Thread: War is a Racket

The real speech re-created by an actor

If you know your history, you know that in 1934 there was an attempted coup in the United States that was thwarted largely due to the efforts of U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler (ret.)

Look it up.

Among other things, Butler was only one of 19 people ever awarded the Medal of Honor twice and the only person to be awarded a Marine Corps Brevet Medal and a Medal of Honor for two different actions.

After it dawned on him how his heroism and the heroism of the troops under his command had been misused, he wrote a book called "War is a Racket" which I can virtually guarantee you never heard about in school.

Butler concluded there are only two reasons to ever take up arms:

1. To defend the country against real - not manufactured - attacks
2. To defend the Bill of Rights

Sounds good to me.

One of the most important speeches in
American history...and one you never
heard in school or on TV.

Video:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/624.html


Kathyet


PS

An American Coup d'État?

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICL ... =coup.html



Major General Smedley Butler USMC
http://www.rationalrevolution.net/war/m ... er_usm.htm


Kathyet

Wish you would have posted this elsewhere.

A very interesting topic. Our founders warned us, and others such as Lenin postulated manners in which war could be waged.

War takes many forms. Clever minds with ideas contrary to the freedom loving individual, have waged many forms with predetermined outcomes or results, much like check mate in chess. The masses not even aware that they have been snookered.

The control of education has done well.

End the Fed. dept. of Ed.

Wish you would have posted this elsewhere.

I thought since it was a video I should put it here want me to bring it somewhere else???

Kathyet

It is your post kathyet. Just seems that not much traffic in that forum and this is an interesting topic and a informative video. Thanks for posting it.