“...had good reason to suspect the motives of at least some in the Bonus Army who may have been sympathetic to socialist agendas or worse....”
My thoughts too, but I have no research to back it up; at that time, though, the IWW (International World Workers - one of many Communist party affiliates) was heavily agitating throughout the country and the unions.
And you have to figure, with a little extrapolation, that they were mixed in with the Bonus crowd, using mob tactics and agitation to provoke confrontations with the powers that be - after all, what better way to show how “evil” the “capitalist” government by “oppressing the workers”... blah blah.
Agitprop works. They were/are masters of it.
THIS situation, however, is vastly different. Obamastapo goons firing on 90 year old wheelchair bound vets and their families for exercising their Constitutional rights - which they fought to protect??? Even Obastard isn’t THAT stupid and dimwitted to not be able to see how that would play out on the 6 oclock news.
And his media buttmonkeys wouldn’t be able to spin his ass out of that nightmare, no matter how hard they tried...
“just following orders”