For those of you who don't know about the Business Plot to take over the US government:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
People always assume it failed. How do we know it didn't succeed? The US government sure wouldn't be any different if it had succeeded!
How do we know they didn't pull an Atlas Shrugged and threatened to crash the economy if they didn't get control, like the banks recently did? Maybe that's even where Ayn Rand got the idea.