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approached butler with a pitch. imagine, half a million veterans marching on washington a move financed by some of the most powerful corporations in america. the purpose to stop president franklin d. roosevelt s new deal opposed by wealthy business leaders as a socialist doctrine. this army of veterans would pressure the president to hand over executive powers of government and if the president refused, he would be forced to resign. the bond salesman after, you know, casually pitching the violent over throw of the u.s. government asked butler if he would be interested in heading this march to which general butler replied my one hobby is maintaining a democracy. if you get these 5,000 soldiers smelling of anything of fascism, i will get 5,000 more and lick the hell out of you and have a real war. the general reported this exchange to the government and here he is revealing the so-called business plot before a panel of the special house committee on unamerican activities. ....
public. the other developments that relate to all this january 6th business is the committee now scouring those trump documents that he failed to hide, losing at the supreme court. it was just last week. it was just last week that the supreme court handed down that big 8-1 decision, a stinging rebuke for trump. for people who say how does this all work, does any of it matter? the rule of law is holding. days later the committee is receiving and processing what looks to be about 770 pages of once secret documents from inside the inner sanctum and the upper levels of the trump white house. what s in there? the short answer is we don t have all the texts yet, but we do have reporting on some of the examples, the categories. meeting notes at the time they were preparing for january 6th, drafts of the actual january 6th speech which could be incriminating. we know trump wanted to hide it, as well as high level correspondence, that could be emails, notes, from then white hous ....
in the final days of 2010, a series of anti government protests begin in tunisia after a young graduate sets himself on fire when stopped from selling fruit and vegetables without a licence. they soon gain an unstoppable momentum. injust under a month, the demonstrations reach a scale rarely seen in the arab world. gunfire so far, more than 100 people have died in clashes with security forces amid a wave of arrests. the protesters are calling for an end to president ben ali s regime. tunisia, in january 2011, has stability but little freedom. president ben ali maintains strict control of society, shored up by a vast network of spies, informers and secret police. ben ali came to power in 1987, ousting his predecessor to become he promised reform, democracy, women s rights and education. but he had failed to deliver a more free and open society, the protests that began in december erupt quickly. people are taking to the streets, railing against poverty, unemployment and p ....
tunisia injanuary 2011 has stability but little freedom. president ben ali maintains strict control of society, shored up by a vast network of spies, informers and secret police. ben ali came to power in 1987. he promised reform, democracy, women s rights and education. but he had failed to deliver a more free and open society. the protests that began in december erupt quickly. people are taking to the streets, railing against poverty, unemployment and political repression. 0n the evening ofjanuary 13, the president appears on television to address the nation, urging calm. a commanding ben ali says he will not step down. the bbc has obtained secret recordings of phone calls we believe to have been made by the president to some of his closest advisers. they have been forensically analysed by audio experts who found no evidence of tampering or manipulation. we have also played these recordings to people who know the individuals heard in them. they believe the voices to be ....
expect some trans-atlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? never. all the armies of europe, asia and transfer infantry can a combined with all the fresh of their earth in their military chest with a bone apart for a commander could not by force drink from the ohio or make a track on the blue ridge in a trial of a thousand years. if danger ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. it cannot come from abroad. if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be our author and finisher. as a nature of free men we must live through all time or die by suicide. he was just 28 years old when he said this. all things the great emancipator saw the truth, death by suicide was the catastrophe facing the republic then and it is sadly the same today. the enemies of the american way seek to stoke our divisions, schisms and sicknesses in pursuit of their own agenda. they use all the tools at their disposal, money, manipulation, and even open propaganda to weaken ....