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Every investor
has the power to end gold manipulation. All he must do is lift a
single finger - but at the right time, and at the right place.
If you had a chance to end gold
manipulation, would you use it?
I can remember the days of 1999, when
Bill Murphy and Chris Powell of GATA were serving every member of Congress
with their evidence of gold-price manipulation by the top US bullion
banks, by the Federal Reserve, and via the Treasury Department's Exchange Stabilization
Fund. The result was a lot of raised eyebrows and some frantic paper
shuffling - followed by a roaring, deafening silence.
There is one reason, and one reason only
why these banking cartel shenanigans and their attempts to control and
subvert free operation of US markets continue, and that is the fact that
Congress, with full knowledge of the subject matter and with a decent
understanding of the potential ramifications (i.e., a gold derivatives
meltdown), did exactly nothing to stop the abuse. All probably they
did was tip off their banker buddies, saying: "hey, look at what I just
received. You better get your act in order or this could blow up in your
face."
The vast majority of Congressmen and
women from that now bygone era are still holding their congressional seats. Others
have joined them - but nothing has changed.
Why?
Because
the corporate banking lobby has an iron grip on virtually every member of
Congress. After all, the bankers, in particular those associated with the
Federal Reserve System, are providing Congress with its ever-expanding and
revolving line of credit - the line that not Congress, but you and I, are on
the hook for.
Naturally, those members of Congress who
originally allowed themselves to be bribed in order
to pass the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 have long since passed on. They can
no longer be held accountable, but their currently incumbent successors are
benefiting from that heist just the same, if not more so.
Back in the days of 1913, that revolving
line of credit could not be dug into quite as deeply and as freely by the
Federal Reserve because the gold
standard still limited the Fed's power. Unsurprisingly, when FDR signed
Americans' birthright to a sound currency away by executive decree in 1933,
Congress did what it has always done best, when it really counts.
It did nothing.
Nothing for Americans, that is. It did a
lot for the banking cartel, however.
No Due Process
The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution
precludes the government from depriving the people of their property without
due process of law. A president's issuance of an executive order does not
constitute due process of law. An executive order also cannot
(constitutionally speaking) accomplish what the Congress is prohibited from
doing.
In law, the term "due process"
signifies at minimum a right to be heard and to present evidence in one's
defense. In 1933, Americans' rights to their property and their right to due
process of law were ignored. Congress has the absolute right and power to
scrutinize and overturn any executive order that any president may issue -
but just ike today, it did nothing in 1933.
No Financial Privacy
Congress also did nothing to stop
president Bush's power grab in 2001, when it passed the clandestinely substituted White
House version of the USA "Patriot" Act with
a large, bipartisan majority in both houses.
The Patriot Act robbed Americans of
whatever financial privacy they had left from the Clinton
years, during which it passed Clinton's
Anti-Terrorism bill, and from the "Bush the elder" years when the
"war on drugs" was the excuse du jour for depriving Americans of
their rights.
The Patriot Act allowed the FBI to force
gold dealers and others to turn their clients' transaction records over
without being allowed to notify their clients of that fact, based on a mere
letter written by the FBI, without court supervision and without judicial
review. It also allowed warrantless, clandestine "sneak and peek"
searches of your home in your absence without you ever knowing that the FBI
ad come into your house, copied your computer's hard drive, and looked for
anything else that "incriminates" you in their eyes.
The list goes on and on, but the fact
remains that, if those we elect to Congress truly took their mandate
seriously, i.e., their mandate to represent you and to protect your
constitutionally guaranteed rights, none of this would have happened.
- Gold and
silver would still be the 'currency of the realm.'
- The Federal
Reserve banking cartel would not exist and would never have been able to
inflate you out of home and hearth.
- The gold
manipulation schemes of the 1960s and 1990s would never have occurred.
- An
organization like GATA would never have had a reason to exist, and
millions of gold investors would never have been lured into selling
their precious metals by flase market signals.
- Financial
privacy would still exist.
- The specter
of gold confiscation would never even have become an issue for
investors.
- A 1913
dollar would still be worth a dollar instead of a piddling two cents.
The Solution
Yet, a simple, painless, and free
solution to all of this legislative abuse exists, and that solution quite
literally lies at your fingertips. It is utterly and completely in your
hands. It lies totally within your power. All that any voting member of the
American public needs to do in order to exercise it is to literally lift a
single finger - and let it come down next to the name of your congressional
incumbent's most formidable challenger.
That's all it takes.
Why wiill this be
effective?
Because
it is easy to do, it is free, it costs you no more of your time than you
already spend going to the polls, and it carries absolutely no risk for your
life, liberty, or property. The founding fathers only wished they could have
had it this easy. That's why they set it up that way, for our benefit. All we
have to do is lift our voting finger and let it come down on the right part
of the voting screen.
Of course, your vote alone is no
guarantee of ultimate success - but you still have the right of free
association under the First Amendment, remember?
You can join a Fire Congress! Meetup in
your area and organize with other like-minded Americans to oust your local
congressional incumbent aa s well as your state's incumbent US Senator if he
runs for reelection this fall. (Hint: Don't brush past that link just above.
Click on it. Read it.)
Why does this rather political-leaning
essay appear on a gold investment web site? Because
you come here for information that helps you protect your investments and
hopefully profit from them. You no longer have the luxury to wait for the
free market to do the job for you. Markets are no longer free, and they are
getting less and less so, every day.
You also don't have the luxury of
sitting back and waiting to see if someone else does the job for you - like
your political leaders, for example. You know where that has led you: right
to where you are now.
Asking for their help when the corporate
banking lobby has way more by the way of "incentives" to pitch
their way is like asking a mugger to hold your wallet while you dig through
your pockets for change. Only firing them, one and all, at every election,
unless they do their job right, holds any promise of real change. Not even a
"better" president can accomplish what you can accomplish by voting
them out every time. The ruling elite will know you are paying attention, for
once.
So, what about the great gold bull
market that is continuing on in spite of all this manipulation? Won't that
bail you out? Maybe - unless even the last vestiges of free markets are
destroyed or sufficiently stifled because
of your credulity and passive inaction. Freedom only exists if people fight
for it. It's no different in the markets.
Party? What Party?
It does not even matter who gets elected
in his or her place. Party politics has proven to be a devastating snare to
Americans' rights as citizens. Whatever your ideological position in life,
whatever party you belong to, your party has done its level best to betray
you.
If you are a Republican-leaning voter,
you know what happened to the "Revolution of 1994" - precisely nothing.
If you are a Democrat-leaning voter, you
know what happened to the supposed "takeover" of the House of
Representatives in 2006.
Nothing.
You never get what you vote for, anyway,
when you vote based on party label. Now, on the other hand, you have a chance
to get what you vote for by simply ignoring any party labels and
voting out the incumbent, whoever he is. How about that?
If financial privacy, an end to gold
manipulation, and secure ownership of precious metals is what you want,
consider the possibilities:
The Return of Honest Money
A Congress made up completely of
freshmen in 2009, and every two years thereafter, will remove all entrenched,
lobbyist-infested power interests in DC. Such a Congress will be composed of
nothing but newbies, who will all look around and see nothing other than more
newbies, just like them except for Ron Paul.
They will only have ten-term Congressman Ron Paul
to look to for guidance. He could easily become speaker of the house.
Why him? Because
he is unchallenged for his seat. No Democrat is even trying to run against
him, and his neocon-challenger was trounced with a stinging 70% defeat at the
primary-election polls this past March.
His Honest Money Act of 2007
could finally be passed, eliminating the banking cartel's monopoly over
currency issuance and monetary debasement, reinstating your right to demand
gold and silver for payment of services rather than having to accept
worthless paper/electronic pseudo-dollars.
Even the Federal Reserve Act itself
could be repealed, ending its monopoly over determining the "price of
money" (interest rates) by inflating/deflating our money supply. The
Federal Reserve Act is only a law, you know. It only takes a simple majority
to repeal it - and the way to achieve that majority is to deny the banking
lobby access to its usual crop of carefully groomed legislative gofers.
Oil price manipulation to the upside (by
probably the same financial houses who are rigging
the gold price downward) could be ended in a heartbeat and your declining dollars
could at least buy a reasonable amount of gasoline and heating oil again.
The threat of a final Fed-takeover of
all aspects of the US
financial system could be averted and stopped for good.
A Brand-New Congress - Every Two Years
If the same thing happens at every
congressional election from here on out, Washington will take notice. It will
notice that Americans have taken the political reigns back into their own
hands - and out of the corporate and banking lobby's hands.
Yes, this does require a shift in
thinking - but isn't that better than losing your wealth, your assets, and
your rights?
There are many very reasonable
objections to this approach - and they have all been dealt with at this exhaustive FAQ.
Impossible?
Do you believe it's impossible for you
to do this? You are right - because
if you believe that, you will not avail yourself of this simplest and most
effective of all solutions the Founders gave you to right the wrongs done to
you by the financial and political class.
Possible!
Do you believe that it is possible? You
are absolutely right! No one can deny you the right to fight for your
financial freedom by using this legal, peaceful, and super-effective method. All
it takes is the willingness to try a new approach. The old one based on
party-loyalty and the "follow the leader" mentality surely hasn't
worked. And neither did running and trying to hide your assets, did it?
You still have the right to speak
freely.
You still have the right to associate
with whomever you please for the greater good of your country.
You still have the right to vote.
Nowhere to Run - Just Somewhere to Fight
If you are still looking for ways to
spirit your wealth out of this country into so-called offshore "tax
havens" or whatnot, you are fooling yourself. The Patriot Act, its
precursors and its progeny have made that option obsolete. Even Switzerland
had to buckle under and began to collect taxes from its depositors on behalf
of the European Union. Likewise, the IRS under the US Treasury Department has
long since subverted financial privacy in the Caribbean
banking centers - all under the lack of supervision and with the outright
complicity of Congress.
Why not fight back when the fighting is
so easy, so completely legal, and costs so little, and has such minimal risk
attached to it?
So take care of your business as a US citizen. Manage
your government - instead of allowing it to micro-manage you and your
wealth.
Got gold?
Then do what it takes to protect
it!
Alex Wallenwein
Editor,
Publisher
www.Small-Business-Goldmine.com
www.Attorney-Local.com
www.Expert-Legal-Research.com
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