We've all seen it coming, we saw their armies massing at the gates of American democracy, but today was the day that the Bankers pulled the trigger. They unleashed their financial shock and awe on the US people and the world. They effectively took over American democracy in the last 24 hours. They have Congress writing legislation as we speak to buy all their bad loans, which everyone admits are "toxic" and have no value. They have committed billions of tax dollars to insure previously uninsured money market funds after private insurance like AIG pulled out due to "market risk." They changed the SEC rules so that the stock of their companies cannot decrease in value when they should. They have effectively sealed their position at the helm of the United States, which cannot be referred to as a democracy, because change is a natural part of democracy and capitalism.
These are men who have no national loyalty except to the electronic dollars stored in their laptops. There is certainly no religious moral which allows these men to break the backs of the American taxpayers with their usurious toxic loans or break the backs of the world's poor by exporting their usurious loans throughout the world. There certainly is no capitalist moral which justifies insulating them from failing as institutions, and there certainly is no democratic moral which allows them access to the Congress, which is supposed to be representative and guardians of the people.
The American people now cry, as the poor have cried for years. Year after year, election after election, the American people cry out for a "change" that never comes, despite all the presidential campaign themes and slogans. Congressional approval ratings have dropped to about 9%. I wonder if they can go any lower statistically. The President's rating is not much better, and is at historical lows. The only surprising thing about the these low ratings is that these imperialist now holding Washington and NYC are allowed to continue sleeping so well in expensive mansions, send their kids to the best schools, eat at the finest restaurants, and collect millions in bonuses, all paid by the taxpayers. They didn't earn that money, we did.
America is a democratic tinderbox. All it would take is "one shot heard around the world", and the ghost of Robspierre would rise. The flood gates of democratic hell would let loose and put these men on the gallows where they belong. Just one video on MSM news of any Federal Reserve Bank burning would set in motion an unstoppable chain of events removing these men from power and restore power to the people where it belongs.
What would Jefferson think of Paulson's bailouts?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson
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American coup in a democratic tinderbox
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American coup in a democratic tinderbox
by seahorse2 » Fri 19 Sep 2008, 13:50:05
Jefferson Quotes
After 200 years of democracy, Jefferson would not be surprised by Paulson's coup.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')xperience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
And, Jefferson would not be surprised that it was the bankers who took over. Jefferson once said the greatest thread to American democracy would be to turn it over to the bankers. Do we need any further proof?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
Jefferson Quotes
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson Quotes
Please do not confuse voting this upcoming November, or voting in any November, with living in a democracy. That fallacy of confusing voting with living in a democracy is best summed up in this quote attributed to non other than the dictator Stalin:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything."
http://www.votefraud.org/josef_stalin_v ... d_page.htm
Jefferson's worst fear, that the bankers would take over, has now come to fruition. In one month, they have saddled the American taxpayer with trillions of Freddie and Fannie debt, even though they told everyone these were sound institutions. They bailed out at taxpayer expense an insurance company, they somehow they claimed was sound, just couldn't pay their bills. They literally printed money that they didn't have to loan. They suspended shorting banking stocks to prop them up, even though the toxic waste on their books makes the banks worthless, and, now they are going to have the American taxpayer buy all the toxic waste on their books, yet no one will go to jail, no banker willb be forced to give up their lavish lifestyle. They sell these bailouts with fear, arguing that its necessary to prevent catastrophe, but to who? The bankers? Who really cares.
These bankers aren't Americans. They believe in globalization. They have loyalty to no one and no values.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')erchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson
These bankers are obviously not Christian, because they charge usurious rates on sinful lengths of time. Doesn't the Bible preclude usury? Doesn't it say debt forgiveness after 7years? Why 30 year loans? They certainly aren't muslim, because they prohibit usury as well. And, they certainly aren't capitalist, because the banks are not allowed to fail. They are imperialist imposing a tyranny under the ruse of a democracy.
America is no longer a democracy. It has become a fascist tyranny ruled by a bankers cabol led by Paulson, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Bernanke.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson Quotes
We were warned by people other than Jefferson. Read the words of former Vice President Wallace, made during WWII, when he said the greatest threat to America was not Nazi sympathizers in the US, but the take over of American democracy by corporations.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ut, again, this is not America’s first encounter with fascism.
In early 1944, the New York Times asked Vice President Henry Wallace to, as Wallace noted, “write a piece answering the following questions: What is a fascist? How many fascists have we? How dangerous are they?”
Vice President Wallace's answer to those questions was published in The New York Times on April 9, 1944, at the height of the war against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan. See how much you think his statements apply to our society today.
“The really dangerous American fascist,” Wallace wrote, “… is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.”
In his strongest indictment of the tide of fascism he saw rising in America, Wallace added, “They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.” By these standards, a few of today’s weapons for keeping the common people in eternal subjection include NAFTA, the World Trade Organization, union-busting, cutting worker benefits while increasing CEO pay, elimination of worker benefits, security and pensions, rapacious credit card interest, and outsourcing of jobs — not to mention the largest prison system in the world.
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