Is America Really Free, If A Privately-Owned Central Bank Controls Our Currency And Runs Our Economy?

Now that is a thought that sends a cold chill right down the ol' spine!

Actually, how about a commodity backed currency such as gold and silver?

WE GOTTA GET ORGANIZED!! as one once said.

And the crowd roared "Amen!"

We are being shepherded in the wrong direction by our current elected Representatives, all bought and paid for by special interests (which are not those of we the people) and are being sold a false security under the guise of benign govt altruism.

George Washington:
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

Samuel Adams:
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

Dude!

HW Bush has been promising the new world order since 1988. yet Ron Paul is a republican? Hmmmmmm.......

it isn't just our current elected representatives it's everyone elected in the last 50 years who have sold this country out to the Elite wholesale! This Government does not serve the best interests of it's people,and we therefore have the right to replace it,and if necessary by the use of force! our Constitution gives us that right! Instead the people have become sheep led in whatever direction the power elite feels is best for them in the end,more power and more profit and almost everyone who is either in office or running for office is a shill for the Elite! We gave our Constitutional Rights away for false promises of "safety",The vast Majority of the population is brainwashed,and we can't beat the power elite! There are two choices left then to stay in the US and Die or worse[FEMA Camps don't forget},or get the hell out before it hits the fan! Doesn't matter the "right or Left' either or in my view,it is going to happen,corporatism is coming,and even if you run you'll only stall you're having to deal with it sooner or later it will find you! We lost the war without firing a shot people and America,and all it stands for is terminally ill and it is only a matter of time!

It isn't just everyone elected in the last 50 years who have sold this country out to the Elite wholesale—it's the people who elected them! The People do not serve their own best interests, and we therefore have the right to replace them, and, if necessary, by the use of force!

But seriously, Americans, stop blaming your problems on other people (your politicians).

Have some fucking personal accountability.

All it takes is for people to start bartering or using other methods of exchange. I know why the government does everything in its power to prevent this.

"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."--Tacitus

No shit, and the plutocrat politicians are selling us out as fast as they can, America is openly being high-jacked, and too damn many people haven't a frakkin' clue.

"I freed 1000 slaves, I could've freed 1000 more slaves if only they knew they were slaves."
~Harriet Tubman (Underground Railroad Creator)

Question: I know that JFK was Murdered 10 days after he announced
he was going to expose them. But who was the other President ? I realy
wouldn't ask if I knew.

Lincoln.

I fear for Ron Paul's life if he gets elected....too many borg followers/supporters.... too many people trying to silence him.

You said Borg and all I could think of, because I'm a dork, is Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Thanks. Were you aware that there's an uncanny parallel of facts which
both assasinated presidents share ? Too many facts to be coincidental
according to chance probability. Apparently the central banker backers
in the USA wanted to pave the way for the Corporations long before the
international Bankster cartel actualy did in Woodrow Wilson's time.

ok so the banking system didn't work... how about we try an america run by fast food joints...

Nicely said Mark701!

Regulators are a joke, heck, the SEC backed up Bernie Madoff for 16 years...giving him the green light. Why is a failure of government proof for more coercive government?!? All it does is create moral hazard and it taints control towards the coercive corporatacracy that tries to pull us away from freer markets and civil liberties!

With all due respect, our "failure" of government is the result of decades of corporate planning to strip government of it's ability to effectively regulate. They used a flawless strategy. First, buy the appropriate people in congress to do your bidding. Use them to undermine the laws that were instituted to ensure that the market didn't collapse (for example Glass-Steagall).

Second, ensure the US government won't get in the way by installing a president (Bush) that lets them do what they want.

Third, when when chaos erupts because regulations are not enforced or have been made ineffective, turn around and blame the GOVERNMENT of being too big and inefficient to do it's job, and claim that the "free-market" system could fix everything. Use the corporate MSM to blast your talking points into the brains of unthinking people, then use those same people (think Teabaggers) to support your point of view.

This strategy has been played out thousands of times, and each time it chips away at governments ability to do it's job. In essence the "failure of government" is EXACTLY what large corporations have been working at for decades, and they've finally succeeded.

Finally, the "free-market" can't save us because the free-market as envisioned by Adam Smith is a myth. It doesn't exist and never did. A truly free-market demands competition. But the mega corporations abhor competition. They either buy it out, merge, or destroy it. They will do everything in their power to avoid being forced to compete. (That's why the public option was such a threat to them, they would have been forced to compete). If someone is too big to buy out, they collude on pricing. This is the reality of our "free market" system. it's bullshit and it's eating us alive.

I hope it doesn't take another generation to do that, but given the entrenched power of the corporatocracy, it is likely that it will.
The only rights ones really has are the ones he can enforce.
At this point most of America is unarmed economically, and isolated, socially and politically. Maybe this final cascade of crisis will bring things to a head.

Instigator or F*cking idiot? which one is it? Either way dumbest comment possibly of all time.

No, no, no, no. You're looking at the small picture, my man. The government didn't fail, it did too much. More than it was supposed too and more than it should have. It IS NOT the governments job to put it's sticky fingers in OUR market and mess with OUR money We never gave the free-market a chance. Capitalism as it should have been never fully existed. Maybe in the early days of our country it did, but it wasn't too soon before we lost that and began our trudge towards corporatism. Sure, the big comapnies backed our government, but government policies backed them too! Not through force of the corporations, but by the will of the government and it's cronies at the Fed.
Through inflationary practices of the Federal Reserve under a no-commodity, fiat money system, our economy was chained to the floor. Regulated and distorted over time, the value of our dollar dropped and prices went up. We took our boom-bust business cycle as inevitable and road the economic roller coaster that we were forced into. The Federal Reserve was founded to STOP panics and recessions and depressions we had perviously experienced, how they thought that would have worked, we may never know. But, the exact opposite occured, and just 16 years after its founding we had the worst depression in the hsitory of this country, but that top spot may be taken by the current diaster we are in now, should our policies continue.

Well said !

I prefer the word "conned". What made the con so insidious is that it was mass marketed and backed by Wall Street who blessed it with an air of legitimacy. How would expect people to react to that kind of assault?

Democracy as a form of government has always struggled with the paradox of equality and quality control. Jefferson argued that American democracy would only work if all citizens were sufficiently educated and fully informed.
Reports on the level of knowledge and comprehension among US citizens make it pretty clear that neither is true today.
It may never have been true in the degree that Jefferson envisioned and hoped for in our short and turbulent history. As we depend on democratic choice (to some degree) to govern and choose policy, we are, as a nation, doubtless damaged by that fact.

Perhaps given growing state of economic inequality in the US and the world, and constant expansion of the human population, the ideal of democratic government may be as much of an idealistic fantasy as pure communism or Christian socialism.
Given the success that China and other countries have had in preserving totalitarian rule by a party elite, no matter what the turbulent circumstances or outside pressures, it is very likely that could be the durable modern model of national government.

I don't want to be governed by a rapacious power elite, or by the fears and blunders of a crowd of semi-literate and aggressively ignorant dimwits.
For my part, I hope I'm lucky enough to preserve my individual brand of autarky, and wherever possible, be invisible and out of reach to the attentions of either group.

Maybe, as some argue, the power of nation states, in the age of globalism and instant capital movement will diminish. I don't know if that will make things worse, but given mankind's history so far, I'd say that it will likely mean more destruction of the planet, more control of others, and more concentration of the goodies in the hands of the few.

Some monarchies have been benign, or in some rare cases, even heroic.
But the problem of course, is hereditary power.
What guarantees the next in line even in a very well-intentioned royal house with good and purposeful training for the heir, isn't a dullard, an oaf, or on their way to be a irresponsible or even dangerous twit? (Sort of like Bush II) It's hard to get rid of them if the position is hereditary.
I expect you propose this all with some irony, and that's fine.
In the final analysis it couldn't be that much worse than many of the examples we'd had in recent years.
There are some places where a well-respected constitutional monarchy does do a unique and laudable service.
Jordan and Thailand come to mind, although now there is a pending (and probably destabilizing) problem with the likely successor to the King Rama VI in Thailand.
One of the heirs sisters is admired, well-liked, and is clearly quiet capable of the position, but the almost certain male heir, for good reason apparently, is not held in that same regard.

You know they've never been audited once?

In fact I read that just today. I hope to see more from Alan Grayson and Ron Paul.

I didn't know you had all this posted before. Great job!!!

Thanks for the links, man. I blogged them, and Email bloged them. Much obliged.

That was worth watching. A bit heavy on the connections to Baum, hey it is a great kids story, and the most upbeat of the series, but the history lesson was invaluable. Glad it was easy to follow and that they elaborated on the details. Really opened my mind to how things are being run now and why we are where we are. Wish CA had the guts to open a new State Bank that would lend with little to no interest to make our economy whole. I guess we could look at Nebraska for a tutorial. Sucks that the big banks that got bailed out by our taxes won't help out CA. Perhaps this is how some are trying to quiet the LeftCoast down a bit. Watch the movie.

important video, thank you.