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Orwell & Kafka Do America: How The Government Steals Your Money - "Legally," Of Course

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Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

Due process and rule of law have been replaced with "legalized" looting by government in America.

 
Did you know that the government of Iran steals your cash if they find more than loose change in your car? They don't arrest you for any crime, for the simple reason you didn't commit any crime; but it isn't about crime and punishment--it's about"legalizing" theft by the state.
 
So the government toadies don't charge you with a crime or arrest you--they just steal your money.
 
Pity the poor Iranian people--clearly, there is no rule of law to protect them from their predatory, rapacious, fake-democracy, quasi-totalitarian government.
 
Did you also know that if you deposit too much money in modest sums, the government of Iran steals all your deposits? They will claim--oh, the twisted logic of Orwellian, repressive governments--that you are obviously a drug dealer who is avoiding laws that require banks to report large deposits to the government.
 
Once again, you won't be charged with a crime--in true Orwellian fashion the suspicion that you may have committed a crime is sufficient reason to steal your cash. Pity the poor Iranian people, living in such a banana-republic kleptocracy.
 
Did you also know that if you are caught with any drug paraphernalia in your vehicle, the government of Iran steals your vehicle? The crime isn't a drug crime--it's a property crime: what are you doing with the government of Iran's vehicle?
 
Pity the poor Iranian people, living in a Kafkaesque nightmare where suspicion alone justifies the government stealing from its citizens, and an unrelated crime (possessing drug paraphernalia) is used to justify state theft.
 
As in a Kafkaesque nightmare, the state is above the law when it needs an excuse to steal your car or cash. There is no crime, no arrest, no due process--just the state thugs threatening that you should shut up and be happy they don't take everything you own.
 
Your car and cash are guilty--and your house, too.
 
Alas, dear reader, I have misled you. It is not the Iranian government that uses these tricks to steal from its people--it is the the U.S. government that uses these above-the-law excuses to blatantly steal from its citizens. I presented these Orwellian, Kafkaesque travesties of the rule of law as being Iranian so you would see them for what they are--the actions of an above-the-law, predatory state which falsely claims to be a democracy with a functioning judiciary.
 
All these forms of civil forfeiture in America are well documented:
 
 
Stop and Seize (six parts)
 
I strongly recommend reading every word of these articles before you start spouting nonsense about what a great and glorious government and legal system we have here in America.
 
After six years of gorging on the ill-gotten civil forfeiture gains of kleptocratic local government mafias, the Attorney General of the U.S., Eric Holder, recently announced that the federal government would no longer be taking its 20% share of the pounds of flesh stripped from the bones of U.S. citizens.
 
As my old African-American foreman F.B. would say: that's awful white of you, Eric, after feasting on the billions of dollars stolen from Americans for six long years. The same can be said of President Obama, who has ignored the officially sanctioned thievery by government thugs and toadies for six long years.
 
 
This is how Orwell and Kafka do America: each absurd justification for stealing private property is more outrageous than the next.
 
But wait--there's More! That bastion of liberal politics, the state of California, a state completely dominated by Democrats claiming the cherished mantle of Progressiveis undoubtedly the most rapacious, thieving, Kafkaesque government in any nation claiming to be a democracy.
 
As I have documented in detail, the mere suspicion that you might owe the state of California some tax is enough for the state to steal all the money it finds in any of your bank accounts. And in a fashion that would have made the NKVD of the former Soviet Union proud, you also have to pay the bank a $100 (or more) fee for stealing your money for the state of California. (At least in some accounts, you had to pay for the bullet the NKVD would put in the back of your head.)
 
After they take all your money, you can call the state tax office and listen to a recording. If you have any money left, you can spend it trying to prove your own innocence, since the state of California already declared you guilty without any evidence or due process.
 
 
 
 
When the state steals our cash or car on mere suspicion, you have no recourse other than horrendously costly and time-consuming legal actions. So you no longer have enough money to prove your innocence now that we've declared your car and cash guilty?
 
Tough luck, bucko--be glad you live in a fake democracy with a fake rule of law, a fake judiciary, and a government of thugs with the officially sanctioned right to steal your money and possessions without any due process or court proceedings.
 
Be glad we don't have to torture a confession out of you, like the NKVD/KGB did in the former Soviet Union, because your cash and car are already guilty.
 
And that's how Orwell and Kafka work in America--a nation that once was a democracy and could once claim to live under rule of law. Wake up and smell the stench of a gilded gulag, America; we're living in one whether you care to admit it or not.

 

 

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Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:10 | 5921636 LawsofPhysics
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In general it would appear that people are very confused as to what real "wealth" and "money" actually are...

 

We are now 30+ years into a "let the majority eat cake" monetary experiment where money/credit creation has not required any real collateral...

It is what it is, until it isn't...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:13 | 5921657 Greenskeeper_Carl
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LOP you seem to be confused how this works. It doesnt have to be fiat money, or digital money they take. They will take your land, your house, your business just as easily as they raid your bank account, and you have no recourse there, either. If you have it in this country, they can, and will, take it

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:17 | 5921663 Renfield
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Do you keep quiet, hide, hope it doesn't happen to you? It's a long, weary time waiting for this surveillance state to collapse of its own weight.

I can only hope as the ROW divests itself of this criminal cabal, that we in the West will finally be encouraged to do the same as its outrages become more and more blatant. But organising effective opposition -- now, how would that be done?

Not expecting you to answer, but this is a question that I have been pondering over and over lately.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:33 | 5921746 max2205
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But I like Arsenic In My wine......

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:03 | 5921868 PeeramidIdeologies
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There is no opposition through official channels. If one were to attempt to initiate change it would take a years to develop the platform. The main issue being how does one garner the support of their targets?

The concentration of wealth and power creates a nearly impenetrable social structure that only fails under the pressure of a mass uprising. Unfortunately history tells us that a "plan B" is usually put into effect therein and no significant change is had.

There's only one exit, and you have to build it.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:00 | 5922478 CH1
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There's only one exit, and you have to build it.

Line of the day! (I'm ignoring that "uprising" part - that goes nowhere.)

WE have to build it. Begging politicians is 100% wasted time and effort.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:49 | 5922009 Syrin
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Between asset forfeiture, no knock SWAT raids, daily beat downs, making you show ID for doing nothing wrong, etc., is it any wonder people hate the police?   I imagine even their spouses hate them.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:23 | 5921677 LawsofPhysics
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No, you seem to be confused.  I know my local "representatives", I know my local SWAT members.  My tribe and I know where the live, where their children go to school etc...

I don't see them "taking" anything.  Sorry.  besides I am a pretty big employer in the area...

Democratic republics do require your participation at some level.

besides, it's been this way for quite some time.  that you are just now catching on, is quite sad actually.

Again, "laws" that cannot be enforced, are really not that effectiv at all and when fraud is the status quo, possession is the law.  Having a good lawyer on retainer also helps. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:25 | 5921925 rejected
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So you are saying the entire article is bogus? That it flat out doesn't happen and all these people are lying? All because You don't see it where you live.

And I don't call a system where the Oligarchs pick out  the political contenders for you to choose a Democratic Republic. Keep in mind the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:28 | 5922383 Voicefather
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I think what he means is that it does happen and we could easily put a stop to it if we wanted to. It would require getting our hands a little dirty though.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:52 | 5922671 PoasterToaster
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And yet there is no peaceful way to disband the so called City Council and their petty little army known as the local police force.  Sounds like you, as one of the city fathers, are part of the problem. 

Why would you seek a solution?  And indeed you haven't.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:34 | 5922140 RaceToTheBottom
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I am really surprised that after the Obama has said no more baseless confiscations, some scumbag lawyer has not filed a bunch of class action lawsuits to retroactively go back and clean up all those.  

Then the scumbag would get 40% off the top and the law and political profession would congratulate themselves on how great and Exceptional Amerika is...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:12 | 5921647 Renfield
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<<Tough luck, bucko--be glad you live in a fake democracy with a fake rule of law, a fake judiciary, and a government of thugs with the officially sanctioned right to steal your money and possessions without any due process or court proceedings.>>

Rule of law and court proceedings can only be corrupted so far before it becomes obvious, and truth sometimes has a way of coming out and embarrassing the principals.

Another example, which Paul Craig Roberts directs us to, today:

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/03/23/uk-citizen-won-law-case-bbc-a...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/bbc-foreknowledge-of-911-collapse-of-wtc-bu...

How would the BBC have known to report that WTC-7 had fallen, 23 minutes before the collapse occurred? Is there a reasonable explanation for this discrepancy?

The West, it seems, can afford less and less legal and public scrutiny of very important events. With secrecy becoming a norm at the higher levels of government and media, it is no surprise to me, then, that lawlessness is now becoming a norm down here at the peasant level. The 'third world' is right here, as this is the way 'third world' used to be known to operate.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:22 | 5921686 LawsofPhysics
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^^^this.  Even corruption has it's "sustainable levels" before people start losing their fucking heads.

it's been this way for generations folks.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:35 | 5921734 Renfield
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As long as we're on the subject, and speaking of "it's been this way for generations":

I have been wondering what's behind the recent spate of investigative journalism and associated official investigations of pedophilia in Westminster, in some cases alleged to have been carried on since the Thatcher era.

http://winteractionables.com/?p=13469

(Thanx, Russ Winter, for posting this link earlier.)

The story includes 80-90 links, to many different sources, and concern a frightening number of people at the top of the Westminster system. Most of the links are still intact. None (so far) will mess up your computer and many of them are MSM.

I am glad things are beginning to come to light, investigation, discussion.

But I would really like to know who's behind all this revelation, and the motivation for it now.

I wonder if a general collapse is really underway, and if a time of revelation and justice may soon follow.

But the focus on Russia, China, Iran, and other 'foreign' regimes which may or may not be corrupt, is far out of place while the administration in the West is so very in need of scrutiny and major change. It is past time for 'western' citizens to get their eyes off the telly, and firmly back on the rot at home, before it consumes what is left of our society.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:41 | 5921771 LawsofPhysics
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moar distractions for the masses?  That's all I got.  Wake me when just one of the "arsonists that burnt down the American financial system and profited from it" goes to a real pound-you-in-the-ass prison.

The only credit I give the Reagan administration was sending over 1,000 bankers and financiers to fucking prison after the S&L "crisis".  remember this was the first time these fuckers tried to slice and dice mortgages....

those western sheep won't do shit until they start starving, period.  FYI, that SNAP program is getting mighty expensive motherfuckers...

tick tock...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:36 | 5922152 RaceToTheBottom
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1000 vs less than 5.....  Sorta comperable?  No not really.... Nevermind...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:46 | 5921798 moneybots
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"How would the BBC have known to report that WTC-7 had fallen, 23 minutes before the collapse occurred? Is there a reasonable explanation for this discrepancy?"

 

Yes.  On live news events, incorrect information is reported at various times.  It was reported that Brady had died, after the shooting of president Reagan.

There was a gunman who shot people in Santa Monica.  When the police held a press conference, reporters learned they had given out incorrect data as to the number of people that had been killed.

It was known that Seven World Trade was expected to collapse.  Someone at the BBC got their information mixed up.

 

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:11 | 5921889 rejected
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[ It was known that Seven World Trade was expected to collapse. ]

Really! How is that??? The building was never hit by a plane and had no serious fires.

Sooooo,,, How would anyone know that the building was expected to collapse,,,  unless they had inside information of the scam? 

Which leads me to the next obvious question,,, Where did you get that information?

And none of your comparisons hold water. You are comparing Apples with Oranges.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:39 | 5921974 11b40
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Yes, and who up voted this troll?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:46 | 5922058 SoilMyselfRotten
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Yep, canned response=troll

 

And they're programmed to come right back and down arrow ya, ha

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:04 | 5922036 moneybots
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[ It was known that Seven World Trade was expected to collapse. ]

Really! How is that??? The building was never hit by a plane and had no serious fires."

 

The fire burned from the time Seven World Trade was struck by debris, due to the collapse of One World Trade.  The fire department abandoned the fire, due to concerns the building would collapse.

 

"And none of your comparisons hold water. You are comparing Apples with Oranges."

That is a silly thing to say.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:52 | 5922670 SoilMyselfRotten
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They were told it would collapse, they didn't think that on their ow. JUst so you know, in the history of steel structure building fires, not one has ever fallen into its own imprint, ever. 3 fell that day w/the obvious 7 in the forefront. Steel beams dont melt til ~2300 F degrees so to think 7 could possibly fall in that manner is to embrace the height of ignorance. Think physical impossibility. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:17 | 5922079 Agstacker
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Larry Silverstein knew it was going to collapse

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeuQqP-NLnE

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:45 | 5921930 Renfield
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Bots, thanx for the possible explanation. If you watch the clip presented, the presenters speak of the collapse as a fait accompli, while treating carefully numbers of wounded, etc., as unconfirmed. Clearly, this information was presented as FACT, and not as anticipation. This is a very important distinction to have left out.

Here is a partial transcript I made (emphasis is mine):

<<HOST: Now, more on the latest building collapse in New York. You might have heard, a few moments ago, I was talking about the Salomon Brothers building collapsing. And indeed it has. Apparently that's only a few hundred yards away from where the World Trade Centre Towers were. And it seems that this was not a result of a new attack; it was because the building had been weakened during this morning's attacks. We'll probably find out more about that from our correspondent, Jane Stanley. Jane, what more can you tell us about the Salomon Brothers building and its collapse?

CORRESPONDENT: Well, only really, what you already know. Details are very, very sketchy... [Report continues of panic on the ground, etc. In the foreground is a banner reading: "The 47 storey Salomon Brothers building close to the World Trade Centre has also collapsed."]

[at 1:47] HOST: Presumably there were very few people in the Salomon building when it collapsed. I mean, there were, I suppose, fears of possible further collapses around the area?

CORRESPONDENT: [nods] That's what you would hope, because this whole downtown area behind me has been completely sealed off and evacuated, apart from the emergency workers... [report continues of chaos on streets]

[This whole conversation is carried on, with the building still standing, intact, in the background behind the presenter. Then, at 7:46, the building is then shown collapsing.]

[At 7:51, the following message by the video poster comes up: 21.54 is 7.54 British Summer Time, which is 5 hours later than it was in New York. BBC News 24 is broadcasting this at 4:54 p.m. -- The Salomon Brothers building (WT 7) collapsed at 5:20 p.m.]

[at 8:07] HOST: Again, as you were talking, news is continuing to come in, as you can imagine. We are now being told that yet another enormous building in New York has collapsed. It is the 47-storey Salomon Brothers building, which was situated very close to the World Trade Centre right there in this financial capital.>>

I do not know much about media reporting, so perhaps this is no big deal in media circles. On a personal level I find it rather incredible that this report could have been 'in anticipation', given that they were so circumspect and careful about lesser unconfirmed information (to identify it as such) -- let alone, an anticipated event. They actually do talk about fears of further collapses, without mentioning that this building is still only one of those fears and not an established fact at that time. This anticipated event is spoken of as though it had already happened, with indeed the building still intact behind the correspondent. However, as I said, I don't know whether it is as you say common to report anticipated things as though they had already happened. Considering the intact building behind the correspondent in the early part of the clip, an clarification should have been in order at the very least, if this were really anticipated, and NOT a fact as it was being treated.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:09 | 5922049 moneybots
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"Bots, thanx for the possible explanation. If you watch the clip presented, the presenters speak of the collapse as a fait accompli, while treating carefully numbers of wounded, etc., as unconfirmed. Clearly, this information was presented as FACT, and not as anticipation. This is a very important distinction to have left out."

 

You need to read what i wrote, again.  The death of Brady was also presented as fact, but it was erroneous.  In live news reporting, reporters make mistakes and that has been shown time and again.

There is no distiction.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:53 | 5922107 Renfield
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I did read what you wrote. You assumed (without evidence) that the reporters made a mistake, on the basis that other reporters had made such mistakes from time to time, and you stated that the fire department anticipated the event. It is, therefore, a possible explanation. Perhaps they thought the building had fallen when it had not.

This is possible but unlikely for the reasons I stated. That they should have KNOWN of this distinction, is shown by the FACT that the building is IN FULL VIEW DIRECTLY BEHIND HER. Did they not know what the building that they were talking about, looked like? Even as they describe their familiarity with the famous towers next to it? (They describe how drastically the cityscape that they are used to seeing, has changed with the absence of those buildings.)

That distinction is everything when both the host and the correspondent can see with their own eyes the building they have described as collapsed, STANDING RIGHT THERE in front of the camera, which they then follow with film of that very same building collapsing.

That distinction was EVIDENT, both to us watching and, hopefully, those reporting. I grant your possibility only because they could have been such uninformed dunces that they did not notice that the very building they were talking about was standing right there in front of them, and so they reported an anticipated event as a factual one. And still did not notice a few minutes later when they showed film of the very same building collapsing, which they had previously reported collapsed. Possible, but unlikely.

I hope this clarifies what I am trying to say. Presumably as they were reporting Brady's death, Brady was not up walking around in front of the camera at the same time as they were saying, "He is now dead".

(PS: I upvoted you for raising this possibility.)

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:54 | 5922231 moneybots
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"I did read what you wrote. You assumed (without evidence) that the reporters made a mistake, on the basis that other reporters had made such mistakes from time to time, and you stated that the fire department anticipated the event. It is, therefore, a possible explanation. Perhaps they thought the building had fallen when it had not.

This is possible but unlikely for the reasons I stated. That they should have KNOWN of this distinction, is shown by the FACT that the building is IN FULL VIEW DIRECTLY BEHIND HER. Did they not know what the building that they were talking about, looked like?"

 

I have seen lots of pictures of One and Two World Trade, prior to 9/11/01.

Never knew there was a Seven World Trade.  So yes, the BBC reporter could have sat with Seven World Trade behind her and not known that building was Seven World Trade.

The fact that she reported that the building still standing behind her had fallen, actually indicated that she had no idea what Seven World Trade looked like.

It goes to show that reporters make mistakes during live news events.  There was never anything to read into the mistake.  There is no there, there.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:13 | 5922330 moneybots
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"HOST: Presumably there were very few people in the Salomon building when it collapsed."

 

There hadn't been anyone in the Salomon building for hours.

BBC made another mistake during a live news event. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:48 | 5922436 Renfield
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Yes, I see your point, that the reporters did not recognise the building does indicate that they did not know what it looked like. This stands to reason. So we are back to, error or anticipation. It looks like either way, we are safe to assume the reporters were doing a faithful job. (I apologise for calling them uninformed dunces! Uninformed, yes, dunces, no. You are right that it was a tense situation and it is easy to be more accurate in hindsight.)

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:24 | 5922097 moneybots
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"I do not know much about media reporting, so perhaps this is no big deal in media circles. On a personal level I find it rather incredible that this report could have been 'in anticipation', given that they were so circumspect and careful about lesser unconfirmed information (to identify it as such) -- let alone, an anticipated event."

 

The fire department had anticipated the collapse of Seven World Trade well before it collapsed. 

The BBC report was not in anticipation, it was erroneous, just as the report of Brady's death was erroneous.  Reporters make mistakes on live news events.   Someone erroneously thought that Seven world Trade had collapsed, when the correct information was that that NYFD expected it to collapse.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:35 | 5922149 moneybots
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"However, as I said, I don't know whether it is as you say common to report anticipated things as though they had already happened."

 

Obvously, you are playing games. 

It is common for reporters to make mistakes during live news events.  The BBC simply made a mistake, reporting something that was anticipated to occur in the future, as if it had already happened.

 

 

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:49 | 5922657 PoasterToaster
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The fact is the building was standing while they reported it had collapsed.  You then engage in a lot of totally baseless speculation about mightabeens and present it as the truth.

Another anti-truth shill full of nonsense.  The 9-11 coverup always brings them out.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:26 | 5922380 roadhazard
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As you see the tin foil hats don't like your comment. Pay them no mind they are in there own little world.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:09 | 5921880 samsara
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Get your Tshirt or Bumper Sticker

 

WTC7WTF?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:10 | 5921649 Al Huxley
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But what does this have to do with the next iPhone and it's Samsung competitor?  And how does this affect my ability to use twitter?  Why all these articles with no reference to the really IMPORTANT issues in our lives?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:20 | 5921676 g speed
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the lack of  IMPORTANT issues  has eductional value in that the lack of them or not is meaningless (that is superfluous) to your life --

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:32 | 5921740 Al Huxley
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Blah, blah, blah.  Any recent photos of Bruce Jenner?  How's his transition proceeding?  What do his wife and kids think of it?  So many important issues to follow.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:15 | 5921651 JustObserving
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Let's look at some of the amounts stolen by the police:

US Cops Seized More Than $2.5 Billion From Drivers Not Charged With Any Crimes

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/15/cops-take-2-5-billion-from-innoc...

And why just money?  Cops will also take your life in the land of the free:

Cops in the U.S. kill citizens at 70 times the rate of other first world countries

While violence among citizens has dropped, violence against citizens carried out by police has been rising sharply.

http://www.sott.net/article/294219-Above-the-law-Cops-in-the-US-kill-cit...

 

Report finds FBI undercounts police killings by half

March 7, 2015

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/03/07/brut-m07.html

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:11 | 5921653 Dick Gazinia
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Hey.  While you are at it, would you like to fuck my girlfriend?  

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 23:35 | 5924027 Skiprrrdog
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Again???

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:12 | 5921656 cigarEngineer
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It's horrible. Pray tell, what is a better place to live where you can make over $200k per year?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:59 | 5921846 Rikeska
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How's the AMT one get's hammered with in fat years as a 200k/year income serf working out for you fuckwit?

If you are living on "income" as defined by the IRS and taxable as such you ain't shit here in the good old USSA unless you are retarded and your only source of pleasure is bread, circuses, and shiny toys.

 

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:07 | 5922305 Kprime
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and you can legally steal billions all without lifting a finger....well, I mean you do have to lift a finger to turn on those red lights.  you know the ones flashing in your rear view mirror, saying pay me pay me pay me, I own you now.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:13 | 5921658 g speed
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drive a car that screams "this guy is a broke bum and has no cash--he doesn't even have hub caps on that old piece of shit"

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:30 | 5921721 i_fly_me
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That is one of the more reliable signs that you are living in the period of an empire's decline. When the rich begin to start feeling uncomfortable being recognized as rich, and disguise themselves as being poorer than they really are, it means the social order is breaking down, and government thuggery is becoming more commonplace.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:44 | 5921784 Renfield
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I propose retirement of the misleading term "civil servant". Who is serving whom?

While I'm not sure that conspicuous consumption is very desirable or wise either, still you make a very strong point.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:15 | 5921660 Chupacabra-322
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The Bankruptcy of The United States
United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303

Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:

"Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11.. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner’s report that will lead to our demise.

It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 - Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.

The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers. With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America. This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part: "The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States?’

Gold and silver were such a powerful money during the founding of the united states of America, that the founding fathers declared that only gold or silver coins can be "money" in America. Since gold and silver coinage were heavy and inconvenient for a lot of transactions, they were stored in banks and a claim check was issued as a money substitute. People traded their coupons as money, or "currency." Currency is not money, but a money substitute. Redeemable currency must promise to pay a dollar equivalent in gold or silver money. Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) make no such promises, and are not "money." A Federal Reserve Note is a debt obligation of the federal United States government, not "money?’ The federal United States government and the U.S. Congress were not and have never been authorized by the Constitution for the united states of America to issue currency of any kind, but only lawful money, -gold and silver coin.

It is essential that we comprehend the distinction between real money and paper money substitute. One cannot get rich by accumulating money substitutes, one can only get deeper into debt. We the People no longer have any "money." Most Americans have not been paid any "money" for a very long time, perhaps not in their entire life. Now do you comprehend why you feel broke? Now, do you understand why you are "bankrupt," along with the rest of the country?

Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) are unsigned checks written on a closed account. FRNs are an inflatable paper system designed to create debt through inflation (devaluation of currency). when ever there is an increase of the supply of a money substitute in the economy without a corresponding increase in the gold and silver backing, inflation occurs.

Inflation is an invisible form of taxation that irresponsible governments inflict on their citizens. The Federal Reserve Bank who controls the supply and movement of FRNs has everybody fooled. They have access to an unlimited supply of FRNs, paying only for the printing costs of what they need. FRNs are nothing more than promissory notes for U.S. Treasury securities (T-Bills) - a promise to pay the debt to the Federal Reserve Bank.

There is a fundamental difference between "paying" and "discharging" a debt. To pay a debt, you must pay with value or substance (i.e. gold, silver, barter or a commodity). With FRNs, you can only discharge a debt. You cannot pay a debt with a debt currency system. You cannot service a debt with a currency that has no backing in value or substance. No contract in Common law is valid unless it involves an exchange of "good & valuable consideration." Unpayable debt transfers power and control to the sovereign power structure that has no interest in money, law, equity or justice because they have so much wealth already.

Their lust is for power and control. Since the inception of central banking, they have controlled the fates of nations.

The Federal Reserve System is based on the Canon law and the principles of sovereignty protected in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In fact, the international bankers used a "Canon Law Trust" as their model, adding stock and naming it a "Joint Stock Trust." The U.S. Congress had passed a law making it illegal for any legal "person" to duplicate a "Joint Stock Trust" in 1873. The Federal Reserve Act was legislated post-facto (to 1870), although post-facto laws are strictly forbidden by the Constitution. [1:9:3]

The Federal Reserve System is a sovereign power structure separate and distinct from the federal United States government. The Federal Reserve is a maritime lender, and/or maritime insurance underwriter to the federal United States operating exclusively under Admiralty/Maritime law. The lender or underwriter bears the risks, and the Maritime law compelling specific performance in paying the interest, or premiums are the same.

Assets of the debtor can also be hypothecated (to pledge something as a security without taking possession of it.) as security by the lender or underwriter. The Federal Reserve Act stipulated that the interest on the debt was to be paid in gold. There was no stipulation in the Federal Reserve Act for ever paying the principle.

Prior to 1913, most Americans owned clear, allodial title to property, free and clear of any liens or mortgages until the Federal Reserve Act (1913)

"Hypothecated" all property within the federal United States to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, -in which the Trustees (stockholders) held legal title. The U.S. citizen (tenant, franchisee) was registered as a "beneficiary" of the trust via his/her birth certificate. In 1933, the federal United States hypothecated all of the present and future properties, assets and labor of their "subjects," the 14th Amendment U.S. citizen, to the Federal Reserve System.

In return, the Federal Reserve System agreed to extend the federal United States corporation all the credit "money substitute" it needed. Like any other debtor, the federal United States government had to assign collateral and security to their creditors as a condition of the loan. Since the federal United States didn’t have any assets, they assigned the private property of their "economic slaves", the U.S. citizens as collateral against the unpayable federal debt. They also pledged the unincorporated federal territories, national parks forests, birth certificates, and nonprofit organizations, as collateral against the federal debt. All has already been transferred as payment to the international bankers.

Unwittingly, America has returned to its pre-American Revolution, feudal roots whereby all land is held by a sovereign and the common people had no rights to hold allodial title to property. Once again, We the People are the tenants and sharecroppers renting our own property from a Sovereign in the guise of the Federal Reserve Bank. We the people have exchanged one master for another.

This has been going on for over eighty years without the "informed knowledge" of the American people, without a voice protesting loud enough. Now it’s easy to grasp why America is fundamentally bankrupt.

Why don’t more people own their properties outright?

Why are 90% of Americans mortgaged to the hilt and have little or no assets after all debts and liabilities have been paid? Why does it feel like you are working harder and harder and getting less and less?

We are reaping what has been sown, and the results of our harvest is a painful bankruptcy, and a foreclosure on American property, precious liberties, and a way of life. Few of our elected representatives in Washington, D.C. have dared to tell the truth. The federal United States is bankrupt. Our children will inherit this unpayable debt, and the tyranny to enforce paying it.

America has become completely bankrupt in world leadership, financial credit and its reputation for courage, vision and human rights. This is an undeclared economic war, bankruptcy, and economic slavery of the most corrupt order! Wake up America! Take back your Country."

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:35 | 5921706 Renfield
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I'll add a footnote to this:

<<Proof B:

Law And Antilaw, 1995  ­ Perhaps the most important was the Emergency Banking Act of March 9, 1933, and particularly its amendment to the Trading with the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, and its ratification of such executive orders as the Proclamation 2040 by President Roosevelt issued on March 6, 1933, sometimes called the Emergency and War Powers order. This act, codified as 12 USC 95(b), effectively declared the Constitution suspended and conferred dictatorial powers on the President, a situation which continues to this day.

Sec. 95b. - Ratification of acts of President and Secretary of the Treasury under section 95a - "The actions, regulations, rules, licenses, orders and proclamations heretofore or hereafter taken, promulgated, made, or issued by the President of the United States or the Secretary of the Treasury since March 4, 1933, pursuant to the authority conferred by section 95a of this title, are approved and confirmed.">>

http://freedom-school.com/truth/3_claims.htm

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:05 | 5922292 Chupacabra-322
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The 14th Amendmnent creates a 'corporate person' aka 'citizen'. That amendment is the root of the fraud that is currently occuring in this country. This amendment defined what a 'citizen' was, is, and could be. It eliminated all rights to property and transfered them to the state. That is why you must 'register' everything with the state. The term 'registration' means to give up all rights and ownership, that is why no one owns anything in this country, because fictions(corporate persons) are dead and 'tell no tales' and 'own nothing'. Senate Report 93-549 confirms that Americans live under a dictatorship, own no property, and never can. This amendment allowed for the creation of the Act of 1871, which then in turn allowed for the creation of The Federal Reserve Act, which in turn lead to the Emergency Banking Act which dissolved the Republician form of government and replaced with a democracy. This amendment needs to gone the way of the Prohibition Amendment. Do your research the Secretary of State(Not the President who is supposed to) signed the Executive Orders in 1868 ratifing the 14th Amendment ahead of the last state and to publish it. The Secretary of State was the one who finalized it and only the President can finalize them. It is a fraud and needs to go.

I may also add, Look this up CRS Report for Congress Order Code 98-611 page 5, and I quote:

"The sixth executive order, dated July 20, 1868, and concerning the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, was also signed by Secretary Seward and has the form of a proclamation. The same was true of the seventh executive order, dated July 28, 1868, certifying the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment and ordering its publication."
Only the President can sign executive orders, and Johnson did not want to sign it. So there is fraud right there, not to mention the fact that 2 states recinded before it was ratified.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:31 | 5921729 LawsofPhysics
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So, in a nutshell, it's all about the "full faith and credit" of those paper promises...

no more faith, means no more credit for you motherfuckers!!!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:00 | 5921858 samsara
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And THATs why he was sacked

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:48 | 5922006 Sophist Economicus
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Sorry, the congressional record for that year, on that page, doesn't have that monologue.    You are passing along another web-myth.    

Trafficant did have a prepared statement there - but it isn't even close to what is posted above

 

http://www.afn.org/~govern/traficant.gif

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:40 | 5922178 samsara
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The Congressional Record can be changed anytime I think.

You can submit a whole speech you Didn't make even.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:52 | 5922221 Sophist Economicus
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the rules are basically that someone can edit their comments or extend them if they want.    Here is the link:

http://thomas.loc.gov/home/abt.cong.rec.html

Now reading what was 'allegedly said' and what is actually in the record are not even in the 'same galaxy' much less 'ballpark'.    AT the end of the day, people can believe what they want, but the folks throwing out that bogus 'speech' have their own agenda and rely on the ignorance of others to 'whip up' their base...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:56 | 5922238 Chupacabra-322
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Well please, allow me to retort:

http://www.afn.org/~govern/bankruptcy.html

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:20 | 5922492 Sophist Economicus
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There is a little "blue' link at the bottom of the page that says "image" on the link you posted...

 

That will take you to the published - as in paper - not some fictitious HTML text that anyone can write - text from that day.

Read the actual words Trafficant said.    That sounds much more like what he would have said.   

Hey, believe what you want...

Also, read the following:

It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 - Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.

The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers. With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America. This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part: "The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States?’

 

As an FYI, the IMF, WB and UN didn't exist in 1933.....Doh!

 

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:20 | 5921666 q99x2
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Sounds like the Dude had his car repo'd and he's having a hissy fit.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:17 | 5921668 Keltner Channel Surf
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So many Kafka quotes apply to trading, especially when getting crushed by short-goosing IWM algos:

"Falling back, I was relieved to find him drowning irretrievably in my blood, which was filling every depth, flooding every shore"

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:23 | 5921689 besnook
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the lawyers have figured out any law can be passed to make a crime legal, even for a specific company, and any law can be interpreted the "right" way with the "right" judge.

any challenge to the constitution takes years while the law does its damage and serves its purpose.

 

will the police departments return the funds they have already confiscated if some wayward judge decides confiscation of private property without due process is illegal?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:49 | 5921765 Renfield
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We pay people to sit in our 'capital cities' and pass laws. Whether needed or not, their job is to pass laws.

I reiterate, that no law should be passed without an expiration date, mostly for this reason: it will give congress-bigshots something to do, to justify that pay, revisiting old laws and retiring the cumbersome ones. It will also prevent the current legal labyrinth of today, when even experienced lawyers cannot resolve conflicting laws. Meanwhile poor J6P is supposed to keep himself informed and complaint regardless, and face draconian punishment if deemed out of compliance in even the smallest respect; while our lawmakers are glibly excused and shielded by 'national security' for outrageously harmful, violent, or illegal behaviour.

Failing that, we could simply secede from the jurisdiction of these rule factories.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:57 | 5921847 Mike Honcho
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They have to pass the laws before they know what they dictate.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:25 | 5921703 scatterbrains
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Where is Andrew Joseph Stack III?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:27 | 5921709 joego1
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The safety of a bank?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:27 | 5921710 cherry picker
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Every time I see a nuke powered carrier, ICBMs, Useless F35s, CIA giving to terrorists so they can participate in their drug trade and doing it all with money they take from me in taxes it fries my sense of justice.

Barrack Hussein Obama, you are a terrorist with a peace prize and so is the rest of your crew including Nuland.

The world is waking up.  Those who have been on the receiving end of war know what is like and I do not believe they would wish it on anyone, yet the supplies of arms and ammo to anyone who wants to murder is endless in the name of deterrent and democracy.

 

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:31 | 5921730 IridiumRebel
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We the Dung Beetles, in order to form a more perfect base of people to be fleeced...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:37 | 5921749 will ling
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anybody get a 5071C letter - request to verify ID - from IRS? they ask to go online and doesn't work, call and can't get thru. letter stated they got my 2014 tax return, but, did not even file yet. of course, they included a payment coupon-like with the letter. 

what the hell is goin' on? intimidation shakedown ? do they know i post to ZH?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:02 | 5921861 Scoobywan
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Someone filed with your SSN.. you are fucked.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:19 | 5922087 Cthonic
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Let me guess, someone appropriated your SSN/TIN and filed for an electronic refund.  In other words, welcome to the world of identity theft.  Pretty amazing that these operators appear to know whether one has filed for the year, or not...  yes same happened to me last year.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:44 | 5921790 vegas
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Unfortunately, Chuck, the majority of Sheeple in Amerika don't give a shit if your money is taken from you; only when it is taken from them will they care, but who stands up then when there is nobody left to stand?

 

www.traderzoo.mobi

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:10 | 5921792 Emergency Ward
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While channel surfing I came upon some law enforcement documentary type show and there was a Hummer police vehicle painted in police colors and with police emblems.  On the front doors where it would usually have a slogan like "To Protect and Serve," it said "Seized from a Drug Dealer," or something like that.

The LEOs are proud of their thievery.

My asshole tightened while I realized that they could do a midnight door-busting raid on my house, shoot my cat, drop a few marijuana seeds on my floor, call me a dealer, and then take my house and car.  AG Holder would give tacit approval while claiming that the Feds were not taking their usual cut of the loot.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:12 | 5921892 cigarEngineer
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Not if you live in Swissyland.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:18 | 5921908 Emergency Ward
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I live in the Neo-Progressive Peoples Police State of CaliLand.  They do what they want here.  I see people sentenced by smiling judges to 18-month state prison terms for petty shoplifting.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 23:51 | 5924058 Skiprrrdog
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This is fucking nuts and it has to stop. Presumably these forfeiture laws date back to the 1980's and the Reagans "war on drugs"... seemed like a good idea at the time, now, not so much. And if this quote from one of the linked stories (on the New Yorker site) is any indication; "Many officers contend that their departments would collapse if the practice were too heavily regulated, and that a valuable public-safety measure would be lost". Public safety, really? They must think we are as stupid as they are. Job security is more like it.

We already fought one war inside of this country for reasons less compelling than all the crap that is going on  today. Lock and load, peeps; something wicked this way comes....

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:51 | 5921820 rejected
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IT'S THE LAW!!!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:09 | 5921882 Kelley
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The government is not greedy - they only want what's yours.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:12 | 5921893 Emergency Ward
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The the government section of the Devil's Dictionary would define "yours" as "ours".

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:11 | 5921890 lawyer4anarchists
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Legal Tender laws are the only thing that makes the game possible in this country.  And they clearly violate the 5th amendment taking without value limitation.  They jammed those down our throat with a court packing scheme. It is always the same system.  http://www.thetruthaboutthelaw.com/they-make-you-use-money-that-is-backe...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:39 | 5921975 HopefulCynical
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one of the jobs of a truly free press is to raise public awareness about government abuses. This is because humans as a group are by nature apathetic and self-involved. It's not just Americans. Our current state of hyper-apathy is the result of a completely captured and controlled press, every bit as bad as it was in the USSR. They encourage the apathy, both overtly and subconsciously.

The majority of the entertainment media is also tasked with keeping the public anesthetized, with "reality" TV and CATV shows that glorify abjectly deviant behaviour - and I do not mean gays & lesbians.

The public's apathy about these matters is a combination of the media's influence, combined with an innate understanding of how they're being lied to, which produces a feeling of overwhelmed helplessness. It's not really that most folks don't care. It's that they see no point to caring about things which they believe themselves completely unable to change.

This is nothing new in human history. We've seen this movie many times before.

How to reach enough people at once, and get them to believe they can make things change? THAT is the age-old question.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:08 | 5922071 Renfield
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<<The majority of the entertainment media is also tasked with keeping the public anesthetized, with "reality" TV and CATV shows that glorify abjectly deviant behaviour... The public's apathy about these matters is a combination of the media's influence, combined with an innate understanding of how they're being lied to, which produces a feeling of overwhelmed helplessness. It's not really that most folks don't care. It's that they see no point to caring about things which they believe themselves completely unable to change.>>

In 1985, Yuri Bezmenov (ex-KGB) described 4 parts to ideological subversion: 1) Demoralisation; 2) Destabilisation; 3) Crisis; 4) Normalisation.

Your comment illustrates 2 of those stages, demoralisation (of existing culture, norms, and identity), and normalisation (of new culture, norms, and identity). If you control a major media stream, then you may be inclined to use that media stream to 'normalise' your own predatory or criminal behaviour. The alleged Westminster pedophilia rings are rife with political, legal, and media VIP names, but our home media preaches 'diversity'.

http://jack-and-gilles-went-up-the-hill.blogspot.ca/2011/05/four-stages-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_WpWprKtBw

The other best use of this propaganda is distraction. Your audience can be 'taught' to despise some foreign regime, preferably some remote place most of them are unlikely to have visited or know much about and could not place on a map. They are told of the atrocities of some foreign 'dictator', occurrences too far away for them to verify. This provides a 'safe' outlet for their moral outrage while their eyes are safely distracted from their own country, projected safely onto a foreign population and leader. In psychiatric terms, maybe this could be called projection -- as our media projects onto foreign places, the criminality that is actually happening here at home, and attributes to foreign leaders the acts committed by our own. And it provides a distraction, as amidst the outrageous foreign 'news', MSM audiences hardly seem to notice that investigative journalism HERE AT HOME has all but dried up.

It's LOOK A SQUIRREL, only the squirrel is a big foreign scary sasquatch who is safely far away, that we can bomb before it comes nearer to our reality. But being told the sasquatch is OVER THERE, we are less likely to notice that it is actually HERE.

I think it was clever of Charles HS to begin his article as if he were speaking of IRAN, since this is the sort of projection we are now used to.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:43 | 5921989 Fun Facts
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Governments, especially malevolent and corrupt ones such as all the western ZWO puppet regimes, always make it legal, however depraved and unjust the rules are.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:45 | 5921996 Your Creator
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It's a republic not a democracy.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:38 | 5922165 Renfield
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I have noticed that both Hollywood and the MSM tend to portray the USA as a "democracy" or "constitutional democracy". They don't present it or argue it, just drop it into dialogue from time to time as though it were a commonly accepted fact. It's been a very long time since I last saw the country described as a "republic", although I admit I don't follow MSM culture today anywhere near as much as I did a decade ago.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:54 | 5922462 UserZero
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Hasn't been a republic since April 6, 1861.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:48 | 5922005 Chuck Knoblauch
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Tennessee sounds a lot like Iran.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:57 | 5922021 HandyCrapper
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Shoot cops

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:33 | 5922130 BouncingCat
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Consequences: When you tax something you get less of it.  When you lower that tax, you get more of it.  Holder is lowering the tax and thus local seizures will skyrocket as it is now more profitable to do so.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 13:58 | 5926086 thecrud
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This is what I hate most About the internet a thread about the govment taking my money and car just because you have cash.

Became 911 conspiracy. We could not even stay on the subject let alone do something about it.

But I know how America is dealing with it, Stay in the house as much as possible.

Hence the collapse of malls.

After the next failed decade of trickle down it wont be any better politically.

 

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