Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws.
Attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Either the application for the renewal of the charter (for the first U.S. Central bank, ultimately realized as The Federal Reserve) is granted or the United States will find itself in a most disastrous war.
Nathan Rothschild (1811)
And by 1812 we were at war with England
Not to pick on the Rothschilds, who are noblemen of the first caliber. After all greed is good. And usury on money invented out of whole cloth is genius. Give the Central Bankers of the world some props.
It was attributed to Balzac to have said, “Behind every great fortune is a great crime.”
But what he actually said was, “The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.”
A private central banking system is parasitic by nature. Or you can say they are pirates. In the old days money was backed by gold and today money is backed by IOUs of governments to pay back banks for the money they lent to governments which did not exist before it was lent.
The Federal Reserve with a few keystrokes creates a line of credit to the U.S. Treasury and in return the U.S. Treasury creates an IOU, called a bond, to repay the money loaned. The banks, which only create the principal and not the interest to be usuriously paid, make money from nothing (they are due the principal which they invented and the interest which must be found outside the principal sum.) Trillions and Trillions of dollars.
And because currently all money is issued as debt, and because all money is a loan of principal, the only way to pay the loan back is to borrow more or steal the people's money as taxes or both as is the current modus operandi of governments.
This is the system of money we live under. And this is why we are literally, all of us, debt slaves. All of the money which is collected from the people goes to pay the debt we owe to private central banks. I wouldn't mind paying taxes if it was used for something productive and of value to society. But our taxes do nothing of the sort.
Forget roads, bridges, social security and medicare; forget national defense; all the money collected from your labor is earmarked to pay the interest on the national debt of now over fifteen trillion dollars. And because we actually borrow more per year than the revenues taken in by the Treasury, we are in a no-win situation – the debt can never be rapid. The interest on the debt cannot be serviced. The People of the United States of America are slaves to the Federal Reserve System.
The Fed is a secret society of unaccountable private banks. Their policy deliberations to “control the nation's money” are secret and inviolable. Remember when Bernanke was asked who The Fed gave all the People's bailout money to and he said, in a word, “no”? The Fed is above the Law. The Fed is above auditing. The Fed demands “independence” from oversight. Imagine, the banks get independence to maraud while the people are sentenced to a life of perpetual servitude to the banks.
The Central Banking System is a system of Dictatorship over a People's Right to Self-Government. Because what could be more vital to a people's ability to self-govern than control over their finances?
A crime forgotten because it is well done because what better crime than a legal one?
The only minor criticism I have of the Occupy movement is the tendency to Occupy Everything. Our single over-riding issue to fix the critically ill patient this nation has become, is to reassert our right to self-government. The way to do this is to:
1. Re-regulate the banks and take them out of too-big-to-fail market speculation
2. Re-take our Constitutional mandate to manage our own money supply by returning private power to the public Treasury.
Is it any wonder the Rothschilds and others have worked so hard to steal the people's power for themselves? Isn't it human nature to tend toward selfishness? And isn't that why we had anti-robber baron, anti-monopolists regulation a century ago to temper human frailty? To temper the ambitions of great men? To temper greed. To bring some moderation to the excesses of temptation. To temper the proclivity of the political class to do anything for booze, hookers and bribes?
If the will of the people is not to reassert their inalienable right to self-govern, then we will get what we deserve: more war, more poverty, more gnashing of teeth – and the eventual collapse of society as the parasites drain every drop of economic vitality from the people.
We can't look to the politicians, who are owned lock, stock and barrel by the Money Power. We must do it ourselves. And we begin by focusing on the real enemy.
Occupy Wall Street.