Screwing with a veterans' encampment was the beginning of the end

[yojon]

for the second worst asshole president in history, Herbert Hoover. Congress had promised the WWI vets a bonus for their service. Hoover, of course, weasled (sound familiar?)on paying it but no one made much fuss until the depression struck.

Hungry vets then set up a shantytown in the shadow of the capitol. They were supported by General Smedley Butler (who later would foil the pre-neocon plot to overthrow FDR). Hoover couldn't tolerate such an effront and got his toad McArthur violently to disperse the vets and destroy the 'Hooverville'. This arrogant 'Pug overreach got the public's sympathy for the veterans and apparently contributed to FDR's election.

If they screw with Cindy's encampment, it will be a very similar overreach..

GO CINDY!! Our love and deep respects are with you!!


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Hoover's goons clearing out the Vets' Encampment


Hooverville, the Bonus Army's shanty-town, burnsBonus Army

By Richard Sanders, Editor, Press for Conversion!

American veterans had been promised by the U.S. government that they would be paid a "bonus" for their service during World War 1. They were to receive $1 for every day they'd served during that war, or $1.5 for each day they served in combat. This "bonus" was supposed to be paid decades later, in the 1940s! When the depression of the 1930s hit, U.S. WWI veterans began a movement to demand that they should not have to wait another 10 years for their bonus. They wanted it to be paid immediately. They began many protests and lobbying efforts. When some veterans from the mid-west began a trek to Washington to demand the bonus. They called themselves the "Bonus Expeditionary Army". They were eventually joined in Washington by tens of thousands of veterans and their families. They set up a shanty town called Hooverville within Washington DC. They held protests and some of the more radical veterans occupied abandoned buildings in the city. General Smedley Butler arose as a strong supporter of the "Bonus Army." Hoover enlisted the Army to drive the vets out of the city. In charge of the Battle of Antacostia was Douglas MacArthur, and his top men were Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton. They used the US Army to crush the Bonus Army. Excessive force was used, several died and Hooverville was burnt to the ground. This helped lead to Roosevelt's election in 1933.


General Butler

View online Photographs of the Bonus Army

Read more about the Bonus Army:http://images.google.ca/images?q=%20%22bonus%20army%22

The “Bonus Army” and the Torching of Hooverville
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/4.pdf

Conflicting Versions of the Battle of Anacostia:
Gen. Douglas MacArthur vs. Pres. Herbert Hoover
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/5.pdf

Socioeconomic and Political Context of the Plot
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/spivak-excerpt...

Butler at the Bonus Rally
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/butler-bonus_r...


(copy of a post from Activist HQ - which I think was the wrong place)

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[nookiemonster]

2. The parallels are mindboggling.

General Butler had it right.

[dbeach]

3. Veterans Bonus March

illustrats the arrogance of the cabas aganst the very peope who give them right or wrongly their bod and tears..NEVER heard eisenflower was dere ..not surprised ..Wuda voted for Adlai ..wasabout 4 at the time

CINDY has a powerful message to be heard


25 million Veterans..if they ever wake up then the
busheviks/neo-consters power grab and possibly worse is OVER..or if the Military could see through the bushco lies..

IF IF IF!!

[Karenina]

4. She will be heard!

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