Post by 3bid on Sept 28, 2018 22:04:00 GMT -5
The Monster Must Perish
Andrew Jackson: “The Bank has by degrees obtained almost entire dominion over the circulating medium, and with it, power to increase or diminish the price of property and to levy taxes on the people in the shape of premiums and interest to an amount only limited by the quantity of paper currency it is enabled to issue."
By Jonas E. Alexis - September 25, 2018 | Veterans Today
Andrew Jackson developed a simple political principle which turned out to be true: You either kill the monster that is destroying the national economy, or the monster will eventually kill you. There is no other way. For Jackson, the monster was none other than the people who were manipulating the money supply for their own political and personal gain, not for the good of the nation. They were the usurious and rapacious bankers.
Jackson obviously did not want the bankers to kill both the economy and the nation, therefore he went on a quest to drive the money changers out of the diabolical temple. . “Vote Andrew Jackson,” the slogan went, and you will have “no bank” manipulating the system.
Jackson noted: “If the American people only understood the rank injustice of our banking and money system—there would be a revolution before morning.” Jackson was hardly alone in his critique of the banking system.
Because they often engaged in usurious activity, bankers were hated. In 1829, New York City passed a resolution denouncing bankers as “the greatest knaves, imposters and paupers of the age.”[1] During that time, “there was hardly a banker in the country who was not constantly and criminally violating the law by committing some species of fraud or other. Year after year the courts were full of lawsuits in which this or that banker was charged with fraudulent transactions.”[2]
During the same time, Nicholas Biddle, president of the Second Bank of the United States—and a vigorous opponent of Andrew Jackson’s policy with respect to the usurious bankers—was charged with theft and embezzlement.[3]
Earlier Biddle had made an alliance with the Rothschild family. James Rothschild likened this to “a financial marriage made in heaven.” Although the alliance did not bear much fruit,[4] Biddle’s banking system was clearly congruent with the Rothschilds’.
The men who put Biddle in charge of the Second Bank of the United States were none other than “his cronies…whose interests were equally at odds with those of ordinary men and women.”[5] Jackson knew that the rich and powerful were using their power to oppress the weak. They declared that “the mass of the people have more to fear from combinations of the wealthy and professional classes—from an aristocracy which through the influence of riches and talents, insidiously employed, sometimes succeeded in preventing political institutions, however well adjusted, from securing the freedom of the citizen.”[6]
Jackson continued, “The Bank has by degrees obtained almost entire dominion over the circulating medium, and with it, power to increase or diminish the price of property and to levy taxes on the people in the shape of premiums and interest to an amount only limited by the quantity of paper currency it is enabled to issue.”[7]
Jackson was probably the most intrepid man of his era to vigorously oppose a privately-owned central bank because he foresaw that eventually usurers would end up cheating the common people.[8] Jackson knew that fractional reserve banking was a sophisticated way of cheating that always ends up killing the economy. Jackson wanted to restore the economy, and he actually did by simply killing the monster.
The Jacksonians were not against all banking systems but against usurious bankers; Jackson called them “hydra-headed” monsters “eating the flesh of the common man.”[9] Speaking like a fire-and-brimstone preacher, Jackson wrote that such bankers “are a den of vipers and thieves” who will eventually destroy families if no one stops them. “I have determined to rout you out and, by the Eternal, I will rout you out,” he said.[10]
Jackson not only vowed to fight for a return to progress in the economy, but also to expose the usurious activities of bankers who were manipulating the nation for their own ends, meaning he had to get into a political fight with usurers like Nicholas Biddle. Jackson won, and he ended up reducing the national debt to zero!
Contrast that to our day, where the monster rises from the ashes and starts killing the economy and anyone who resists. What is now the national debt? $21 trillion![11] The solution? Jackson had a simple formula: “The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me. But I will kill it.” He killed the bank, and he saved the economy and the American people.
Jackson, as E. Michael Jones rightly puts it, was a fighter for his entire life. Quoting William Cobbett, Jones says that Jackson was “the bravest man and greatest man now living in this world, or that ever has lived in this world, as far as my knowledge extends.”[12] We need people like that in our day.
In order to save the economy in our day, the monster has to be killed again. If the monster isn’t dead, then rest assured that the national debt will double in the not-so-distant future. We already know who will help double the national debt.
•[1] Myers, Great American Fortunes, Vol. III, 184.
•[2] Ibid., 184-185.
•[3] Ibid., 185.
•[4] Niall Ferguson, The House of Rothschild: Money’s Prophets, 1798-1848 (New York: Penguin, 1998), 373-74.
•[5] H. W. Brands, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (New York: Random, 2005), 496.
•[6] Ibid., 498.
•[7] Ibid.
•[8] Simon Johnson and James Kwak, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (New York: Vintage, 2011), 14
•[9] Brown, Web of Debt, 1; also Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White
•House (New York: Random House, 2009), 256.
•[10] Brown, Web of Debt, 78.
•[11] Laurence Kotlikoff, “Has Our Government Spent $21 Trillion Of Our Money Without Telling Us?,” Forbes, December 8, 2017.
•[12] E. Michael Jones, Barren Metal: A History of Capitalism as the Conflict Between Labor and Usury (South Bend: Fidelity Press, 2014), 927.
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Andrew Jackson was so right, today there is an effort to paint Jackson as just another white slave owner who deserves to have his memory smashed, and cleansed from history. Yet he was so much more than that. On the other side there’s Alexander Hamilton for whom a musical play has been scored. You may ask, what is he famous for? Why, does he deserve to be remembered with such glory? Well, the truth is he doesn’t. More than any other man of his time Hamilton deserves to be labeled a traitor. He too was a slave owner, but that isn’t to be mentioned is it. Hamilton was selected by his wealthy Free mason relatives in Scotland to introduce to the colonies Rothschild’s fractional reserve banking system. With an exact copy if the Bank of London’s charter in hand it became his life’s work to found the First Bank of the United States. He was a brilliant man who did his job well, but more than any other man Alexander Hamilton is responsible for bring to American the demon we are told the Pilgrims were fleeing. The very same demon that is suffocating us today.
Andrew Jackson was targeted for assassination many times by the bankers. One needs to ask himself; why is it that anyone who dares challenge the Central Banks ends up dead or worse than dead? If you haven’t yet read “The Creature From Jekyll Isle, or “Web of Deceit” I strongly urge you to do so before passing judgment on Jackson.
The Central Bank Becomes Part of the Class War
Double Down: The Central Bank Becomes Part of the Class War
Max Keiser, Stacy Herbert
25.09.2018
On today’s episode of Double Down, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert talk to economist and author, Dr Michael Hudson, about the 10 year anniversary of the financial crisis.
Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, has anything changed? And who was at fault anyway? Double Down asks economist and author, Michael Hudson, who believes that deregulation was ultimately the genesis of the 2008 crisis and that Bill Clinton played a central role as did Alan Greenspan, the ‘lobbyist for the financial mafia who helped legitimize fraud.' Hudson notes that Barack Obama and Timothy Geithner actually intervened and stopped Hank Paulson from taking steps to dissolve insolvent banks and now the most egregiously criminal of those banks are bigger and stronger ever thanks to taxpayer bailouts. Should another financial crisis happen, as many suspect, Michael Hudson warns that the central bank has joined the class war and, as such, the wealth and income gap is likely to accelerate even further due to how the Fed treats the next banking catastrophe. Tune into Double Down to hear more.
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