Note: This is an archived site; everything’s quite dated. Please don’t read anything here except what’s been recommended directly by The Ox or his colleagues in April and May. If you don’t feel any urgency — if you’re not capable of feeling any sense of urgency — respecting large societal issues… you’re likely to think the author is out of his mind. Such people are welcome to return to their resignation, apathy, self-centered cynicism, ignorance and/or atomization untouched. HOW the miracle proposed below will be pulled off can be delineated upon request, but — for now — the author asks the reader to put that concern to rest. See if the spirit here resonates first.

“History is littered with governments destabilized by masses of veterans who believed that they had been take for fools by a society that grew rich and fat at the expense of their hardship and suffering.” — Anthony J. Principi, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, alluding to the Bonus Army in a March 14, 2001 speech to the Smithsonian’s Wilson Library on “Veterans as Revolutionaries”

Racket Party (UNEDITED, FIRST DRAFT)
Dedicated to Smedley Darlington Butler (Bonus Army participant) who was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps, and at the time of his death (June 21, 1940) the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
by Richard Martin Oxman

“If you look for political parties in the U.S. Constitution you won’t find any. Recall that the Framers disdained the very notion, warning that political parties simply invite factionalism and could create all sorts of mischief and civil strife. How prescient they were! The U.S. was governed for over 20 years before the first political parties emerged. What this suggests is that all political parties are constitutionally out of bounds and ought to be eliminated.” — Gary Brumback, author’s author friend from Florida

“I’m proud of you, Papi, that you have nothing to do with gangster politicians. [Pause.] I mean… politicians.” — The author’s ten-year-old son

One of the definitions of RACKET is “To make or move with a loud distressing noise.” That’s what I want to do in the fraudulent electoral arena, make a racket, rock the boat, sink our sad ship. Not move smoothly, disingenuously like the two major parties. Or feebly, like the permanently marginalized third parties, playing by parameters and with attitudes which guarantee failure. Careerist politicians will be verboten. Because, in almost every case, they’re part and parcel of one racket or another. [Many well-respected, influential people are with me on this.]

Our Party will be an ANTI-PARTY PARTY as per the opening quotes above. It will also be an Anti-Racket operation. Banks, for one, operate rackets*. So does the Federal Government. There are a lot of players in that realm. And we can deal ‘em all a virtual death blow if we acknowledge that WAR IS A RACKET. As per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket [Scroll down to External Links, if you will, and click on Summary of the Book War is a Racket (if you like photos with your reading).]

*Another definition of RACKET is “A dishonest business or practice, especially one that obtains money through fraud or extortion.”

We learn about individual scandals as citizens and we learn about so-called rogue operations that have been uncovered from time to time in U.S. History, but we don’t get the impression from our mainstream media or our educational institutions that RACKETS are institutionalized. That major, ongoing — highly protected — scams are the bedrock of our society, fueling our attempt to control the world, dictating the lives of the vast majority of humanity, enabling us to destroy Mother Earth.

My solution to this ABOMINATION would have one and all put their heartbeats into our “taking over” the State of California, legally and non-violently, via the electoral arena (following a new paradigm as per what’s delineated in http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/pumping-green-iron-calif ornia.html). And, as you’ll see from reading that interview, creating healthy ripples nationwide, generating a watershed in history worldwide. OUR CONCERN IS VERY MUCH NATIONAL IN SCOPE, USING — AS A POINT OF DEPARTURE — THE NOTION THAT TRYING TO APPEAL TO FEDERAL AUTHORITIES IS A DEAD END. [In fact, trying to rally citizens around moral indignation, guilt or even their own self-interests today leads to a dead end of sorts. More on that important/complex point, upon request. This is intended to be telegraphic.]

This is not a half-baked idea. Like the Dustin Hoffman character says in The Graduate, “Oh no, this is fully baked!” Seriously, if you check out the imprimaturs who have been backing our TOSCA project 24×8 for over a year now, you’ll see that a lot of high profile figures worldwide support this idea.

Recommended reading to go along with Smedley’s work? Dalton Trumbo’s JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, and the first few paragraphs of buddy Bill Blum’s http://www.zcommunications.org/after-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-there-was- fallujah-by-william-blum. If you can’t stand reading, you might get what you need from watching a few minutes of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee6SdmmCN5Y.

The author, no slouch with activism, asks you to contact him ASAP* at tosca.2010@yahoo.com or impelus@gmail.com or 831-688-8038 in Aptos, California. You don’t have to be a party to the sort of things Michael Leonardi delineates in today’s (4/19/10) http://www.counterpunch.org/leonardi04192010.html.

*We do have deadlines on several counts.

“Why is it that I’ve hardly met an educated soul in 67 years who knows about Butler’s 1934 announcement that there was a political conspiracy to overthrow President Roosevelt, a well-documented, proven accusation which is highly instructive?” — Question which came to the author upon finishing the first draft of Racket Party above.

Note: Even though the author is not particularly impressed by the BBC, it is worth noting (since most readers are impressed by them) that at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml — where you can listen to “The White House Coup” — you’ll find:

“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) 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.”

In the Wikipedia entry for Business Plot, after one plows through the feeble attempts to discount Butler’s accusations, the entry concludes with:

“The investigations mysteriously turned to vapor when it comes time to call them to testify. FDR’s main interest was getting the New Deal passed, and so he struck a deal in which it was agreed that the plotters would walk free if Wall Street would back off of their opposition to the New Deal and let FDR do what he wanted”.[40]“

See Archer, Jules (1973, pub.2007). The Plot to Seize the White House. Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 1-60239-036-3 if you are interested in the subject. Anyone who doesn’t like to read much might benefit greatly by simply ordering a copy of Feral House’s War Is A Racket (www.feralhouse.com), and checking out Adam Parfrey’s excellent, condensed introduction and/or merely glancing at the startling photo titled “Living Death” which faces its THE HORROR OF IT page. Yes, faces. [Pause.] Feces to the powers that be! UPDATE AS OF SO-CALLED EARTH DAY, 2010: No member of Veterans for Peace, for whom this was written in great part, has chosen to respond to me with even a “Thanks, but no thanks” or a “I’ll be taking this up with my colleagues” sort of missive. I’m hoping that they prove me to be a premature fool in being critical here. If not, the lack of a response (considering that I offered to be an asset to them as per their purposes) begs several questions. To be discussed upon request.