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Guest Post: Police State Amerika
By David Galland, Casey Research
Police State Amerika
I just had a conversation
with constitutional lawyer and monetary expert Dr. Edwin Vieira. I first
became acquainted with Dr. Vieira, who holds four degrees from Harvard
and has extensive experience arguing cases before the Supreme Court, at
our recent Casey Research Summit
in Boca Raton, where he spoke on how far off the constitutional rails
the nation has traveled. Here is a summary of what he told me…
Dr.
Vieira and I covered a lot of ground in our lengthy conversation, most
of it related to the U.S. monetary system – its history, nature, and
likely fate. But in between the details and analysis of how it is that
the nation’s fiscal and monetary affairs have deteriorated to the
current dismal state – and how the global sovereign debt crisis is
likely to be resolved – a couple of deeply concerning truths emerged.
Concerning because, taken together, these truths have set the stage for a full-blown police state.
The
first of these two truths has to do the nature of today’s money. To set
the stage, I present the following excerpt from Dr. Vieira’s paper A Cross of Gold related to the original Federal Reserve Act.
Section 16 of the Act provided that:
Federal
reserve notes, to be issued at the discretion of the Federal Reserve
Board for the purpose of making advances to Federal reserve banks are
hereby authorized. The said notes shall be obligations of the United
States, and shall be receivable by all national and member banks and
Federal reserve banks and for all taxes, customs, and other public dues.
They shall be redeemed in gold on demand at the Treasury Department of
the United States, or in gold or lawful money at any Federal reserve
bank.
Observe: From the very
first, Federal Reserve Notes were denominated “advances” and
“obligations”—that is, instruments and evidence of debt. True “money”, however, is the most liquid of all assets, not a debt that might be repudiated, and certainly not a debt that has been serially repudiated.
And
if Federal Reserve Notes were from the start to be “redeemed in gold or
lawful money”, they obviously were never conceived to be either “gold”
or “lawful money”. So, because by definition the only “money”
the law recognizes is “lawful money”, by law Federal Reserve Notes were
never (and are not now) actual “money” at all, but at best only some
sort of substitute for “money”.
The
monetary conjurers’ trick has been, slowly, steadily, and stealthily,
to reverse this understanding in the public’s mind. That is, to make the
substitute pass for the real thing, and then remove the real thing from
the operation.
This subterfuge was not
overly difficult to put over. After all, in the term “redeemable
currency”, which is the noun and which the adjective? When people deal
with a “paper currency redeemable in gold”, the natural uninstructed
inclination is to treat the paper currency as “money” and the gold as
something else. The paper currency, as the saying goes, is merely
“backed” by gold—but of course is not itself gold. And because the
currency is not itself gold, the money-manipulators can remove the gold
“backing” farther and farther into the background, without affecting the nature of the paper as “currency” (at least nominally).
Thus,
a “redeemable currency” can be converted into a “contingently
redeemable” or “conditionally redeemable” currency, through temporary
suspension of specie payments (as happened repeatedly during the
Nineteenth Century); and then into a full-fledged “irredeemable
currency”, through permanent suspension of specie payments, as with
Federal Reserve Notes after 1933 domestically and 1971 internationally.
Yet,
to the average citizen (whose most serious liability is mental
inertia), even though a paper currency’s promise of redemption has been
dishonored, it nonetheless remains “currency”.
Thus one grasps that the so-called “right to redemption” attached to any paper currency is actually a liability, inasmuch as it exposes the holders of that currency to repudiation, because they possess only the paper, not the gold.
Even
in the best of times, the holders of redeemable paper currency are not
economically and politically independent. Rather, they depend upon the
honesty and the competence of the money-managers.
This is why America’s Founding Fathers, realists all, denominated redeemable paper currency as “bills of credit”.
They knew that such bills’ values in gold or silver always depended
upon the issuers’ credit—that is, ultimately, the issuers’ honesty and
ability to manage their financial affairs.
The
unavoidable trouble with “bills of credit”, though, is that they can
(and usually do) turn out to be “bills of discredit”, when the holders
discover that the money-managers are dishonest and
incompetent—or worse, as is the situation today, highly competent at
dishonesty. Then the holders of the paper currency (if they are
sufficiently astute) realize how unwise it is to allow the gold to be
held by the very people with the greatest incentive, and the uniquely
favorable position and opportunity, to steal it.
But
when the money-managers refuse to redeem their currency, what can the
holders of that currency do to protect themselves? Well, what were they
able to do in 1933 and in 1971? Nothing. If the holders of
Federal Reserve Notes had enjoyed an effective, enforceable “right” to
the gold that the Federal Reserve System and the Treasury of the United
States promised to pay in redemption of those notes—that is, if the
currency had been “redeemable” in the only meaningful sense that redemption was absolutely assured as a matter of law and especially fact—the gold seizures of 1933 and 1971 would never have happened.
Thus, the ostensibly “redeemable” character of paper currency of the pre-1933 and pre-1971 type did not protect the holders of that currency. Instead, it turned out to be the very device used to deceive, defraud, divest, and dispossess them of gold—proving
in the most palpable manner that a society’s acceptance of “redeemable
currency” is the product of confusion and the invitation to inevitable
economic and political disaster.
In our conversation, Dr. Vieira
ticked off eight specific ways in which the current monetary system is
unconstitutional. While I won’t go into the specifics here, the
important thing to understand is that, as currently operated, the
federal government has managed to manipulate things to avoid any
constitutional restrictions on its ability to spend.
This, of
course, gives the government free rein to reward favored voting blocs
with expensive social programs, buy fleets of limousines, launch
expensive overseas adventures, bail out well-connected donors, and
otherwise spend the country into ruin.
To understand why this is
so important as a precedent to the evolution of fascism, view the matter
in reverse by considering how different things would be if the
constitutionally mandated requirement that the government’s currency be
redeemable in good money – gold or silver – was still enforced. In that
case, the government’s ability to spend would be effectively limited by
what it collected in revenues. That, in turn, would have greatly
curtailed its ability to grow into the bloated juggernaut it has.
In other words, the American ideal of a limited government would have been hard wired.
As
it stands, though, exactly the opposite has been allowed to evolve –
unchallenged by anyone, including the Supreme Court. Why has the
nation’s highest court chosen not to tackle this clear breach of the
Constitution?
According to Dr. Vieira, it is likely because if
they were to void the current system as being unconstitutional, they
would effectively blow apart the U.S. and global economy. But as they
have no authority to even suggest an alternative system, they are faced
with the reality that while they have the power to do great damage, they
have no power to cushion the blow. And so, the Supreme Court does
nothing.
As a result, the ability of the federal government to
continue its insane spending and rolling out new initiatives designed to
win over voters continues with no legal restraints – the latest example
being the health-care initiative.
Put another way, in cahoots
with the Fed, the federal government is able to wage war, bail out the
banks, foster socialism, and otherwise bankrupt the nation – to do
whatever it wants – largely thanks to its continued operation of an
unconstitutional monetary system.
It Gets Worse…
The
second fundamental truth is that the Supreme Court has been a
co-conspirator and instrument of the government’s degradation of
individual liberty.
Dr. Vieira and I spent a fair amount of time
on this topic – of how the nation’s highest court could let stand the
egregious excesses of recent decades; the Patriot Act, Guantanamo,
institutionalized torture and renditions, domestic spying,
eminent-domain abuses, warrantless searches, etc., etc. In his view,
there can be only one of two reasons that the Supreme Court has been so
accommodating – one is that the justices are incredibly incompetent, and
the other is that they are working within the context of an unseen
agenda.
Ruling out the first, his final conclusion is that they
are operating with an unseen agenda in mind. In his view, that agenda
revolves around the rising potential for widespread social unrest
emanating from the nationwide monetary Ponzi scheme. Doing its part to
prepare, the Supreme Court has been establishing the precedents
necessary for the government to cope with that unrest.
Too radical
a thought? Returning to Dr. Vieira’s point – ask yourself how else to
explain the Supreme Court’s actions. Are they collectively of low
intelligence, or otherwise so stupid as to be unable to understand the
Constitution? Or do they now view the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights as dead letters, freeing them up to respond to the government’s
overheated demands for new and previously unimaginable new “emergency”
(read “fascist”) powers?
Is there an alternative explanation?
On
this general theme, Dr. Vieira correctly points out that, in order for a
fascist state to exist does not require the government to actually
arrest anyone – but only that they can arrest anyone. Do you think you broke a law over the past week? I can assure you that every one of you dear readers broke a lot
of laws. Sure, you may not have realized you were breaking a law – but,
as the old saying goes, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”
The Stage Is Set
Unrestricted
in its growth by any constitutionally mandated limits on its ability to
create and manipulate money – the official currency now being nothing
more than IOUs redeemable in nothing more tangible than coins made out
of base metal alloys with inflated face values – and supported by a
Supreme Court that has unequivocally demonstrated a willingness to
ignore or sign off on egregious tramplings of the Constitution, the
stage is set for the U.S. government to evolve into something far more
dangerous on the domestic front.
All it requires now is a
triggering event, and it would be naïve to think that such an event
won’t occur. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not this decade – but when it
inevitably does, the federal government already has all the precedents
it needs to do “whatever it takes.” This absence of legal restrictions
on its actions is the very foundation of fascism.
When I asked
Dr. Vieira how the nation has progressed on a scale from 1 to 10 towards
becoming a police state, with 10 being a full-blown version, he put us
currently at about 7.
There really is no investment angle to be
derived from this situation – well, at least nothing new. Owning
tangible investments that will hold up in the face of a continued
currency debasement continues to make sense – but with the caveat that
FDR’s unconstitutional gold confiscation of the 1930s was let stand and
there is zero reason to think that the accommodating Supreme Court
wouldn’t go along with it again. One would hope to see straws in the
wind before any moves toward confiscation would begin. Until those
straws start flying, the precious metals – as well as other tangibles –
belong as part of your portfolio.
And I’d be remiss if I didn’t
mention the importance of politically diversifying your life and your
money as one of the few steps you can take to avoid the serious risk
that comes from being “all in” in a single jurisdiction.
Some
readers have berated me for often writing on what might be considered
gloomy topics. To which I would respond: If you are sitting in a theater
and see a fire breaking out, would you fail to make others aware of it,
because you didn’t want to interrupt their entertainment?
Well,
we can see a fire blowing up – the kindling for which has been piled up
deep by a series of out-of-control governments. Unless and until there
is something akin to an “American Spring.” this fire is going to spread
and consume even more of the accumulated wealth of the broader public –
and maybe worse.
Do what you can to protect yourself and your
families – then get on with your life. You may not be able to do much
about the bigger-picture trend, but you can certainly take steps on a
personal level to mitigate the ill effects.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst… but then live life to the fullest
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" It is as ridiculous to think the State can be restrained by a metals standard as it is to think the State can be restrained by a constitution. As soon as digital numbers are used to represent gold in transactions, they instantly become suseptiable to fractional reserve banking and arbitrary inflation."
http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/06/09/arguing-against-the-violence-of-the-state-is-futile-and-unnecessary/
+100 It will be a reset, and the game will start all over.
"This absence of legal restrictions on its actions is the very foundation of fascism."
Glad to see the correct characterisation of Fascism. Sick of seeing people say/imply the opposite of democracy is socialism/communism. Socialism and democracy are both attempts at an even distribution of power (and therefore wealth). Though they attempt to achieve it differently and we may argue the flaws of each/either, the opposite of BOTH is fascism.
As for unregulated (yay we're FREE and I am skipping on a cloud) markets; the grunt that leads to US fascism has been its free market mantra. Though only americans believe it. D'oh. Soon as the psychos running the war machine begin gutting the US pop. its all "damn SOCIALIST govt!" Theyre no more socialist now than theyve ever been, theyre just shitting in their front yard. Its the last place available. Fucked Africa, fucked south and central America, fucked the middle east and asia, etc. The markets were of course only FREE for those with the wealth and power to screw the feebs thinking they had/have a shot. At least in china the population know they've got a snowflakes chance of a jackpot.
We dont have socialist governments so much as fascist ones. They are the media and public relations arms of corporations. Like outsourced "franchises" whose goal it is to provide cover for corps and adjust policy as necessary while taking the flak.
blab off. ZH gooood.
Socialism in theory: workers own means of production. Socialism in practice: the State owns everything. Take your "socialism" and shove it.
"Socialism and democracy are both attempts at an even distribution of power (and therefore wealth). Though they attempt to achieve it differently and we may argue the flaws of each/either, the opposite of BOTH is fascism."
If that is the case, how can you reconcile anarchism.
Socialism=fascism=totalitarianism
"If that is the case, how can you reconcile anarchism."
Ding, ding- A Winner!
Anarchism is the opposite of fascism (or any other forms of centralized control).
The dilemma is how to protect property rights w/o having some sort of centralized power. Can't have one w/o the other?
Neither socialism nor democracy is an attempt at an even distribution of power. Such a thing does not exist. An even distribution of privileges, obligations, immunities, and authorities might be sought through a republic, but it must be backed by direct democracy, even though direct democracy is capable of producing a tyranny of the majority.
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I Love! You!! MAN!!! (not in a gay way, not that their is anything wrong with that if that is your choice. God Gave ALL Men Free Will! only man has ego enough to determine that Free Will is a bad thing over God's Wishes)
My thoughts on what is really happening.
once the population is reigned in..
it is easier to kill a million people in this day and age of instant communication and information than manage a million people.
finite resources and over development of the United States..
what happens when hunger is created in the masses? I dont care what your beliefs are.. but history has shown us again and again that when you have a hungry mob.. or a hungry enough mob.. what the result of the mob + hunger will be.. which is large scale DEATH and Destruction!
factor in we are talking about America where there are 5 guns per person and 10 Billion Bullets a year sold (10 billion is a real number, use google for ATF numbers). sprinkle in some forced austerity and BOOM! you have Hunger Riots which turn into Racial Riots or God Knows What kind of Riots.. but the end result will be a much smaller Mob left to manage after all the killing of each other is done.. and the Mob that is left will be so much more manageable after all the death and hunger.. considering all the brave souls with passion about freedom or human rights will be killed first on the front lines!
Finite Resources SUDDENLY are going to last a LOT! Longer! With all the brave Freedom Loving People Murdered by their own through trickery of the U.S. Government / Lobby / Owners of the Lobby.
But more important than even that, the Mob is now manageable after the mass kill off of Patriots.. power will be restored to the people who created these recession(s) / depression(s), the same people who create the Faux Fight to cause Austerity to reign down on the Sheepeople are the same people who will be better able to control what’s left after the fires get put out. The People in control will remain in control and have an even better grasp on the sheep with more resources or more accurately the same amount of resources with less people using them! And those same masses will have a significantly diminished expectation with regard to quality of life.
the passionate people, the people who care and who would fight for the rights of the people.. will surely be some of the first killed. the willing to fight for their rights will be eliminated and only the sheepeople or mostly the sheepeople will be what is left.. there is no World War to send these people who are willing to die for their beliefs too.. these people who would fight to the death for their beliefs are the Biggest Danger to the Lobby Owners. People who believe in the Constitution and People willing to fight for and even if need be die for the Constitution are the threat to the Lobby Owners or the Status Quo. Not only when it comes to easily being able to control / rob “We the People” but as well with the only people being left agreeing to a much reduced quality of life. Easy people to push around who can easily manage the service economy that is left in the United States, who will accept the 3rd World Rule of Law forced upon them and easily accept the 3rd World living conditions as that is what they are used too. Aztlan Bitchez! http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/mecha/archive/plan.html
What easier way than to let the stupid sheepeople kill the people with some kind of real belief system? whos left after all the little people get done killing each other? who is left once the masses are worked up into a hornets nest? who will suffer the most when the masses start killing one another?
not the Goobermint! they are all going underground! not me and my kind we are going to the Bahamas or other.. the poor, hungry belief ridden people will be left to die and suffer and the cowards who ran and hid from the fighting will be what is left to manage when the dust settles. As they have no real will to fight, they just want to survive so living in chains is better than death. That is who your neighbors are, that is what the masses are capable of.
The Cowards are all that will be left once the fighting dies down. The Cowards who dont care and just want to make everyone happy! even if it means them fucking themselves in the ass with a dildo because the creme' that rises to the top is to fucking lazy to do even that any more.
America is to filled with people who have guns and are willing to fight.. that is not a controllable crowd.. or more to the point they want an easier crowd to control than what is here now. Population control while getting rid of the Free Thinkers! And “We the People” are going to do it to ourselves via some pressure applied from Washington D.C. in just the right spots!
nothing but civil unrest comes from starving people and that is what a LOT! of you have talked yourselves into is a good thing for this Country, “AUSTERITY FOR THE POOR”.. and the top 1% of 1% just wants control over an easy going group of sheep. Civil unrest, let the hungry starve and let the top 1% or 1% have exactly what they want.. because it is good for you how? You live out in the middle of nowhere? well let’s hope the hungry crowd doesn’t find you cowards out there hiding! while the real men who believe in something die for no reason other than to clear the road for the top 1% of the 1%.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Xe_ATNWQQ
Al Bartlett on energy consumption versus population
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClqUcScwnn8
David Rockefeller speaks about population control.
Obama's Science Czar..
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&source=hp&q=obama+science+czar+population+control&aq=1&aqi=g2g-v2g-sv1&aql=&oq=obama+science+czar&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=71c6c4af87148765&biw=1266&bih=575
http://vimeo.com/6475921 Control in Modern Times! Easier to Kill a Million People than Control a Million People in these modern politically awaken times. Revolution will come, will you be a spectator or will you help change your own future.. your children’s future, for the better?
Consider that 59% of Americans are receive some type of Goobermint Help.. and when that Help it taken away.. that 59% of Americans will be hungry.. Forced Austerity upon the poor and hungry so that the resources will last longer and the masses left will be easier to Rule / Serve! LOL!!!
Hungry, Armed Americans looking for food.. can NOT end well for the Country.. But Record Bonus Monies for Wall Street! and the sheep are asleep while this slow boil goes on!
Let the idiot brigade now begin describing how with no jobs that the poor pulling themselves up by their boot straps is helpful to ALL Americans!
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Pay Attention stupid.
Corporations Own the Lobby!
The Lobby Owns the Government!
Law Enforcement works for the Duly Elected Lobby Whores!
We the People = Screwed!
Hong Kong opening up its own "comex" as China inhales gold. That will make for an easy and transparent price discovery to be priced in Rimimbi.
QEIII will be the repurchase of the Japanese $830 billion worth of US securities; how could we deny people trying to rebuild a country? How could we possibly let them hit the market?
Our teeth are on fire and no one in the world will even piss in our mouth to put it out. Why should they?
"the importance of politically diversifying your life and your money as one of the few steps you can take to avoid the serious risk that comes from being “all in” in a single jurisdiction."
Hear hear! This may be THE single most important goal.
Horrible article.
In our conversation, Dr. Vieira ticked off eight specific ways in which the current monetary system is unconstitutional. While I won’t go into the specifics here
You write an article suggesting that a police state will result from illegal activities from the government and then expect the reader to simply agree that what they are doing is illegal without even 1 citation.
Your points are probably valid but without any information to back it up its just stupid. Very lazy article.
There's a difference between lazy and horrible. I for one would have loved to see those points too. Were they so unmemorable that the author couldn't quite recall? Or did he lose the napkin he wrote them on?
You are missing the point, the US government is out of control from any rational fiscal standard.
It stands to reason that since the monetary controls have been subverted it will be easier to remove other contols. Take for example the illegal war in Libya.
The result could be a totalitarian state, certainly the unintended consequences of removing the constitutional contols on money creation could lead to other more ominous developments.
brilliant essay, it should be of compulsory reading.
the structure of fascism is complex, similar to brain synapses. they're not only the government institutions the pillars to sustain it, but society itself from the time it resigns to manage its own affairs.
Warning: if something has been understood by fascism (that is, any form of totalitarian control of individuals) it is to be divested of any whiff uniform.
2.0 Fascism will surely come casually dressed, with cool haircuts and, no doubt, through social networks.
...fascism is already upon labor, the mark of the beast is debt.
To kill the beast all One must do is stop feeding it. If the beast tries to eat you because you stopped feeding it, kill it and all it's children, burn the carcass. http://bible.cc/revelation/20-9.htm
let's refine this "DICTATORSHIP AMERIKA" model a little farther:
it does not matter whether you call it (presumably "left wing") "socialism" or "facism"(presumably right-wing) - Stalin's "left-wing/communists" kgb, kangaroo courts, & gulags operated EXACTLY as Hitler's Nazi, radical right-wing gestapo, kangaroo courts, & concentration camps.
Despite Soviet Communism's ostensible focus on a "WORLDWIDE COMMUNITY of WORKERS" it was of course a CONTINUATION of the CZAR's IMPERIAL Russia... (almost) as race superiority & nationalism based (with Russians at the top, and Ukrainians, Chechans, and nomadic tribes at the bottom) as Hitler's overtly "aryan super-men" ideology.
Here in America we LIKE to believe that it is ONLY the "AMORPHOUS HYPER RICH" who are DRIVING us & our economy to DESTRUCTION.... but that is incorrect.
It is SPECIFICALLY the ideology and theology of "THE CHOOSEN" people - whether judeo "Neo-Cons" or WASP (White/Anglo/Saxon + Scots/Celtic Protestants) fundamentalists - who are INTENTIONALLY DRIVING their fellow Americans in to the modern version of (American) 'Indian' RESERVATIONS: where if an Indian Agent was corrupt and POCKETED the money to purchase a tribe's food & rations for the winter, a good portion of that tribe could STARVE during the winter.
(i.e. the American PREDECESSORS of Hitler's extermination/death camps.)
See Michael Lind's book, "MADE IN TEXAS: George W. Bush and the SOUTHERN TAKEOVER of American Politics" (where "politics" means "POWER" when you win, or steal, elections, and grab the tremendous powers of state & national govt.) for more about the treasonous, treacherous, INTENTIONAL SABOTAGE destruction of the non-elites (which is to say, the real American citizen/consumer/producer economy) by the unholy alliance of former hateful enemies, the mostly Jewish Northern, Ivy League & U. Chicago "neoconservatives" ("Neo-Cons" for short) and their partners in crime & treason (e.g.the INTENTIONAL NEGLECT SABOTAGE of New Orleans during & after Katrina) the Southern reactionary "neoConfederates".
http://books.google.com/books?id=F9b2YAxwJj4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Michael+Lind+Made+in+Texas&hl=en&ei=9FzzTb7VAcfZgAfNmvXCCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
See especially Lind's "The CONFEDERATE CENTURY" (that would be the post- Civil War century!) and "That Old Time Religion" and "Armageddon" chapters, for how the Neo-Cons + neoConfeds regard everyone around them not part of "their gang" as VERMIN & CANNON-FODDER to be dipossesed, dispossed of (exterminated) or ENSLAVED - just as Netanyahu's Likud jews regard Palestinians in occupied Palestine.
The only thing Lind falls short, when he wrote the book in 2002, it looked like the Texas oil men & Southern Republican "Pioneers" like Enron Ken Lay, the Wiley Brothers, the Koch brothers, & other Southern oligarchs & autocratic kleptocrats were the DOMINANT PARTNERS of the treacherous, treasonous Neo-Con + neoConfed alliance. Today we realize that the Neo-Cons are far and away the DOMINANT PARTNERS in the kleptocratic THEFT & DESTRUCTION TAKE-DOWN of the American economy (Netanyahu is HANDS DOWN, THE MOST POWERFUL politician - IN AMERICA!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aFNEog9CDI
this is a historical REPEAT: during the 1845-1852 Irish GREAT FAMINE, the ROTHSCHILDS were the UNDISPUTED POWERS behind Britain's finance and entire global imperial system: they were building palatial mansions around London like so many mushrooms popping up after a rainstorm, even as ONE MILLION Irish men, women, and children STARVED and died of FAMINE related diseases, and another million were forced to FLEE their homeland in TERROR, often aboard "DEATH SHIPS." Repeat the same above Financial/Imperial conquest atrocities during the British/East India Tea Co. OPIUM WAR to FORCE China to import opium - beause the British traders had NOTHING of value they could "trade" for valuable China products.
(Just as today, the Anglo/American/judeo warmongers are BOMBING THE HELL out of Iran & Libya - because America' Fed/rothschilds/bernanke bucks are WORTHLESS TRASH** that no one wants anymore!"
(** - see "judenfetzen" and Weimar Hyper-inflation in this terrific article "The DEATH of (Anglo/American worthless) PAPER MONEY" !! ) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/7909432/The-Death-of-Paper-Money.html
all the triade guys i have ever met were white and wore suits.. and had no tattos.
(Netanyahu is HANDS DOWN, THE MOST POWERFUL politician - IN AMERICA!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aFNEog9CDI
in Netanyahu's Defense! He paid A LOT!!!! of money thru Hundreds of Lobby's to get that kind of response! it is expensive to bribe all of Congress and the Senate.. But considering all the Free Arms / Nukes that "We the People" pay for in return! It is a Bargain and you know a Jew Loves a Bargain!
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One of best articles I have read on ZH.
But most of comments goes a little "off topic". We shouldn't comment much on fascism, but on a paper money causing it.
So going back to money, I'm courious how courts (also outside of USA) distinguish Federal Reserve Notes from US Dollars. What happens for example, if someone make an agreement to exchange something against US Dollar, and then refuse to accept RFN as payment requesting to be payed in real US Dollar or gold?
"They live !"
by John Carpenter, 1988
starring wrestling-legend Roddy "Rowdy" Piper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJC4R1uXDaE
Notable quote:
"I've come here to kick ass and chew bubble gum,
and I'm all out of bubble gum !"
+1 - It is a great time to be alive. And just like the author says... "Live life to the fullest." And remember, "Bullets only hurt you when they go through you. And solar flares only hurt you for that instant before you're cooked to a crisp."
There was a War on Drugs, a War on Terriorism. Now there is a War on any American that thinks that they have Rights or Freedom.
Rights and Freedoms. Here is George Carlin's take on that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYIC0eZYEtI&feature=related
which likely will be as successful as those others have been, albeit while causing too much misery to those in harm’s way
Sure you can trust the government, just ask any Indian.
and now a little poetry reading:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peX4dBEF0Vg
+1
Excellent article. Didn't like the obvious headline (I thought it'd be another skull-bashing video piece), but deserves to be read. Vieira especially.
With a broad view of fascism it appears every republic throughout history that lived long enough became fascist, captured by an oligopoly who then regulated and governed in a way to maintain power.
Republics, true republics, are the most vigorous and economically productive form of governance. Venice is an excellent example of a republican youth, a fascist middle age, and the loss of vigor and allies for self defense.
Mynhair,
Why do you get so many junks? Oh, wait - there's no recommend button..
Did you note his explicit admission that he's an active rah-rah boy for one of the dominant political parties, i.e., a genuine partisan troll?
Not that his manic pissing all over the thread as nothing more than a cheap provocateur isn't obvious and offensive enough.
I don't have any advanced degrees from Harvard... but I could have explained this to you and so could a lot of other normal people. We're called tin foil hat people by our captured media. We may be ridiculed by the wicked but apparently we are thinking on the level of Harvard scholars and apparently we were all born with exceptional perceptions to comprehend and observe...Not really. Any fool can see what's going on. Maybe it's the smart (or scared ones) who are keeping mum. The really stupid ones just keep watching gossip TV for sedation.
David:
I am a Libertarian and despise the current form of the Federal Government. I think the Global Bank Cartel controls this Country via their control of the Federal Reserve and Congress. I highlight this because I find your article more or less logically lame.
The statements that the, "second fundamental truth is that the Supreme Court has been a co-conspirator and instrument of the government’s degradation of individual liberty...how the nation’s highest court could let stand the egregious excesses of recent decades; the Patriot Act, Guantanamo, institutionalized torture and renditions, domestic spying, eminent-domain abuses, warrantless searches, etc., etc.," is your opinion. I study the court decisions related to the Patriot Act and Guantanamo and don't see them supporting your opinion. "Second fundamental truth"? Give me an argument or give me a break. I intellectually hate the NY Times attitude, "...and that is undebatable."
"Dr. Vieira, who holds four degrees from Harvard..." BFD. And kind of funny because Harvard is part of the Problem, not the Solution. I would avoid putting too much weight on the opinion of anyone who spent that much time there...
The topic in your article I would have been most interested in, by far, are the, "eight specific ways in which the current monetary system is unconstitutional." But you glossed over that.
But I am aware reviewing is harder than writing! And I do worry about a heavy-handed, Godless Federal Government that has no problem trampling on our Constitutional Rights. I just don't think the Supreme Court is clearly complicit, yet. Also, you seem like a nice spirited person, so thanks for that.
once the population is reigned in..
it is easier to kill a million people in this day and age of instant communication and information than manage a million people.
finite resources and over development of the United States..
what happens when hunger is created in the masses? I dont care what your beliefs are.. but history has shown us again and again that when you have a hungry mob.. or a hungry enough mob.. what the result of the mob + hunger will be.. which is large scale DEATH and Destruction!
factor in we are talking about America where there are 5 guns per person and 10 Billion Bullets a year sold (10 billion is a real number, use google for ATF numbers). sprinkle in some forced austerity and BOOM! you have Hunger Riots which turn into Racial Riots or God Knows What kind of Riots.. but the end result will be a much smaller Mob left to manage after all the killing of each other is done.. and the Mob that is left will be so much more manageable after all the death and hunger.. considering all the brave souls with passion about freedom or human rights will be killed first on the front lines!
Finite Resources SUDDENLY are going to last a LOT! Longer! With all the brave Freedom Loving People Murdered by their own through trickery of the U.S. Government / Lobby / Owners of the Lobby.
But more important than even that, the Mob is now manageable after the mass kill off of Patriots.. power will be restored to the people who created these recession(s) / depression(s), the same people who create the Faux Fight to cause Austerity to reign down on the Sheepeople are the same people who will be better able to control what’s left after the fires get put out. The People in control will remain in control and have an even better grasp on the sheep with more resources or more accurately the same amount of resources with less people using them! And those same masses will have a significantly diminished expectation with regard to quality of life.
the passionate people, the people who care and who would fight for the rights of the people.. will surely be some of the first killed. the willing to fight for their rights will be eliminated and only the sheepeople or mostly the sheepeople will be what is left.. there is no World War to send these people who are willing to die for their beliefs too.. these people who would fight to the death for their beliefs are the Biggest Danger to the Lobby Owners. People who believe in the Constitution and People willing to fight for and even if need be die for the Constitution are the threat to the Lobby Owners or the Status Quo. Not only when it comes to easily being able to control / rob “We the People” but as well with the only people being left agreeing to a much reduced quality of life. Easy people to push around who can easily manage the service economy that is left in the United States, who will accept the 3rd World Rule of Law forced upon them and easily accept the 3rd World living conditions as that is what they are used too. Aztlan Bitchez! http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/mecha/archive/plan.html
What easier way than to let the stupid sheepeople kill the people with some kind of real belief system? whos left after all the little people get done killing each other? who is left once the masses are worked up into a hornets nest? who will suffer the most when the masses start killing one another?
not the Goobermint! they are all going underground! not me and my kind we are going to the Bahamas or other.. the poor, hungry belief ridden people will be left to die and suffer and the cowards who ran and hid from the fighting will be what is left to manage when the dust settles. As they have no real will to fight, they just want to survive so living in chains is better than death. That is who your neighbors are, that is what the masses are capable of.
The Cowards are all that will be left once the fighting dies down. The Cowards who dont care and just want to make everyone happy! even if it means them fucking themselves in the ass with a dildo because the creme' that rises to the top is to fucking lazy to do even that any more.
America is to filled with people who have guns and are willing to fight.. that is not a controllable crowd.. or more to the point they want an easier crowd to control than what is here now. Population control while getting rid of the Free Thinkers! And “We the People” are going to do it to ourselves via some pressure applied from Washington D.C. in just the right spots!
nothing but civil unrest comes from starving people and that is what a LOT! of you have talked yourselves into is a good thing for this Country, “AUSTERITY FOR THE POOR”.. and the top 1% of 1% just wants control over an easy going group of sheep. Civil unrest, let the hungry starve and let the top 1% or 1% have exactly what they want.. because it is good for you how? You live out in the middle of nowhere? well let’s hope the hungry crowd doesn’t find you cowards out there hiding! while the real men who believe in something die for no reason other than to clear the road for the top 1% of the 1%.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Xe_ATNWQQ
Al Bartlett on energy consumption versus population
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClqUcScwnn8
David Rockefeller speaks about population control.
Obama's Science Czar..
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&source=hp&q=obama+science+czar+population+control&aq=1&aqi=g2g-v2g-sv1&aql=&oq=obama+science+czar&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=71c6c4af87148765&biw=1266&bih=575
http://vimeo.com/6475921 Control in Modern Times! Easier to Kill a Million People than Control a Million People in these modern politically awaken times. Revolution will come, will you be a spectator or will you help change your own future.. your children’s future, for the better?
Consider that 59% of Americans are receive some type of Goobermint Help.. and when that Help it taken away.. that 59% of Americans will be hungry.. Forced Austerity upon the poor and hungry so that the resources will last longer and the masses left will be easier to Rule / Serve! LOL!!!
Hungry, Armed Americans looking for food.. can NOT end well for the Country.. But Record Bonus Monies for Wall Street! and the sheep are asleep while this slow boil goes on!
Let the idiot brigade now begin describing how with no jobs that the poor pulling themselves up by their boot straps is helpful to ALL Americans!
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Pay Attention stupid.
Corporations Own the Lobby!
The Lobby Owns the Government!
Law Enforcement works for the Duly Elected Lobby Whores!
We the People = Screwed!
I read that China siad last week the USA has already defaulted on its debt obligations. Is this true?
Only in a manner of speaking. I think it was an academic who was overheard to say that the economic policy of the US has weakened its currency and thereby reduced the value of the holdings by creditor nations. I guess if you pay back a loan less than the value you borrowed at, it is in a manner of speaking "defaulting", but no, the US has not defaulted on any of its debt obligations. Bernanke can print whatever he likes to cover any shortfall, until we're all eating our shoes for dinner because a loaf of bread costs $1000.
You May be Livestock IF:
...safety is your number one motivator and prioritizes your decision making.
...you think laws are made to restrain criminals and have nothing to do with leaders.
...you believe a written law is a living breathing thing to be molded to whim.
...it makes sense to you to wage war on anything and everything, inanimate objects and even acts.
...you think America's armed forces are a "Global Force for Good"
...you think there's a choice in elections and you hope elected officials can change things.
...you think a dollar is a measure of work rather than a measure of debt.
...you ask permission of government to do things in everyday life.
...you nod your head like you understand and agree when someone refers to fallacies like "social contract".
...you think the stock market is an investment vehicle for you to retire or build wealth.
...your TV is where you get your thought stimulus.
...you think your taxes go to do good stuff, or fight terrorists or some other bs.
...you think Social Security and welfare type programs could work, just if we managed them correctly.
...you think it's ok to marginalize some people's lives for the betterment of other people.
...you think a group has rights.
...you think an entitlement is a right.
...you think a necessity is a right.
...you think "green policies" must be mandated.
...you think that as of late the "free market" is broken.
...you think that individuals with guns are dangerous, but groups and committees armed with force that can overwhelm thousands or millions is fine.
...you think the war on drugs is anything but a crime syndicate and an illicit business perpetrated by both sides.
...you think privacy is a thing of the past and it's ok for the government to survail and snoop on everyone.
...you think that things are different now and the mistakes of the past can't happen again.
...when people talk about our freedoms in America you nod your head and swell with pride.
...you're willing to accept some obvious subversion of law as long as your comfortable and America is still the best place to live.
BLEAT AFTER ME:
Land of the sheep, home of the slave.
America is the best looking horse at the glue factory and Americans are lambs to the slaughter. Period.
I bet you've pissed off a few philosophical types in your day.
...safety is your number one motivator and prioritizes your decision making.
Maslow wouldn't care for this one. His hierarchy of needs has safety at #2.
...you nod your head like you understand and agree when someone refers to fallacies like "social contract".
Locke, etc. might wonder what you think caused people to band together.
...you think it's ok to marginalize some people's lives for the betterment of other people.
Mill would argue that the converse isn't possible, and utility is the ultimate goal. Our legal system is also based on this principle. What's reasonable doubt? Is it better to let 10 guilty men go free than to imprison one innocent man?
I think these are difficult questions, and now I'm starting to wonder if I'm livestock. Thanks a lot, 666.
lol - good one! I've been a' sayin' for years now, that the HATE-MONGERED Amerikan public (misinformed, disinformed, & hate-whipped by the corp. media karl rove, rush pimpball, ny slimes/wp/cnn/time/warner etc. pimped talking points) sound JUST LIKE the SHEEP in George Orwell's "ANIMAL FARM" - every time some animal got up to criticize head pig Napoleon, the sheep would start BLEATING
and drown out whoever wuz talking!
http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/4.html
We always ask "but what can I do" and here it is right in front of us - print out this article and mail it to our 535 non-Representatives, the 9 Supreme Court Justices, and your State Assemblymen and State Senators. Ask your friends and email buddies to do the same thing. Show these gangsters that YOU KNOW what fraud took place and DEMAND a return to true, redeemable money.
Want to see gold & silver soar? Want to see the end of endless wars? Want to see the beginning of the end of corruption in government & corpratocracy? Want to see an end to inflation?
When ANYONE starts to complain about inflation, and there will be plenty of those anyones coming soon, send them this article and ask that they DO SOMETHING about it; ask them to print the article and mail it to their non-representatives.
The Revolution starts today and here's your gun and ammo.
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkwgTBrW78 - Revolution by the Beatles.
The Revolution starts today and here's your gun and ammo.
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
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you almost owed me a new computer!! I laughed so hard when I read this shit!!!
Ok! People!! Listen!!! UP!!!!
we are going to take our "Gun" and "Ammo" as described by this fucking idiot tree hugger.. and we are going to make a difference..
here's a thought retard.. why not get a real gun and some real bullets.. becuase whether or not you get it, understand and / or comprehend! shit is about to get dicey going forward minus some heavy fucking printing!
do you understand?
Do you understand this is population control issue for them.. unless you are dead, me along with you and a whole bunch more of us "We the People" gone for a dirt nap as well.. they will not be happy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Xe_ATNWQQ
Al Bartlett on energy consumption versus population
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClqUcScwnn8
David Rockefeller speaks about population control.
Obama's Science Czar..
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&source=hp&q=obama+science+czar+population+control&aq=1&aqi=g2g-v2g-sv1&aql=&oq=obama+science+czar&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=71c6c4af87148765&biw=1266&bih=575
http://vimeo.com/6475921 Control in Modern Times! Easier to Kill a Million People than Control a Million People in these modern politically awaken times. Revolution will come, will you be a spectator or will you help change your own future.. your children’s future, for the better?
JW.. you got me all wrong. While I'm not a tree hugger, I can live of the land or sea while most will starve. I've got so much ammo and arms I'd need 1/2 an army to use it all. But before you pick up a gun and most likely die from a professional soldiers bullet, all I'm suggesting is to exhaust every other possibility - in this case, letting THEM know that we know. We outnumber them 1,000's to 1 but they can pick us off 1 by 1, going door to door.
Actually, I have no confidence that this or anything else will work.... the people in government are too stupid to see what's coming. But if you can wake up 1 soul, and perhaps another, maybe there's a chance - low odds but what's else you got at this time?
My foot is halfway out the door and I won't be in the Northern hemisphere when the fallout will get the surviving 10%. I got it a long time ago and that's why I bought 3 acres in a rain forest 5 years ago and and I can get there without seeing a single a TSA agent.
So see, when you assume.... you know the rest. If not, you'll learn.
if you wanna fish the back side of the canal I am in!
and I said You, Me and We.. dont be such a wuss.
Yes, its time to start considering moving the family to a new country. Unbelievable how far down this country has gone.
http://www.silverdoctors.com/
Look up the origin of the word LAW on Merriam-Webster. It comes from LIE (LICGAN in Latin)...all laws are lies (Written or unwritten), because they are trying to codify the
opinion(s) of one group/individual over others...from Hammurabi on down
through out history. Who gives a sh** if it's "constitutional" or not.
Instinct...but that is corrupted too...the stories are in the mythologies...
indeed the plutocrats have appointed legislators, bureaucrats, and judges to see to it that it can impose martial law whenever it likes...the purpose of education and corporatism is to spread the base of the fascist pyramid...
the decade of greed was to make money the objective.....
fuck you rockefeller and leach....
Drudge is usually good for a few police state links. Fortunately the article "Pelham Police Zap Wandering Cow With Taser, Owner Furious" has a happy ending. "The cow made it home safely and, at last check, was eating grass."
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/06/10/pelham-police-zap-wandering-cow-wi...