- I am a career employee of the federal government in
Washington, D.C. For most of the last 30 years, I have worked in
offices within two miles of the nation's great landmarks: the
Washington Monument, the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, the
Smithsonian Institution, the White House, and the Capitol. Just across
the Potomac River is the Pentagon.
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- Today, America is in crisis. The outcome is unknown.
The danger is great. But the nature of the crisis is different from
what our political leaders have said, and so is the solution. I am
going to describe conditions as I see them, and I am going to speak
with a certain degree of authority. So please hear, and try to
understand me. The first thing I want to say is that I can understand
why so many Americans believe the federal government is no good, given
its frequent bad behavior in recent decades, especially in its
relations with other nations. But our nation is a republic. We elect
our leaders, so we must share responsibility for what they have done
or not done. And our nation was founded on highly idealistic
principles. Read the Declaration of Independence again, as well as the
Preamble to the Constitution and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
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- We have had great leaders, some of the greatest in
world history, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
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- Some would not agree that John F. Kennedy should be
on that list. Certain of the media have mounted a campaign to
denigrate Kennedy and discredit his legacy. But Kennedy was a
visionary. He was one of the key figures in creating a new modern
consciousness that can take us far into the future.
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- In the two years and ten months of his presidency,
Kennedy created the conditions which allowed the civil rights movement
to eventually succeed. Following the Cuban missile crisis, he moved to
lay the groundwork for world peace, through the nuclear test ban
treaty and by opening a dialogue with the Soviet Union. This likely
has saved the world so far from nuclear Armageddon. He struggled
against the tyranny of the American financial oligarchy - the Money
Power - centered in Wall Street. And he started a great expansion of
modern technology, based on rocket and computer science, through
sponsorship of the manned space program. Kennedy was the founder of
today's progressive movement. All future progress in American
governance will take as a starting point the achievements of John F.
Kennedy, along with those of his brother Robert Kennedy and of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- John F. Kennedy was murdered by those who clung to
the old ways, the ways of violence and greed. He was killed by a
conspiracy that was funded by right-wing oil tycoons and bankers from
Texas, carried out by figures from the CIA and organized crime,
protected from discovery by the FBI, aided on the scene by the Dallas
police, and covered-up by the American political and media
establishment. It was a crime that can only be avenged by those who
carry on Kennedy's legacy, which is what we must do today.
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- When Kennedy was killed, the Money Power in America
gained ascendancy and has ruled the nation by subterfuge and force
since then. The Money Power has largely operated through the American
banking system since the creation of the First Bank of the United
States in the 1790s. This Bank was modeled on the Bank of England.
Through the First Bank of the United States and the Bank of England,
the U.S. and Great Britain committed the fatal error of turning over
the sovereign prerogative of money creation to private bankers. Ever
since, the bankers have used their privileges to concentrate wealth
and subvert democracy. They are doing it today.
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- Creation of money is one of the most important
functions of properly-constituted government. In the early 1800s, the
Money Power was fended off by a series of presidents who were the
forebears of today's Democratic Party - Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Jackson, and Van Buren. During the Civil War, the U.S. government, led
by members of the House of Representatives, broke free from the Money
Power by authorizing the direct issuance of currency by the federal
government - the famous Greenbacks. The Greenbacks were not based on
borrowing or taxation. They entered into circulation directly through
government spending and served both to pay government obligations and
as fuel for the national economy. They were a true American money,
created and spent without borrowing and without going through the
privately-owned banks.
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- But after the Civil War, the Money Power gradually
took over, aided by the backing of British financiers, leading to the
creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. The Federal Reserve is not a
government agency. It is chartered by government, but is owned and
operated by and for the private banking establishment. It is well
known to economists that constriction of the currency by the Federal
Reserve produced the Great Depression. Roosevelt fought the power of
the banks and restored the economy during World War II. Kennedy was
poised to restore and extend the role of the federal government in
regulating and enhancing the productivity of the nation's economy when
he was assassinated. All the presidents since Kennedy have been
controlled by the Money Power or have vainly struggled against it.
Again the Federal Reserve wrecked the American economy during the
Volcker recession of 1979-83, when U.S. industry was devastated and
the fateful shift occurred from an industrial to a "service"
economy.
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- Today the bankers rule the United States. The
standard of living of 80% of our men, women, and children has declined
in the last generation. Working people are increasingly in debt. In
fact, we are being led into virtual debt slavery. One of the
mechanisms being used for this is usurious levels of compound interest
on credit card debt, combined with proposals in Congress for more
stringent bankruptcy laws.
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- Worse has happened with respect to other nations,
especially the Third World, whose economies have been sacrificed to
the predatory greed of the Money Power. This has been done through
currency manipulation and the need by other nations to use the dollar
as a reserve currency. For the last 20 years, the dollar has been
"strong," which means that foreign products are cheap for U.S.
consumers. The dollars that are shipped overseas to pay for these
purchases come back to the U.S. as investments in the U.S. stock and
bond markets, including Treasury securities.
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- But all this is changing. U.S. industrial production
has collapsed. Our best industrial jobs have been shipped overseas to
be carried out by people working as virtual slave laborers. Now the
dollar is slipping, so we cannot purchase as many foreign products as
before. Our markets are not so attractive as places for foreigners to
invest, so the stock and bond markets are crashing. While this might
provide an opportunity to restore our exports, our industrial capacity
has been decimated, and we no longer have the ability we once had to
produce for foreign markets. Meanwhile, our infrastructure has been
neglected and has deteriorated disastrously. Our railroads, airlines,
roads, bridges, schools, and power and water systems are in disarray
or disrepair.
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- Which brings us to today. What has changed in the
last few years has been the appearance on the world scene of a new
currency, the Euro, which is starting to displace the dollar as a
reserve currency in many countries. In particular, the Euro is
replacing the dollar in such countries as North Korea, Iran, and Iraq,
which not so coincidentally have been labeled by President Bush as an
"axis of evil."
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- Iraq has replaced the dollar with the Euro as the
denominator for purchase of its oil. The U.S. is afraid this will
begin a slide in the dollar that will also involve the other
oil-producing nations. It could lead to a collapse of the U.S. economy
if the flight from U.S. markets continues. The key to resolving this
situation, in the eyes of the Money Power and its servants in the
White House and Pentagon, is Iraq, which is pivotal in the control of
the Middle East. War against Iraq would also aid Israel in its
geopolitical ambitions, which are supported and financed by interests
in the U.S. who are closely tied to the Money Power.
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- The Iraq War, if it happens, would in fact be a
currency war between the U.S. and Europe. This is leading to the
ongoing collapse of NATO, with France, Germany, and Belgium opposing
the U.S. war policy, also joined by Russia and China. Again, this is
because the domestic U.S. economy has been so weakened that we rely on
dollar-based foreign domination to stay afloat. It all goes back to
the control of the U.S. economy, politics, and society by the Money
Power.
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- The Iraq War has been in the works for several
years. What brought it on so suddenly was the events of 9-11, which
are providing the pretext. Here we must understand that 9-11 appears
to have been created by the Money Power for exactly this purpose. The
people who planned and carried out 9-11 were connected to the
intelligence services of the U.S. and certain other nations. The
leadership of the CIA, the FBI and the military evidently knew what
was going on but did nothing to stop it. Al Qaeda operatives were
recruited as foot soldiers, and the Al Qaeda network was exploited to
create a financial trail, but the role of Osama bin Laden had to have
been slight, if he had a role at all. Remember too that Al Qaeda was
created by MI6 and the CIA to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in
the 1980s.
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- All these things must now change. A new phase in the
assault against the U.S. Constitution by its domestic enemies is about
to begin. President Bush is as much a victim of the Money Power as he
is a perpetrator. He simply does not have the knowledge or background
to know what to do, and he is surrounded by a cabal of truly nefarious
characters who are constantly goading him into action. This cabal
includes the present leadership of the Israeli government and the
Likud Party.
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- But what may be programmed to come after Bush would
be much worse. This is because the Money Power itself is being taken
over by and is melding into what may be called a Political Crime
Syndicate whose power straddles the three sectors of politics,
finance, and organized crime. This syndicate deals in such areas as
international money laundering, weapons trafficking, and drugs. It is
this Political Crime Syndicate, working with Western intelligence
agencies, that ran Iran-Contra during the Reagan years, has revived
the Afghanistan drug trade, and that controls the U.S. trade in
"ecstasy" and other "street" drugs. It is also the Political Crime
Syndicate that continues to engage in targeted assassinations,
including U.S. political figures.
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- The Political Crime Syndicate may be plotting to
take over the U.S. presidency in 2004 and install one of its members
in the nation's highest office. If this happens it would involve the
Democratic Leadership Council and the Washington Post. Both are Trojan
Horses for the Money Power within the Democratic Party, as was
Rothschild agent August Belmont in the late 19th century and President
Woodrow Wilson in the early 20th. But this potential coup d'etat,
which would likely to lead to a Nazi-like regime in the U.S., followed
perhaps by World War III, is not inevitable. These conditions may also
provide an opportunity for progressive forces to strike back, provided
they begin to lay the groundwork now.
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- On assuming power, the first step the progressive
forces must take is to relieve the pressure from the collapsing
domestic economy, because it is this pressure which is driving the
Money Power insane, causing the Iraq War, and leading to the incessant
push toward turning events over to the Political Crime Syndicate.
Please believe me when I say that the economic crisis could be
relieved within a matter of months by an act of Congress, followed by
executive action through the U.S. Treasury Department, to nationalize
the Federal Reserve and take control of the credit mechanisms of the
national banking system. This would be followed by a measured program
of release of money into the economy through a Greenback-like
mechanism. This would mean direct creation of money by the federal
government and its utilization in projects of social worth related to
infrastructure restoration and other worthwhile social purposes, such
as adequate national health care, Social Security, the space program,
education, and technology research and development.
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- The knee-jerk objection to such a program is that it
would be inflationary, but this is false. Throughout history, monetary
policy has been inflationary only when money was created in excess of
legitimate economic needs, or when the currency has been under attack,
as the Continental currency was from British counterfeiting during the
Revolutionary War. Inflation could be controlled by a Treasury
Department adequately staffed by experts who would regulate the
system. What is inflationary is actually unlimited creation of credit
by the banks that is diverted into speculation in stocks, real estate,
etc. This abuse of banking was what created the stock market bubble of
the "Roaring 20s" and the dot.com and real estates bubbles of the
1990s. The dot.com bubble has burst and so will the real estate
bubble.
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- Objections might also be raised to turning such
regulatory and financial power over to the federal government. This
argument is based on decades of propaganda coming from the Money Power
and its media and academic shills. It is time to face the fact that
control of money by private interests has totally failed in fulfilling
the purposes of democracy. It is also time for Americans to remember
that government in a republic is "us," not "them." It is the
instrument by which the community may act to promote, preserve, and
protect its shared human values. Since America began, these values
have consistently been subverted by the Money Power. Please understand
that within the ranks of the federal professional workforce, there are
many dedicated, competent patriots who could implement the solutions
which their political overseers fail to understand because they have
been blinded by decades of right-wing antigovernment
propaganda.
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- Once the monetary problem has been dealt with, all
other reforms will follow as a matter of course, because the chief
threat to the progress and evolution of American democracy will have
been removed. And we won't need any more foreign currency wars either.
Nor will we need the CIA, since the requirements for overthrowing
other nations' governments, assassinating domestic and foreign
political leaders, and financing overseas adventures with proceeds
from drug and weapons trafficking will be gone. Legitimate
intelligence duties could then be transferred to the appropriate
accountable agencies. The CIA complex at Langley, Virginia, could be
razed and replaced by something pleasant like a botanical garden.
Similarly, we will no longer need a subversive and conspiratorial FBI.
That institution can best be cleansed by opening its files to a
thorough investigation of its role in the Kennedy and King
assassinations and other misdeeds. As for the Defense Department, we
would be able to restore the concept espoused by great military
leaders such as MacArthur and Eisenhower, which is a force manned by
citizen soldiers whose primary task is national defense, not foreign
conquest.
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- All this can be done once we really start thinking
about where we are going and how to get there. We can help ourselves
get our heads straightened out by turning off the din from right-wing
talk-radio psychopaths and fundamentalist preachers who seem to be
longing for a conflagration to take place in someone else's part of
the world that will justify their opinion of themselves as being among
the "elect."
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- It is time to realize that what Jefferson wrote in
the Declaration of Independence is true. All men are created equal,
and we are all endowed with inalienable rights - life, liberty, the
pursuit of happiness, and others as well, including a place to live,
food to eat, and a decent education. We are all God's children, every
single living soul on earth, as well as those who have been here
before and those who are to come. The idea that some people, and not
all, are God's "chosen people," as espoused by such as John Calvin,
the Illuminati and other cultists, certain Jewish bigots, and the
British aristocracy is sociopathic, anti-democratic, and just plain
wrong. It is time we start to realize this and put our beliefs and
values into action. It is time for a New America. This paper has some
feasible suggestions as to how to go about it.
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- Let's try. Let's make a start.
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