Still, the americans were warned

This is mostly related to my post on the US crysis. History is a clear witness that many great men issued warnings of the perils the americans now face. Let’s take them one by one:

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president, 1801-1809

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

…The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating.

James Madison, 4th US president, 1809-1817

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.

Andrew Jackson, 7th US president, 1829-1837

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president, 1861-1865

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president, 1901-1909

Issue of currency should be lodged with the government and be protected from domination by Wall Street. We are opposed to…provisions [which] would place our currency and credit system in private hands.

Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1913-1921

Despite all these warnings, Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. A few years later he wrote:

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US president, 1933-1945

Years later, reflecting on the major banks’ control in Washington, President Franklin Roosevelt paid this indirect praise to his distant predecessor President Andrew Jackson, who had “killed” the 2nd Bank of the US (an earlier type of the Federal Reserve System). After Jackson’s administration the bankers’ influence was gradually restored and increased, culminating in the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Roosevelt knew this history, and wrote, in a letter to Colonel House, dated November 21, 1933:

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.

2008
09/26
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6 comments
  • Mihai

    Well, they’re the ones that say “Money talks, and bullshit walks”. There is only one way they or even us measure the worth ( and I mean logical worth not real worth, the one that is measured by his acts ) of a men, and that’s by how much money he has. Those little peaces of paper are the key that keeps you worm, and keeps you fed, and allows you to exist in this world.

    Once you are left without it, you stop to function as an integral part of the comunity. We like to think that we rule, but the truth is that we are ruled by the only thing that is regarded as “exchange” value.

    Also if this form of control would dissapear other forms maybe even more harsh would just repalce it.

    You make a good point indeed, actions of a single man are those who at a certain point have crippeled generations to come.

    Even in Romania we are forced by law to pay employees through the banks. So at the end of the month all you need to function in the society is held by one of the many corporations known as “banks”. And these banks require small fees for every operation until you are left with less than you had before. A nice example is “How To Rob A Bank”.
    Great movie, with some valid points.

    I for one haven’t really given much thought to it, but as it stands although keeping your savings in bank it’s a common thing to do today, what is the price we pay for that safety ?
    What if by some strange fenomenon something happens this “system” we’ve built to keep us safe? If one therorist throws a EMP :cool: in the places that the store our client information. Society will stop functioning.

    Information is stored in so many places that this scenario is almost imposible but is that good enough?
    I don’t know much about economy but the more decentralized a system gets the more safe it seems to be. If everything were to relly on a single source, than the abscence of that source would have catastrofic consequences.

    The point being we trully are the instruments of our own destruction. Be it by our own hands or the hands of those we elect to serve (rule) us.

    It’s late, I have little clue on what I’ve just babbled on about, hope it makes any sense and thanks for the article, it gave something to thing about.

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  • http://dianarn.wordpress.com/ Diana

    Yes, the americans have been warned many a time. I wish I could say they have no one to blame but themselves, and in a way it’s true. They allowed this to happen. We allowed these “elites” to infiltrate every aspect of our government, education, religion and media.

    I’ve watched this documentary, as well as the first Zeitgeist. I’ve watched JFK, JFK II, EndGame, The Money Masters, etc. This plan has been going on since way before 1913. The American people are literally slaves to these bankers and they don’t even know it.

    1/5 of American high school kids cannot point to the USA on a map if the names are erased. The education system is mind numbing. There is no education. If any of you have watched the 1976 movie “Network,” you’d know where we’ve got our “programming.”

    The only thing my coworkers talk about is American Idol, Gossip Girl, Dancing with the Stars. Nobody wants to hear me talk about the value of the dollar, the Rockefellers, and 9/11. Oh yeah, the majority of the population still believes Osama bin Forgotten was responsible for 9/11.

    The propaganda is so deep and so engrained in people’s minds that even if we had a “Radio Free Europe” station, it wouldn’t matter. In Romania, at least we knew they were communists and we knew who to blame. It was pretty overt, for the most part. Here, everybody blames Bush. Bush is a puppet….. the real ones are hiding behind a curtain, just like in the Wizard of Oz.

    We can’t march on Washington with guns and pitchforks anymore. They’d drop a bomb and call us all terrorists. There are already over a thousand camps, fully stocked and guarded…. sitting empty. All that’s left is for them to declare martial law and it’ll be the end. There are a lot of guns in this country…. and maybe that’s what stopped them from taking this country over sooner. But if their plan works, people will just end up killing each other.

    Nobody knows how to survive… all they have to do is cut the power for a month or so and people will die trying to steal food from Wal-Mart and each other.

    I wish I could believe there are enough people awake in this country to stop all this from happening. I wish many things…. we had our revolution in Romania…. at least we managed to unite long enough to do something. I’m not sure if the same thing can happen here.

    All I can do is hope and pray….. and keep cleaning my gun.

  • haelix


    Oh yeah, the majority of the population still believes Osama bin Forgotten was responsible for 9/11.

    Who was responsible for 9/11?

  • http://dianarn.wordpress.com/ Diana

    In the words of Immortal Technique, a poet who raps on things other than butts and boobies,

    “Bin Laden didn’t blow up the projects
    It was you, nigga
    Tell the truth, nigga
    (Bush knocked down the towers)
    Tell the truth, nigga
    (Bush knocked down the towers)

    I pledge no allegiance, nigga fuck the president’s speeches
    I’m baptized by America and covered in leeches
    The dirty water that bleaches your soul and your facial features
    Drownin’ you in propaganda that they spit through the speakers
    And if you speak about the evil that the government does
    The Patriot Act’ll track you to the type of your blood
    They try to frame you, and say you was tryna sell drugs
    And throw a federal indictment on niggaz to show you love
    This shit is run by fake Christians, fake politicians
    Look at they mansions, then look at the conditions you live in
    All they talk about is terrorism on television
    They tell you to listen, but they don’t really tell you they mission
    They funded Al-Qaeda, and now they blame the Muslim religion
    Even though Bin Laden, was a CIA tactician
    They gave him billions of dollars, and they funded his purpose
    Fahrenheit 9/11, that’s just scratchin’ the surface.”

    If this piques your curiosity, go watch the first Zeitgeist movie. It’s worth it. :)

  • haelix

    So then what’s with the video in which he admits to be behind the attacks, and in which he promises to repeat them?
    There is an other movie in which he appears together with two of the hijackers.

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