good article. thanks subby

Tuskegee & Operation Snow White still scare the hell out of me.

As well as the ones we don't know about.

/adjusts tinfoil hat

submitter: Grandfather of Chimpy McFlightsuit tried to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the US

It apparently worked 70 years later.

:D

Any kind soul able to post the list? Evidently Cracked is "Adult Content".

/if not, no worries, now I can look when I get home

The Onanist: submitter: Grandfather of Chimpy McFlightsuit tried to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the US

It apparently worked 70 years later.

:D

Ba-zing!

PS: Isn't "Cracked" a parody magazine, like "MAD"?

i love that picture

dstanley: Any kind soul able to post the list? Evidently Cracked is "Adult Content".

You poor, poor... *checks profile* ...man:

7. The Business Plot - Grandpa Bush tries to take over the US.
6. The July 20 Plot - Assassinating Hitler.
5. Operation Ajax - Replacing the Iranian government with a puppet government with whom we could have play dates.
4. The Gunpowder Plot - Remember, remember, etc.
3. The Tuskegee Experiment - Syphilis!
2. Operation Snow White - The Scientologists take over everything, ever.
1. Project MKULTRA - These aren't the droids you're looking for.

Humean_Nature: 1. Project MKULTRA - These aren't the droids you're looking for.

Awesome summary. Well done!

xanadian: Awesome summary. Well done!

Heh, thanks. I'm personally quite fond of #5.

Hey, where's the Freepers to defend Grandpa Bush?

Humean_Nature: You poor, poor... *checks profile* ...man:

*snert*

Thanks~!

I prefer Operation Northwoods.

xanadian: The Onanist: submitter: Grandfather of Chimpy McFlightsuit tried to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the US

It apparently worked 70 years later.

:D

Ba-zing!

PS: Isn't "Cracked" a parody magazine, like "MAD"?

it used to be a MAD ripoff years ago before they realized doing funny lists was much more profitable.

SchlingFo: I prefer Operation Northwoods.

Creepiest conspiracy ever?

Strange how it took all the way until 2007 for any allegations of Prescott Bush's involvement in the "Business Plot".

The 2007 BBC radio documentary The White House Coup[3] alleged that Prescott Bush, father and grandfather to the 41st and 43rd US Presidents respectively, was also connected with companies owned by Fritz Thyssen. The BBC found no evidence of involvement by any leading American businessmen in any Fascist plots

I still maintain that the business plot may have succeeded if they had gotten Lindbergh instead of Butler. He probably was one of the only people with enough popularity to sell it to the American public - and as a known Fascist sympathizer he may have actually gone with it. Good thing they didn't think of that.

It amazes me how few people have ever heard of the business plot.

GAT_00: Hey, where's the Freepers to defend Grandpa Bush?

Buried amongst the Moonbats who will blindly believe this

HA HA! You'd rather listen to a shoddy MadMag ripoff than listen to this guy. Actually, let's just all go shopping at Old Navy...

LOL:

Mephij: I still maintain that the business plot may have succeeded if they had gotten Lindbergh instead of Butler. He probably was one of the only people with enough popularity to sell it to the American public - and as a known Fascist sympathizer he may have actually gone with it. Good thing they didn't think of that.

And that's why I had to use the time machine to kill his offspring.

Cracked is really really cool cause they throw around the F bomb all the time. Radical!!

I knew Bush mentioning Nazis wasn't going to be a good move. Might make someone take a look at Grandaddy Prescott Bush

TFA: A good rule of thumb: never trust a man named Smedley to run your hostile military coup for you.

A good rule of thumb: never trust a man named Smedley to run your Star Wars MMORPG for you.

Humean_Nature: Heh, thanks. I'm personally quite fond of #5.

And it's amusingly relevant today! Neocons would like us to believe that the history of Iranian-U.S. relations began in 1979. Those big meanies just took over our embassy unprovoked.

Humean_Nature: xanadian: Awesome summary. Well done!

Heh, thanks. I'm personally quite fond of #5.

But who would give Iran nuclear...



...never mind.

FTA: In 1933, group of wealthy businessmen that allegedly included the heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family and Senator Prescott Bush tried to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the United States.

Guess it just runs in the family.
=Smidge=

bookmarked for ensuing flamewar

ODDwhun: I knew Bush mentioning Nazis wasn't going to be a good move. Might make someone take a look at Grandaddy Prescott Bush

His grandfather was a liberal for God's sake.

FTA: ...Major General Smedley Butler

...and I have just found the first name for my next son. w00t!

xanadian: The Onanist: submitter: Grandfather of Chimpy McFlightsuit tried to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the US

It apparently worked 70 years later.

:D

Ba-zing!

PS: Isn't "Cracked" a parody magazine, like "MAD"?

Yes. A BAD parody magazine. One that's gone belly-up on something like three separate occasions.

another:

GM Streetcar conspiracy

randomjsa: The 2007 BBC radio documentary The White House Coup[3] alleged that Prescott Bush, father and grandfather to the 41st and 43rd US Presidents respectively, was also connected with companies owned by Fritz Thyssen. The BBC found no evidence of involvement by any leading American businessmen in any Fascist plots

For those who are interested, here are the links to the story via YouTube:

Part 1 of 3 - 10m 47s (pops)
Part 2 of 3 - 7m 20s (pops)
Part 3 of 3 - 9m 43s (pops)

Damn scary stuff!

/subby

Unright: Tuskegee & Operation Snow White still scare the hell out of me.

As well as the ones we don't know about.

/adjusts tinfoil hat

But clearly the biggest danger to the country is a candidate whose old preacher believes that the government infected black men with a horrible disease.

/Funny how things seem slightly less crazy when you take into account historical context.

Hang On Voltaire: ODDwhun: I knew Bush mentioning Nazis wasn't going to be a good move. Might make someone take a look at Grandaddy Prescott Bush

His grandfather was a liberal for God's sake.

A Wall Street executive banker and founding partner with Brown Brothers Harriman, and director of Union Banking Corp.-New York. A liberal? Author of such Liberal pieces as "Timely Monetary Policy" and "To Preserve Peace Let's Show the Russians How Strong We Are!" (in that bastion of left-wing thinking, Reader's Digest, July 1959).

Ah, I see where you're coming from. From Wiki...

"served as the treasurer of the first national capital campaign of Planned Parenthood in 1947"

Just because the Republicans have moved so far Right now, you think he was a Liberal because he was involved with the American Birth Control League, as were many Conservatives (that saw it as a way to stop immigrants from turning the country into a plurality of different races).

Fail.

randomjsa: Strange how it took all the way until 2007 for any allegations of Prescott Bush's involvement in the "Business Plot".

The 2007 BBC radio documentary The White House Coup[3] alleged that Prescott Bush, father and grandfather to the 41st and 43rd US Presidents respectively, was also connected with companies owned by Fritz Thyssen. The BBC found no evidence of involvement by any leading American businessmen in any Fascist plots

Smedley Butler testified that the American Liberty League was the major funder of the plot, and the Senate commitee agreed. Prescott Bush was a member of the American Liberty League.

Now, I could understand if you think this is a pretty tenuous link. However, if you think THIS is a tenuous link, I hope you will admit that the Obama-Ayers thing with the Woods Fund of Chicago is even more tenuous, and that then, logically, both relations would be ridiculous to consider as untoward.

http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=168

My favorite conspiracy. Its an hour show, but it's a damn good listen.

Jackpot777: Hang On Voltaire: ODDwhun: I knew Bush mentioning Nazis wasn't going to be a good move. Might make someone take a look at Grandaddy Prescott Bush

His grandfather was a liberal for God's sake.

A Wall Street executive banker and founding partner with Brown Brothers Harriman, and director of Union Banking Corp.-New York. A liberal? Author of such Liberal pieces as "Timely Monetary Policy" and "To Preserve Peace Let's Show the Russians How Strong We Are!" (in that bastion of left-wing thinking, Reader's Digest, July 1959).

Ah, I see where you're coming from. From Wiki...

"served as the treasurer of the first national capital campaign of Planned Parenthood in 1947"

Just because the Republicans have moved so far Right now, you think he was a Liberal because he was involved with the American Birth Control League, as were many Conservatives (that saw it as a way to stop immigrants from turning the country into a plurality of different races).

Fail.

Of course, there is the fact that abortion (the major sticking point between conservatives and planned parenthood) didn't even begin to become legal until 1966, and that while Catholics have historically been strongly anti-birth control, it didn't become a major hot button among conservative Protestants until the second half of the century, when people actually started to talk about it. In fact, the Pill wasn't even released until 1960, and even then it was only available to married women and plus-21 singles.

Hang On Voltaire


His grandfather was a liberal for God's sake.


Insofar as G.W. enforces positive freedoms (liberties) he is a liberal, too.

I've got to throw in a vote for the Protocol of Sevres, the joint operation between Israel, France, and Britain which precipitated the 1957 Suez Canal crisis. Taking into consideration Sevres, Operation Ajax, and the Balfour Declaration, I'm really glad that Britain got out of the nation-building business. They suck at it.

Stile4aly: I'm really glad that Britain got out of the nation-building business. They suck at it.

They didn't. They just "assist" us now instead of going it alone.

Hang On Voltaire: His grandfather was a liberal for God's sake.

(pointing and laughing at the funny insane man) You don't know a damned thing about Prescott Bush, do you? Or are you sooo far right that fascists look like 'liberals' to you?

Either way, you're a funny insane man. Cute! Especially cute when they're as impotent as you are. :)

grxymkjbn:
(pointing and laughing at the funny insane man) You don't know a damned thing about Prescott Bush, do you? Or are you sooo far right that fascists look like 'liberals' to you?

Either way, you're a funny insane man. Cute! Especially cute when they're as impotent as you are. :)

The fact that he was one of the founders of the United Negro College Fund. He was pro-choice and supported Planned Parenthood. What do you know about him?

Hang On Voltaire: The fact that he was one of the founders of the United Negro College Fund. He was pro-choice and supported Planned Parenthood. What do you know about him?

You can hold moderate social positions and still not be a "liberal", you know.

At the risk of Godwinning the thread, Hitler also held some progressive positions. But he wasn't a "liberal".

Mnemia: You can hold moderate social positions and still not be a "liberal", you know.

At the risk of Godwinning the thread, Hitler also held some progressive positions. But he wasn't a "liberal".

Your argument suffers because you think that right wingers are rationally thinking creatures:



They're not. "Liberals bad!" is an unconditional truth to them. If something is liberal than it's bad. If something is bad, then it's liberal.

Conservatives aren't people. They are a badly written BASIC program.

There a reason Operation Northwoods didn't get on the list? I mean, I think Truthers are as big of idiots as anyone else, but the ONLY shred of "maaaaaaaaaybe..." they have is Operation Northwoods.

Milkbeer


every time you throw a tantrum like that you bring this 'liberal' much joy.

thanks

The Onanist: submitter: Grandfather of Chimpy McFlightsuit tried to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the US

It apparently worked 70 years later.

:D

As opposed to FDR's attempt to overthrow democracy and institute a socialist dictatorship.



//Packing the court = dictator for life

hetheeme: As opposed to FDR's attempt to overthrow democracy and institute a socialist dictatorship.

was that a b-b-but..FDR?

wow

Strange how it took all the way until 2007 for any allegations of Prescott Bush's involvement in the "Business Plot".


And even then they found no connection.

They left out the best one:

Operation Northwoods (new window)