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Last Friday night, my lovely wife, Miss Puddy,
accompanied me on our usual Friday night date to the movies. Even though we
were out of town, we managed to make our weekly trip to the cinema. We chose
Ben Stein's new movie, "Expelled." In the movie, Mr. Stein
talks of the politically correct sanitizing of the "Intelligent
Design Theory" over Darwinism.
While I will not go into my personal views of Darwinism, I will state that I
feel its main shortcomings are: Where did life itself originate? Where is the
fossil record of the evolutionary development? ID or intelligent design is an
alternate theory that covers everything from "creationism"
to alien intervention.
In the movie, Mr. Stein lists example after example where grants, positions,
tenure and all manner of heavy-handed means were employed against those who
even dared to mention the words, "intelligent design"
(heaven help them if they uttered, "creationism"). Careers
were ruined and cut short by the mere mention of the phrase. Mr. Stein states
that the government has adopted Darwinism as its state theology and those who
contest it in any way are labeled heretics and subject to a modern day
inquisition by the State.
Even in our little part of the U.S., we have noticed prominent Darwinism in
the establishment of an "old chimps home" lavishly funded by
the Feds. The capital expenditure per chimpanzee is almost $100,000 and the
yearly upkeep on each is staggering. I would not be surprised if they spend
less on humans in state sponsored old folk's homes.
At any rate, we talked after the movie and it seems that Mr. Stein missed
something. When Aaron Russo made his film, "Freedom to Fascism,"
he was interested in tax protesters and ended up looking into the Federal
Reserve. The same could have been done by Mr. Stein. How did the Federal
Government obtain all this power? How did they gain control over the
press, the colleges, the academic research grants, the schools and reach down
into our everyday lives with their numerous tentacles?
Senator Vitter sent his aid for this part of our state to talk to our local
Lion's Club this week. I asked him how many staffers the Senator had on his
payroll. He said he was not sure, but thought it was around 40 or 50 people. Someone
mentioned that Senator Kennedy had over 100 staffers. I mentioned that before
WWII the average U.S. Congressman had only ONE secretary on staff and the
average U.S. Senator had three. It seems that our Congressmen spend all day
passing laws and regulations and then hire thousands of staffers to help us
fight the bureaucracy that they themselves created! The majority of the
staffers work in the Congressmen's constituent services section.
How is it that the Federal Government has reached down to the individual
taxpayer even past the state and local governments themselves? Well,
now we have come to the heart of the matter. Without the power to create
money (debt) from thin air, the Federal Government could never have grown to
the size it has presently become. Without the Federal Reserve servicing the
U.S. Treasury and extending it limitless credit, the Federal Government would
have had to have lived within its means as was done before the creation of
the Federal Reserve (with a few exceptions). At any rate it could have never
grown to its present size reaching down into all of our lives without its
quiet little private benefactor.
So, the next time you hear someone complaining about the growing power, size
and reach of the Federal Government remind him/her, it is all possible
because of the Federal Reserve. To kill the beast, you must strike at the
heart. The last one to do so was President Andrew Jackson. During his
term as a U.S. president, he not only killed the Second National Bank, but he
also completely paid off the national debt. Late in his life, he said it was
his proudest accomplishment. Just imagine what life would be like without the
IRS to drain away your wealth and without the Federal Reserve to drain away
your children's and grandchildren's wealth. Imagine a life with only a small
constitutionally-authorized government that didn't have both hands in your
pockets and controlled what could and could not be taught.
Ben, it was a good movie, but on our present course, I am afraid that the
U.S. Federal Government's heavy handedness will only get worse as the
government's hands only get bigger. It is a start, however. We must educate
ourselves and each other. Bismarck started public schools to make good little
German citizens. Public schools do the same in this country. For a real
education, you must study and educate yourself. To remain ignorant is treason
to your country and a betrayal to the men and ideas that this great experiment
called the United States were founded upon. Power to the people!
Morpheus: You take the blue pill and the story ends. You
wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe (a red pill is
shown in his other hand).
You take the red pill and you'll stay in Wonderland, and I'll show you how
deep the rabbit-hole goes.
(Long pause, Neo begins to reach for the red pill.)
Remember -- all I am offering is the truth, nothing
more.
-- "The Matrix"
You can watch TV and simply take the blue pill or you
can take the red pill and start to see the truth - be warned that you can
never go back.
Larry Laborde
Silver Trading
Company
www.silvertrading.net
Larry lives in the occupied South with his wife Puddy and sells
precious metals at the Silver Trading Company. Larry can be contacted
at llabord@aol.com. You can view
his web site at www.silvertrading.net.
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