"ta" <ta33@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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"Major General Smedley D. Butler, United States Marine Corps:

There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is

blind

to ... It may seem odd for me, a military man, to adopt such a comparison.
Truthfulness compels me to do so. I spent thirty-three years and four

months

in active military service, and during that period I spent most of my time
being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for

the

bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I

suspected

I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all
members of the military profession, I never had an original thought until

I

left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation

while

I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in

the

military service.

Thus I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil
interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for

National

City Bank boys (Citicorp) to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping

of

half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street.

The

record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the
international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1902 to 1912. I brought
light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916.

In

China in 1927, I helped see to it that the Standard Oil went its way
unmolested.

During those years, I had as the boys in the back room would say, a swell
racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals and promotions. Looking back on
it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do
was operate his racket in three city districts. I operated on three
continents.

Originally published in Common Sense, November, 1935. Quoted in Felix
Greene's The Enemy, Vantage Books, New York, 1971."

. . . .

"Battle Hymn of the Republic (brought down to date...1900)
Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the sword;
He is searching out the hoardings were the stranger's wealth is stored;
He hath loosed his fateful lightnings, and with woe and death has scored;
His lust is marching on.
*****
In a sordid slime harmonious, Greed was borne in yonder ditch,
With a longing in his bosom - and for others' goods and itch -
As Christ died to men holy, let men die to make us rich -
Our god is marching on. -- Mark Twain."

http://www.mmmfiles.com/archive/imperialism.htm

Further Comment: V. Lenin knew that the only way communism was to work and
survive was for states around the globe and surrounding states around Russia
become communist. Of course, a tyrannical system such as communism would lie
solely on converting its fellow man to the same ideals in order to survive
and operate. What a ignorant and flawed method of structuring civilisation.
Now lets flip this on its head by replacing Communism for Capitalism and
Lenin for say Washington (or another). What we see is that, Capitalism is no
different to Communism, everyday millions of American dollars are poured
into converting countries to 'freedom' and 'democracy.

Again, I'll repeat it, what a ignorant and flawed method in structuring
civilisation, there is no plausible reason for countries not to trade and
have different ideals and systems of power. Economics is not bounded by the
ideals of the corresponding nation and should certainly not be passed
through trade.

Having successfully described that American Capitalism (Imperialism) is very
much like Russian Communism in that the need to convert nations to its
ideals or more, spread its ideals across the globe, we can safely let
Americans stand up and admit their position in the world. Once the world
sees America's true goals and its brutal means of acquiring these goals, the
World can stand up as a united front to stop such a corrupt ideal that is
poisoning the earth and turning countries against each other. Until that
day, we can only see the lies and deceit injected through mass media and
twisted perspectives filtering through to the human race.

I ask you to commit Americans, Nazi Germany stood up as a true force in its
day, where is your pride, if you don't mass together against your government
then you are for your government.

what your government represents is what the people present, 'by the people,
for the people, of the people'??? - if you disagree then you are against
democratic ideals? or should you be classified as democratically electing a
dictator, like Germany did in the 1930s.

The main point is, what makes you 'just', what makes you 'right' 'moral' in
other words, so far you have claimed a righteous and virtuous stance in the
world, tell me where is your golden pillar that you all stand on?

J