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s m e d l e y b u t l e r , t h e m a n y o u ’ v e n e v e r Smedley Butler was born July 30, 1881, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, the eldest of three sons. His parents Thomas Stalker Butler and Maud (Darlington) Butler were descended from Quaker families. His father was a lawyer, a judge, and for 31 years, a Congressman and chair of the House Naval Affairs Committee during the Harding and Coolidge administrations.
You can not allow the liberty of even one man to be restricted, If you do then all liberty is at risk. Revolutionaries never give up.
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Smedley Butler was one of the most highly decorated soldiers to ever serve in the military. He is still, to this day, one of only a handful of men to ever receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, Twice. Decorated for his leadership and bravery in such conflicts as, Philippine–American War, where he served in Manila. In October, 1899 he saw his first combat action when leading 300 Marines to take the town of Noveleta, against Philippino rebels known as “Insurrectos”. In the initial moments of the engagement, the top sergeant in Butler's unit was wounded. Butler panicked,
but regained his composure and led the Marines in pursuit of the enemy forces. By noon, the Marines had dispersed the rebels and taken the
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town. In the fighting, one Marine was killed and ten were wounded. Another 50 Marines were incapacitated by the tropical Philippine heat. Butler also served in the Boxer Rebellion. More commonly refered to by historians as The Boxer Up-
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g r e a t e s t k n o w n rising, or the Righteous Harmony Society Movement. Taking place in China as a response to imperialist expansion between the 1899-1901. It was the Boxer Rebellion that Butler was shot in the thigh yet still managed to end up saving a mans life (who was actually trying to save his, first) then under “sever fire” got the wounded man to safety. For this and other notorious demonstrations of bravery, Butler was awarded the Brevet Medal which is awarded in accordance with Marine Corps Order No. 26 (1921), for distinguished conduct and public service in the presence of the enemy. All of this and he wasn’t even nineteen yet. Butler then served in the The Banana Wars. A series of occupations in the Central Americas and the Caribbean. The goal being to protect American Corporate interests in that region. In 1903, Butler was ordered to defend the US consulate…….
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Although They are not currently posting music on Myspace According to their profile they are a hard rock band working with primarily covers. Got a good feeling about the sound, so tell them to get their ass in gear and post tunes!!
Lorraine - Lead Vocals
Tyler - Guitar / Vocals
Bobby - Drums
Lisa - Vocals / Keyboards
Terry - Bass / Vocals
Derek - Lead Guitar
April 17th 2010 Carthage American Legion– Carthage NY April 23rd 2010 Paddock Club (Arcade st.) Watertown NY These guys are not currently posting tunes on Myspace so if you want to here them I got a feeling their live show is the best way to hear them anyway. So get out to see them.
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Back in 2008 there was a closed door and “media blacked out” session of congress. This has only happened five other times 182 years. The reason for this ultra-suspicious behavior was sketchy at best. However, Ohio Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (who refused to participate) Was on the Web news and political watch dog website Democracy Now.org, and told us the reason for all the cloak and dagger antics on the part of both parties. Essentially, Mr. Kucinich stated that it was more to do with the passage of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act than any real national security crisis. It seems that the executive branch and Congressional leaders on both sides of the isle were trying to quietly wrestle away the last vestiges of civil rights that the American people were privy to. While simultaneously allowing any prescribed agency, corporation or organization deemed appropriate by this administration, or those that come after it, the power to listen in on your communications and keep files, records and logs of any and all of your communications. The amendments that are now signed into law make it impossible for you to seek legal recourse even if you are innocent of any and all wrong doing. They also allow for the companies to keep your call logs, text messages, voice calls, emails, ect; for as long as they wish. And they may do what they wish with the information. Including gain profit from it. Before we go any further I want you to completely understand what this is about. The government does not need a warrant, or even a signed statement against you to record and keep all of your communications. And the companies that provide service will be allowed BY LAW, to do what ever they wish with any information they record.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- With unemployment still at a severe high, a majority of states have drained their jobless benefit funds, forcing them to borrow billions from the federal government to help out-of-work Americans. A total of 33 states and the Virgin Islands have depleted their funds and borrowed more than $38.7 billion to provide a safety net, according to a report released Thursday by the National Employment Law Project. Four
How long before recording all information was standard practice? Since 2008 when this law was actually signed, it is now an industry standard for companies to record and keep all of your communications. Now some of you may think that this is not happening in your beloved America. Well, I thought of you too. I have the entire catalog of Executive Orders and the amendments that were pushed through congress in PDF format on the website for your perusal. Through my research and countless other investigator’s research, it is plainly evident and proven many times over that there is a pervasive and fascist organization, or belief system, that is being incrementally installed in this country. Due to the pace of it progression and the propaganda that it has languidly administered to the citizenry it has gone unnoticed or deemed acceptable, in the light of fear over security concerns.
America already has 2.7 Million prisoners, More than any other country in the world!
America is drowning in it’s own apathy and the only flotation device that they can see is the floating pile of totalitarian, dictatorial social structure that is thrown to the masses by mainstream media and the politicians who are forwarding the process purely out of greed and cowardess. There will soon be a day when our monetary system falls into total collapse and an electronically controlled credit system will be the only means for acquiring goods and services. That is when the whole of our culture will be enslaved with out hope. If citizens do not stand and recognize the tyranny for what it is in post haste fashion, we will surely be rendered as nothing more than cattle to the slaughter.
“Oppression is first began in increments
so to avoid the mass from revolting, before total control can be established” Adolf Hitler
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o f m o n e y t o b e n e f i t s others are at the brink of insolvency.Of the 13 states that will likely be able to fund jobless benefits without borrowing from the feds, 10 of them followed the recommended financing tactic. That readied them for the recession, the National Employment Law Project concluded in its study. "The current crisis should compel policy makers to forge a new path to forward financing of the unemployment insurance program," Stettner said. "As the broke
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...in Honduras. Since he was in the Caribbean at the time, he used a converted banana boat re-named the panther, and sailed 1500 miles to the west. Smedley then took some time between campaigns, to get married on June 30, 1905 to Ethel Conway Peters of Philadelphia in Bay Head, New Jersey. The couple even had time to become parents of three children: a daughter, Ethel Peters Butler, and two sons, Smedley Darlington, Jr. and Thomas Richard.
In October 1918, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general at the age of 37 and placed in command of Camp Ponanezen at Brest, France, a debarkation depot that funneled “There are only two troops of the American Expedithings we should tionary Force to the battlefight for. One is the fields.
defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.” Smedley Butler War Is A Racket
From then on it seems Butler was having trouble with processing all the death and destruction he had witnessed. In 1908 he suffered a nervous breakdown and took nine (9) months off and worked as a coal miner. Although this may have been the case, he still served in other conflicts. From 1909 to 1912, he served in Nicaragua. In January 1914 he served off the coast and his of Mexico, near Veracruz. In the Haitian Battle with the Cacos he was a brilliant strategist and ended up surrounding the opposition. The battle (often hand to hand combat) is the reason that President Roosevelt conferred the second Medal of Honor he received. Through out all his meritorious service Smedley Butler began to realize the way his world worked. He began to pay attention to the fashion in which certain men, and institutions, behaved as well as thought. During World War I, to his disappointment, Butler was not assigned to a combat command on the Western Front. Even though he wrote and requested it.
Karen Quinn-Tostado of Oregon says she is just an everyday lady, but she is playing a significant role in an uncommon effort to get the American people to “face their oppressors,” as she put it. Ms. QuinnTostado is calling on every willing American to detach from their routine and engage in a national strike from the increasingly oppressive big business-big government matrix that has snared Americans in unpayable debt, endless toil, demolished rights and broken dreams with no apparent solution. In cities like Detroit and Flint, Mich., en-
The Navy Distinguished Service Medal was awarded to Smedley for service in World War 1. For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services in France.
However his Military career was winding down, and another equally (maybe more) noble calling was on the horizon. By 1933 Butler was denouncing capitalism and bankers, confessing that as a Marine general "I was a racketeer for capitalism." Butler began developing his post-Corps career. In May 1931, he took part in a commission established by Oregon Governor Julius L. Meier. The commission laid the foundations for the Oregon State Police. He began lecturing at events and conferences and after his retirement from the Marines in 1931, he took this up full-time. His donated much of his earnings from his lucrative lecture circuits to the Philadelphia unemployment relief. He toured the western United States, making 60 speeches before returning for his daughter's marriage to Marine aviator Lieutenant John Wehle. Her wedding was the only time that he wore his dress blue uniform after he left the Marines. In perhaps Smedley Butler’s bravest act of all, in early 1934, Butler alleged the existence of a political conspiracy of Wall Street interests to overthrow President Roosevelt, a series of allegations that came to be known in the media as the Business
tire neighborhoods of crumbling houses are vacant, and old factory sites there and elsewhere lay in ruins. Older parents are living with their adult kids (or vice versa). Entire factories have been transplanted to other countries, or totally closed. There is an extreme lack of consumer purchasing power in this economy. Many citizens believe this cannot go on much longer. Thus, from April 15 to April 18, Ms. QuinnTostado is calling for a national strike that includes these ideas: Do not send your children to school on schooldays; do not eat at
Plot. In March 1934, the House of Representatives authorized investigations into his allegations by a special committee headed by John W. McCormack of Massachusetts and Samuel Dickstein of New York. The McCormackDickstein committee was a precursor to the House Committee on Un-American Activities. In November 1934, Butler told the committee that a group of businessmen, claiming to be backed by a private army of 500,000 ex-soldiers and others, intended to establish a fascist dictatorship. Butler had been asked to lead it, he said, by Gerald P. MacGuire, a bond salesman with Grayson M.P Murphy & Co. The New York Times reported that Butler had told friends that General Hugh S. Johnson, a former official with the National Recovery Administration , was to be installed as dictator. Butler said MacGuire had told him the attempted coup was backed by three million dollars, and that the 500,000 men were probably to be assembled in Washington, D.C. the following year. All the parties alleged to be involved, including Johnson, said there was no truth in the story, calling it a “joke and a fantasy”. On August 22, Butler met MacGuire at a hotel, According to Butler's account, it was on this occasion that MacGuire asked Butler to run a new veterans organization (The American Legion) and lead a coup attempt against the President. On September 13, Paul Comly French, a reporter, who had once been Butler's personal secretary, met MacGuire in his office. In late September, Butler told Van Zandt that coconspirators would be meeting him at an upcoming Veterans of Foreign Wars convention. On November 20, the Committee began examining evidence. Journalist, Paul Comly French broke the story in the Philadelphia Record and New York Post on November 21. On November 22, …..(Continued on page 4)
chain restaurants (go to family-owned eateries or eat at home); do not buy imported goods of any kind; pull your money out of the big banks and choose a small community bank or no bank; and, among other things, decide as an individual whether paying the federal income tax or any other tax possibly deemed unjust is the right thing do to. “Don’t buy; don’t comply; ask why,” she said. The tax issue is up to each person, and neither she nor AFP is advising anyone on that matter. But she said participation in even one area of her plan is better than nothing.
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The New York Times wrote its first article on the story and described it as a "gigantic hoax." When the committee's final report was released, the Times said the committee "purported to report that a two-month investigation had convinced it that General Butler's story of a Fascist march on Washington was “alarmingly true" and "It also alleged that definite proof had been found that the much publicized Fascist march on Washington, which was to have been led by Major. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired, according to testimony at a hearing, was actually contemplated". Even at that point Butler was being portrayed in public by those he had accused, as a foolish, conspiracy theorist. Although The New York Times had essentially substantiated Smedley Butler’s claims, He was labeled an angry, “nut-job” by his contractors. Those he accused included Irénée du Pont,, and J.P. Morgan, and various industrialists and political wanta-be’s. Butler’s testimony was heard before congress on December 29, 1934. Regarding the conversations that he had with Jerry MacGuire, Butler relayed in his testimony: “They presented to me rather a confused picture, and I could not make up my mind exactly what they wanted me to do or what their objective was, but it had something to do with weakening the influence of the administration with the soldiers.” They had tried in vain to make him angry with the President and his staff. Telling him, he had been invited as a distinguished guest of the Chicago Convention. But his name been taken off the list by Louis Howe, (Secretary to the President.) This was just a ruse to get him to capitulate to the plan. In Smeldey Butlers testimony he certainly gave enough detail to warrant a congressional investigation. Especially since it concerned the very Presidency of the United States. However, that was not the outcome. It is important to note this statement by Macguire for it’s revealing nature regarding the financing of The United States. (How we get our money, at this point is by the banking industry (Federal Reserve) lending it to us at instant interest, meaning instant and forever, DEPT!) The statement goes like this: “He has got to do something about it. He has either got to get more money out of us or he has got to change the method of financing the Government, and we are going to see to it that he does not change that method. He will not change it!” After Smedley Butler’s testimony (and the testimony of others) What should have happened did not.
The Congressional committee preliminary report said: “This committee has had no evidence before it that would in the slightest degree warrant calling before it such men as John W. Davis, Gen.Hugh Johnson, General Harbord, Thomas W. Lamont, Admiral Sims, or Hanford MacNider. (All involved in the plot) The committee will not take cognizance of names brought into the testimony which constitute mere
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hearsay. This committee is not concerned with premature newspaper accounts especially when given and published prior to the taking of the testimony. As the result of information which has been in possession of this committee for some time, it was decided to hear the story of Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler and such others as might have knowledge germane to the issue.” ...
The Congressional committee final report said: “In the last few weeks of the committee's official life it received evidence showing that certain persons had made an attempt to establish a fascist organization in this country. No evidence was presented, and this committee had none to show, a connection between this effort and any fascist activity of any European country. There is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient. This committee received evidence from Maj. Gen Smedley D. Butler (retired), twice decorated by the Congress of the United States. He testified before the committee as to conversations with one Gerald C. MacGuire in which the latter is alleged to have suggested the formation of a fascist army under the leadership of General Butler. MacGuire denied these allegations under oath, but your committee was able to verify all the pertinent statements made by General Butler, with the exception of the direct statement suggesting the creation of the organization. This, however, was corroborated in the correspondence of MacGuire with his principal, Robert Sterling Clark, of New York City, while MacGuire was abroad studying the various forms of veterans organizations of Fascist character.” With all this distinguished American Hero’s service to this country, sacrifice for it’s founding principles, and honor in the field of battle, he was dismissed. In the end of day, money and power trumped honor and truth. Today this tale of willful corruption and willful destruction of our countries principles along with the total absence of justice, honor, and compassion for the American people or their belief in their country, rings more true than ever. We are a nation on the verge of our entire government being usurped and or founding principles being disregarded. Our constitution as it was meant to be, is a relic of the past. Our civil liberties, rights that should be ours because we breath, not because they were bestowed by any other person or thing. Reasons none other than the fact, that we are. The “rights” we hold so dear, are nothing but privileges to be manipulated and restricted as those in power see fit. America is circling the drain on the ever quickening ride to Fascism. And no matter how the corporate news spins it, this is not a good thing, it is, the death of America. By Joey Spencer
“My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.” Smedley Butler
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A federal court has decided that the FCC has no authority to regulate broadband service providers. But the agency does have a better way to protect the Internet, if it has the will to do it. The court threw the future of Internet regulations into doubt Tuesday with a far-reaching decision that went against the Federal Communications Commission and could even hamper the government's plans to expand broadband access in the United States. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the FCC lacks authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks. Supporters of network neutrality, including the FCC chairman, have argued that the
policy is necessary to prevent broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against certain Web sites and online services, such as Internet phone programs or software that runs in a Web browser. Advocates contend there is precedent: Nondiscrimination rules have traditionally applied to so-called "common carrier" networks that serve the public, from roads and highways to electrical grids and telephone lines. But broadband providers such as Comcast, AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. argue that after spending billions of dollars on their networks, they should be able to sell premium services and manage their systems to prevent certain applications from hogging capacity.
Blurbs, Headlines and Nuggets The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled today that the Fed must release records of the unprecedented $2 trillion U.S. loan program launched primarily after the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. The ruling upholds a decision of a lower-court judge, who in August ordered that the information be released. Someone is going to put their cell and keys in there and then the dog is gonna run off! Priceless! Ad from: Dog news daily.com
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Federal Reserve BANK CON exposed on MSNBC . In a shocking but much over due story on the major news network, an entire expose’ was done on the con of the Federal Reserve and the banking industries take over of our country. Discussions of Washington’s bailout of Wall Street have mostly focused on what the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) has spent: $410 billion. But the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) claims the real total of the federal rescue amounts to the staggering figure of $4.6 trillion. Trillion, not billion. An Allegheny County judge on Monday heard more arguments about releasing documents related to police conduct during last year’s G-20 economic summit. Allegations are that the police used more than excessive force,.. brutality.
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