Ett intressant radioprogram på BBC Radio 4 av journalisten Mike Thomson behandlar ett kapitel i den Amerikanska historien som åtminstone jag aldrig hade hört talas om. 1933 var det nära att president Franklin D. Roosevelt avsattes i en kupp ledd av några av USAs mäktigaste företagsledare. Ambitionen var att förvandla USA till en fasciststat med Nazityskland som förebild.
The Whitehouse Coup: 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) [Är man egentligen förvånad?] 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.
Citat från programet:
"People wanted security, I mean the keyword of the 30's, as now for that matter, was security. Social security, health security, in Amerika in the 30's cared more about security than democracy. And so if a group of businessmen with the help of some people, former military people or current military people, could have brought the economy back and created this sense of security, then yes, it is possible that they would have gotten popular support.
Amerika would have become a dictatorship, democracy would be gone, Amerika would have joined Hitler and Mussolini as a fascist triumpher."
Bloggar om: Franklin D. Roosevelt, fascism, militärkupp, USA, historia
