First off, let me say that anyone ranting on here about issues and backing the constitution and bill of rights that subsequently tells someone to leave (usually in a rather harsh tone) or tells someone to shut up needs to think a little harder. The first amendment of the Bill of Rights, the same bill you adamantly stand up for, grants that person freedom of speech. Ryan-I guess my wording on “the wrong books” could have been better. I am in awe of your perpective and actually appreciate your input. I came across this:
Our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln wasnâ??t as fortunate as Andrew Jackson. It can be argued that â??the Bankâ?? killed Lincoln. He took on the banking interests during the Civil War. The banks were charging the government usurious interest rates on the funds Lincoln needed to fight the war. So Lincoln heeded Thomas Jeffersonâ??s advice and made the bold move of taking on the bankers by creating a new money system and issuing â??green backsâ?? as the new currency. Shortly before he was assassinated, he had this to say:
â??The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.â??
Lincoln then prophetically added:
â??I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my Country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed.â??
Many will argue that Lincoln was proved right and the Republic was destroyed some years later in 1913, when the Federal Reserve Act was signed into law. In 1913, U.S. Congressman Charles Lindbergh famously argued: â??The [Federal Reserve] Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this Bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized. The greatest crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency billâ?¦. From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.â??
In fact, President Woodrow Wilson, in 1916, looking back at his signing of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, considered it the most tragic and biggest mistake of his presidency and said this:
â??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 world, no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.â??
Did you see the end of Lindbergh’s quote? “From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.” This insert came from here: AMPEDSTATUS.COM - Everything AMPED
Read that and watch “Money Masters.” If your point of view on this issue isn’t affected by this, then there is something terribly wrong with you. Please provide me with some books or other sources that will help me see things the way you do. I don’t think people truly have an “informed” opinion until they study material from both sides of the aisle. Put me in your shoes, as I have tried to do for you, and then we can continue this debate.