#11 On Economic Slavery – A Conversation

Referenced link: http://bitterrealities.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/economic-slavery/#comments

This will be a response in the manner of a conversation with Winston Wu, who wrote a provocative piece on the Bitter Realities blog, posted on October 7, 2011 · 8:17 am and entitled ECONOMIC SLAVERY. Mr. Wu's words will appear in blue, mine will appear inside square brackets [ ].

This world is in reality a global enslavement machine that programs people to THINK that they are free in order for them to cope with their servitude, and conditions people to WANT it as well. The truth is, we are all slaves to the economic system and programmed with illusions that help us bear our enslavement. [We agree with this statement and consider this perception vital for consideration of the VEN alternative.]

The system treats us as economic resources and defines us by our economic functions (e.g. workers, tax payers, consumers, voters, etc.) rather than as human or spiritual beings. In short, we are simply a commodity to the system and groomed as such. And of course, we are programmed to want to thrive as “economic resources”, not to complain about it or be critical of it. No freethought, in other words. You are supposed to “love the system”. [We want to elaborate a little here. The word Soviet implies advisers, management, those who are schooled to know better, who will manage to rule the world and decide what is best for all based on their “educated” or “scientific” perceptions. The “new Soviet man” was and still is a slave, a willing dupe to be used as fodder in endless wars, and pawns in other large scale social experiments, while those who make money on it sit in their homes and palaces living “the good life.” We also note that these “happy workers” eventually show signs of the Stockholm syndrome where the imprisoned love their captors.]

Freedom, for the most part, is just a word, not an actual state of existence. The reason people believe that they have freedom is simply because their minds are programmed to think that they do. You see, your slave-masters need you to be satisfied with your enslavement to keep you controlled. In order to do that, they give you choices in consumerism and in selecting your occupation. You are “free” to choose your form of slavery and vote for your puppet dictators. [Yes indeed, and it is getting worse all the time. What most people do not know, because they have bought and accepted their education without much critical thought, because the common view was in fact imposed by “bait and jeer” tactics known by those who developed “public relations.” Only those who have bothered to do their own research have discovered that this goes back in some cases many hundreds of years.]

Right when you step into grade school, you lose all your freedoms as you are totally controlled and given rules to abide by. You are taught to regurgitate information and to be obedient, as you are honed and groomed to become a slave in servitude to the system. You are told it’s for your own good, and punished for disobedience. Public school is where your conditioning to become a robot begins. This video [which I have seen and recommend] explains how schools are nothing more than prisons designed to train and condition slaves:

First, you are programmed to WANT to become enslaved by being conditioned to WANT a job / career, which is essentially giving over control of your daily life to others. In doing so, you give up your freedom without knowing it cause you are told that you are “free to work”, which implies that it is YOU who wants it, not the system – a psychological sleight of hand indeed. [Yes and they have a name for it too. It is called projection; they project their views upon you so that you think they're yours.] Furthermore, you are convinced that “the purpose of your life is to work” and that’s what you were born for, thus ingraining you with the “live to work” mentality. You are also conditioned to feel empty and incomplete without it. As a result, work becomes synonymous with freedom to you. [When some suggest that the purpose of education is to socialize the child this is precisely what they mean, and to some extent we have all been subject to it and accepted it uncritically.]

If you think about it though, unless you are at the executive level, most jobs are technically positions of slavery, because you are giving over a large portion of your day in servitude to a corporate body, organization or business that is structured in a hierarchical fashion. Technically, that is slavery. There’s no way around it. But of course, the system tries to convince you that it’s not by getting you to think that YOU are the one that wants it. But even if you don’t, you have to anyway cause you need the money to pay your bills. Hence, whether you want it or not, the employment enslavement is “forced” upon you by the system. [All that being so, we want to point out that the basis of the present money system in debt exacerbates all this. Were things turned upside down, were each human being accorded the right to proclaim their own value by exercising their right to create their own interest free money, we would evolve a quite different system.]

Overall, the system tries its best to make you a “happy slave” by repackaging slavery as freedom. This is a form of spin illusion that reverses the meaning of “slavery” and “freedom”. For example, freedom in America means “the freedom to work and make money” [neither of which anyone really has, particularly the choice of which money to use] which in other words means “the freedom to choose your form of enslavement”. And being free of this enslavement is to be a “miserable unemployed person who is seeking a job”, as defined by the system. This basically means that it is a bad thing not be a slave. [Yes it is bad, unless you are one of them as they are “special” people as George Orwell took pains to tell us.]

It’s a play on words that turns truth into its opposite. [Orwell again] And it’s no different than preachers telling Christians who have submitted to the fundamentalist laws of the Bible that they have been “set free from sin”, or fascist dictators telling their populace that they’ve been “set free from chaos and disorder”, etc. So in this case, when you turn into a corporate slave, you are “set free from unemployment”. [Clever and yes indeed!]

Essentially, the system’s false logic is that slavery = being “set free” from freedom. This is nonsensical of course, but you aren’t meant to see it the way it really is. Instead you are meant to see the inverse of the way it really is. That’s the scam and brainwashing. It’s a classic form of propaganda where you divert attention from something by declaring it to be its opposite. And it has been used time and time again throughout history in all areas of life where mass control is needed. Thus it’s no wonder that Michael Ellner stated:

“Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys spirituality.”

[We wanted more elaboration on this:
1. Doctors destroy health precisely because being a doctor is a monopoly and their “science” excludes all who cannot prove by their methods any modalities of treatment or cure. Yet their own rates of “successful cure” especially in the treatment of cancer, are notably poor.
2. Lawyers destroy justice when they attempt to compromise the truth or act in a manner against the inalienable rights of each individual human being. Judges in most cases are just as guilty. Their profession is also a monopoly.
3. Universities destroy knowledge, and reputedly from reliable sources, some have actually destroyed valuable evidence and ancient artifacts that were “archaeologically inconvenient” as well. Their own “peer review” system imposes a natural conformity that defies any proposition considered “out of the box.” The truth of the matter is that absolutely no science gets done without financial support of those interested in "agendas" and that's been the case for a very long time. Science so called has a “feet of clay”: it is limited precisely by what it studies and frequently by the paid efforts of agents with agendas to support. Until this monopoly is broken, we could not expect anything different.
4. A government, any government is a preposterous illusion; people who create a reason for their existence and live as parasites off the real wealth and labour of others. Anything a government does beyond a very local level is assumed to limit or destroy freedom.
5. Religion destroys spirituality. Controversial I'm sure, but even an atheist would see the illogical form of belief most people use to “suck up” to whatever or whomever they regard as divine; obviously nothing or no one that would ever suffer this fundamentally insincere “sucking up” would deserve the worship as divine.]

Moreover, the system uses a barrage of methods to keep us in an internal state of fear and insecurity that causes us to crave structure and routine, due to our psychological insecurities, which enslavement to the system provides of course. Thus we are raised to want to be “tied down” to something (e.g. a job, house, marriage, single geographic location) on a long term basis. This is why most people do not seek adventure, new experiences or true freedom of expression, and only a minority do. [We would like to say that “adventure” is constrained these days by many factors all of which involve money in one way or another. A side note that very early on, some of us were conditioned to consider “adventure” in places like Disney's Adventureland; as a sort of separated precinct where only the daring, bold or fearless went to do whatever they did, not the rest of us who would just sojourn through this separated land.  We are conditioned not to be too adventurous.]

I found this and it seems quite appropriate here.

One major outlet that the system uses to keep us in this internal state is the media of course, which constantly feeds us stories of terror, tragedy and crises. Their excuse is that “bad news sells” but that is just a cover. You are never told the real reason for the rampant fear-mongering. Society also convinces you that being in a state of fear and paranoia is good for your protection. But in reality, the majority of our fears are baseless, unfounded or greatly exaggerated. (e.g. terrorists everywhere, psycho killers everywhere, swine flu scares, etc.) [Agreed!]

Another major method the system uses is the other people around us, who are trained to keep us in line and in a state of conformity. This is effective because given a choice between the truth vs. conformity to the group, most will choose the latter even if it means parroting a lie they know to be untrue. And of course, our internal state of fear and weakness make it much more likely that we will conform as well. Thus, each of these controls are designed to reinforce each other. {More people need to become aware of “bait and jeer” techniques. The jeer must be identified as such and further disrespect of the sincerity of a jeered point of view should then be met by more personal and natural responses. If you want to wake up and wake someone else up, you certainly do not continue allowing the dream to continue uncontested.]

Conformity is the fallacious belief that the views of the majority must always be right and the minority or dissenters always wrong. [Yes, and since we're all being driven over a cliff and most are going that way, the few who see the danger will have a better chance of actual survival. You can follow the crowd in its “political correctness” to your death and the death of billions of human beings, but you will still not be right.] Therefore, it assumes one should adopt the beliefs of the majority in order to be “right”. It is a mindless characteristic that most adopt and are conditioned to live by. However, many of the greatest thinkers, writers and intellectuals of the world have seen through the madness of such a belief.

Additionally, society is set up with all sorts of stress, anxiety and worry to keep you in a constant state of “survival mode”, which reinforces your fear state. And of course, money itself, which enslaves the world for obvious reasons and is totally artificial, is the lifeblood of the global enslavement system. There is no question that we are all slaves to money. But as conspiracy lecturer Alex Collier asks in his lectures, “Why do I have to ‘pay’ to be in a world I was born into?” [Indeed! You should have the right to call into existence the money you need to take care of your needs and that is an INALIENABLE right that belongs to no one else, no government, business or organization.]

David Icke, a popular conspiracy researcher and author, came to the same conclusion. In his book “Human Race Get Off Your Knees: The Lion Sleeps No More” he writes “the truth – that the world is a global enslavement machine and reality suppressor”. [Icke is controversial and certainly not original, and I have not read his book, but I'm pretty sure that once he were to find out about E. C. Riegel and our VEN proposal in process here, that he would be in substantial agreement.]

Though there are variations, essentially most people only have two choices – either become a robot… or a bum. Not very inspiring. To find alternatives requires innovation and thinking outside the box, but most cannot cause the system doesn’t teach you to think for yourself. [Teaching people to think for themselves; we're giving it another try.]

Most people believe what they are told, and they are not told that the world is an enslavement system. Instead they are told that they were born to work, which is a virtue, and that if they study hard and work hard, they will make a lot of money and have a good life. But in reality, they end up slaving away their whole lives for money with some “pie in the sky” dream in their heads with little or no time to enjoy any “good life”. They never live fully or experience any true freedom or discover themselves. Instead they live in fear, worry and pressure their whole lives just to keep up an illusory facade under the programming of the system. In the end, it falls flat and they wonder what went wrong after they’ve lost most of their precious life years serving the system. By the time they realize it, it’s too late. Such is the sad scam the system puts on you. [Which might actually have been just fine except that the system as presently conceived is flawed and will eventually have a great fall. When it does, they assume they will be able to jump into control and suppress the rest of us; the illusion of freedom will fall and real slavery shall begin. They imagine that one or more kinds of guilt, shame, getting us to accept the blame, etc. will be used against us as well. Our response should be the same as to the “bait and jeer” technique; we identify the source and seek natural and personal responses appropriate to oppose the attempt to impose any false guilt upon us.]

[To understand what Fuller said here, it is necessary to determine for oneself just how owning oneself and one's own money contributes to individual freedom. We absolutely and categorically reject the Malthusian-Darwinian-Marxist theory that ANY individual human needs to justify his or her existence to anyone. This is a fundamental rejection with all that it implies!]

Now I am not trying to be negative here. The system is what it is. And no amount of white washing or word plays will change the core nature of it. [Agreed.]

Employment in reality is a form of binding enslavement in which you give up your life and freedom over to others. But you are made to WANT and NEED it. You are made to WANT a job that ties you to one geographic location and puts your schedule under control of a managerial entity, [a Soviet] which no sane awakened person would want. But you are programmed to define all that as “freedom”.

An awakened person realizes the folly of all this, sees that what everyone wants (like the will of a hive mind) makes no sense, and realizes that all of this is the total antithesis of what it means to be free. But an unawakened person believes the illusion and wants what they are programmed to want. To them, if society says so and everyone else is doing it, it must be good, normal and natural. Only the awakened person realizes it’s all a con full of lies, mind control, illusion, voluntary slavery and the giving up of one’s life and freedom. [Yes.]

True freedom means that you can do whatever you want (for the most part at least) as long as you don’t harm others, without the control and interference of others. But the commitment of employment and marriage take that away. There is no doubt about that. But we are NOT conditioned to want true freedom. Instead, we are conditioned to WANT enslavement by giving up control of our life, time and daily schedule to others. Yet we are TOLD that we have freedom, when in reality we do NOT have true freedom. It’s a total lie that makes no sense and contradicts reality. [It contradicts itself: freedom does not exist except for certain “special” people who can decide to do whatever fool thing they want including run and ruin the lives of others (millions, billions) who have been lured into their nets, chief among them being debt slavery, with fabulous promises that can never be kept.]

Think about it. Most people who are enslaved by employment and bound by social control do NOT have true freedom because for the most part, since they CANNOT do whatever they want everyday without control and interference from others. In childhood, their life is controlled by their school system in the day and their parents at night. Then in adulthood, their work life is controlled by their bosses, managers and HRM [Human resources, doesn't that sound exactly like they are treating us as things?], while their social life is controlled by popular culture, mass media, ideological divisions, fear and anger, etc. Yet they BELIEVE that they have freedom. Why? Because they are TOLD that they do! They are told that since no one named Adolf Hitler runs their government, that they can go to the voting booth, and that they have 20 flavors of bagels to choose from, etc. that they have freedom, even though their lives are controlled by others and they cannot do whatever they want everyday! It’s an insane hypocrisy and bizarro world. Yet most don’t see it cause the system programs their minds not to see it but to see the opposite by redefining everything and turning people into “happy slaves” who do not want true freedom.

Now if you agree with all this and want to know what you can do about it, my advice is this: Try to become self-employed [a Class A VEN member by definition]. Or at least find ways to cut your expenses so that you can work part-time and at least have half the day to be truly free. [Reclaim your time and use it for your own purposes.] This may sound hard, but if you remember that “Where there’s a will, there’s a way” you can find a way. Or you can join one of those self-sustaining eco-villages around the world [the real ones will become foci for an IE in a VEN], if you’re into that sort of thing. If you can’t do any of these things, at least be employed in something that you love, so that it does not feel like slavery.

[This too is a fundamental of the VEN; understand the relationship and one is already waking up.]

Always remember, the quotes of the greatest thinkers, writers and intellectuals of the world;

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” – Frederich Nietzsche

[Well Nietzsche too certainly had his problems and it's not clear to me that he was ever “free” of those he actually tried to ingratiate himself to; the power elite as he spoke to them. We maintain that we all own ourselves but have been literally sold from birth, against our will or knowledge which is fraud, to prop up the existing debt-money system. We reject the fundamental frauds and assert that each of us should locally and personally get to know and work with each other in a peer to peer manner around the world and where whatever “management” is required is generated and developed from among ourselves -bottom up, not imposed upon us from above by any supposed “betters.”]

“It takes far less effort to find and move to the society that has what you want than it does to try to reconstruct an existing society to match your standards.” – Harry Browne, (How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World ) 

[People naturally want individual freedom and are attracted to it and are repelled by mass compulsion and flee from it, accept in cases like North Korea perhaps, where they are scared to death and delighted to serve simultaneously. We also note that this regime is supported by outside financing of some sort, as the country is not self sustaining.]

“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” – Frederich Nietzsche [... a remark concerning and applicable to any mass movement. What one should be asking whenever they hear of a “tea party” or “occupy” movement is to determine who or whom might be supporting it with money.]

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools, and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.” – Thornton Wilder

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.” — Oscar Wilde [I've not felt this in a long time, but my convictions change with hard evidence, which must really be “harder” than most people's, as to be obvious.]

“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.” – Ayn Rand [We remind everyone here that a Rothschild paid her to write Atlas Shrugged and that single work identifies her with the internationalist / globalist elite who would like nothing better than to “shrug” off the rest of us. She was a known misanthrope. However that doesn't mean that her statement is untrue.]

“Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue…” – Billy Joel, in his hit song “Honesty”

“The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society — and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.” – Eric Fromm (The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness) [Another book I haven't read, but if the subject were merely the general alienation of the individual human being, it starts early and can be attributed to many things with obvious justification, chief among them being the denial of basic human needs at an early age. The present society and zeitgeist does not satisfy the vast majority of individual humans though most are still convinced that it is “the best of all possible worlds” and so never resist.]

Further contributions to this discussion are encouraged, shall be weighed and edited with regard to applicability to this subject.

David Burton

FINIS

#9: Why Proposed Constitutional Amendments Will Not Work and Other Matters. Attn: Bill Still and Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

“A strong case might be made against the Constitutionality of the Government's practice of "borrow-creating" on the ground that the Constitution makers could not have had this in mind when they wrote the word "borrow" into the Constitution. The practice of commercial bank borrow-creating had not come into use in their time. Their complete unconsciousness of this modern method is borne out by the debates in the Constitutional Convention. More fundamental, however, is the fact that neither constitution nor legislation can qualify a government to be a money issuer. As stated, money issuing power springs only from natural law, and this law disqualifies governments. Had the Constitution makers undertaken to invest Government with the money-issuing power, it would have had the same enabling power as if they had declared that it should have power to regulate the movement of the planets.” 

E. C. Riegel

Flight From Inflation

Chapter 4 Legal Counterfeit

This paper comes as a direct response to an unidentified blogger who calls himself “video rebel” and posted a piece entitled, “Two Proposed Amendments To The US Constitution: 28th Make Government Debt Illegal And 29th: No Fractional Reserve Banking.” Posted on June 9, 2012. You can read what he says here.  But I'm also writing in response to Bill Still (whose work and research I admire), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (whose genuine interest in the welfare of the people he serves is duly noted) and others who actually believe that if we just went back to following the Constitution, everything would turn out OK.

Well it would not turn out OK because the framers very frankly didn't know what they were doing with regard to money, finance and banking. We have the advantage and opportunity afforded us by history in these matters. We have the ability to dissect the present system and discover its flaws. We propose a different remedy and it is certain that we are going to need a vision of something that will make the transition to wherever it is the world economy will be going easier.  We need to get to work building it as if we were building life-rafts, because the present financial system is like the Titanic and it has already hit the iceberg and will be going down and there is nothing that can possibly be done to save it.

At the moment we should get some things straight from the very beginning (and yes I am hopefully speaking to those like Mr. Still and Rep. Kucinich, who perhaps still think just giving it all back to the Treasury solves anything. They are encouraged to get in touch with me dpbmss@mail.com as we need to help each other out as best we can).

POINT 1. The INALIENABLE right of each human being to create (to call into existence) their own money and to use it in all trades where money is normally used as a means of exchange shall never be infringed. This right to create money shall belong ONLY to individual human beings and to no group of human beings no matter how so constituted. It follows therefrom that:

A. All governments are excluded from and forbidden forever the right to create money, because they have nothing to sell that anyone wants to buy and therefore live as parasites on the rest of society. Debate this all you want, it's the honest truth. Everything a government needs to live on is ultimately taken from society by FORCE. (We will have further occasion to treat of these issues as the work of Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) is currently under review. Those wishing to contribute monographs on this general topic are invited to do so.)

B. All groupings of human beings are likewise excluded from and forbidden the right to create money because they derive their worth in human labour that in this system will be self-financing and therefore available to any group. (This is a subject covered in some detail by E. C. Riegel, but I am sure there are antecedents of the same idea to be found elsewhere. Those who wish to submit a monograph on this subject are invited to do so.)

C. All groupings or organizations wishing to take part in the Value Exchange Network (VEN) would have to satisfy certain basic requirements that would be established by local Independent Exchanges (IE's) in accordance with some simple ground rules. I'm leaving this topic as it is for the moment as this too deserves a separate discussion. (Those wishing to make contributions concerning this topic are encouraged to submit monographs).

D. It means an automatic end to all “legal tender” laws as invalid and intended to grant a monopoly, which is not acceptable under common law.

POINT 2. The understanding that very frankly and honestly no money is ever backed by anything other than what it buys. This is a core E. C. Riegel concept. We stick to the basics: money is a means to split barter for real goods, services and labour and nothing else. It creates its own value and its own supply when the only ones allowed to create money are individual human beings. That said:

A. Let's be clear from the outset that while E. C. Riegel understood that very frankly those without money needed it and if they were the only ones allowed to create it (whom he called “red inkers”) that one would have a far more equitable system. But he didn't suggest that the amount of money be either excessive nor endless. These matters would be part of each community's IE and would be based on factors related to the subject of mutual banking, with some notable exceptions granted to certain individuals based on genuine need or former contracts. I want to leave this at that for now too.  This whole area is going to take many papers to sort out.  (Those wishing to contribute monographs on this subject are welcome to submit them.)

POINT 3. The current practices of usury and compound interest are forbidden forever as they universally and ultimately create claims without creating the money to cover the claims. This results in an inevitable scarcity of money (no matter how much is created by the usual means) and an inevitable concentration of power and property into the hands of the few who control and benefit from that monetary control. The mathematical absurdities created and the likewise fallacious and fanciful notions that idle split-barter money is owed anything by the rest of society are thrown out completely and forthwith. It therefore follows that:

A. No money on account in any IE would earn any interest whatsoever. Since we do not accept the idea that idle money needs reward, it shall not be so rewarded.

B. The only source of funding for any IE would be through transaction fees, which E. C. Riegel envisioned could be as low as one tenth of one percent or .01 %.

C. This opens up financing to a potentially far greater number of people because although interest and compounding are disallowed, there are simple methods of finance which benefit those who wish to become financiers in an honest and credible system.

D. Each IE would have the primary responsibility of certifying all financial transactions as valid under rules that will be strictly adhered to so as to catch anyone breaking this fundamental and incontestable point. We will not have gained anything by adopting an alternative system, if we do not decide here and now to slay these monsters and forbid them forever.

POINT 4. No IE will ever operate under the fractional reserve banking model and will not need to. Each member's account will be inviolate; no IE or anyone else can borrow / use / leverage / hypothecate or in any way entangle anyone else's money for any reason whatsoever. This means that:

A. Deposit insurance is not necessary.

B. No IE will ever be operating in the finance business. They are only ever concerned with exchange.

C. The financial business will always be separate and operate independently of the IE, however all their transactions will require the review and acceptance of an IE in order to be valid transactions.

POINT 5. The monetary unit shall be known as the Value Unit [Both the use of the name Riegel for a unit of money and the Riegel Monetary and Exchange System are patented trademarks belonging to Laurence Gilbert, hence we cannot use them]  The Value Unit will be a decimal system with each Riegel divisible into 100 cends. Further we suggest the following:

A. The Value Unit will appear in all current forms in which money is represented; paper notes to be known as Exchange Notes, coins for the fractional units of cends, plastic cards, checks, data entries on data processing equipment, etc. [6/30/20: We later decided to abandon any notion of a "note" circulating longer than six months to stay within current law.  Our intended trading vehicle would be known as a V-Check and would circulate for six months only.]

A.1 As regards Exchange Notes, we suggest these be in appearance similar to current bank notes with the following stipulations to avoid counterfeiting: each note would have a universal (reverse) side depicting the world and the name of the issuing international organization entrusted with the task of designing and circulating Value Units. The opposite side would be one submitted by each local IE for its own use. There would be so many local IE designs that it would never be worthwhile to counterfeit them. They would all trade at par with each other anywhere in the world without any need for exchange rates. [6/30/20: None of this is current.  The V-Check allows every independent exchange to have its own obverse designs and sell advertising to appear on the reverse sides of all circulating V-Checks.  The number of designs this would provide would make counterfeiting impossible.]

A.2 Coins should ideally be designed for size and weight with vending machines in mind, as in the proposed Value Unit system, each of these coins would represent more value than similar coins do now. [6/30/20: Present law forbids the minting of a competing coinage.]

B. The prices for things in Value Units shall find their own level based on natural forces of supply and demand. But what most people really want to know is something else entirely, therefore the following:

POINT 6. Exchanges for Value Units with other money will never be direct because no IE will want to hold any dollars, euros, yen, etc. because they are all debt instruments of other private businesses. Above all, every IE will ultimately be private in the sense that it will choose its own members and set rules whereby honest business is to be conducted. Besides all of this, no IE would ever want to be involved in the business of any of these banks and financial institutions.  There will arise, under rules governing such activities, financial businesses which will settle debts and gain title to property for the purposes of resale. All this business would be conducted by a separate order of institutions anyway. This means that:

A. An intermediary trading commodity is required between Value Units and all other money and it was suggested that it be gold. We would want a monetary unit that is fixed in time and value; to a standard weight in gold on a particular date. We need not concern ourselves with the specific date, as there is nothing to be gained in the long run by considering this, the long run being at least 20 years. [11/18/13: We no longer think this is correct, though it was sort of accepted by Riegel.  What we wanted was a point in time that reflected the highest possible valuation for that on which the Value Unit is initialized.  The date chosen for the blog's experiment, 11/2/11, proved to be among the highest points in gold's recent price in dollars.  Over the time since inception, the Valun has gained against all contenders for value measurement, which is exactly the position we want to keep the Valun.  Should the price of gold ever reach or exceed Valun's inception price, the inception price may be raised, never lowered, by a properly constituted International Value Exchange Society (IVES) which is to function as the servant organization of all the IE's within the VEN.] [6/30/20: Our experiment has now successfully passed to its fifth inception point - 6/29/20 - and so too has the bottom of the exchange rate for Valuns, from $2.16 to $2.22]

B. The same considerations would apply to silver, and under the same conditions; a fixed price for silver on a specific date being equivalent to so many Value Units. [6/30/20: This was either incorrect or misconstrued to imply a bimetalic basis for determining exchange.  The proposal is to have the inception transaction represent a purchase of an ounce of gold bullion in US dollars and to accept silver as its price relates to the price of gold in exchange for Valuns.]

C. The same considerations may or may not be extended to other metals.
 
D. We understand that in an VEN, there will be those who are “red inkers” while there will be others who will want to buy their way in. The method for doing this is the exchange of gold or silver bullion.

Now, I'll let the cat out of the bag:

Since it matters not what the initial value of Riegels be in terms of gold, and since the date does not matter either [11/18/13: Yes it does as our 2 year experiment proves.], and since no one has volunteered anything to the contrary so far [11/18/13: Actually, they have, but for a variety of reasons, their suggestions are not nearly as good as the proposed one.], it is my suggestion that the Riegel's initial price in exchange for dollars be accepted as already established on 2 November 2011 at an initial price of $2,160 the oz. of gold bullion = 1,000 Value Units (I have my reasons for choosing these numbers which reflect an acceptable trade above spot paper gold prices). This makes each Value Unit worth, at inception, approximately $2.16. Doing the math from there, we have seen a fall in the price of gold in dollars since then. What does this mean? It means that hypothetically all dollars have lost purchasing power against the Value Unit since its inception and that it will cost you more dollars today than it would have at inception to buy one.  (What this means is that for each and every currency that can or would trade in gold and silver bullion, that a comparable set of figures expresses the exchange rates for them as it does for dollars in exchange for Value Units.)

Does this mean that if gold rises in dollars that it will take fewer dollars to buy Value Units? Assuredly it does. But in fair trade in Value Units, an oz. of gold bullion would still fetch 1,000 Value Units (Silver would fetch whatever its initial price in Value Units turned out to be). As long as the price of gold and silver remain below their initial prices, this feature would tend to draw more exchange into the VEN orbit and the gold and silver with it. For the “hard money” people out there, yes, the Value Unit would be “backed by gold” (or silver) if one bought one that way.  Remember we only consider money as backed by what it buys, therefore if you would buy a Value Unit with some other money, it must be paid for in gold or silver since no IE within the VEN wants to hold any of these currencies.  This in fact becomes our fence against them.

[Note 12 June 2012: : At inception $1.00 would have traded for VU .46 or 46 cends; slightly less than half a Value Unit. $100 would have bought VU 46.30 Forty-six Valuns and 30 cends. On 12 June 2012, $1.00 would have traded for VU .44 cends; $100 for VU 43.52 Forty-three Valuns and 52 cends. Over the intervening period, the most favourable exchange for dollars was 7 November 2011, within a week of inception, when the spot price of gold reached $1,794.55 and $1.00 would have purchased VU .48 cends, $100 = VU 48.08 Valuns. The lowest point so far was 28 December 2011 when the spot price for gold fell to $1,553.75, $1.00 would have traded for VU .42,  $100 for VU 41.63. The lower gold trades in dollars the fewer Value Units your dollars buy, which is as it should be. As gold rises above the inception spot price of $1,728.00, each dollar buys more Value Units. Since we do not believe that the powers that be can sustain a gold price very much above the inception price, we do not anticipate that the Value Unit will be easily placed in a disadvantageous position as regards shifts in trade and further we expect greater stability of prices over the long run, 20 years or more, as measured in Valuns than in any other form of money.

Note 14 June 2012 :  At inception, silver bullion traded at $42.24 the oz. This neat number, handy to remember, is the result of the ending spot price plus 25%. We already determined that a Valun represented $2.16 at inception, therefore 1 oz of silver would have purchased VU 19.55 and this exchange would fluctuate with rises and falls in the price of silver. Since inception, prices for silver have gone up and down and are now down with respect to inception, so as of today – 14 June 2012 – an ounce of silver would purchase VU 16.64. The same manipulated market forces influence silver as influence gold, but they do not exactly rise and fall in price together. The same factors favour Valuns when silver is below $42.24 as for gold below $2.160 per oz.

Note 06/15/12: ALL THESE FIGURES ARE APPROXIMATIONS AS NO VALUN OFFICIALLY EXISTS. The right of ANYTHING out there to call itself a Value Unit or Valun and be accepted under ANY meaningful terms of trade at the present time is not only a violation of the spirit and mutual trust that this suggestion is seriously intended, any appearance at this point in time of ANYTHING calling itself a Value Unit or Valun is completely bogus, and must be bogus because none of these suggestions has ever passed a suitable consensus, without which no meaningful business can ever take place. We also note that these “values” are greater than would normally be necessary as the premiums for trading volumes of gold and silver bullion will need to be higher to represent actual liquidity; their ability to change hands physically. ]

What we want to avoid is having the VEN swamped by whatever happens to gold and silver markets as measured in dollars, euros, yen, pounds sterling, etc. These markets are all manipulated.  But we do not see a future for any of these currencies anyway and when all is said and done, gold, silver and everything else will float in price naturally to where they belong relative to everything else; what E. C. Riegel called “Price Relativity”.

In closing, we recommend that the only valid considerations concerning the US Constitution, or any other similar body of law for that matter as concerns money, banking and finance, would be to admit, as E. C. Riegel famously has done, that the “founding fathers” were misinformed and made mistakes when drawing up the covenant which it seems future generations were somehow or in any case not willing to preserve in its original simplicity or intent. The only way forward is not backward but forward. How many times does it take for someone to suffer the same mistakes before one gets it right?

As regards public debt, public finance so called, taxes and other matters related to governments, the bases for an VEN at this point lead to a “pay unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's” conclusion, implying right away that these affairs of necessity be carried out in dollars, euros, yen, sterling, etc. and not for the time being to be conducted in Value Units, which implies that of course this would require sales of gold and silver by the VEN to raise the currencies required to cover these expenses. Much as regards governance that is currently taken for granted would then be noticed far more readily by the people.

David Burton

#8 To Them, We're All Slaves … or Worse.

Required reading:

The Babylonian Woe by David Astle
The Money Creators by Gertrude Coogan

Both are available on-line.

“In the 1700's (18^th century and before), the elites viewed all indentured servants as “slaves” - humans that they viewed as commodities. More than half of all white immigrants to England's North America colony during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were indentured servants. The elites granted freedom to both black and white indentured servants after serving a specified length of time, typically seven years. The indentured servants lived, worked and socialized together, apparently indifferent to skin color distinctions. The colonial elites, a definite minority, grew concerned about a potential rebellion from the majority non-voting lower economic classes. Consequently they enacted legal measures to divide the poor whites and blacks and gradually the slaves' mutual acceptance of each other subsided. Society was largely composed of servants, landless tenants or small yoeman who owned inconsequential pieces of land that the elite simply did not want. The elites established a “divide and conquer” tactic that still exists in most of the industrial and third world cultures.” 

Deanna Spingola

The Ruling Elite: a history of imperialism, genocide and emancipation. Page 197

A slave is by usual definition, someone or even something, which depends on a master for direction, a livelihood or utilitarian usefulness. Human slaves are also by definition owned and therefore can be bought or sold. If a person or thing is no longer useful, its owners can choose to discard it; to enjoy the “freedom” of the proverbial societal dung heap, be that the heap of cast off humanity or the scrap heap of discarded articles or machines. Trouble is, even the elites have some guilty consciousness that what they are doing is wrong and therefore they will seek to cover up or eliminate the effects of their discarding of humanity that they can no longer find any use for, usually by resorting to genocide.

The word indentured does imply that one has had a bit through the teeth installed as if a human being were nothing more than a draft animal to be led around without protest. Looking into it a little farther, one asks just how one became “indentured” to another in the first place, and it turns out that in many cases people were forced into servanthood; slavery, through becoming ensnared in debt, either personally or through the actions of another family member.

Another class of people thought that their servanthood would be temporary; involving learning a trade that would enable them to become their own master someday, escape slavery, and in turn hire other indentured servants to help carry on and expand their trade or business. Somehow, if slavery were just a temporary thing, perhaps it was endurable or worth putting up with without protest.

We would be failing to be consistent were we not to include here mentioning some religious teachings regarding slavery as sanctioned by divine authority; the claim was that in the scheme of things, one's deity was pretty much the same as one's earthly masters. People then as now are often willing to forgo temporary hardships for eventual independence, or some glory in the hereafter, even when such promises are pretty uncertain.

We note in particular the trend some have followed in recent years to try and re-educate themselves so they can get a better job, only to discover that once educated (and in debt), that there are no jobs available for them because the potential employers have outsourced and offshored those jobs to people who require far less to live on than they do. Many of these people are discovering that their academic transcripts, which prove their qualifications for a job, are not available to them unless or until they have paid off their student loans. For these people, caught in a financial Catch-22, it is as if they never attended school and received their degree or whatever other professional certification; all their time and effort and the money they now owe, went for nothing.

In the short run or the long run, it makes no difference, the elites who always had the money, usually acquired through unscrupulous or otherwise despicable trading practices involving precious metals, weapons, slaves and drugs, have had things running their way from time immemorial. These are the people who run things, decide which heroes shall be set up for the common people to look up to, decide which attitudes shall be promoted and which discouraged, decide who gets what and from whom whatever of value is taken (usually stolen by FORCE, requiring the complicity of others who are likely themselves slaves) for the continued preservation and further enrichment of themselves.

It does not matter what colour your skin is, where you come from or even how well educated you think you are. As long as there can be a distinction between slave and free, and there still is, there can be no fundamental change. Hence it is best to begin to recognize where the true divide lies; between the elites and the rest of us, regardless of our race or ethnic background, for to the elite, anyone but themselves is barely human, and being barely human, can be easily discarded.

Obviously the aware mind reels at such things, that indeed there even can be distinctions made between people who are “special” simply because they are rich and those who are not. Yet it has always been so and we contend that without a vital change in awareness among the vast majority of people, there is no reason why these distinctions will not continue and as they do so, bring about destruction and despair to more and more people everywhere as the elite attempts it's grandest scheme of all; the erection of a triplicity of world government, world economy and world religion which they intend on controlling to suit themselves.

We can begin by making a few statements that seem beyond refutation:

1. There is no fundamental difference between anyone due to their race, gender or ethnicity, or for that matter any other concocted distinction when compared with the elites. To them, we are all slaves, which means we can be bought and sold like tortillas and in some cases (where we are considered no longer useful to them), whisked away so as not to be seen by the elites (to soothe their guilty consciousness) into concentration camps, where the discarded will not be seen.

Many, perhaps most, continue to believe that these camps were only set up in Nazi Germany or that these only held persons of Jewish extraction, when in fact the real story is that these isolation camps and their genocidal purposes have existed in the United States (and Canada) as Indian reservations for the indigenous peoples, whose cultures and racial contributions to our humanity have largely become lost to us, as well as later the camps to hold Americans of Japanese descent. We are also aware that during the long terror that was the Soviet Union, many millions were held in gulags that were just as bad if not worse than Hitler's camps. China and other regimes had their equivalents.

2. The indigenous people of this world have long known what the rest of us have never recognized; that our ruling elites do not have anyone's best interests in mind but their own.

This being said, anyone who does their bidding, particularly when using FORCE, acting as either a military or police support to their power, is being fooled into believing things that are simply not true, especially trusting that they will be taken care of for their services, when in fact just the opposite is usually the case; a military or police person is still a slave to the elites and is owed nothing once discarded.

The elites do intend to discard you too, as evidence amply proves; they think you are stupid for believing them, they are glad that you have been fooled into shedding your life's blood for them so they don't have to shed theirs, they believe that dangling money and promises they never intend on keeping will be enough to secure your trust and loyalty and hope you never wake up to recognize that the poor souls you are harassing or butchering are your brothers and sisters, not those who you believe you are working for, who clearly will never regard you as one of them.

Millions around the globe are awakening to their real situation in life; that they are slaves of one sort or another to a rapacious, carnal (materialistic) and careless elite. Meanwhile there are the basic necessities of life as they have always been and then there are what E. C. Riegel describes as the drive for advancement, what makes life worth living, that one can work honestly and hope for better from one's efforts through expressions of real free trade with others.

The awakening is taking many avenues; some are waking up to recognize the futility of bigness, that neither an excessively large government or corporation can ever do anything efficiently or responsibly with regard to all of humanity or the environment. Smaller is better, but this requires the elimination of monopolies, the reinstatement of competition of technologies as well as cultures and outlooks and above all the discrediting of elite concepts such as world government, world economy (managed by them) or world religion (again managed by them to keep “the masses” believing that if they just endure a lifetime of abject slavery without outcry they will die to inherit an elitist existence in some afterlife). To those whose eyes are truly open, these are monstrous follies.

3. The elites have usually tried to cover themselves with respectability they neither deserve nor really believe in themselves; honouring the respectability of the elites is for slaves, not themselves.

Some have no doubt seen, “A Note of Appreciation from the Rich” which should serve as a basis for this point (repeated here with comment):

“Let's be honest: you'll never win the lottery.”

Gambling and the lottery are really the “opiates of the masses” used to offer hope where there really is none. What makes you think that even were you to win a lot of money that your life would really be any different? How could it be, since you would just be doing more of whatever it is you are still doing? In order to really “make something of yourself,” you must learn to produce as well as consume and compete with everyone else involved in your product speciality. Mere instant riches does nothing to change who you really are.

“On the other hand, the chances are pretty good that you'll slave away at some miserable job the rest of your life. That's because you were in all likelihood born into the wrong social class. Let's face it — you're a member of the working class. Sorry!”

They are never sorry. The hubris of the elites is that they were born to rule, which were it not for their money, would be obviously false. Our message has been and is that class distinctions are for them, not for you. Therefore why honour them?

“As a result, you don't have the education, upbringing, connections, manners, appearance, and good taste to ever become one of us.”

We likewise maintain that to join them, emulate them, believe as they do, etc. is mistaken; their education, upbringing, connections, manners, appearance, and good taste mean nothing to us and are seen for what they are, the trappings of narcissism held up as worth emulating when they are not. Furthermore we know that in practice (and in private) few of these people ever exhibit anything so “respectable.”

For instance, when it comes to education, most elitists would have rather cheated (and did), then actually buckle down and learn something well enough that, heaven forbid, they would be able to earn a living doing it. Upbringing, raised by servants to be some kind of critical spoiled impossible child that never has to grow up because, well let's face it, they have enough money to pay others to serve them. “Connections” are people just like them who you do not even want to know. Manners? That again is what's expected of slaves toward them, not any of their responsibility. Appearance? Though some “celebrities” (celebrated for nothing of any consequence) may seem beautiful, it is only skin deep. Good taste? These people usually have the worst taste of anyone. Who are they kidding? The doting slaves of course.

“In fact, you'd probably need a book the size of the yellow pages to list all the unfair advantages we have over you. That's why we're so relieved to know that you still continue to believe all those silly fairy tales about "justice" and "equal opportunity" in America.”
 
… or anywhere else. As E. C. Riegel stated, political equality is meaningless without the economic freedom to create one's own money and trade goods or services with others, and of course that is what they shall never relinquish.

“Of course, in a hierarchical social system like ours, there's never been much room at the top to begin with. Besides, it's already occupied by us — and we like it up here so much that we intend to keep it that way.”

Why have a hierarchical anything? What are the limitations implied by “diminishing returns to scale” and “diminishing responsibility to size”? Does anyone bother asking? The fact is that only those who live and work doing something, really know about it (and most of the elite do not know), that only those who live in a locality know what they know about that locality (the elites again do not know or care), that it makes far more sense to base larger structures on smaller units, locally created and governed, than by relying on some distant overarching authority (which doesn't deserve either the respect or trust accorded to it by those regarded as and used as slaves by the elites).

“But at least there's usually someone lower in the social hierarchy you can feel superior to and kick in the teeth once in a while. Even a lowly dishwasher can easily find some poor slob further down in the pecking order to sneer and spit at. So be thankful for migrant workers, prostitutes, and homeless street people.”

Watch out! This is exactly what the elites want you to be doing; getting what little self respect you still may have from the knowledge that certainly someone else is not doing as well as you. Remember that in all cases, you will never be able to join them, and in fact you probably wouldn't like the company very much if you did. Being rich (or over powerful) does not make you wise, good, loving or smart.

“Always remember that if everyone like you were economically secure and socially privileged like us, there would be no one left to fill all those boring, dangerous, low-paid jobs in our economy.”

And what would be the result should labour be valued for exactly what it is worth? Let me state that differently; what would be the chances of many things not being done if those who should be responsible decided they wouldn't guarantee the safety of their employees or pay for their healthcare? Where liabilities are waived, as with corporations, the lives of the slaves are worse off not better.

“And no one to fight our wars for us, or blindly follow orders in our totalitarian corporate institutions. And certainly no one to meekly go to their grave without having lived a full and creative life. So please, keep up the good work!”

It is our firm reiterated resolve to show the connection between soldiering and those who finance it so that fewer will willingly decide to serve them and in fact may decide to walk away from them. There were slave uprisings in the past which were savagely put down. How was this possible? The elites got those who were just above the slaves (slaves themselves nonetheless) to brutally put down these rebellions. We admonish all those who protect the elites that they are defending their own enemies against themselves; their real brothers and sisters!

“You also probably don't have the same greedy, compulsive drive to possess wealth, power, and prestige that we have.”

… and I often ask myself what in particular any of them have contributed to the rest of us and usually, especially with the globalist billionaires, I draw a big fat zero! There is something terribly wrong with the notion that someone can sit all day in an office tweaking numbers on properties that are merely pieces of paper and make money that comes from producing absolutely nothing of value.

“And even though you may sincerely want to change the way you live, you're also afraid of the very change you desire, thus keeping you and others like you in a nervous state of limbo. So you go through life mechanically playing your assigned social role, terrified what others would think should you ever dare to 'break out of the mold.' “

Increasingly they only want continued conformity to what they are selling; a narcissistic lifestyle filled with trivial gadgets and superficial knowledge; nothing that will rock the boat of the average person's consciousness.

“Naturally, we try to play you off against each other whenever it suits our purposes: high-waged workers against low-waged, unionized against non-unionized, Black against White, male against female, American workers against Japanese against Mexican against.... We continually push your wages down by invoking 'foreign competition,' 'the law of supply and demand,' 'national security,' or 'the bloated federal deficit.' We throw you on the unemployed scrap heap if you step out of line or jeopardize our profits.”

We have indicated elsewhere that because of the reliance on usury, which demands repayment of what was never created, that many of these people are literally not entitled to their economic benefits since they are stolen from everyone else. This turns things on their head; these people are the “useless eaters”, not us. It is for us to become aware of what they do to divide us so that we can make a unified stand against them.

“And to give you an occasional break from the monotony of our daily economic blackmail, we allow you to participate in our stage-managed electoral shell games, better known to you ordinary folks as "elections." Happily, you haven't a clue as to what's really happening — instead, you blame 'Aliens,' 'Tree-hugging Environmentalists,' 'Niggers,' 'Jews,' 'Welfare Queens,' and countless others for your troubled situation.”
 
It is a growing awareness, certainly what happened to Ron Paul's campaign is an indication, that all the elections in this country are rigged and have been for a very long time. Again, we advocate starting locally, because we only know what we know locally rather than in the next town, county, state or country. When a local network of trade gets started and grows, it can then begin trading with other localities.

We need to start thinking the way our adversaries have by recognizing someone we meet from a distant place as a potential trading partner rather than as an enemy we are told to treat as an inferior or an undesirable from a foreign country. Xenophobia is a tactic the elite has often used to get people to go to war against each other so that the elites can make more money while other people die.

“We're also very pleased that many of you still embrace the 'work ethic,' even though most jobs in our economy degrade the environment, undermine your physical and emotional health, and basically suck your one and only life right out of you. We obviously don't know much about work, but we're sure glad you do!”

Again, how much work would be done were that labour to be adequately valued? It would be different that's for sure. There is no reason why any of this, as described, needs to be continued.

“Of course, life could be different. Society could be intelligently organized to meet the real needs of the general population.”

From the bottom up, NOT the top down.

“You and others like you could collectively fight to free yourselves from our domination. But you don't know that. In fact, you can't even imagine that another way of life is possible.”

It is time to begin this process; imagine all sorts of things that could be different and begin stepping out in those new directions.

“And that's probably the greatest, most significant achievement of our system — robbing you of your imagination, your creativity, your ability to think and act for yourself.”

Are you paying attention?

“So we'd truly like to thank you from the bottom of our heartless hearts. Your loyal sacrifice makes possible our corrupt luxury; your work makes our system work. Thanks so much for 'knowing your place' — without even knowing it!”

What we can do and what we shall do will have very little if anything to do with such people and frankly much of their wicked warmongering society can jolly well go the way of the dinosaur (an animal the elite seems to like). We do not advocate violence against people who are hopelessly misguided concerning their own importance. The best policy will be a walking away from them; do not help them, do not support their claims or ideas, do not trade with them as it is your right not to. Start making your own life. The VEN, as it gets going, intends to help you, but it will require your help too.

David Burton

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#7 It Is Important

“It is important that people understand accurate history as opposed to the official version that many of us have learned in government operated schools and via the corporate owned, artificial, desensitizing mass media. The media and the school system mould our perceptions while whitewashing some of the worst scoundrels in history. Numerous individuals have deliberately deceived us into repetitive wars and have helped facilitate several worldwide economic disasters. Warfare never brings peace, only needless death, suffering and lasting resentment. Yet politicians choose war instead of open negotiations, but it is the youth of many nations, indoctrinated to hate the “enemy”, who die in those wars. The US government, often without public support or knowledge, has intervened in countries worldwide using false claims while ignoring its own critical domestic problems. During the course of those interventions, millions have perished. If people consider their moral values, resist the propaganda and follow the proverbial money, they will discover that the same people who advocate warfare frequently profit in its aftermath. The military destroys, then well connected contractors rebuild, usually at taxpayer expense. Politicians and the financial interests do not represent the nation's interests but rather their own, as demonstrated by our history and current events.”

Deanna Spingola

The Ruling Elite, a study in imperialism, genocide and emancipation, back cover.

This book represents an alternative and factual history of the formation and development of the United States which few Americans know about because the people behind the scenes who developed our state schools preferred to give us a whitewashed lie as our official history. Meeting the challenge, Deanna Spingola does not really try and persuade you of anything: her style is didactic, fact after fact after fact until incontrovertible evidence emerges implicating many people and institutions held to this day in esteem which they hardly deserve. I wondered at several places what would have happened had this book appeared many years ago, would it have made the slightest difference?  Will it matter today?  Only time will tell.

What is the natural response when it is uncovered beyond any possible doubt that the entire edifice of our educational, political and economic system is a scam run by special interests? What future is there in any of it but death and destruction to those “not on the team” or “in the way of progress”? If you are not brought to a few good realizations after reading this book, then there really is something seriously wrong with you.

Those outside America need to read this book too because it describes in lurid details some of the most despicable acts of brutality committed by this supposedly "Constitutional"  government, under essentially the same masters the nation has endured since before it declared its independence. Once you have incontestable facts (and Spingola has offered nothing new, only assembled what many of us have already known from various credible sources), the patterns become more obvious; what is going on in the Middle East today is what went on in the American west a hundred and fifty years ago, or went on in Russia following the revolution there, or in France following the revolution there or in China ... Nothing is new.  I want to make a sincere apology for not understanding clearly that many indigenous people, slaves (and freed black people) and Southerners (whether they owned slaves or not) suffered the equivalent of the Red Terror in my own country during the 19th century.  It shows how well the public indoctrination has worked.     

Not only is Spingola's book a must read, especially for Americans, it should be paired with another book, which is a must read, especially if you are a Russian, as much the same was done there by similar minded people after the revolution of 1917. That book is The Red Terror in Russia by Sergei Melgunov.  Melgunov is similarly didactic, just stating the facts, leaving you to comprehend the magnitude of what happened in Russia.  Why would those who accomplished this terror, and actually PAID for it, not use this tactic again?  Spingola is stating for the record that such occurred right here in America and we are vastly unaware of it to this day.  It's time to wake up.    
 

We would also want to put in its proper place ALL attempts by those who are PAID to lie, cheat, steal and especially those paid to “debunk” what facts others have collected to JEER people into silence and submission. Their jeers are their first assault, after that they send in their goons and thugs, some who may be high on mind altering drugs as they were in Russia (and yes even alcohol is a mind altering drug that was used by thugs during killing sprees). Jeers should never be tolerated and always assailed for exactly what they are, attempts to push and shove the person, ideas or point of view off the public stage and out of view. Those doing the jeering should be told frankly that we are onto them, that they had best consider whose side they are taking and why, because it does and will matter to them personally.

Let us frontally attack the words “conspiracy theory,” one of their trademark jeers. Serious researchers like Deanna Spingola are not interested in theories. We are interested in uncovering factual conspiracies, which in most instances are not so very hard to comprehend. After all, down through time there have always been secret meetings, secret clubs, secret societies, in all of which occur deals which were made in secret to divide and conquer, usually people who stood in the way of those who, by what ever rationale, determined that they deserved monopolistic control over something, to allow them to skim off the produce and labour of others to their benefit. There is no "theory" about it; anything done in secret was not done for the benefit of the common man, woman or child.  Secrecy in fact is always suspect and is never any good for anything. People know this in their personal lives, why should it be any different when considering the affairs of large business concerns or nation states?

Before deciding how to construct something that will benefit ALL the people; a worldwide network of local private Independent exchanges, we must confront our histories and the denizens of this ruling elite who are still there doing what they have always been doing. Without a renewed perspective, it becomes impossible to see clearly what must be done as we move forward.

David Burton

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