Veterans Organizations, a Frightening Failure

Who Speaks for the Military AND VETERANS?
by G. Duff

We have an interesting set of problems today.  The Army talks about constant deployments, uncertain missions, poor leadership, bad or no equipment, hungry families and mistreatment of their sick and wounded.

Veterans talk about endless waits for everything, denials of claims for no reason, an appeals process totally impossible to win and a hundred other problems.

Who speaks for the military and veterans?

Essentially, our veterans organizations (primarily the American Legion and VFW) speak for vets with retirees having a powerful associations to oversee their needs.

In truth, soldiers, vets and retirees really have nobody looking after their interests at all.  The only real groups that own congress are the companies that make money keeping America at war and keeping soldiers and vets sick and hungry…

Veterans, with only service organizations to look after them have been failed time and time again.

Why don’t our service organizations do more?

Our service organizations have a very odd history.  They became powerful after the First World War, working to help soldiers returning home, but quickly fell under the influence of extremists.

After WWI, there was a big scare in the US that trade unions would put a Communist government in power.  Workers lived like dogs and were paid pennies for a 12 to 16 hour work day.  Child labor was common.

Most jobs involved physical suffering unimaginable to most living today.  Labor groups were formed to make life more humane. Some of those groups were run by Communists, the only group at the time standing up to the Robber Barons that controlled the US Government which had become a virtual dictatorship.

In truth, we were not a democracy.  We had allowed powerful “Robber Barons” who paid no taxes and openly bribed politicians at every level to control our country.  They used police forces, the National Guard and the US Congress as their playthings.  The story of those who fought against these criminals is taught as the history of the “Progressive Movement” today, but in a highly “expunged” manner.

To a great extent, these same families own much of America today have still have great political power that we never see.

Veterans returning home from war were told that they, as “patriots” had to fight against “Communists” and support “American values.”  American values had come to mean:

1. Fear and hatred of African Americans.
2. Fear and hatred of Catholics
3. Resentment for immigrants who came to America to “steal jobs."  Those “immigrants,” of course, are many of our grandparents.
4. Fighting any group that threatened “our way of life.”

What were things really like then? 

Most Americans lived on farms that were buried in debt.  In cities, milk was sold made from chalk, bread from sawdust and baked goods using axle grease as shortening.  Sausage could contain anything imaginable.

Many Americans, from textile workers in the south to miners in Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, lived in virtual slavery. 

Large companies had private armies and any American who spoke up for rights and freedom was murdered in their sleep or jailed by crooked police.

The most powerful group in the US was the KKK with millions of members.  The Klan openly controlled local governments and police departments, not just in the South, but thru the Midwest with criminal offshoots like the Black Legion, joined officially with the Republican Party (in Michigan, “The Wolverine Republican Club”) and controlling entire units of the National Guard.

In Michigan and Ohio, the Black Legion controlled the state police forces.

Veterans made up a large percentage of Klan membership and veterans groups worked hand in hand with the Klan. 

Veterans groups also “rented out” private police or “strike breakers” who operated openly against both Communists and legitimate trade groups.  Leaders of veterans groups were under the direct control of major industrialists.  Veterans, many starving and unemployed, became pawns of right wing extremists, some committing unspeakable crimes.

In 1934, the American Legion, paid by the Bush family, Merrill Lynch and the Duponts, tried to arrest President Franklin Roosevelt and set up a Nazi dictatorship in the US.  This highly documented attempted “coup” is not taught in any school in America.  Nobody asks why.

Part of the Legion had become a paramilitary organization based on the Nazi ideals of Ernst Rohm, Hitler’s chief lieutenant at the time.  Legionnaires marched, saluted and dressed like their Nazi counterparts in Germany.  Their creeds and beliefs were identical.

As early as 1923, American Legion Commander in Chief Alvin Owlsley advocated the violent overthrow of the US government and the establishment of a Fascist Dictatorship based on the teachings of Mussolini.

The Legion and their Industrialist allies claimed to have thousands of weapons and were planning a “reign of terror.”  It was their plan to set up concentration camps across America and to execute every “enemy of freedom” until America was free of foreigners, Catholics and labor group members, even if thousands were murdered.

Supporting the Legionnaires were wealthy Americans advocating the Eugenics movement that was sweeping the country that legalized forced sterilization of “inferior” children.

It was the idea of the Eugenics movement to create a “Master Race” of pure Aryan decent.  The families that were involved in this very public and despicable movement were supporting the same aims in Germany simultaneously, but with greater success.

These same families, including and especially the Bush family, are still close to the American Legion today.  They share a long and frightening history.

So, when today you see a candidate openly opposed to supporting veterans rights being supported by veterans organizations, don’t be surprised.

They only reflect a decades old partnership. 

Few of the cheering throng realize, of course, that they are cheering the last gasp of a movement meant to make America the senior Axis partner in WW2 and plunge the world into a “dark age” meant to last a “thousand years.”

Gordon Duff is a Detroit native who served with the Marine Corps in Vietnam and currently lives in Maumee, OH.  He is a specialist on military history, international banking and is an avid chef and wine enthusiast.  Gordon travels extensively and spends much of his time in Europe.

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