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[FraDon]

62. important quote, similar ruthlessness – but, wrong person and time

In 1934, Smedley Butler said this, quoting one of the financial backers of the Business Plot.

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 United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler as leader of that organization. In 1934, Butler testified to the Special Committee on Un-American Activities Congressional committee (the "McCormack-Dickstein Committee&quot on these claims. In the opinion of the committee, these allegations were credible. No one was prosecuted.