escalation of rhetoric about the danger that Iraq posed to the U.S., including the introduction of the term 'mushroom cloud'".

RW'ers are at war against YOU, and it's time to fight back.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13233
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_administration_payment_of_columnists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Iraq_Group

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Nozebro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-10-06 05:57 PM
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1. It's been going on a whole whale of a lot longer than 73 years.

The "war" against commoners has been going on since the U.S. Consitution was written. Check it out. That document contains the "Articles of War". You know many of them already: only landowning White men can vote etc..
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