Waking On the Shores
Deborah Venable
03/13/11
While
proof exists that Thomas Jefferson certainly did not trust banking institutions
– especially a “central bank” – contrary to the belief of a lot of conservative
patriots, no proof exists that he ever uttered or wrote the following quote:
I
believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than
standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to
control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the
banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the
people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent
their fathers conquered.
Whether or not Jefferson ever said it, we should be
able to grasp the meaning of the “quote” as applicable to our modern
America. The fact that some would
rather get all entangled in the “lie” of the origin of the quote rather than
its substance is a sad indictment of modern American intellect and/or
education.
What we should be thinking about is the substance
of the statement.
Private banking institutions certainly do control
the issue of our currency, but perhaps even worse they control the usage of our
currency, and worse than that, they do so under almost complete control of and
at the pleasure of the federal government.
Depriving us of our property has become the number one duty and purpose
of these private and government entities.
The ironic and ridiculous fact in all this is that we pay out the nose
for these “services.”
More and more of our ancestors’ children are now
waking on the shores of the continent about to be drug out with the ebbing
tide. Those still asleep will surely
drown.
Here comes another one of that crazy lady’s
conspiracy theories again, eh?
Pop Quiz:
1.
What do you own?
Answer:
Nothing - not really - that is not constantly in
jeopardy.
You think you own land? Try skipping a tax payment on it and see how long the deed is
yours. You have money in the bank? Your accounts may be seized, frozen or
income into them garnished at any time by the IRS or any number of other
agencies of the governmental collection process. Ditto for anything else of value in your possession. You surely own your credit and your good
name, though, huh? That too may be
stolen or besmirched on a whim. Even
any children you may have can be taken from you at the drop of a hat on the
mere insinuation of accusation.
Raise your hand if you think I am full of it now.
These are isolated, rarely occurring incidences, you
might say. It certainly isn’t the
norm.
You certainly have a right to your personal
privacy, the practice of your personal beliefs, and to protect what is yours,
you might think. In a nation of laws
protecting individual freedom, that would be true.
Not so much in a nation that has traded the idea of
our republic for that oh-so-nice sounding term, “democracy” in a government
that we expect to be able to “tap” for anything we want and have it
supplied. Not so much in a nation that
had rather legally kill unborn babies, support immoral choices, and ridicule
the backbone of our once moral society – God abiding families. Not so much in a nation where my utterances
are seen as “extreme” and “outrageous” instead of merely informative and
truthful.
And really, not so much in a society of coddled
ignorance and active indoctrination to progressive, liberal thought. Not so much in the world of ideologues, like
Michael Moore and Barack Obama, who think government should determine how the
wealth of “rich” individuals should be spent.
Not so much in a country that has allowed the United States Constitution
to be overruled time after time on a daily basis.
So did private banks do all this through
controlling our currency via inflation and deflation? I suppose a case could be made for it, considering that the
monster that has replaced the vision of our founders had to be fed to become so
powerful. Let’s face it - even the
small private banks are a far cry from what they used to be. Now, all of them have to answer to the
monster, first and foremost, and we all just keep on giving them our
money. The “corporations” that have
“grown up around” them are all too numerous and all too depriving of our
property. Remember from this article, if you read it and
checked out the links, every government entity in this country ARE
corporations.
Alas, what are we to do as we strive to overcome
the monster and understand what we have done to ourselves and what has been
done to us?
Accepting a few facts must be the first thing we
do. The number one damning fact is that
more bad laws are legislated, adjudicated, and “ordered” every year now than
good ones. Living by bad law certainly
does not constitute living in freedom.
The second fact is that fewer people can tell the difference between
good and bad law. Let’s just start with
those two facts.
As for Thomas Jefferson’s true and accepted
contributions to our history, I don’t think there is any doubt that his hand
penned this document, so perhaps it
would be prudent for each and every person reading this to carefully read that
one again and pay special attention to the list of grievances. You may be surprised to find that in many
ways we have come full circle in 234 years – back to a different tyrant.