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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
In 1933, Butler claimed to have been approached to become involved in a controversy, the Business Plot, telling a United States congressional committee a group of wealthy American industrialists were planning a coup d'état to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Butler also claimed the plotters of the alleged coup intended to use him, at the head of a group of veterans, to place the federal government under arrest. The individuals alleged to be involved in the coup all denied the existence of such a plot and the media ridiculed Butler's allegations, but a final report following an investigation by a special House of Representatives committee confirmed at least some of his testimony.
These were the Technocrats, right? Musk's family was involved in that and then fled to South Africa
Prescott Bush was involved and later became a senator, so I don’t see why the Musk family would have reason to flee. Maybe they were more culpable? My understanding is that they were Nazis involved in mining in S Africa.
Adding to Kobolds' reply, this link's to a decent CBC long read about Joshua Haldeman.
a few highlights:
-He was the head of Technocracy Inc's Regina branch and arrested during WW2 (link's to a newspaper clip from 1940).
-He was also one of the world's first chiropractors, and railed against fluoridation, vaccinations, and health insurance.
-He ran for the Prime Minister's gig twice and got VERY sooky when he lost.
-In 1948 when repeatedly interrupted by boos and catcalls at the Regina Housewives League party leaders' forum, Elon's granddaddy cried out: “I am making a speech here. Isn’t there still freedom of speech in Regina?”
-Then he heard South Africa would let him Lord it over the locals, so went there to be a super special Whitey. He didn't "flee" anything (except the reality that nobody wanted to vote for him).
-In 1951, he wrote in the Regina Leader-Post about his new life in SA: “We have two native (Negro) garden boys in the summer and one in the winter and a native girl. [...] The natives are very primitive and must not be taken seriously. We get quite a bang out of them and they are really quite useful. It takes three natives to do the work of one white man.”
-Following the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, Haldewell wrote at great length about how it's really "the white man" who's being discriminated against etcetcetc.
-He made his family spend their summers camping in the desert looking for a lost city of white people that gave South Africa civilization.
I only learned about any of this last year. Wish it was common knowledge during his "genius on The Big Bang" era.
They were Canadian and didn't approve of liberal reforms. They went to SA specifically because of Apartheid