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JFK versus the Federal Reserve
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=7867
This is a great article showing how John F. Kennedy signed an executive order to end the Federal Reserve.
It is interesting that he was assassinated only months after. It is also interesting how this executive order has never been enforced, repealed, or even talked about in most groups.
If you do not understand how the Federal Reserve is destroying our nation, I strongly suggest reading the whole article (and watching the amazing movie embedded at the end of this post). It goes into the history of how it was created and how it is at the core of every financial crises we have ever had.
There is a revolution happening. Public education about the corrupt Federal Reserve is spreading. Now if we only had a president who was brave enough to follow in JFK’s footsteps.
Here are some famous quotes about the federal reserve:
Thomas Jefferson - I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
Andrew Jackson - The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government … are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.
Alan Greenspan- In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. … This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.
Woodrow Wilson - I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
Watch this Movie below (part 1 of 5) in order to understand the federal reserve, the income tax, and the people who profited the most during WW1, WW2, IRAQ etc..).
Did you know?
- Every penny of the income tax you pay goes directly into the hands of the private owners of the federal reserve, in order to pay off debt? A debt that would not exist if our government printed its own money (as required by our constitution).
- The biggest generator of debt is war. Do you know how much money the families that own the federal reserve made during WW1, WW2, Vietnam, IRAQ? .
- Watch the entire movie (5 parts) and watch the evidence build as too how exactly the American People were goated into these wars.
Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve (Part 1 of 5)
Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve (Part 2 of 5)
Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve (Part 3 of 5)
Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve (Part 4 of 5)
Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve (Part 5 of 5)
Documentary - “Uncovered, The Whole Truth about the Iraq War”
This is an older documentary but it’s a must watch for anyone who still thinks Iraq was a legitimate war.
What does “Freedom” really mean? by Ron Paul
View Original Article at RonPaul2008.com
“…man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”
Ronald Reagan
We’ve all heard the words democracy and freedom used countless times, especially in the context of our invasion of Iraq. They are used interchangeably in modern political discourse, yet their true meanings are very different.
George Orwell wrote about “meaningless words” that are endlessly repeated in the political arena*. Words like “freedom,” “democracy,” and “justice,” Orwell explained, have been abused so long that their original meanings have been eviscerated. In Orwell’s view, political words were “Often used in a consciously dishonest way.” Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language. As a result, Americans have been conditioned to accept the word “democracy” as a synonym for freedom, and thus to believe that democracy is unquestionably good.
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this, as evidenced not only by our republican constitutional system, but also by their writings in the Federalist Papers and elsewhere. James Madison cautioned that under a democratic government, “There is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or the obnoxious individual.” John Adams argued that democracies merely grant revocable rights to citizens depending on the whims of the masses, while a republic exists to secure and protect pre-existing rights. Yet how many Americans know that the word “democracy” is found neither in the Constitution nor the Declaration of Independence, our very founding documents?
A truly democratic election in Iraq, without U.S. interference and U.S. puppet candidates, almost certainly would result in the creation of a Shiite theocracy. Shiite majority rule in Iraq might well mean the complete political, economic, and social subjugation of the minority Kurd and Sunni Arab populations. Such an outcome would be democratic, but would it be free? Would the Kurds and Sunnis consider themselves free? The administration talks about democracy in Iraq, but is it prepared to accept a democratically-elected Iraqi government no matter what its attitude toward the U.S. occupation? Hardly. For all our talk about freedom and democracy, the truth is we have no idea whether Iraqis will be free in the future. They’re certainly not free while a foreign army occupies their country. The real test is not whether Iraq adopts a democratic, pro-western government, but rather whether ordinary Iraqis can lead their personal, religious, social, and business lives without interference from government.
Simply put, freedom is the absence of government coercion. Our Founding Fathers understood this, and created the least coercive government in the history of the world. The Constitution established a very limited, decentralized government to provide national defense and little else. States, not the federal government, were charged with protecting individuals against criminal force and fraud. For the first time, a government was created solely to protect the rights, liberties, and property of its citizens. Any government coercion beyond that necessary to secure those rights was forbidden, both through the Bill of Rights and the doctrine of strictly enumerated powers. This reflected the founders’ belief that democratic government could be as tyrannical as any King.
Few Americans understand that all government action is inherently coercive. If nothing else, government action requires taxes. If taxes were freely paid, they wouldn’t be called taxes, they’d be called donations. If we intend to use the word freedom in an honest way, we should have the simple integrity to give it real meaning: Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.
The political left equates freedom with liberation from material wants, always via a large and benevolent government that exists to create equality on earth. To modern liberals, men are free only when the laws of economics and scarcity are suspended, the landlord is rebuffed, the doctor presents no bill, and groceries are given away. But philosopher Ayn Rand (and many others before her) demolished this argument by explaining how such “freedom” for some is possible only when government takes freedoms away from others. In other words, government claims on the lives and property of those who are expected to provide housing, medical care, food, etc. for others are coercive– and thus incompatible with freedom. “Liberalism,” which once stood for civil, political, and economic liberties, has become a synonym for omnipotent coercive government.
The political right equates freedom with national greatness brought about through military strength. Like the left, modern conservatives favor an all-powerful central state– but for militarism, corporatism, and faith-based welfarism. Unlike the Taft-Goldwater conservatives of yesteryear, today’s Republicans are eager to expand government spending, increase the federal police apparatus, and intervene militarily around the world. The last tenuous links between conservatives and support for smaller government have been severed. “Conservatism,” which once meant respect for tradition and distrust of active government, has transformed into big-government utopian grandiosity.
Orwell certainly was right about the use of meaningless words in politics. If we hope to remain free, we must cut through the fog and attach concrete meanings to the words politicians use to deceive us. We must reassert that America is a republic, not a democracy, and remind ourselves that the Constitution places limits on government that no majority can overrule. We must resist any use of the word “freedom” to describe state action. We must reject the current meaningless designations of “liberals” and “conservatives,” in favor of an accurate term for both: statists.
Every politician on earth claims to support freedom. The problem is so few of them understand the simple meaning of the word.
Chief UN atomic watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei “No evidence Iran is making nuclear weapons”
No evidence Iran is making nuclear weapons: ElBaradei - Yahoo! News
Chief UN atomic watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday he had no evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons and accused US leaders of adding “fuel to the fire” with recent bellicose rhetoric.
An Open Letter to “Generation Screwed” - You will owe $8000 (pre-inflation) dollars for the war in Iraq.
Peter Smith: Open Letter to “Generation Screwed” - TheHuffingtonPost.com
And you really are screwed, you know. These jokers are borrowing the money to fund the war in Iraq, and putting your name down as co-signer. They’re not raising taxes to pay for it. They’re borrowing it.
My question is: Do we really need to bankrupt future generations to fight the war on Terror?. Let’s assume that we are not just in Iraq for the oil, and killing 1 million Iraqi’s was actually going to create less “terrorist”, shouldn’t we at least try and cut back on spending elsewhere in order to cover some of the expense?
No President has ever gone to war and not asked Americans to conserve, or contribute (through taxes), to the effort. But you know, raising taxes has never been very popular. By borrowing from future generations Bush can pay for the war without adding to his popularity issues. How many more people do you think would be protesting this war if we had to pay out of our own pockets?
Ron Paul on the Issues
I was very pleased to see that the Ron Paul Website now contains a large library of articles written Ron Paul. You can find an article on just about any subject.
[movie] Freedom to Fascism - The Movie Every American Should Watch
It’s been awhile since I talked about Aaron Russo and his documentary “Freedom to Fascism”.
The income tax is not only a horrible idea for the economy it is also unconstitutional…. Watch and Learn!
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14 Things You Might Not Know About Ron Paul
- He has been married to his wife Carol for 50 years.
- They have 5 children, 18 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
- He was a track star in college, and served during the VietNam era as a Flight Surgeon in the Air Force and Air National Guard.
- He’s a graduate of Duke University Medical School and a licensed OB-GYN who has delivered over 4,000 babies in a long and distinguished career. Many of those babies were delivered for free. He is of course, pro-life.
- He is a scholar of the Austrian School of Economics and of American Foreign Policy and has written about 10 books altogether on these subjects. He has won many awards for his writings.
- Two of his children became doctors but he never allowed any of his children to take federal student loans.
- He himself does not participate in the lucrative Congressional Pension program and each year, returns money that is given to him by the government to run his office.
- The National Taxpayers Union has given him the award of “The Taxpayers Best Friend Ever” for his stellar voting record.
- He of course earned an A+ rating from Gun Owners of America.
- He is currently serving in his 10th term in US Congress and is the founder of the Republican Liberty Caucus.
- Writer Joseph Sobran called him the most honorable man in Congress.
He has been praised by commentators such as Pat Buchanan, John McLaughlin, Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough, Andrew Napolitano, George Will, and John Cafferty and receives many accolades from the Veterans organizations in his district. - He just had a very successful quarter in fundraising, about 5 Million Dollars, which now puts him in third place for cash on hand. He is has taken in the most donations from the military, including those serving in Iraq. http://www.militaryforpaul.com/donations.html (32%, 22% to John McCain)
- He has already won 3 straw polls in NH and done exceptionally well in straw polls all over the country, coming in first or second in many. His rallies and speeches often draw thousands of supporters, more than any other GOP candidate, and he has won every debate poll so far.
- Please visit his website at www.ronpaul2008.com to see what all the excitement is about.
Credit goes to Jane atkin for posting this list over at DailyPaul.com
