Prescott Bush, father of George HW Bush, was part of a fascist plot to overthrow the US government.

[Sava]

Background information

The Business Plot was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler as leader of that organization. In 1934, Butler testified to the United States House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the "McCormack-Dickstein Committee") on these claims.[1] In the opinion of the committee, these allegations were credible.[2] No one was prosecuted[2][4][5][6][7].

At the time of the incidents, news media dismissed the plot, with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a "gigantic hoax".[3] While historians have questioned whether or not a coup was actually close to execution, most agree that some sort of "wild scheme" was contemplated and discussed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.

Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml

It's from a radio interview. The archived audio is available.

[Sava]

Prescott Bush's company assets were also seized in 1942.

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

[Sava]

BTW, it looks like they succeeded.

[kentonio]

Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.

Erm..

The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America

Mystery solved!

[-Jrabbit]

Isn't this story several years old?

[Sava]

Never forget.

On a day like today, it's important to remember what so many men died fighting against.

[The Mad Monk]

It gets thrown up here every few years.

I think Sava is usually the one throwing up.

[Sava]

I'm glad you think we should forget about the sacrifices of the men who died fighting for your freedom. Why do you hate America?

[The Mad Monk]

Because it won't deliver my emergency services in 30 seconds or less.

[Sava]

Is this upper-middle-class-shaming?

[The Mad Monk]

Wouldn't that require someone who is upper-middle-class?

[Sava]

So what am I?

[The Mad Monk]

Wouldn't that require someone who is upper-middle-class?

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[Sava]

If there's a funny, I'm missing it.

[The Mad Monk]