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24 Feb 2003 @ 16:04 by sharie : "A New America"
A New America
By Gracchus
2-19-3
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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
unalienable 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.
Let's try. Let's make a start.
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