RE: Greg's ideal -- the 'free' market

[Greg Peisert <gpeisert@jamesgregory.com>]

Well, when I read about FDR, I can understand how those folks felt. Perhaps 
they decided that the only appropriate response to fascism was more 
fascism. I don't agree with it, but I can see how they would feel that way. 
FDR was one of the worst disasters ever to befall the republic. Right up 
there with Woodrow Wilson.

--gp

On Sunday, February 14, 1999 6:53 AM, Margaret Tarbet 
[SMTP:tarbet@swaa.com] wrote:
> Greg, did you know that in the '30s the Capitalist right wing - led
> by the Morgan Bank - tried to set up an actual, no-kidding military
> coup against FDR and the New Deal?   Their goal was a fascist state
> in which Capital and Capitalism would be freed of all control.
> They did make one mistake -- they tried to recruit the hugely-
> popular Marine Corps hero Smedley Butler, who promptly blew the
> whistle on them!   Of course, despite all the hoo-hah in the press
> at the time, nothing ever happened to the plotters.   It  would have
> been 'too disruptive'.  Just like ODESSA, US fascists take care of
> their own.