SOCIAL
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The Secrets They Never Tell You
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by Douglas V.
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questions of power then, INTRODUCTION There is a bit more background history to view, before once against taking social security head on. By studying the history that brought about the New Deal and the Social Security Program, it is easier to appreciate and understand not only what they are and are not; but where they came from, and for what reasons. The various responses, reactions, and consequences that they fostered also reveal much about them; much as the taste of the fruit speaks of the tree from which it falls. Patience from the reader is once again called upon, but it will be rewarded, as this is a story that seldom gets told. As has been repeatedly said, knowledge is power; and with the state of the world today, the more knowledge one has, and can impart to their children, the better prepared all will be for any surprises, and or unintended consequences. Expect the unexpected, and be prepared. In this part eight, we are going to examine some documents and events that surrounded the Civil War. This was a most trying and difficult time for our new nation. We had already fought one war for our independence, then another in 1812 against the same foe – Great Britain, who supposedly had already surrendered to us and signed treaties. But we have written about this elsewhere, see Whence & Pence, Part 2: The Confounding. Now we were going to war against ourselves, the North against the South. Most history books say the reason and cause of the war was slavery. It was not so in the beginning. For the first two years speeches by Lincoln and others never mentioned slavery as an issue. The issue was that of which you will read below. It was an issue of money, between the bankers and the railroad tycoons of the North, supported by their elite international banking connections, pitted against the farmers and plantation owners in the South. The North was charging exorbitant rates for the South to ship its cotton and other goods. Some say the entire war was set up by the wealthy elite international bankers, to weaken both sides of the new nation, by providing support and financing for needed supplies, and then suddenly withdrawing the support at critical moments, thereby dictating the general outcome of the war. And what was the general outcome. Well, read on, and you will see. See who makes out the best, who comes out on top. Cui Bono? Follow the money, it always leads back to the same few Houses. For a more detailed description read Whence & Pence, Part 5: The Pounding, or the entire Whence & Pence series.
We are slowing making our way back to the subject of social security. Our journey has been long and arduous, crossing the rough terrain of the New Deal, and traveling back in time, to the beginning of our great nation. In part seven we looked at the various documents that created and detailed our original form of government, and the founding thought, and intent, therein. The Founding Fathers were most concerned with the formation or form of government that was to be put in place. They knew that the government must have limited, but adequate powers to function. They also knew it was imperative that neither the individual rights of the states, nor the individual rights of the people, were in any way, shape, or form, infringed upon, or lessened, by the limited powers delegated to Congress. We The people, who created the Constitution, and the government, were to retain our sovereignty. This is the reason the Bill of Rights were demanded by the people. As Jefferson clearly understood when he remarked: ‘I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground; That "all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people." To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition." ‘
Once the Constitution was ratified, along with the Bill of Rights, the government functioned fairly well. The people were mostly content, and life in America was viewed as being good. But then came another war, a different kind of war – a Civil War, where fathers fought against sons, brothers against brothers. A most unfortunate thing happened just after the civil war, and our country has never been quite the same since. Up to the period of the Civil War, Congressmen had been liable for the acts of government. The representatives of the people had all taken oaths to uphold the Constitution. But then....
On March 27, 1861, the Southern states walked out of Congress and seceded from the Union. According to parliamentary law of Congress, the Southern states no longer existed. Also, the quorum necessary for Congress to lawfully continue to function ceased, as the rest of Congress also walked out, and abandoned the House and Senate, without setting a date to reconvene. This is called adjourning sine die, which meant that the entire Congress no longer existed as a lawful body. Since only Congress is authorized by the Constitution to declare war, this also meant that the only lawful body of the government capable of declaring war was no longer lawfully in existence. This also meant that all of the states which created the Constitution no longer lawfully existed, as a collective Union of government.
On April 15, 1861, President Lincoln issued the first written executive order of any President, see The History Place - Abraham Lincoln [click on link to view]. The Constitution does not mention executive orders, and Lincoln had no constitutional authority to issue one. Note: there were earlier executive orders, as far back as 1789, but not written and recorded as this one was. Executive Orders and Presidential Directives [click link to view]. This is why on April 24, 1863, Lincoln had General Order No. 100 commissioned, the Lieber Code, which calls for martial law, and The Laws of War and International Law to become effective. The Avalon Project : General Orders No. 100 [click link to view]. According to The Laws of War and International Law, the Constitution for the United States of America temporarily ceases to be the Supreme Law of the Land. Military law or Admiralty Law now becomes Law. The land is declared a war zone, and hence the Laws of War prevail. See the above link to general order number 100. On February 21, 1871 the District of Columbia, the seat of our government, was incorporated as a municipal corporation. See, BIRTH CERTIFICATE to view the entire act. In 1874 the United States entered the Brussels Conference on International War and Law, see UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting. Also read of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 concerning the Laws of War, see The Avalon Project : Laws of War [all links underlined – click to view].
When the Revolutionary War was over, the people formed a new government under or by the Articles of Confederation, which duly recognized the 13 states as separate, independent, and Sovereign States, that together formed the nation known as The United States of America. Within ten years from the end of the war, things were not looking good in the new nation. The economy was not doing good, people were hungry, cold, and just plain worn out. Some talked of a return to the mother country of Britain, as being the lesser of two evils. There was even discussion of sending envoys back to England to plead with the King to accept the colonists back into the fold. Before taking such drastic and severe actions, of giving up the newly won independence and freedoms that many had fought a war over, and had literally died for, it was decided that a Federal Convention should be held to redraft the Articles of Confederation, to better address the new problems facing the people and the nation. Each sovereign State authorized a few men to attend the convention as representatives of their home State, to convene to redraft the Articles of Confederation. This meant that these men were entrusted by their home State to duly represent them. These men were trusted to represent and serve the people. The document they drafted is a trust. The representatives of the people were sent to redraft the Articles, not to write a Constitution. When the new trust, The Constitution, was first offered to the people for ratification, it was turned down, the people refused to ratify it. Why? Because if they had signed the Constitution as it was first drafted, the States would be surrendering their individual sovereign rights, including their right and title to all of the unappropriated public lands within their State. The people would be surrendering some of their individual rights as well. This is why, and how, the Bill of Rights came to exist. The people would not ratify the Constitution without the Bill of Rights being added to it. The Constitutional Convention reconvened and added the Bill of Rights. The Constitution with the Bill of Rights was submitted to the States for ratification, which took place, and the Trust was accepted. A Constitutional Republic form of government in trust was accepted. Remember, the original document sent to the people for ratification said in the preamble: “We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America” The above is a trust document that We the People of the United States formed. The trust that was formed was this Constitution for the United States of America. However, at this time, the trust could not function, as there were no trustees sitting in office to run the newly formed government. Elections had not as of yet taken place. We The People were the beneficiaries of the trust.
So the Constitutional Convention appointed officials to fulfill those seats of government, until elections could be held. These officials all had to take an oath of office to uphold the Constitution, before being sworn into office. Once the officers of the government had been put in place, the effective date of the Constitution was December 15th, 1791, at which time a new Constitution was re-written that had the title: The Constitution of the United States of America, including the Bill of Rights. Please note this very important point. There are two different documents representing two different entities here.
Once the Constitution was ratified, along with the Bill of Rights, the government functioned fairly well. The people were mostly content, and life in America was viewed as being good. But then came an event that forever changed the face of the land – The Civil War. War costs money, and lots of it. And the Civil War was no different. This issue has been fully addressed in other papers, see Honest Money, Part IV: Treasury Notes and Honest Money, Part VI: The European Connection for a detailed discussion.
When President Jackson vetoed the renewal of the Charter of the Second Bank of the United States in 1838, America no longer had a foreign owned, paper-money “central bank.” See, Honest Money, Part V: History of American Money and Banking. The international bankers, especially James Rothschild, who was the backer of the bank, did not like having their clutches removed from the control of our money. It was more than an unreasonable creature could bare. But such an unbearable position was made more bearable by the Civil War. The real reason for the War is said by some to have been for the bankers to conquer both North and South. Just look at the results. Look at what happened – step by step. Follow the money. Then decide for yourself, not what you have been told, but what you think, when all of the information has been disclosed to you. Once the free and independent nation States were vanquished by the Civil War, the creatures merely had to swoop in and pick up the pieces. Legislation had been passed to make the seat of our capital a corporation. Great sums of money had been lent to the corporation. Remember, a debtor is a slave to his creditor, in a paper fiat system, as will be shown. Read the 14th amendment very closely, especially the last part about the debt. Then ask yourself what the hell (perhaps literally, not just figuratively) does the national debt have to do with freedom from slavery? Think about it. Think about it real hard. [Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - ] 14th Amendment Section 4. “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.” Read this amendment, the whole thing real good, as it is quite the piece of work. Ask your lawyer or your Congressman to explain it to you line by line, word by word. If you pay close attention, you will see that it very deceptively establishes the underlying debt of the Government to the Bankers. And the real killer is that it also creates corporate entities that are legally subject to the jurisdiction in which they exist, by creating the jurisdiction itself. What does subject to “the jurisdiction thereof mean”? Section 1 “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” [Wikipedia] What jurisdiction? Whose jurisdiction? Jurisdiction by a court? What court? Which court? By a State? Or by “the States”? Or by the United States? Is there a difference? What is it, if there is?
As illustrated in the Honest Money series, the financing of the Civil War, forever, changed our country. What had previously been unacceptable, suddenly became acceptable. Such is war. Such is the mindset and belief system that those who finance war, want to instill within the people, as a means of mass psychological control. In Honest Money, Part VI: The European Connection the following was stated about financing the War: “Although Greenbacks are believed to be the main source of financing for the Civil War, they were not – government bonds were. The total emission of Greenbacks was under $850 million, while Treasury Bonds were issued in the amount of almost $2 billion.” “The new Secretary of the Treasury responded by granting Jay Cooke the exclusive authority to underwrite all government bonds. Cooke retained the coveted monopoly from 1862 to 1873, for all but one year; during which time he underwrote bonds totaling $2 billion. The competition of a free market is a wonder to behold, an enigma that baffles the most penetrating minds.” “Under the direction of Senator Sherman, Congress passed two National Currency Acts, one in 1863, another in 1864. The acts were intended to further the relationship between the government and the private banks, forming a symbiotic partnership capable of issuing a national paper currency.” “At first the national banks were allowed to issue notes up to 90% of the value of their government bond reserves. In 1900, the limit was raised to 100%. Cooke already controlled the selling of all bonds. By creating a national banking system to purchase them with, he and his cronies gained complete dominance of the market.” The following is from Harper’s Weekly, which clearly shows the prevailing mood during the Civil War:
Courtesy of www.sonofthesouth.net
ANNUAL HISTORICAL NATIONAL DEBT OUTSTANDING
National Debt Figures As is clearly evident, war is very expensive, as the debt skyrocketed, up over 300% in just 4 years, and by 1912, the year just before the Fed took over, the debt had increased by 350%. And as you can see, the Fed was great at keeping the debt under wraps, as in 22 years it increased 1300%. Now that’s what you call professional money management. Imagine if your kids did that, what would you say to them?
By the early 1900s the government had sold a lot of bonds, too many bonds. A group of very wealthy families had been buying up most of the government bonds. They came to the government and said, we want to redeem our bonds. Hmm. The U.S. Treasury was obligated to make good on the bonds, but there was a slight problem, there wasn’t enough money in the Treasury to pay them off. So the heads of these families meant with some government officials and offered them a deal they couldn’t refuse. They all took a little vacation at Jekyll Island, a Morgan retreat, to iron out the details – which came to be known as The Federal Reserve Act. The banksters said, “You let us start our own private central bank, and we will print up as much money as you like, you can issue all the bonds you like, as there will be plenty of money for everybody.” We’ll even call it Federal, making it sound like the government owns it, not us. “O.K.” said the government officials, as they wiped the sweat from there brows, “phew, that was a close call.” Little did they know they had just jumped out of the frying and pan and into the fire. Little did they know they had just bargained with Lucre and his minions, although they must have sensed the odor. Recall above where we mentioned that the United States Incorporated in 1871, see BIRTH CERTIFICATE. This document made the District of Columbia, the seat of our government, a municipal corporation, it became incorporated. 16
United States Statutes at Large 419 CHAP. LXII. -- An act to provide a Government for the District of Columbia The act starts off by saying: “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, That all that part of the territory of the United States included within the limits of the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, created into a government by the name of the District of Columbia, by which name it is hereby constituted a body corporate for municipal Purposes.....” This corporation was reorganized June 11, 1878 [Chapter 180, 20 Stat. 102], and named “United States Government.”
In 1912, when the government bonds that were financing the US Government came due, the bankers refused to re-finance the debt, forcing the government to accept the banker’s terms. What were the banker’s terms? Nothing too drastic or harsh. They just wanted Congress to hand over control of the monetary system by establishing a central bank – their central bank. So Congress caved in and passed the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Thus the Creature known as the Federal Reserve Bank came forth to haunt the land. The Act went against the Constitution, and surrendered Congress’s delegated authority to control the United States monetary system. In one fell swoop, Congress handed over the power to create, control, and manage the money supply of the United States, to a private corporation, of mostly foreign bankers. This also placed the creation and control of the money within the domain of corporate limited liability, as established in the private, commercial, foreign, and military jurisdiction of 1861.
Well, the simple answer is – greed, one of the original seven deadly sins. But here is the deluded reasoning behind their greed, the misplaced worship of their false god Lucre. The would-be rulers of the world want the people to be perpetual debtors, to be indentured servants to their creditors, without even realizing it. It is much easier to enslave one, if they don’t realize they are enslaved. Some call it denial. The elite international collectivists don’t want people to be able to get out of indebtedness, as that would lessen their interest rate stream of income, and they wouldn’t be as wealthy as they are. They wouldn’t own 95% of everything, and thus they would be saddened, not to mention that Lucre would get ticked off, and even they know not to fool with the creature of creatures, as he might kick their butts into the abyss, earlier then their present date of appearance is set for. This is why the banksters are afraid of gold and silver. This is why the banksters are afraid of our Constitution. This is why the Constitution has been circumvented. The hard money system of the Constitution does not allow the banksters to be dishonest. They cannot just create money out of thin air. The gold and silver most be earned, then saved, before it can be lent out. When credit is issued from the savings pool, it does not create money by the mere act of extending credit, or lending real, honest money. An honest loan, of honest money, issued from out of an honestly earned and saved savings pool, does not create debt that cannot be paid off. The gold and silver are the means to pay off the loan, the credit, the debt. But by allowing the banksters to issue money that is backed by nothing but Treasury Bonds, which are nothing more than i.o.u.’s, nothing more than obligations and promises to pay – nothing more than debt, debt is allowed to circulate as money. Debt and money become one. This is a vile and despicable abomination from which escape is almost impossible. This is the great lie—the dirty little secret they don’t want you to know—as knowledge is power. If you purchase things with property that does not belong to you, such as Federal Reserve Notes, and you use these notes as promises or pledges in all your financial dealings or contracts, you forfeit all right to claim true ownership and standing in law. Such a person is contractually obligated to the owner of the currency that he uses in all exchanges.
But there is hope, do not despair. There are honest people, honest representatives of the people, that know what the Constitution and the Bill of Rights says and means. They know that all most abide by remedy and recourse. Even the creatures know and abide by this when forced – or they perish. Know who knows the truth, read the congressional bill that Congressman Ron Paul has introduced into the House of the 108th Congress, 1st Session, dated July 17, 2003 and known as the “Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act.” HR 2778. The bill has not been passed, as a matter of fact it gets ignored – imagine that? Why not tell your Congressman you want the bill voted on and passed? Part 9 to be forthcoming Addendum Jefferson’s
Opinion On The Constitutionality of The Bank “The bill for establishing a national bank, in 1791, undertakes, among other things,-
“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground--that all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states, or to the people (12th amend.). To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” [Jefferson]
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