"A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." -- John Adams Many conservatives and Libertarians continue to zealously argue that "our last hope" to restore Liberty in America is an Article V convention. These people are naive and misguided. Holding an Article V Convention of States, is the worst possible idea, for a vast number of reasons. First and foremost is simple logic. The driver for this is the notion that the federal government ignores the Constitution's intent to limit federal power and authority. It thus continually neuters the citizenry of our authority over our own lives, and circumvents all of the Constitution's protections of individual unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property. So, if the current Federal and State Governments ignore the Constitution as it is written and ratified, why should anyone believe that our impeccably honest and disciplined elected government employees will suddenly start respecting The Constitution once it's been changed? The point is that neither the Federal, nor our State and Local governments obey the Constitution. So why would State Legislatures have any interest in changing it in any way other than to make it fit their pattern of disobedience, in order to validate and posthumously legalize their misdeeds? [rhetorical question] In other words - the only way the government would actually respect the Constitution, is if the document is changed to instead legalize all of the heretofore Unconstitutional acts which Government has been perpetrating until now, to thereby validate and sanitize their century-long history of malfeasance. Can anyone with even half a functioning brain actually believe that elected members of state governments, are any less corrupt than those residing in The Federal Government ? --- [Rhetorical Question]. America has been systematically and surreptitiously transformed into the current fascist-socialist system under which we all suffer - by the very same people in our State and Local governments who would be running this convention. To believe that an Article V Convention would actually result in any positive restoration of property rights, individual freedom and sovereignty, is hopelessly naïve, and very dangerous. It's just common sense to understand that since no federal, state, or local government in the US will follow the law of the land -- it will do absolutely no good to change those laws which all of the corrupt layers of our governance already violate at every turn. And that's not even the half of it ... There is no established process for conducting a Convention of States. Imagine someone told you that they could "improve you" by re-engineering your DNA. They tell you that they will follow a vague "procedure" that not only had never been tried before, but which consisted in making up the actual procedure as they went along. They tell you further that not only were the results not guaranteed but that there was a very real probability, that, while tinkering with your DNA, they might change something other than what you’d discussed – and such change would then be irreversible (the law of unintended consequences). This alone should inspire you to question the wisdom in pursuing this dangerous idea. Furthermore, the practical aspects are ALWAYS IGNORED by celebrity zealots like Mark Levin. His book, “The Liberty Amendments” has received a great deal of attention. It does indeed have a lot of great ideas about what HE THINKS we should do to save America, but go ahead and ASK HIM HOW, in detail, such a convention would work to implement his proposals for new amendments. He doesn't know. In fact, there exist no detailed rules or procedures on how such a convention would be conducted. It may be authorized by Article V, but no one knows how to do it - and when you have 34 US States all trying to cooperate on a process that has never been defined - it will be chaos. And furthermore, Levin’s proposals aren’t the only ones out there. There are at least as many if not more Marxist Liberals who also have proposals for amending The Constitution. Their ambitions are not to restore Liberty, but to dismantle the last vestiges of it in order to make room for their depraved Marxist ideology. What would the composition of a convention of states look like? Would every state get a single representative? Would votes be apportioned according to population with larger states getting more? We don’t know. And how would delegates be chosen? Election? Appointment? Lottery? We don’t know, and neither does Mark Levin. Would the convention be obliged to produce an amendment on a discrete issue or set of issues (only a term limits amendment? only a balanced budget amendment? both ?)? Would this "convention of State Legislatures" be free to rewrite the country’s DNA as it saw fit (enshrining single-sex marriage, replacing the Second Amendment with the terms of the UN Arms Control Treaty? Let’s bring back the Equal Rights Amendment while we're at it, and force Christian taxpayers to finance abortions for 14 year old's without their parents' consent. And do either the states or the Congress even have the power to tell a convention what it cannot do? We don’t know. Would States in an Article V Convention be prohibited for example, from re-writing the Bill of Rights and perhaps eliminating the Second Amendment altogether ? NO ONE KNOWS. However -- Here is what I DO KNOW: If our Federal, State, and Local governments ALREADY FOLLOWED THE EXISTING CONSTITUTION as it is written and ratified today - we would not have a Federal Reserve Fiat Money System (a violation of Article 1), A Social Security Administration, a tax on Labor Compensation garnished from our wages by every employer in America as a condition of being in business ( a violation of numerous sections including - the 16th amendment), we would not have property taxes on our principal residential homes (a violation of the 5th amendment), there would not be any state law which infringes on the keeping (owning) and bearing (carrying) of arms ( a violation of the 2nd and 10th amendments); we would not have a patriot act, a national defense authorization act, Obamacare, a Department of Education and Common Core, ... and on and on and on. The list of UNCONSTITUTIONAL acts which both the Federal Government and all State governments have perpetrated against we the people, is far too long a list to include here. It would require several volumes of text. How many times must I repeat the logic against it? Federal, State, and Local governments do not respect the Constitution as it is written today. Why on Earth would anyone believe that a “new and improved” Constitution be respected instead? Those who want that new Constitution to restore limits to government power are fools to believe that the wolves guarding the hen house, will suddenly place a lock on the hen house door of their own volition. How about we the people stand up to our State and Federal governments in a show of force to "COMPEL THEM TO FIRST FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION WE ALREADY HAVE," before giving all of the corrupt State Legislatures in this country the impetus to revise it? Calling for a Convention of States will more than likely give them to license to instead - adapt the Constitution to our already inherently corrupt Socialist model that they are currently following. In fact, the criminal cabal in charge of these state governments have every reason to do so, as they can then validate all of the illegal actions they have been taking for generations. I happen to agree with a lot of what Mark Levin says on his radio show, and he has written some outstanding books on Freedom and America's founding principles --- but "The Liberty Amendments" is NOT one of them. Yet millions of his radio listeners, instead of thinking objectively, run around regurgitating whatever he says without considering the deeper implications. This genius idea is to let the same political scumbags in our state legislatures who have been disobeying the existing Constitution for generations - be given the authority to write us a new one? Are you people freaking insane? Do you all really want to tell all of the self-serving corrupt state legislatures in this country to get together, and transform the Constitution into a new document that finally conforms to all of the egregious criminal acts that the states and feds have been subjecting us to for the past 3 or 4 generations? Go ahead -- tell all of these state politicians that you are in favor of them amending the Constitution with new mandates, that wind up validating all of the illegal and formerly unconstitutional bullshit they have been doing to us for nearly a century. The Article V convention of States language in The Constitution is the following: The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress… What is equally important, is what this does NOT say. It says not a single word expressly authorizing the states, Congress, or some combination of the two to confine the subject matter of a convention. It says not a single word about whether Congress, in calculating whether the requisite 34 states have called for a convention, must (or must not) aggregate calls for a convention on, say, a balanced budget, with separate and differently worded calls arising from related or perhaps even unrelated topics. It says not a single word prescribing whether the make-up of a convention (as many conservatives imagine) will be one-state-one-vote (as Alaska and Wyoming might hope) or whether states with larger populations should be given larger delegations (for which the bastions of Marxist Socialism - California and New York - will surely argue). And suppose the Congress, or perhaps the Supreme Court will then get to resolve these questions—the same Congress and Supreme Court that the process is aimed at doing the end run around? If the Supreme Court resolves them, does it do so only at the very end of the process, after years of national debate have been spent in devising amendments that we find out after the fact were not generated in proper form? Justice Burger once described the entire process as “a grand waste of time.” One reason is that after advocates get the process rolling by convincing 34 of the States (itself a fairly challenging number) the amendments that emerge from a convention do not get ratified unless 38 of states ratify - an even more demanding number. And for those who continue to spew the nonsense that critics don’t understand the concept of Federalism – listen up and listen good. Career politicians at the State and Local level, are no less corrupt and power-mongering than those at the Federal level. In fact, most of those State and Local parasites view their posts as nothing more than an “entry level” stepping stone toward becoming Federal parasites in the future. There are very few if any State Legislators who don't covet a step up to the US Congress or Senate. Do you really believe these people would give you a new Constitution that further limits the power of the Federal Government to which these career politicians aspire to ascend? It's sheer idiocy, given the fact that our current Constitution already should be limiting Federal power to an extent that hasn't been seen in 3 generations. Whether in spending programs, regulations, subsidies - you name it - almost every big expansion of federal power has been skillfully designed as a deal that cuts state political elites into some of the resulting flow of power and money. Consider, for example, how state education, police, road, and environmental departments have come to depend on Washington’s largesse. There is no way in hell the States are going to tie a tourniquet around the Federal Teat on which they have been suckling for decades. Yes, the federal government ignores its constitutional bounds, yes, the Supreme Court treats the law of the land as something more akin to a “non-binding letter of intent,” and yes, that’s infuriating. Just don’t confuse a plan for talking, which is what a convention of states really is, with a plan for actually changing things for the better. A Convention of States is most likely to be a cure that will kill the patient. We must restore The Constitution we have now, not rewrite it and risk winding up with something that instead gives legal authority and validation to the corrupt sociopaths in charge – the same sociopaths who have been ignoring the existing constitution for generations. The Best chance for "we the people" is not to change the Constitution - but to Change the entire House and Senate. We must ROUT Congress and replace almost everyone there with new blood - candidates who understand that we have had enough, and demand new representation by people who will RESPECT THE CONSTITUTION, and not continue to treat it as a dead letter.
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by F. A. Grieger – Author of Chase The Rabbit. When people spew nonsense like “taxes are theft,” they really have no idea what they’re saying. Yes, you read that right - I said "nonsense." Anyone who knows me is now scratching their head. As someone who finds most taxes abhorrent and immoral, I say this with conviction. Many taxes are for the most part, NOT theft (while some taxes are in fact - criminal). Before I lead you down the rabbit hole - let me qualify my meaning with a few examples. Consumption tax - such as sales tax for example - is not theft because it is voluntary. You can choose what you buy, or whether to buy something at all. You can choose whether or not to use a toll road or take the long way home. You choose how frugal or wasteful you are. You therefore have some choice in the matter. That’s not theft. “Income” tax (as defined by the US Supreme Court in 1913 - and again in 1920 - when levied against capital gains or a dividend on a stock), although I consider it distasteful, is also technically not theft, because this was authorized by the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution. I wish it hadn’t been, but my wishing does not make it “illegal.” However - what a Constitutional Amendment SAYS and MEANS - versus how it is applied by our government - are not necessarily one and the same. More on this later. Here's one that is always good for a chuckle: "How would we pay for roads and bridges without an income tax?" Answer: Roads and bridges have never been financed with income taxes - they are financed with state and federal taxes levied on gasoline and diesel sales, as well as commercial road-use taxes. Again - these are all consumption taxes - and therefore - not theft. And here's where we "chase the rabbit" down the hole ... My all-time favorite --- Labor Compensation Tax (on wages, salaries, and tips). This is also not theft ... BECAUSE IT IS CRIMINAL EXTORTION... ... and in this author’s humble opinion, the magnitude of a crime matters. And indeed, "we the people" are being fleeced of our earnings by a vast organized criminal syndicate of Biblical proportions. Petty theft is a misdemeanor, while extortion – well – that’s a felony. In fact extortion when performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization is called a RICO felony. RICO stands for “The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. This is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties (life imprisonment) and a civil cause of action against the perpetrators. Given this definition, every employee of the IRS, and Federal Government, whether elected or appointed, who took an oath to “uphold and defend the US Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic,” is in violation of multiple federal crimes including RICO felonies, perpetrated against every citizen who has reported and paid a tax on their wages, salaries, or tips. The fact that the 16th Amendment authorized the government to tax income - BUT NOT LABOR COMPENSATION - is what escapes the understanding of almost everyone in this country. People don’t grasp this because for several generations now, the term “income” has been conflated with labor compensation (wages, salaries, tips), qua – your paycheck – such that virtually everyone has accepted that income – and labor compensation – are interchangeable. I assure you they are not - and The United States Supreme Court has said so - several times. Compensation - is not Income, and the Supreme Court held this principle in the 1913 case Stratton's Independence -V- Howbert; as well as in Eisner v. Macomber, 252 U.S. 189 (1920). The court’s decisions in both cases held that income was defined as "a gain on corporate activity." This would constitute a capital gain on the re-sale of a good for a profit, or a dividend paid from stock ownership. In other words - money which you acquired without having to trade your time and labor. The word "income" itself, suggests it is "money coming in," without anything else going out (i.e. - a net gain). When you work for a wage or salary – you are providing a service to the employer. In this case, you are in fact trading “a piece of your life” in return for the money you are paid. That’s a piece of your life you can NEVER – EVER get back. Consider this concept from a more personal perspective. Imagine that you are at the end of your life. You are lying on a cold slab looking up at your loved ones who have come to see you off to the afterlife - if there is such a thing. You know that these are your last moments on earth. Never again will you see your children, be able to play with your grandchildren, or share the love of your family. Never again will you enjoy the warmth of a beautiful sunset. You have at most a few hours left before the eternal sleep. Once you cross that threshold, you will never be able to come back. Before tomorrow your only mortal life, the most precious gift you will have ever received will be gone—forever. How much would you pay to have one more day? What is one day of your finite life worth? When you trade that precious day of your life, for some money – that money becomes your property. And America's founding was based on a respect for an individual's right to their own life, their own liberty, and their own property. Your labor - is your property. Furthermore, Labor Compensation is NOT a gain - because it is an equivalent value – to the piece of your life you sacrifice in return for the payment - thus the term - compensation. When you trade some hours of your life in return for some money from an employer - you and the employer have agreed that the value of your labor and life given up - are EQUIVALENT TO - the money you are paid. Neither party in that transaction has gained anything - it is an even Trade. This is not "income," because no "net money" came in. That is why the Framers of the Constitution - as well as the Congress which was duped into passing the 16th amendment - did NOT consider or intend that Labor Compensation EVER be taxable – even under the then understood definition of income and its application to the 16th. Furthermore - the Article 1 provisions explicitly PROHIBIT Capitation. Capitation is a "head tax" or a "tax on your head." It is a tax for existing - a tax on your life. By extension - a tax on your time and labor is a tax on "part of your life," which is simply "partial capitation." Capitation (whether partial or full) remains prohibited by Article 1, and was not authorized by the 16th Amendment. Anyone with any sense of value, understands that taxing an individual for their life, or for part of their life, is fundamentally unethical. That is why – it is also – Unconstitutional. That's right - the tax imposed on the American people's LABOR - by our Federal Government, is in DIRECT violation of the meaning and intent of US Constitution, EVEN UNDER THE 16th AMENDMENT. And it ALWAYS has been. Unfortunately for “we the people,” trying to escape the Unconstitutional Labor tax and then arguing this principle in a court – regardless of its veracity - will still land you in prison if you don't pay what they demand. That is why when people say something like "income taxes (as misapplied by our government) are theft," - I immediately differ. It is NOT THEFT -- IT IS EXTORTION - and to repeat myself - the magnitude of the crime matters. We all know that criminals don't obey the law - thus the term "criminal." Remember earlier when I wrote ... what a Constitutional Amendment SAYS and MEANS - versus how it is applied by our government - are not necessarily one and the same. ? Clearly, when the government is run by criminals, we shouldn't expect them to follow the law of the land - the US Constitution - and indeed - they don't. Irwin Allen Schiff was an American tax protester known for having published several books in which he demonstrated that the income tax in the United States (as it is deliberately misapplied in violation of the meaning of the 16th amendment) is illegal and unconstitutional. In protest, he tried to apply these principles to his own refusal to file tax returns and was imprisoned. He eventually died there – a political prisoner of the United States Internal Revenue Service. The Unwitting Conscripts What is even more insidious is that neither the IRS nor the Federal Government collect taxes from you. Your employer does. Every business in the United States has been conscripted by the US government to be its tax-collection agent as a condition of being in business. This too amounts to extortion. Furthermore, every one of us must agree to have our wage or salary garnished by our employer on behalf of the government as a condition of employment. Think long and hard about this next bit: Every business is required to spend enormous resources in time and manpower just to process withholding from their employees’ wages on behalf of the IRS, Medicare, Medicaid, social security, and state and local tax authorities. None of these government agencies ever reimburse US companies for spending their own resources on acting as their tax enforcement agents. Companies are forced to garnish your wages and administer the collections at their own expense - solely for the government’s benefit. Feeding the Beast Businesses therefore have no choice but to account for their cost of compliance as part of their overhead. They must then pass those costs on to their customers in the price of every product or service they sell. Therefore, with every purchase you make, with every [after-tax] dollar spent, you are funding the government’s costs incurred in confiscating your own hard-earned money. And "we the people" consent to this? It is like being stopped by a mugger in the street and then willingly handing him a loaded gun with which he will proceed to rob you … with your consent. We are unwittingly feeding the beast that is bent on destroying us (or enslaving us—which are synonymous). By this standard - every employer in America is acting as the Government's "enforcer" in their illegal extortion tax scheme. It is a Mafia-Style "protection racket" of biblical proportions. But this is only the very teeny weeny tip of a vast economic iceberg, intent on sinking the ship called “The American Dream.” So let’s take a trip down the rabbit hole, and learn why America is not anything like what you have been taught. “They call it the American Dream … because you have to be asleep to believe it.” --- George Carlin The 16th Amendment, and The Federal Reserve Act were both passed in 1913 – by the same Congress, and then signed into law by the same president – Woodrow Wilson. This is NOT a coincidence. Did Wilson make this statement because he suddenly realized the ramifications of what he had done or to mask his foregone knowledge of it and therefore claim innocence in the matter in an attempt to sanitize and protect his legacy? Was Wilson truly unwitting in his participation in the ruin of his country as he claims? Prior to seeking the US presidency, Wilson had been the president of Princeton University and was the first doctorate-level academic elected as president of the United States. Could a man of such a prestigious education truly have been so naïve, so obtuse, so extraordinarily stupid? Whenever we look back in history on those events where government elites have imposed some destructive policy designed to obliterate the intent of The Constitution, the pattern is the same. The officials responsible pretend to have been hapless innocent bystanders that were unknowingly duped along with the rest of their countrymen. Politicians hoping to escape blame for their deliberate ruinous actions almost always hide behind the notion that world events are driven by some inexplicable tide of history. This may be true for natural disasters but not for the social conflict that politicians deliberately instigate. There is always a cause and effect, and the ruling class has had thousands of years to figure out how to cheat the peasants out of their hard-earned wealth and their hard-won freedom. When highly educated and well-connected government officials feign innocence by playing dumb, one should be exceedingly skeptical of their sincerity. We have long witnessed the destructive consequences of this deliberate, surreptitious, and incremental eradication of our property rights. We see it in the heavy price we pay for the continually increasing economic uncertainty and inefficiencies of our current system. We see it as public entitlement benefits continue to grow at the expense of those from whom those resources are plundered. We incrementally slide further and further to a point of total servitude by debt and taxes. America’s founders went to extraordinary lengths and bore enormous personal risk in order to secure our freedom. It is a painful irony they thus set the stage for us to finally eradicate hundreds of years of British Colonial physical slavery that was imposed upon a small portion of the population - only to have it replaced with debt slavery imposed upon the entire population. The Federal Reserve System is neither federal, nor does it have any reserves. It is a central bank which - in direct violation of Article 1 of the US Constitution - has been authorized by Congress to issue Fiat currency - a debt instrument - as legal tender in the US Monetary system. The Constitution however had guaranteed to the American people a system of Sound Money (the opposite of Fiat money). This is because only sound money is compatible with the Free Enterprise Economic model we generally refer to as “Capitalism.” It was Karl Marx who in 1848 wrote in his Communist Manifesto that one of the cornerstones of Communism is a central bank controlled system of fiat money issued as “credit” (or debt – which to a banker are synonymous). The reason for this is that a debt-based money system - ensures that you cannot have control over your property - when all property is valued and denominated in that debt instrument - it is controlled by the lender, not the borrower. Every Federal Reserve Note ever created - is a debt - owed back to the central bank that issued it - in our case - The Federal Reserve. That's not the only example of how your property rights have been eradicated. Just refuse to pay the extortion tax on your home (property tax) - and then you'll find out who REALLY owns it. You see, by the beginning of the 20th century, every industrialized nation on Earth – Germany, France, The United States, Britain, etc., operated their monetary systems on a gold or precious metal standard (the only true sound money). This of course was a thorn in the side of the Bolsheviks, whose ambition it was to dominate the planet with their degenerate Socialist notions that your life and labor belong to the State (or more correctly those in charge of the State Bank), and not to you. To eradicate individualism and the possibility for freedom and liberty – they had to make this system go away – EVERYWHERE – so they could replace it with Marx’s Utopian vision for equal misery and abject global slavery. At the time, the most industrially advanced, and wealthiest nation with one of the three largest gold supplies on Earth, was Germany. The real enemy of Communism and collectivism however was the United States and her free society protected by our unique Constitution. The Marxists knew this had to be done in manageable steps. While Bolshevik revolutionaries were jockeying for power in Russia, with an ambition for violent revolutionary change, a quieter and more subdued “social movement” was taking place in Great Britain. The Fabian Socialists of England who had embraced Marx’s perverse ideology, did not believe in the Lenin-model of violent revolutionary overthrow. Their modus operandi was much slower, painstaking, systematic, and surreptitious. Their idea was to corrupt the money, and the culture, and then allow the society to descend into Marxist Socialism unwittingly on its own. Their deceitful tactics are well known. They were proud of it. Their official symbol is today emblazoned on a stained glass window at the King's College Museum of Cambridge University - their original meeting place. The symbol - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. The Fabian principle has been successfully applied here in the United States generations ago. Our version of the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, is our Marxist Socialist Economy - which has been disguised and deliberately mislabeled as "American Capitalism." One of the Fabians' more famous founders was George Bernard Shaw. Under his sponsorship, economist and “unofficial” Fabian member - John Maynard Keynes - achieved prominence in Britain and became the then youngest ever - head of the British Treasury. To start their evil process of securing global domination and control of the world's means of production, the bankers had to first destroy every sound-money based economy on Earth. Their first target of destruction was pre-WW-I Germany – her wealth, her industrial might, her powerful and disciplined military, and most of all, her vast gold reserves. By sponsoring the assassination of the Austrian Archduke during a visit to Yugoslavia, they would knowingly drag the Reich into the First World War. This would enable the Zionist Rothschilds and their ilk to not only profit from their financing of the resulting conflagration, but would achieve a major step toward dismantling the industrial world’s gold-backed economy to make room for their deceitful and unscrupulous system of centrally controlled usury - Central Banking. Interestingly, it doesn’t take much research to connect the dots on the most pivotal events of the 20th century, and what they all have in common. The historical continuum from just before the First World War, the war itself, The Versailles Treaty, the Bolshevik Revolution, the resultant economic destruction of Germany and the Weimar hyperinflation, the US Great Depression, the rise of the Nazis, WW-II, Bretton-Woods, and Nixon’s eventual rescinding of Bretton-Woods in 1971 – ALL of these events are connected. Most disturbing, is that they are connected by a singular purpose, and also by one man. It might be useful to note here, that All wars - are Bankers' wars. The purpose – to destroy any remnant of a sound (gold-backed) monetary standard, in any industrialized country. The man - John Maynard Keynes. Keynes was the most influential “economist” of the 20th century (I use the term economist loosely in his regard), The architect of the economic terms of the Versailles Treaty, The head of Britain’s Treasury, The author of many of The Fabian Socialist Society’s manuscripts, and along with convicted Communist Spy – Harry Dexter White – The principal architect of the Bretton-Woods Agreement which created the World Bank, and the IMF. Yes, this one man was all of those - the guiding light that has misled the entire world down the Fiat money pit. Keynes was an admitted pedophile and degenerate. This is the man whose perverse ideas have been embraced by dozens of Nobel Prize winning so-called "economists," like Paul Krugman - the "mastermind" behind the "Trillion Dollar Coin" idea. Keynes and his depraved disciples led the entire world down the self-destructive path on which every industrialized country on Earth now finds itself. To ignite the fire of Marxist Socialism on a global basis, any remnant of Free Enterprise Capitalism had to first be extinguished. The shining beacon on the hill – The United States of America – was the ultimate target, but the Fabian Marxists understood that America would have to fall LAST. Germany thus became the first victim of the Marx / Keynes plot to corrupt every formerly free and sovereign country on Earth. They did this by taking the gold, and impoverishing the people under a mountain of debt. That pattern has been repeated everywhere – in every industrialized country - without exception. The historical pattern that the vast majority of people have failed to recognize is the principle which connects the dots on all of these pivotal events of the 20th century and into the 21st -- The deliberate and systematic dismantling of “the precious metal standard” and sound money as the basis for the economy. The intent of the global banking aristocracy, since Marx and his later admirer, J.M. Keynes, has been to systematically de-link the sound money system from every industrialized country – and replace it with a fiat monetary standard - as was exactly Karl Marx's vision. Keynes’s vision – he wrote in numerous essays - was always for a one-world fiat currency, under the control of a one-world government. He had attempted to achieve this already at Bretton-Woods, but failed in lieu of a longer-term more incremental approach that was favored by his colleagues (mainly Harry Dexter-White - his American Communist counterpart). That slower approach has today reached its final stage. We are now witnessing the implementation of their “final solution” – the cashless society (see my other article of the same name). The ultimate purpose was to impoverish and control each country’s respective working class under the debt-slavery imposed by the global Fiat money system. The respective puppet governments of these industrialized nations (including the USA) have been complicit in this. It is the reason our political class is so intent on surrendering American sovereignty to the UN – a creation of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - FDR – Joseph Stalin’s partner in crime. Statists benefit from replacing sound money with fiat - because the universal goal of ALL politicians is to expand their power, and expand their governments. They can only accomplish this by being able to DEFICIT SPEND (borrow money without the consent of their citizens). Deficit spending is only made possible under a fiat monetary model. Under a gold standard - not only every individual actor in the economy, but every government and institution - MUST ALL live within their means, and can only borrow within their respective ability to pay back the debt. Such debt cannot be increased arbitrarily. This is the driver behind the corrupt and malignant partnership between Governments and Central Banks. When you borrow money to buy a house or a car – you are effectively pledging your future labor, as the means with which to repay the debt. When your government borrows money to finance its foreign interventions, its bombing of foreign sovereign countries, its phony wars on drugs or terrorism (which it instigates), that government ALSO pledges YOUR FUTURE LABOR as the means with which to repay that debt. It does so however without your consent. It can because it collects that repayment from you in the form of a tax on your labor (and your life). If you object to this - you lose your freedom and are imprisoned. This constitutes extortion of the highest order. Under a gold monetary standard, this would be impossible for the government on the scale I’m referring to here. This clearly demonstrates the inextricable link that Marx so cleverly recognized, between a Fiat monetary system and Progressive Taxes. It is the most effective means to destroy individual property rights and implement a Communist dictatorship - almost irreversibly. Wars on the scale of those fought in the 20th and 21st centuries were only made possible by the power to print money as debt – and then surreptitiously force the citizenry to service that debt with their labor – against their will - conscripted unwittingly through progressive tax policy. Communist dictatorships are well-known for the hundreds of millions of dead they have sacrificed to their cause. This was only made possible by holding the people's money, labor, property, and their lives - hostage. Both progressive taxes and fiat money are the cornerstones of Marxist Socialism - as was written in the Communist Manifesto. Socialism is defined as “central control of the means of production.” The means of production are land, labor, and resources. Not theirs, but YOUR LAND, YOUR LABOR, and YOUR RESOURCES. For the government to centrally control something that is yours, it must declare that you don’t really own it. This is why the fundamental difference between Marxist Socialism and Free Enterprise Capitalism has to do with property rights. You cannot sell, trade, or redistribute that which you do not own. Therefore under Socialism – there can be no real property rights. Free Enterprise Capitalism on the other hand, DEMANDS an absolute respect for individual property rights. This is why a true free enterprise capitalist economy cannot function on an underlying system of fiat money and progressive taxes - they are fully incompatible. They are the two basic tenets of Communism. To eradicate property rights at the base of the economy – the money and the labor must be controlled by the central planners. This is done with debt and taxes. In other words, you cannot have capitalism, without property rights, and you cannot have property rights, without a system of Sound Money. This was the genius of America's founders - who wove this principal into the fabric of the US Constitution - for the first time in the history of humanity (59 years before Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published their manifesto). When all money is debt – all property denominated in that debt is by default – controlled by the lender (the issuer). When a government can threaten you with imprisonment for not paying the tax on your labor or your home – YOU, YOUR LAND, YOUR HOME, YOUR LIFE, and YOUR CHILDREN'S LIVES are all controlled by the government. That is how individual property rights are eradicated. As such, in America – our property and our lives are controlled wholly by The Federal Reserve and the Federal Government respectively through the cancerous partnership they forged in 1913 – with the Federal Reserve Act, and the continually misapplied 16th Amendment. This is “central control of the means of production.” This is Marxist Socialism. This is America - and it's no dream. This is why fiat money and a progressive tax on labor compensation were and remain, expressly prohibited by the US Constitution (even under the 16th Amendment). Our Congress and Supreme Court’s total disregard for the Constitution notwithstanding, it was that magnificent document which had to be perverted, and manipulated by the charlatans who have deemed it a “living document," so that its protections of individual life, liberty, and property could be subverted and disregarded. This is how America was long ago transformed into the Marxist-Socialist state it is today. Our federal government and its agencies, as well as most of our State governments, are in complete violation of the US Constitution, and have been for generations. Government of the People - By the People - and For the People ? Our governing institutions now only attract the same ilk - corrupt career politicians - parasites in form and in motive. They are attracted to "careers" in politics solely in order to have access to power - so that they can abuse it. Power corrupts, but more importantly - Power Attracts The Corruptible. This is why the prospects for actually restoring the so-called "American Dream," are rather grim. There is not a person alive today, anywhere on Earth - who has witnessed Free Enterprise Capitalism in practice. The last vestige of that marvelous creation of our founders, was abandoned in 1933, when FDR with the stroke of his fountain pen, abused his "executive order privilege" and confiscated the gold owned by America's citizens, and then outlawed its use as money. Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who referred to his Communist friend Joseph Stalin affectionately as "Uncle Joe," was without a doubt, America's first Communist President. Had he not died in office, he should have been impeached, prosecuted, and hanged for Treason. If ever there was an American monument or statue that should justifiably be removed and pummeled to dust -- it's this one: People who vehemently dispute this reality are in denial. They cannot tolerate the painful cognitive dissonance they experience upon hearing these unvarnished truths after generations of indoctrination that America is “capitalist,” or "free." I assure you, America is nothing of the kind. The corrupt predecessors to our current corrupt government abandoned the free enterprise system and knowingly threw the American people under the bus, long before even my generation was born. I'll repeat it so it finally sinks in: No country operating on a system of fiat money (The Federal Reserve System) along with a system of Progressive Taxes on labor compensation, can be called "free market," or “capitalist," because such a system is ENGINEERED TO ROB YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY RIGHTS. The continual dialogue from the left blaming "Evil Capitalism" for our economic dysfunctions such as the wealth gap, the expanding poverty, the skyrocketing costs of living and healthcare etc. - have nothing to do with Capitalism (the system we don't practice). These are the direct consequence of our dysfunctional Socialist economic model. Any reference to America as "capitalist," is simply false-flag propaganda, intended to stain REAL Capitalism, so that it will never be restored. This is not my opinion, or theory, or some conspiratorial tin-foil-hat wearing nonsense. This is historical and economic fact, and it is incontrovertible. To reinforce the reality of the pickle in which we find ourselves today in America, observe this consequence from real economic DATA: The data provided in the following table (The Global Wealth Data Table - from 2014) reveals that although the United States is near the top of the developed world in average or mean wealth, this is due mainly to the number of multibillionaires in the United States. The median wealth per US adult, however, is substantially lower (column 4 in the table). For those unfamiliar with statistics, it is another way of saying that the enormous wealth held by America’s centimillionaires and billionaires is a statistical anomaly. The average wealth therefore is not a representative measure of the vast cross-section of Americans. The median wealth is far more indicative. It is that value where 50% of the population owns more, and 50% of the population owns less in terms of real assets. In fact, a direct measure of the magnitude of this wealth gap is given by the ratio of median to mean wealth (column 5 in the table). This is lower in the United States than in every other G20 country except Russia. The startling impact of this huge wealth gap is further illustrated in column 6 of the table. This data shows that adults in the United States with a median level of wealth (as assets) hold a substantially smaller percentage of the nation’s overall wealth than any other country except China and India. In other words, referring to column 6 of the data table itself, the reader can see that a middle-class citizen of Finland owns $122.50 for every one billion dollars of Finland’s wealth. A Canadian owns $13.40 for every one billion dollars of Canada’s wealth. A citizen of Czech Republic owns $49.40 for every one billion of his country’s wealth. In Thailand it is $5.40. By comparison, in the United States, a middle-class citizen owns just sixty cents for every one billion dollars of total wealth in the country. Only the citizens of China at forty cents and India at thirty cents hold less than Americans in terms of assets in proportion to their national wealth. Therefore, the only two countries in the industrialized world whose citizens have fewer property rights than in the United States are China and India. Even the former Communist nations of Czech Republic and Russia enjoy substantially more property rights than Americans. Even more ironic - recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin instituted a flat income tax in Russia of 15%, while Americans continue to suffer under the onerous Marxist progressive tax on labor compensation and pay more than twice in taxes as our Communist Russian counterparts. This is clear evidence that America’s middle class has already descended to the standard of a Third World country, and the apparent prosperity in America is illusory and unsustainable. The one characteristic common to all Third World Socialist countries is that there is no middle class, or if there is one, it is disproportionately small as compared to poor class. Just look to Venezuela, Cuba, China, and Russia as your examples. Virtually all Third World countries are dominated by a small, obscenely rich ruling elite who own and control virtually all land, resources, and means of production along with a large population of poor and destitute who have no property and no means of ever escaping poverty. This is exactly the direction that America has been headed for the past several decades. One more hiccup in our phony debt-fueled bubble economy - and we will have achieved Marx's Utopian "dictatorship of the proletariat." And when they implement their cashless society - there'll be no turning it back. Americans do not own real assets. They own only debts. All the while our legislators are paid a high-six figure salary to spend every waking hour, of every day, figuring out new and creative ways to rob the citizens of even more of their hard-earned money. Whenever someone regurgitates the usual “feel-good” platitudes like: “sure we have problems and things aren’t like they used to be, but the US is still the best country in the world to live, raise a family, and even get rich if you try hard enough…” I have to shoot coffee out of my nose from laughing. People who say this have never lived anywhere else, nor have they any understanding of real world history and economics. The notion that America still is “the land of opportunity,” is a bill of goods being sold as false hope. Getting people to buy into this nonsense is the means by which unwitting, well-intentioned falsely optimistic people are lured into slavery via the inescapable debt cycle. The student loan crisis is the best example of this principle – selling false hope to debt ridden rent-slaves in order to trap them for life into employment servitude – by an employer who withholds half of their earnings on behalf of the corrupt government that has enslaved them. Here are the sad but true facts of America’s so-called prosperous middle class (as of December 2016):
Anyone who who still thinks America is a Free Enterprise Capitalist land of opportunity where the middle class has a chance -- needs their head examined. |
AuthorF.A. Grieger - Author of Chase The Rabbit Archives
September 2022
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