Editing Silver Legionism (section)

==Variants==

===[[File:BlackAmFash.png]] Lawrence Dennis ===
Lawrence Dennis charted a singular course within Depression-era American proto-fascism. A veteran of the foreign service and an Ivy League graduate, Dennis stood as a respectable and dignified intellectual in the midst of frothing anti-Semites such as William Dudley Pelley and James True. His respectability resulted in Dennis being taken seriously in broad circles, and he gained a reputation as the “theoretician” of American fascism. Dennis managed to survive the mass sedition trial of 1944 debacle with his status intact, emerging in the postwar period as an influential Cold War spokesperson for noninterventionist conservatives. Dennis's supporters, however, did not know that the same man who met with [[File:Lindbergh.png]] [[Social Darwinism|Charles Lindbergh]] and Adolf Hitler began his life as a “famed, globe-trotting Negro child preacher”. Before entering Phillips Exeter Academy, Dennis began “passing” for white—a facade he maintained until his death.

===Smithism===
'''Smithism''' is based on the thoughts of American political figure Art J. Smith.

He was born in Ormsby, Pennsylvania, [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States of America on 1898, but ten years later [[File:AmericanFash.png]] Art J. Smith left school but then after his adolescence of [[File:Illeg.png]] petty crime that was committed, he served with the [[File:Cball-UK.png]] British Army during World War One 1914-1918, and then he enlisted into the [[File:Strato-Antifurry.png]] American Army as pilot reportedly downing seven [[File:Cball-GermanEmpire.png]] German aircraft during that time.

In 1918, Art J. Smith returned home with an [[File:Cball-England.png]] English wife that was soon to be divorced along with a chestful of medals but he claimed that he is a man of high adventures such as serving with Russian President [[File:Kerensky.png]] Alexander Kerensky as aide during the [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russian Civil War 1917-1923, flying bomber planes for [[File:PanchoVilla.png]] Pancho Villa during the [[File:Cball-Mexico.png]] Mexican Revolution 1910-1920 and joining the [[File:Cball-France.png]] French Foreign Legion in [[File:Cball-Morocco.png]] Morocco during the Rif War 1921-1926. 

Art J. Smith has set up a pilot school in the state of Georgia to ruin it but later he was arrested for trying to enter Mexico during the Cristero Rebellion 1926-1929, and then in the summer after the Bonus March on Washington DC of 1932, Smith created the "Khaki Shirts of America" as an organization that was appealing to the American war veterans & [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italian-Americans.

The "Khaki Shirts of America" has a headquarters that was located at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a doubtful membership of 2,000 people but [[File:Fash.png]] Giovanni di Silvestro who is attorney of [[File:Mussolini.png]] Mussolinist group called the "Sons of Italy" considered Art J. Smith as [[File:Honk.png]] clown while his organization was an embarrassment keeping them at arm’s length and Walter W. Waters who is a leader of the "Bonus Army" quickly disassociated himself from Smith who is his former colleague.

Art J. Smith did little to refute those refusing to take him seriously while like most fascists he had a weakness for sartorial finery while charged his recruits for membership, clothing & expenses but the more they paid, the higher the rank they received in this group and also Smith incorporated the "Khaki Shirts" as a [[File:Cap.png]] business that led many to assume his movement served merely as a personal racket.

Art J. Smith who is the leader of the "Khaki Shirts of America" had smaller contingents in [[File:Nyc.png]] New York City along with Camden, New Jersey but he claimed to have 25,000 additional followers nationwide even it was not true but also Smith professed to possess artillery, tanks & machine guns in abundance that likely as real than his adventures around the world and members of the group cause trouble around Philadelphia by carrying clubs, lead pipes & knives in battles with [[File:Synd.png]] Unionists, [[File:Commie.png]] Communists or other perceived enemies.

In June 1933, Art J. Smith hosted a public meeting in the Reyburn Plaza that was ostensibly a conclave for unemployed veterans but the event soon turned into a Fascist rally that has a recruitment drive but the "Khaki Shirts of America" members are facing indifference hostility among veterans more concerned with food or jobs than a violent revolution and equally unimpressed were a gang of Communist dock workers who are mostly Italian-Americans themselves who picketed the rally that lead to prepared violence.

Afterwards, Art J. Smith lead his group with a band of about 200 marching through south of Philadelphia while encountered a group of Communists near Passyunk Square that proved decidedly unwelcoming that led to violence while fists, knives & clubs flew with a massive brawl erupted and when the [[File:PolState.png]] police arrived there are dozens of participants who were injured while one person who is named Carlo Tresca was dead but since most witnesses agreed that the Communists struck first, Smith quickly claimed martyrdom holding an elaborate funeral to mourn the fallen Fascist.

In July 14th 1933, Art J. Smith hosted a rally at Columbus Hall in Queens, New York attracting some 200 attendees while some were members of the "Khaki Shirts of America" while others came from a certain chapter of Italian American Blackshirts but other Italian-Americans however didn’t appreciate this effort to introduce Fascism to their adopted homeland for example Carlo Tresca who is a [[File:Mediastocracy_flair.png]] radical publisher who is a labour organizer affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) led a counter charge in his newspaper called "La Stampa Libra" in which he urged Italian American to picket the event even he did not advocate for violence against them as he expected a clash between Fascists and [[File:Soc-h.png]] Socialists to end peacefully.

As the rally commenced, several Communists including the followers of Carlo Tresca infiltrated Columbus Hall to began heckling Art J. Smith while Fort Velona who is a renowned Socialist illustrator caricaturist shouted the words “Morte a Mussolini!/Death to Mussolini!” at every mention of the Duce’s name but after several insults, a group of "Khaki Shirts" surrounded Velona to beat him senseless with fists, clubs & chairs to cheers from the crowd and as Smith continued speaking, several other protestors attempted to rescue Velona that lead to a general melee as the Khaki Shirts pounced on the interlopers while several protesters were beaten or stabbed even others were thrown down a flight of stairs while into the alley outside.

Art J. Smith whose speech was already disrupted decided to dismounted the podium to waded into the crowd with his lead-lined riding crop spoiling for a fight but then he spotted 22 year old college student protester named [[File:Ultraprogressivism.png]] Antonio Fierro, grabbed him by the collar so he can repeatedly smashed his skull even Fierro who is bleeding profusely managed to escape but a phalanx of Khaki Shirts to block his escape and at this point a shot rang out that killed the lights but when the lights flashed back on a moment later he lay dead next to Smith.

The police have arrived after the event so Art J. Smith along with the "Kalki Shirts of America" contrived a farcical cover-up such as advising his bodyguard Frank Moffer who had fired the fatal shot that killed Antonio Fierro hide his murder pistol weapon in a piano but as the police began questioning the crowd about Fierro’s death, an Italian American cab driver named Athos Terzani insisted that the Kalki Shirts had killed his friend so he led the police to the piano and rather than arresting Smith or Moffer, they decided to apprehend Terzanu instead in which started a whole fiasco that was apparently a Communist trick to discredit the Khaki Shirt cause but the only thing more absurd than this explanation is that the police accepted it then charging Terzani with murder.

Art J. Smith returned to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to prepare for a more ambitious undertaking such as planning to organize his group to march on [[File:Cball-WashingtonDC.png]] Washington DC while carrying arms in emulation of Benito Mussolini’s descent on [[File:Rome.png]] Rome but his program remained remarkably muddled but Smith pledged to establish a government that he dubbed Monocracy aka [[File:Auto.png]] Autocracy by abolish Congress while place the economy on the [[File:SilverStandard.png]] silver standard along with institute a massive military build-up but somewhere down this list was payment of veteran's bonuses as Smith vowed to wage relentless war on economic crime, political graft & [[File:Krit.png]] judicial [[File:Klep.png]] corruption even he is less high-mindedly while he threatened to exterminate [[File:JewTheo.png]] American Jews.

Art J. Smith directed little vitriol towards [[File:FDRism-alt.png]] President Franklin D. Roosevelt such as not only leaving him as president but also investing him with [[File:Sec.png]] dictatorial powers on the assumption that he’d back the "Khaki Shirt" movement wholeheartedly but this hope was as delusional as Smith’s boast that over a million veterans would join his march while in fact certain veterans who took notice of him seemed to despise him and Mike Thomas who is a fellow survivor of the Bonus March of 1932, threatened to mobilize a counter-force of veterans to block Smith’s coup.

The Philadelphia police took Art J. Smith’s blustering seriously so they infiltrated the "Khaki Shirts of America" with several informers while one of them notified the authorities that Smith planned to seize several police armories along with National Guard armories for the march on Washington DC on to procure weapons for his men at [[File:Imp.png]] Columbus Day October 12th 1933 and this inspired the police to act by tracking down Smith’s headquarters by perusing his incorporation papers.

On October 12th 1933, several hundred heavily armed policemen raided the warehouse operating as headquarters of the "Khaki Shirts of America" to arrest twenty seven bewildered "Khaki Shirts: to uncover a treasure trove of uniforms, correspondence & weapons but among them were 40 rifles, a smaller collection of handguns along with ammunition, swords, truncheons & assorted other weapons and the only thing missing was Art J. Smith himself who absconded to Camden with $25,000 in the face of police persecution.

Art J. Smith has his followers turned on him for example a former Khaki Shirt said “Death to the Rats of the General Staff!” while spilling lurid details about the "Khaki Shirts of America" plans for a new nation but also Smith had joined of his subordinates like Frank Spinogatti who is a troublemaker whose brother was an associate of Camden’s underworld was in hiding from arrest by his dwindling group of supporters and the march on Washington DC even without Smith had forty four participates that reach the capitol lawn before the police peaceably dispersed them.

Art J. Smith remained at large until in December 1933, when a murder trial about Antonio Fierro was commenced while Athos Terzani’s case became a cause celebre among the [[File:Leftunity.png]] Left along with Smith’s archnemesis such as Socialist leader Norman Thomas & Carlo Tresca organizing an defence committee but Smith was subpoenaed & compelled to testify in this trial insisting upon a modified version of his original story and he now admitted that the gun used to murder Antonio Fierro belonged to the bodyguard Frank Moffer but claimed that Terzani had ripped the weapon from Moffer’s hand to shot Fierro.

Art J. Smith’s defense faltered when a witness recanted his testimony when he admitted that members of the "Khaki Shirts of America" threatened him with murder if he told the truth along with Atho Terzani who was acquitted and Smith quickly tried for perjury so he was sentenced from three to six years in Sing Sing prison that was located at Ossining, New York while emerging penniless three years later.

Art J. Smith  worked several menial jobs through the "Works Progress Administration" (WPA) until he was retiring to Shamokin, Pennsylvania and he died on May 1965, the cause of the death was heart disease.