1 oz 2017 War Is A Racket Proof Is the first of the new Monumental Truth series.
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This new series seeks to take famous national monuments and to show the reality behind them.
The first one in the series is perhaps the one that influenced chris the most. The Iwo Jima statue of Marines taking Mount Suribachi is perhaps the most powerful and moving statue for any military or nation.
The Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, had decided the previous night that he wanted to go ashore and witness the final stage of the fight for the mountain. Now, under a stern commitment to take orders from Howlin' Mad Smith, the secretary was churning ashore in the company of the blunt, earthy general. Their boat touched the beach just after the flag went up, and the mood among the high command turned jubilant. Gazing upward, at the red, white, and blue speck, Forrestal remarked to Smith: "Holland, the raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years".
That monument was influential in chris's decision to become a Marine and when he became a Marine he was pinned the Eagle Globe and Anchor in front of that statue in Parris Island. One of the proudest day of my life.
It wasn't until a few years after chris left the Marines that I saw the truth that had gnawed at me during my service. That truth was spoken by a ghost from the past with one of the most highly decorated Marines ever, Major General Smedley Butler. He had served the Marines with devotion to the Marine Corps accomplishing many missions in the name of liberty.
Then he saw his role in the world and it was not what he thought it was.
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." -Smedley Butler
He saw himself as a gangster for capitalism and the banking elite.
"I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism." - Smedley Butler
"If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad." Smedley Butler.
He finally wrote the anti war book called War is a Racket to expose the way the world did and still does work. Death for debt. Profits for the rich and spilt blood for the poor.
"War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war." Smedley Butler
The 2017 1 oz Proof War Is A Racket seeks to show the truth that our military does not spread freedom and democracy, we only spread debt and death for the profits of the ruling class.
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What a great round and a better story!
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