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Federal Reserve Bank (Inc.) A Murderous History? Banksters, the Worlds Worst Gangsters

Federal Reserve Bank (Inc.) A Murderous History?
Banksters, the Worlds Worst Gangsters
• May 1, 1776 Jesuit Professor Adam Weishaupt who was retained by Rothschild's completes world dominance plan.
• 1776-1790: U.S. Independence - Free Banking -no formal central bank.
• 1791-1811: First Bank of the United States.
• 1816-1836: Second Bank of the United States.
• 1837-1862: Free Banking Era -no formal central bank.
• 1862-1913: System of National Banks (Consequence of Lincoln's War).
• 1914-crrent: A consortium of 12 privately held banks called the Federal Reserve Bank. The largest share holder of the bank are the Rothschild's of London.
The accomplishments of the Rothschild's and fellow banksters is nothing short of astonishing. They have literally got the world to hand them the right to manufacture money out of nothing and then to turn around and lend the mammon back to the world plus usurious interest! Almost singlehandedly, this small group of men have dominated the world. However, in their efforts to dominate the world they have caused extraordinary pain and agony and even potentially the complete destruction of life on earth.
The Federal Reserve Bank is a consortium of twelve private banks which are not part of the United States Government.
These private banks purchase paper notes from the U.S. mint for printing cost or simply enter digital money into their computer then lend back the money plus interest to the people through member banks. The profits go into the share holders of the bank's pocket's, the U.S. public receives no benefit.
The Primary Owners of the Federal Reserve Bank Are:
1. Rothschild's of London and Berlin
2. Lazard Brothers of Paris
3. Israel Moses Seaf of Italy
4. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of Germany and New York
5. Warburg & Company of Hamburg, Germany
6. Lehman Brothers of New York
7. Goldman, Sachs of New York
8. Rockefeller Brothers of New York
All the primary owners are branches of European establishments. Foreigners, almost entirely Jewish, control the United States Money supply. They literally own exclusive rights to the dollar and simply enter dollars into their banks books to make money which they then lend back to us at a profit. For them money does not grow on trees, it is simply a data entry into their account. Clearly the private ownership of the U.S. Dollar is by far The Greatest Crime of the Century. The owners of this bank have been responsible for instigating all the major wars and depressions in the last 100 years. They own the bank, they own the dollar and they own all the major media channels, the military industrial complex and most politicians, judges and cops.
Sometimes the bank pays an arbitrary 'franchise fee' to the U.S. government to keep the politicians paid off.
The first two private National Banking Systems lasted about 20 years before being eliminated. The current Federal Reserve Bank private National Bank has lasted nearly 100 years.
In Producer Aaron Russo's must see Movie "AMERICA: Freedom to Fascism", when interviewing Congressman Ron Paul, Aaron asks: "So the Federal Reserve is actually an illegal entity functioning within the Federal Government?" Ron Paul's response: "It's illegal. And what we have given to this so-called agency is the authority to counterfeit money."
The cost of this system to the U.S. public is hundreds of billions of dollars every year while holding the nation and people in a constant state of debt.
There have been assassination attempts on every President who attempted to eliminate these private National Banks. The privately held Federal Reserve Bank has not once been audited and never pays any income tax on their astonishing income.
The bank is supposed to bring stability to the economy, however, almost every major marked crash and war can be attributed to the Federal Reserve Bank, including the Great Depression, WW I, WW II, the Gulf War etc.
In 1913 in exchange for paying for his Presidential campaign, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act handing over the U.S. currency to twelve regional private banks. In 1933 Roosevelt confiscated citizens gold and handed it to these private banks.
Arguably the formation of the Federal Reserve Bank is
The Crime of the Century
The Federal Reserve Banking Act, passed in 1913 is categorically unconstitutional, it is unlawful.
The Federal Reserve Bank's money fraud has devalued the dollar to about four percent of its worth in 1930
Henry Ford once said "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning".
Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution reads:
The Congress shall have the Power.....To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof,....
Congress has no authority to delegate this responsibility to third parties.
As a show of audacity and control, the Federal Reserve Bank prints their Notes with the faces of Presidents who adamantly opposed having a private National Bank, and Presidents the bank either tried to or did kill.
There will never be world peace, there will never be economic stability, there will never be a free economy as long as these banksters control the worlds money supply. Their goal is to achieve a socialist one world government - a "New World Order", as is printed in Latin on their $1 Note.
Meyer Amchel Rothschild said:
"Let me issue and control a nation's money, and I care not who writes its laws"
(1743-1812)
In 1773, Rothschild, formerly Bauer, pulled together 12 other investors to join in his plan to dominate the world. On May 1, 1776 Adam Weishaupt retained by Rothschild's completed their world dominance plan.
After the battle of Waterloo, his son Nathan Mayer in England deceptively crashed the stock exchange and made a fortune. He sponsored George Peabody who's business JP Morgan took over.
The Rothschild's funded Woodrow Wilson's Presidential campaign on condition Wilson pass the Federal Reserve Banking Act. Today the Rothschild's are the primary owners of the Federal Reserve Bank. They control most of the world and through the control of central banks have instigated more wars and horror than any other family throughout history. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson was adamantly opposed to the idea of a privately owned federal bank and said: "I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies" "the principle of spending money to be paid by prosperity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale
"If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency.. the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
Thomas Jefferson believed the National Bank was unconstitutional because it was an unauthorized extension of federal power. Congress, Jefferson argued, possessed only delegated powers which were specifically enumerated in the constitution.



James Madison said the Bank was "condemned by the silence of the constitution". Alexander Hamilton however lobbied for the first privately owned Federal Bank. Hamilton conceded that the constitution was silent on banking, however, he asserted, that Congress had the power to tax, to borrow money, and to regulate interstate and foreign commerce and suggested that Congress could charter a private corporation to assist in carrying out these powers.
In 1790 Hamilton persuaded Congress to pass the Assumption Act where the Federal Government assumed States debts. In 1791 Congress chartered the Bank of The United States. Congress passes the Coinage Act in 1792 which establishes a U.S. mint. Hamilton resigned as Secretary of the Treasury in 1793. It is reported that Hamilton was paid by the Rothschild family for this service.
In 1811 Congress Refused to renew the charter for the Bank of the United States & the bank is closed.
1812-1815 War breaks out with Britain.

1815 President James Madison proposed a second privately owned Bank of the United States which was chartered in 1816 and opened in 1817. President Andrew Jackson said regarding bankers: "The bank, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!" "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God I will rout you out."
“I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.”
“Paper is poverty… it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
“If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency… the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
In December of 1834, President Jackson declared that the national debt will be paid off. The next month there was an assassination attempt on Jackson.
In 1836 overriding Congress, Jackson closed the Bank of the United States commenting: "The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it." In 1836 The Bank of the United States charter expired. Congressional Bills to establish a new national bank were twice vetoed by President Tyler in 1841.
In 1846 The Independent Treasury Act is approved.
Following Lincoln's threat of invasion if States refused to pay the 52% Morrill tax, ten southern States lawfully secede from the Union between December 1860 and February 1861:
"The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere." - Abraham Lincoln in his Inaugural Address Monday, March 4, 1861
Against the advice of his generals and congress, Lincoln initiated the so-called "Civil War" in April of 1861, one month after Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. In his inaugural speech Lincoln promised to do nothing about slavery: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." It was only when Lincoln was loosing the war that he issued the emancipation proclamation where he proclaimed that slaves in the Nations of the Confederate States were free.
To pay for the 'civil war, on the 5th of August 1861, Congress passes the first National income tax and by the 21st of that month the first paper currency was issued.
Lincoln said, "The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw light upon their crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow. The money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."
In February 1863, Congress established another National Banking system. The bankers were intending to charge between 24% and 36% interest rates for money to finance the war. To avoid the interest, Lincoln ordered the printing of $450 million in bank notes guaranteed by the U.S. government. "The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency. Creating and issuing money is the supreme prerogative of government and is its greatest creative opportunity. Adopting these principles will save the taxpayers immense sums of interest and money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity." The notes were called "Greenbacks" and effectively eliminated the interest the private banks charged on notes they issued.
On April 9, 1865 following Lincoln's brutal, immoral and cruel scorched earth war policy, Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Johnston's army surrendered on April 26, 1865.
On Apr 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated and Congress revoked the Greenback Law and enacted, in its place, the National Banking Act supporting privately owned national banks. The associates of the President Lincoln's assassin were according to many, on the payroll of the Rothschild's. The Nation was thrown into a state of constant debt, paying interest to bankers who created cash.
More U.S. citizens died from Lincon's war than all the wars combined up to, but not including the Bush's wars.
Lincoln was arguably one of the most dishonest and disastrous Presidents this Nation has seen, running tie perhaps with Franklyn Delaware Roosevelt and George W. Bush. The Federal government naturally gives Lincoln great importance because it was Lincoln who established large central federal government positions paid for by taxing the people. State run schools go as far as to teach students that Abraham Lincoln was a honest hero.
Following Lincoln's assassination, Andrew Johnson, whom many have shown was involved in the assassination, became President.
On December 18, 1865, a new Thirteenth Amendment was ratified ignoring the existing properly ratified 13th Amendment which eliminated citizenship of persons who swore allegiance to other Nations or secret societies. (On July 27, 1866, the Second Atlantic cable was completed).
On February 24, 1868 President Johnson was impeached by the House however his trial in the Senate failed.
On July 21, 1868 the Fourteenth Amendment was questionably adopted (In 1969 the Pacific Railroad was completed)
Ulysses S. Grant, the barbarous Union general was elected President in 1869 he served till 1877 and was the subject of many government scandals.
The Black Friday financial crisis in 1869 was caused by Wall Street scam artists Jay Gould and James Fisk when they attempted to corner the gold market, Grant's government sat idly by.
On March 30, 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.
In February of 1873 Congress demonetized silver (i.e. refused silver as payment) resulting in Financial panic.
Jay Cooke's bank who helped fund the Civil War went bankrupt on September 18, 1873. The depression lasted till 1877.
January 1875, Congress passed the Specie Resumption Act which stipulated that beginning in January 1879 the federal government would redeem (legally exchange) greenbacks with gold.
Under President Rutherford B. Hayes, in 1878, Congress enacted the Bland-Allison Act, a compromise bill which specified limited amount of silver to be coined annually.
President James A. Garfield was inaugurated in 1881, he said "Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce". On July 2, 1881 Garfield was shot, he dies on September 19.
On September 6, 1901 President McKinley is shot by an assassin, he dies on September 14. Theodore Roosevelt becomes President.
In exchange for financial support for his presidential campaign, Woodrow Wilson's agreed that if elected, he would sign the Federal Reserve Act. In December 1913, while many members of Congress were home for Christmas, the Federal Reserve Act was rammed through Congress and signed by President Wilson. Regarding his actions Wilson later admitted. "I have unwittingly ruined my country".
The Fed became law the day before Christmas Eve, in the year 1913, and shortly afterwards, the German International bankers, Kuhn, Loeb and Co. sent one of their partners here to run it.
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON: "A great industrial Nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the Nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men... who necessarily, by very reasons of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom." "We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men". (Just before he died, Wilson is reported to have stated to friends that he had been "deceived" and that "I have betrayed my Country". He referred to the Federal Reserve Act passed during his Presidency.)
The un-ratified 16th Amendment
The Constitution only allowed direct apportioned taxation amongst the States, so indirect Income Tax was initiated through the 16th Amendment so as to allow Congress to pay the bankers interest on our money and for any other whim. The 16th Amendment was pushed through without proper ratification in February of 1913.
According to the two volume work by Bill Benson and Red Beckman , "The Law That Never Was" the 16th amendment, which created the IRS, was never properly ratified, not even by one state! These gentlemen traveled the then 48 states to verify that fact. So in a very real sense the income tax isn't legal, as many have proclaimed, but try not paying it and see how far you get before the Feds come after you and confiscate everything you own.
World War I Started on June 28, 1914 as a direct consequence of the Formation of the Federal Reserve Bank. It would not have been possible to start World War I without the formation of the Federal Reserve Bank. The primary beneficiaries of WWI were the owners of the Federal Reserve Bank.
After World War I had turned the United States from a debtor nation into a creditor nation. In the aftermath of the war, both the victorious Allies and the defeated Central Powers owed the United States more money than it owed to foreign nations. The Republican administrations of the 1920s insisted on payments in gold bullion, but the world's gold supply was limited and by the end of the 1920s, the United States, itself, controlled much of the world's gold supply. Besides gold, which was increasingly in short supply, countries could pay their debts in goods and services. However, protectionism and high tariffs kept foreign goods out of the United States. The Hawley-Smoot Act (1930) set the highest schedule of tariffs to date.
In the January 13, 1918 issue of New York World William Boyce Thompson, Federal Reserve Bank director and founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations applauded Russia for their "sweeping world changes.". The primary shareholders of the Federal Reserve Bank, the Rothschild's, funded the Bolshevik revolution. They literally sent a train with 50 million dollars worth of gold and fifty or so trained Jewish insurgents to instigate the communist revolution.
The Great Federal Depression. Within 15 years of the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank the U.S. experienced it's worst depression. The depression was initiated when the Federal Reserve Bank changed the valuation of the dollar then refused to provide banks with dollar bills causing a panic and a run on the banks. The primary beneficiaries of the depression were the owners of the bank and their colleagues. In the ensuing panic, the bankers brought one of their own out of retirement from the Morgan/Rothschild banking cartel and made him president. FDR has arguably, along with GWB and Lincoln have been the nations worst presidents.
April 5th 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a treasonous Executive Order ordering citizens to hand their gold and gold certificates to the private Federal Reserve Bank: Executive Order 6102: "Section 2. All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve Bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933"
"Section 9. Whoever willfully violates any provision of this Executive Order or of these regulations or of any rule, regulation or license issued thereunder may be fined not more than $10,000, or, if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both"
FDR proceeded to implement the "New Deal" which converted the United States of America to the United Socialist States of America. Instituting pure socialism in Social Security, the FCC to control the airwaves, the SEC to control banking and eliminate any potential competitors to the private Federal Reserve Bank.
We are still suffering the consequences of FDR's criminal "New Deal", a central government based on Fascist Socialism. Does F.D. Roosevelt earn the title of the worst president ever? Read the revealing article exposing the real deal by Robert Higgs


World War II
The war-driven economic expansion increased demand for credit: earnings from rediscounts in the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank alone rose from $141,774 in 1916 to $1,758,000 in 1918, for example.
The Atlanta Fed saw its government securities portfolio burgeon from nothing in 1915 to $19.5 million by 1918. Earnings, fed by the securities, were strong enough in 1917 for the Bank to pay all dividends due and still have $80,000 left, of which $40,000 was used to start a surplus account and $40,000 paid to the Treasury as a "franchise tax", the Bank’s first transfer of earnings to the federal Treasury. From 1919 earnings the Bank was able to put $3 million in its surplus.
By instigating WWII, the Banksters were able to destroy eight monarchies throughout Europe while at the same time making extraordinary profits from their armaments companies. U.S. bombing runs on Germany were often specifically targeted at factories of competitors to the Banksters while carefully not bombing factories owned by the Banksters.
On June 4, 1963, President Kennedy signed a Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110. This order virtually stripped the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Government at interest. President Kennedy declared the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. This order gave the Treasury Department the authority to issue silver certificates against any silver in the treasury. This executive order still stands today. In less than five months after signing that executive order President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
The United States Notes (silver certificates) he had issued were taken out of circulation immediately. Federal Reserve Notes continued to serve as the legal currency of this nation. It is estimated that 99% of all U.S. paper currency circulating in 1999 are Federal Reserve Notes.
Who Shot Ronald Reagan?
When Ronald Reagan attempted to address the problem with the Federal Reserve Bank another mysterious gunman attempted to assassinate him.
Nine American Presidents have been the targets of assassination:- Andrew Jackson in 1835 (opposed a private national bank), Abraham Lincoln in 1865 (opposed a private national bank), James Garfield in 1881 (opposed a private national bank), William McKinley in 1901, Harry S. Truman in 1950, John F. Kennedy in 1963 (opposed a private national bank), Richard Nixon in 1974, Gerald Ford twice in 1975, and Ronald Reagan in 1981 (opposed a private national bank):
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http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/assassinations.cfm
"Whether money is metal, paper or digital, is not the issue, the issue is interest. The function of currency is to provide a trading mechanism for the barter of real assets and services. There can be no interest charged for the mere provision of a mechanism to barter. A service fee, yes, but interest, absolutely not." - Clive Boustred, Founder, Chairman & CEO InfoTelesys & Chairman of Liberty For Life Association
InfoTelesys was building a next generation Internet that would incorporate interest free currency accessible anywhere in the world through the satellite network the company was building. The InfoTelesys team consisted of numerous extraordinarily qualified individuals including many top banking technology and satellite experts. While working for Sun Microsystems, Clive provided the systems architecture for one of the worlds largest banking systems and consulted to many of the top banks around the world.
After returning home from the Courthouse, while waiting for his home garage door to open, on March 10, 2003 a shooting instructor for the Santa Cruz Sheriffs ran up to Clive's car and shot at Clive from a point blank range of two meters. The shot missed Clive and his children who were also in the car. The government followed up with a massive malicious prosecution campaign against Clive, filing seven false cases against him and repeatedly throwing him in jail without any right to bail, thereby eliminating InfoTelesys and potential competition to the Federal Reserve Bank.
"Our misunderstanding is the belief that money is a real asset, to the extent where we have allowed this deception to become reality. Money, cash, currency is only a tool, a Note that represents real assets or services in a transaction.
The ability to manufacture money, whether the note is printed on metal, paper or digitally is something that must be in the free domain. Just as corporations are free to offer notes representing the ownership or stock of a corporation.
If we give any person or entity the exclusive right to control the representation or production of notes representing assets and services, we give that person complete control of everything, unless we specifically dictate that the note may bear no interest and the valuation of assets and services remain free and dynamic.
Our lack of understanding of money has resulted in centuries of servitude and the last hundred years of violent wars." - CLive.
At first notes were printed on paper or wood, then kings realized they could dominate their subjects by forcing them to only use their notes exclusively. To make it more difficult to counterfeit their notes, kings started printing their notes on meta instead of wood - hence the introduction of the "Gold Standard". Gold and silver certainly have intrinsic value, just as paper does. When it comes to monetary notes, the issue is not the intrinsic value of the material on which the money is represented. The real issue is the acceptance of the note as a form of barter, the stability of the note, and the national and international consequences of employing that specific note.
One can just as easily use stock certificates in a respectable company to purchase a house, so long as the seller is able to exchange those stock certificates for other assets. This is why the banksters key player, FDR, instituted the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). There really is no need for the SEC. Fraud has always been on the law books. Buyers of a corporate stock have to evaluate the value and integrity of the corporation themselves. Any company wanting to attract buyers to their stock will readily provide all the information the SEC supposedly dictates. In all reality the SEC is merely a mechanism to eliminate competitors to the privately held Federal Reserve Bank's notes. For the same reason, FDR committed treason when he ordered citizens to hand their gold to that private bank.
According to Congressional record the U.S. Government can buy back the FED at any time for $450 million. That's about half the amount of money we pay them daily.
As of March 6, 2006, the national debt stands at 8.2 trillion dollars. The American taxpayers have paid the FED banking system $173,875,979,369.66 in interest on that debt in just five short months, from October, 2005, through February, 2006. No con artist or group of con artists in history has ever perpetrated a scam that even approaches the scope of this one.
The Fed allows Congress to spend all they want that's why your Congressperson does nothing.
"Mr. Chairman, we have in this Country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, hereinafter called the Fed. The Fed has cheated the Government of these United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the Nation's debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Fed has cost enough money to pay the National debt several times over. .... This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of these United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Fed and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it. " - Congressman McFadden on the Federal Reserve Corporation Remarks in Congress, 1934 Floor of the House of Representatives by the Honorable Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania. Mr. McFadden served as Chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee for more than 10 years. There were two assassination attempts against McFadden.
"Why did we give a monopoly of creating money out of thin air to a private corporation? The result is exactly the same as if someone was picking your pocket every year, because that is exactly what they [the Federal Reserve Bank] are doing." Franklin Sunders, Author, Tax Honesty.
"We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent." - Paul Warburg, Council on Foreign Relations and Architect of the Federal Reserve System: Feb 17, 1950 in an address to the U.S. Senate. See also US World Dominance Plan
"Who controls money controls the word”. – Henry Kissinger Counsel on Foreign Relations
Ron Paul introduces bill to eliminate Federal Reserve Bank: see GovTrack.us. H.R. 2755--110th Congress (2007): To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve.
Nazi SS Ring & Federal Reserve Note Eagle: A coincidence or not?:

Who funded Hitler?
On Oct 24, 1942 The U.S. Gov seized Nazi Assets Belonging to Prescott Bush, grandfather of President G.W.B. Jr.
see Fed Instability and U.S. Banking Timeline

VICTIMS OF THE FAITH

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VICTIMS OF THE FAITH
Listed are only events that solely occurred on command or participation of church
authorities or were committed in the name of ....... (List incomplete)
Ancient Pagans
* As soon as Christianity became legal in the Roman Empire by imperial edict
(315), more and more pagan temples were destroyed by Christian mob. Pagan
priests were killed.
* Between 315 and 6th century thousands of pagan believers were slain.
* Examples of destroyed Temples: the Sanctuary of Aesculap in Aegean, the
Temple of Aphrodite in Golgatha, Aphaka in Lebanon, and the Heliopolis.
* Christian priests such as Mark of Arethusa or Cyrill of Heliopolis were famous
as "temple destroyer." [DA468]
* Pagan services became punishable by death in 356. [DA468]
* Christian Emperor Theodosius (408-450) even had children executed, because
they had been playing with remains of pagan statues. [DA469]
According to Christian chroniclers he "followed meticulously all Christian
teachings..."
* In 6th century pagans were declared void of all rights.
* In the early fourth century the philosopher Sopatros was executed on demand
of Christian authorities. [DA466]
* The world famous female philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria was torn to pieces
with glass fragments by a hysterical Christian mob led by a Christian minister
named Peter, in a church, in 415.
[DO19-25]
Mission
* Emperor Karl (Charlemagne) in 782 had 4500 Saxons, unwilling to convert to
Christianity, beheaded. [DO30]
* Peasants of Steding (Germany) unwilling to pay suffocating church taxes:
between 5,000 and 11,000 men, women and children slain 5/27/1234 near
Altenesch/Germany. [WW223]
* 15th century Poland: 1019 churches and 17987 villages plundered by Knights
of the Order. Number of victims unknown. [DO30]
* 16th and 17th century Ireland. English troops "pacified and civilized" Ireland,
where only Gaelic "wild Irish", "unreasonable beasts lived without any knowledge of
God or good manners, in common of their goods, cattle, women, children and every
other thing." One of the more successful soldiers, a certain Humphrey Gilbert, halfbrother
of Sir Walter Raleigh, ordered that "the heads of all those (of what sort so
ever they were) which were killed in the day, should be cut off from their bodies...
and should bee laid on the ground by each side of the way", which effort to civilize
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the Irish indeed caused "great terror to the people when they saw the heddes of
their dead fathers, brothers, children, kinsfolk, and friends on the ground".
Tens of thousands of Gaelic Irish fell victim to the carnage. [SH99, 225]
Crusades (1095-1291)
* First Crusade: 1095 on command of pope Urban II. [WW11-41]
* Semlin/Hungary 6/24/96 thousands slain. Wieselburg/Hungary 6/12/96
thousands. [WW23]
* 9/9/96-9/26/96 Nikaia, Xerigordon (then Turkish), thousands respectively.
[WW25-27]
* Until January 1098 a total of 40 capital cities and 200 castles conquered
(number of slain unknown) [WW30]
* After 6/3/98 Antioch (then Turkish) conquered, between 10,000 and 60,000
slain. 6/28/98 100,000 Turks (incl. women and children) killed. [WW32-35]
Here the Christians "did no other harm to the women found in [the enemy's]
tents - save that they ran their lances through their bellies," according to Christian
chronicler Fulcher of Chartres. [EC60]
* Marra (Maraat an-numan) 12/11/98 thousands killed. Because of the
subsequent famine "the already stinking corpses of the enemies were eaten by the
Christians" said chronicler Albert Aquensis. [WW36]
* Jerusalem conquered 7/15/1099 more than 60,000 victims (Jewish, Muslim,
men, women, and children). [WW37-40]
In the words of one witness: "there [in front of Solomon's temple] was such a
carnage that our people were wading ankle-deep in the blood of our foes", and after
that "happily and crying for joy our people marched to our Savior’s tomb, to honor
it and to pay off our debt of gratitude."
* The Archbishop of Tire, eyewitness wrote: "It was impossible to look upon the
vast numbers of the slain without horror; everywhere lay fragments of human
bodies, and the very ground was covered with the blood of the slain. It was not
alone the spectacle of headless bodies and mutilated limbs strewn in all directions
that roused the horror of all that looked upon them. Still more dreadful was it to
gaze upon the victors themselves, dripping with blood from head to foot, an
ominous sight which brought terror to all who met them. It is reported that within
the Temple enclosure alone about ten thousand infidels perished." [TG79]
* Christian chronicler Eckehard of Aura noted that "even the following summer
in all of Palestine the air was polluted by the stench of decomposition". One million
victims of the first crusade alone. [WW41]
* Battle of Askalon, 8/12/1099. 200,000 heathens slaughtered "in the name of
Our Lord Jesus Christ". [WW45]
* Fourth crusade: 4/12/1204 Constantinople sacked, number of victims
unknown, numerous thousands, many of them Christian. [WW141-148]
* Rest of Crusades in less detail: until the fall of Akron 1291 probably 20 million
victims (in the Holy land and Arab/Turkish areas alone). [WW224]
Note: All figures according to contemporary (Christian) chroniclers.
Heretics and Atheists
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* Already in 385 C.E. the first Christians, the Spanish Priscillianus and six
followers, were beheaded for heresy in Trier/Germany [DO26]
* Manichaean heresy: a crypto-Christian sect decent enough to practice birth
control (and thus not as irresponsible as faithful Catholics) was exterminated in
huge campaigns all over the Roman Empire between 372 C.E. and 444 C.E.
Numerous thousands of victims. [NC]
* Albigensians: the first Crusade intended to slay other Christians. [DO29]
The Albigensians (Cathars) viewed themselves as good Christians, but would
not accept Roman Catholic rule, and taxes, and prohibition of birth control. [NC]
Begin of violence: on command of pope Innocent III (the greatest single mass
murderer prior to the Nazi era) in 1209. Beziérs (today France) 7/22/1209
destroyed all the inhabitants were slaughtered. Number of victims (including
Catholics refusing to turn over their heretic neighbors and friends) estimated
between 20,000-70,000. [WW179-181]
* Carcassonne 8/15/1209, thousands slain. Other cities followed. [WW181]
* Subsequent 20 years of war until nearly all Cathars (probably half the
population of the Languedoc, today southern France) were exterminated. [WW183]
* After the war ended (1229) the Inquisition was founded 1232 to search and
destroy surviving/hiding heretics. Last Cathars burned at the stake 1324. [WW183]
* Estimated one million victims (Cathar heresy alone), [WW183]
* Other heresies: Waldensians, Paulikians, Runcarians, Josephites, and many
others. Most of these sects exterminated, (I believe some Waldensians live today,
yet they had to endure 600 years of persecution) I estimate at least hundred
thousand victims (including the Spanish inquisition but excluding victims in the
New World).
* Spanish Inquisitor Torquemada, a former Dominican friar, allegedly was
responsible for 10,220 burnings. [DO28]
* John Huss, a critic of papal infallibility and indulgences, was burned at the
stake in 1415. [LI475-522]
* Michael Sattler, leader of a Baptist community, was burned at the stake in
Rottenburg, Germany, May 20, 1527. Several days later his wife and other
followers were also executed. [KM]
* University professor B.Hubmaier burned at the stake 1538 in Vienna. [DO59]
* Giordano Bruno, Dominican monk, after having been incarcerated for seven
years, was burned at the stake for heresy on the Campo dei Fiori (Rome) on
2/17/1600.
* Thomas Aikenhead, a twenty-year-old Scottish student of Edinburgh
University, was hanged for atheism and blasphemy.
Witches
* From the beginning of Christianity to 1484 probably more than several
thousand.
* In the era of witch hunting (1484-1750) according to modern scholars several
hundred thousand (about 80% female) burned at the stake or hanged. [WV]
* Incomplete list of documented cases:
The Burning of Witches - A Chronicle of the Burning Times
Religious Wars
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* 15th century: Crusades against Hussites, thousands slain. [DO30]
* 1538 pope Paul III declared Crusade against apostate England and all English
as slaves of Church (fortunately had not power to go into action). [DO31]
* 1568 Spanish Inquisition Tribunal ordered extermination of 3 million rebels in
(then Spanish) Netherlands. [DO31]
Between 5000 and 6000 Protestants were drowned by Spanish Catholic Troops,
"a disaster the burghers of Emden first realized when several thousand broadbrimmed
Dutch hats floated by." [SH216]
* 1572 In France about 20,000 Huguenots were killed on command of pope
Pious V. Until 17th century 200,000 flee. [DO31]
* 17th century: Catholics slay Gaspard de Coligny, a Protestant leader. After
murdering him, the Catholic mob mutilated his body, "cutting off his head, his
hands, and his genitals... and then dumped him into the river [...but] then,
deciding that it was not worthy of being food for the fish, they hauled it out again
[... and] dragged what was left ... to the gallows of Montfaulcon, 'to be meat and
carrion for maggots and crows'." [SH191]
* 17th century: Catholics sack the city of Magdeburg/Germany: roughly 30,000
Protestants were slain. "In a single church fifty women were found beheaded,"
reported poet Friedrich Schiller, "and infants still sucking the breasts of their
lifeless mothers." [SH191]
* 17th century 30 years' war (Catholic vs. Protestant): at least 40% of
population decimated, mostly in Germany. [DO31-32]
Jews
* Already in the 4th and 5th centuries Christians burned synagogues. Number of
Jews slain unknown.
* In the middle of the fourth century the first synagogue was destroyed on
command of Bishop Innocent of Dertona in Northern Italy. The first synagogue
known to have been burned down was near the river Euphrates, on command of
the bishop of Kallinikon in the year 388. [DA450]
* 694 17. Council of Toledo: Jews were enslaved, their property confiscated,
and their children forcibly baptized. [DA454]
* 1010 The Bishop of Limoges (France) had the cities' Jews, who would not
convert to Christianity, expelled or killed. [DA453]
* 1096 First Crusade: Thousands of Jews slaughtered, maybe 12.000 total.
Places: Worms 5/18/1096, Mainz 5/27/1096 (1100 persons), Cologne, Neuss,
Altenahr, Wevelinghoven, Xanten, Moers, Dortmund, Kerpen, Trier, Metz,
Regensburg, Prague and others (All locations Germany except Metz/France, Prague/
Czech) [EJ]
* 1147 Second Crusade: Several hundred Jews were slain in Ham, Sully,
Carentan, and Rameru (all locations in France). [WW57]
* 1189/90 Third Crusade: English Jewish communities sacked. [DO40]
* 1235, Fulda/Germany: 34 Jewish men and women slain. [DO41]
* 1257, 1267: Jewish communities of London, Canterbury, Northampton,
Lincoln, Cambridge, and others exterminated. [DO41]
* 1290 Bohemia (Poland) allegedly 10,000 Jews killed. [DO41]
* 1337 Starting in Deggendorf/Germany a Jew-killing craze reaches 51 towns in
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Bavarian, Austria, Poland. [DO41]
* 1348 All Jews of Basel/Switzerland and Strasbourg/France (two thousand)
burned. [DO41]
* 1349 In more than 350 towns in Germany all Jews murdered, mostly burned
alive (in this one year more Jews were killed than Christians in 200 years of ancient
Roman persecution of Christians). [DO42]
* 1389 In Prague 3,000 Jews were slaughtered. [DO42]
* 1391 Seville's Jews killed (Archbishop Martinez leading). 4,000 were slain,
25,000 sold as slaves. [DA454] Their identification was made easy by the brightly
colored "badges of shame" that all Jews above the age of ten had been forced to
wear.
* 1492 In the year Columbus set sail to conquer a New World, more than
150,000 Jews were expelled from Spain, many died on their way: 6/30/1492.
[MM470-476]
* 1648 Chmielnitzki massacres: In Poland about 200,000 Jews were slain.
[DO43]
(I feel sick...) this goes on and on, century after century, right into the kilns of
Auschwitz.
Native Peoples
* Beginning with Columbus (a former slave trader and would-be Holy Crusader)
the conquest of the New World began, as usual understood as a means to
propagate Christianity.
* Within hours of landfall on the first inhabited island he encountered in the
Caribbean, Columbus seized and carried off six native people who, he said, "ought
to be good servants ... [and] would easily be made Christians, because it seemed to
me that they belonged to no religion." [SH200]
While Columbus described the Indians as "idolaters" and "slaves, as many as
[the Crown] shall order," his pal Michele de Cuneo, Italian nobleman, referred to
the natives as "beasts" because "they eat when they are hungry," and made love
"openly whenever they feel like it." [SH204-205]
* On every island he set foot on, Columbus planted a cross, "making the
declarations that are required" - the requirement - to claim the ownership for his
Catholic patrons in Spain. And "nobody objected." If the Indians refused or delayed
their acceptance (or understanding), the requirement continued:
"I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter in your
country and shall make war against you ... and shall subject you to the yoke and
obedience of the Church ... and shall do you all mischief that we can, as to vassals
who do not obey and refuse to receive their lord and resist and contradict
him." [SH66]
* Likewise in the words of John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts Bay
Colony: "justifying the undertakers of the intended Plantation in New England ... to
carry the Gospel into those parts of the world, ... and to raise a Bulworke against
the Kingdome of the Ante-Christ." [SH235]
* In average two thirds of the native population were killed by colonist-imported
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smallpox before violence began. This was a great sign of "the marvelous goodness
and providence of God" to the Christians of course, e.g. the Governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony wrote in 1634, as "for the natives, they are near all dead
of the smallpox, so as the Lord hath cleared our title to what we
possess." [SH109,238]
* On Hispaniola alone, on Columbus visits, the native population (Arawak), a
rather harmless and happy people living on an island of abundant natural
resources, a literal paradise, soon mourned 50,000 dead. [SH204]
* The surviving Indians fell victim to rape, murder, enslavement and Spanish
raids.
* As one of the culprits wrote: "So many Indians died that they could not be
counted, all through the land the Indians lay dead everywhere. The stench was
very great and pestiferous." [SH69]
* The Indian chief Hatuey fled with his people but was captured and burned
alive. As "they were tying him to the stake a Franciscan friar urged him to take
Jesus to his heart so that his soul might go to heaven, rather than descend into
hell. Hatuey replied that if heaven was where the Christians went, he would rather
go to hell." [SH70]
* An eyewitness described what happened to his people:
"The Spaniards found pleasure in inventing all kinds of odd cruelties ... They
built a long gibbet, long enough for the toes to touch the ground to prevent
strangling, and hanged thirteen [natives] at a time in honor of Christ Our Savior
and the twelve Apostles... then, straw was wrapped around their torn bodies and
they were burned alive." [SH72]
Or, on another occasion:
"The Spaniards cut off the arm of one, the leg or hip of another, and from
some their heads at one stroke, like butchers cutting up beef and mutton for
market. Six hundred, including the cacique, were thus slain like brute
beasts...Vasco [de Balboa] ordered forty of them to be torn to pieces by
dogs." [SH83]
* The "island's population of about eight million people at the time of
Columbus's arrival in 1492 already had declined by a third to a half before the year
1496 was out." Eventually all the island's natives were exterminated, so the
Spaniards were "forced" to import slaves from other Caribbean islands, who soon
suffered the same fate. Thus "the Caribbean's millions of native people [were]
thereby effectively liquidated in barely a quarter of a century". [SH72-73] "In less
than the normal lifetime of a single human being, an entire culture of millions of
people, thousands of years resident in their homeland, had been
exterminated." [SH75]
* "And then the Spanish turned their attention to the mainland of Mexico and
Central America. The slaughter had barely begun. The exquisite city of Tenochtitlán
[Mexico city] was next." [SH75]
* Cortez, Pizarro, De Soto and hundreds of other Spanish conquistadors likewise
sacked southern and mesoamerican civilizations in the name of Christ (De Soto also
sacked Florida).
* "When the 16th century ended, some 200,000 Spaniards had moved to the
Americas. By that time probably more than 60,000,000 natives were
dead." [SH95]
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Of course no different were the founders of what today is the US of America.
* Although none of the settlers would have survived winter without native help,
they soon set out to expel and exterminate the Indians. Warfare among (North
American) Indians was rather harmless, in comparison to European standards, and
was meant to avenge insults rather than conquer land. In the words of some of the
pilgrim fathers: "Their Wares are fare less bloody", so that there usually was "no
great slaughter of nether side". Indeed, "they might fight seven years and not kill
seven men." What is more, the Indians usually spared women and children.
[SH111]
* In the spring of 1612 some English colonists found life among the (generally
friendly and generous) natives attractive enough to leave Jamestown - "being
idle ... did run away unto the Indians," - to live among them (that probably solved
a sex problem).
"Governor Thomas Dale had them hunted down and executed: 'Some he
appointed (sic) to be hanged Some burned Some to be broken upon wheals, others
to be staked and some shoot to death'." [SH105] Of course these elegant measures
were restricted for fellow Englishmen: "This was the treatment for those who
wished to act like Indians. For those who had no choice in the matter, because they
were the native people of Virginia" methods were different: "when an Indian was
accused by an Englishman of stealing a cup and failing to return it, the English
response was to attack the natives in force, burning the entire community" down.
[SH105]
* On the territory that is now Massachusetts the founding fathers of the colonies
were committing genocide, in what has become known as the "Peqout War." The
killers were New England Puritan Christians, refugees from persecution in their own
home country England.
* When however, a dead colonist was found, apparently killed by Narragansett
Indians, the Puritan colonists wanted revenge. Despite the Indian chief's pledge
they attacked.
Somehow they seem to have lost the idea of what they were after, because
when Pequot Indians (long-time foes of the Narragansett) greeted them the troops
nevertheless made war on the Pequots and burned their villages.
The puritan commander-in-charge John Mason after one massacre wrote: "And
indeed such a dreadful Terror did the Almighty let fall upon their Spirits, that they
would fly from us and run into the very Flames, where many of them perished ...
God was above them, who laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to
Scorn, making them as a fiery Oven ... Thus did the Lord judge among the
Heathen, filling the Place with dead Bodies": men, women, children. [SH113-114]
* So "the Lord was pleased to smite our Enemies in the hinder Parts, and to give
us their land for an inheritance". [SH111].
* Because of his readers' assumed knowledge of Deuteronomy, there was no
need for Mason to quote the words that immediately follow:
"Thou shall save alive nothing that breatheth. But thou shall utterly destroy
them..." (Deut 20)
* Mason's comrade Underhill recalled how "great and doleful was the bloody
sight to the view of the young soldiers" yet reassured his readers that "sometimes
the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents".
[SH114]
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Ironically, one of the Bible's 10 pillars or Ten Commandments says: "Thou shalt
not kill. (Exodus 20:13)." Yet, innocent children and non-virgin women were
ordered to be killed by the mass, perhaps in thousands! 3-year old slave girls
were also ordered to be raped by Moses.
. According to the Tannaïte Rabbis, MOSES therefore had ordered the Israelites to
kill all women older than three years and a day, because they were "suitable for
having sexual relations." [138]...."
"Said Rabbi Joseph, "Come and take note:
"A girl three years and one day old is betrothed by intercourse. "A girl three years
old may be betrothed through an act of sexual intercourse," the words of R. Meir.
And sages say, "Three years and one day old.".
* Other Indians were killed in successful plots of poisoning. The colonists even had
dogs especially trained to kill Indians and to devour children from their mothers
breasts, in the colonists' own words: "blood Hounds to draw after them, and
Mastives to seize them." (This was inspired by Spanish methods of the time)
In this way they continued until the extermination of the Pequots was near.
[SH107-119]
* The surviving handful of Indians "were parceled out to live in servitude. John
Endicott and his pastor wrote to the governor asking for 'a share' of the captives,
specifically 'a young woman or girl and a boy if you think good'." [SH115]
* Other tribes were to follow the same path.
* Comment the Christian exterminators: "God's Will, which will at last give us
cause to say: How Great is His Goodness! And how great is his Beauty!"
"Thus doth the Lord Jesus make them to bow before him, and to lick the Dust!"
[TA]
* Like today, lying was morally acceptable to Christians then. "Peace treaties
were signed with every intention to violate them: when the Indians 'grow secure
upon (sic) the treaty', advised the Council of State in Virginia, 'we shall have the
better Advantage both to surprise them & cut down their Corn'." [SH106]
* In 1624 sixty heavily armed Englishmen cut down 800 defenseless Indian
men, women and children. [SH107]
* In a single massacre in "King Philip's War" of 1675 and 1676 some "600
Indians were destroyed. A delighted Cotton Mather, revered pastor of the Second
Church in Boston, later referred to the slaughter as a 'barbecue'." [SH115]
* To summarize: Before the arrival of the English, the western Abenaki people in
New Hampshire and Vermont had numbered 12,000. Less than half a century later
about 250 remained alive - destruction rate of 98%. The Pocumtuck people had
numbered more than 18,000, fifty years later they were down to 920 - 95%
destroyed. The Quiripi-Unquachog people had numbered about 30,000, fifty years
later they were down to 1500 - 95% destroyed. The Massachusetts people had
numbered at least 44,000, fifty years later barely 6000 were alive - 81%
destroyed. [SH118] These are only a few examples of the multitude of tribes living
before Christian colonists set their foot on the New World. All this was before the
smallpox epidemics of 1677 and 1678 had occurred. And the carnage was not over
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then.
* All the above was only the beginning of the European colonization, it was
before the frontier age actually had begun.
* A total of maybe more than 150 million Indians (of both Americas) were
destroyed in the period of 1500 to 1900, as an average two thirds by smallpox and
other epidemics, that leaves some 50 million killed directly by violence, bad
treatment and slavery.
* In many countries, such as Brazil, and Guatemala, this continues even today.
More Glorious Events in U.S. History
* Reverend Solomon Stoddard, one of New England's most esteemed religious
leaders, in "1703 formally proposed to the Massachusetts Governor that the
colonists be given the financial wherewithal to purchase and train large packs of
dogs 'to hunt Indians as they do bears'." [SH241]
* Massacre of Sand Creek, Colorado 11/29/1864. Colonel John Chivington, a
former Methodist minister and still elder in the church ("I long to be wading in
gore") had a Cheyenne village of about 600, mostly women and children, gunned
down despite the chiefs' waving with a white flag: 400-500 killed.
From an eye-witness account: "There were some thirty or forty squaws
collected in a hole for protection; they sent out a little girl about six years old with
a white flag on a stick; she had not proceeded but a few steps when she was shot
and killed. All the squaws in that hole were afterwards killed..." [SH131]
More gory details.
* By the 1860s, "in Hawaii the Reverend Rufus Anderson surveyed the carnage
that by then had reduced those islands' native population by 90 percent or more,
and he declined to see it as tragedy; the expected total die-off of the Hawaiian
population was only natural, this missionary said, somewhat equivalent to 'the
amputation of diseased members of the body'." [SH244]
20th Century Church Atrocities
* Catholic extermination camps
Surprisingly few know that Nazi extermination camps in World War II were by
no means the only ones in Europe at the time. In the years 1942-1943 also in
Croatia existed numerous extermination camps, run by Catholic Ustasha under
their dictator Ante Paveliç, a practicing Catholic and regular visitor to the then
pope. There were even concentration camps exclusively for children!
In these camps - the most notorious was Jasenovac, headed by a Franciscan
friar - orthodox-Christian Serbians (and a substantial number of Jews an Muslims)
were murdered. Like the Nazis the Catholic Ustasha burned their victims in kilns,
alive (the Nazis were decent enough to have their victims gassed first). But most of
the victims were simply stabbed, slain or shot to death, the number of them being
estimated between 100,000 and 150,000, in a rather tiny country. Many of the
killers were Franciscan friars. The atrocities were appalling enough to induce
bystanders of the Nazi "Sicherheitsdienst der SS", watching, to complain about
them to Hitler (who did not listen). The pope knew about these events and did
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nothing to prevent them. [MV]
* Catholic terror in Vietnam
In 1954 Vietnamese freedom fighters - the Viet Minh - had finally defeated the
French colonial government in North Vietnam, which by then had been supported
by U.S. funds amounting to more than $2 billion. Although the victorious assured
religious freedom to all (most non-Buddhist Vietnamese were Catholics), due to
huge anticommunist propaganda campaigns many Catholics fled to the South.
With the help of Catholic lobbies in Washington and Cardinal Spellman, the
Vatican's spokesman in U.S. politics, who later on would call the U.S. forces in
Vietnam "Soldiers of Christ", a scheme was concocted to prevent democratic
elections which could have brought the communist Viet Minh to power in the South
as well, and the fanatic Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem was made president of South
Vietnam. [MW16ff]
Diem saw to it that U.S. aid, food, technical and general assistance was given
to Catholics alone, Buddhist individuals and villages were ignored or had to pay for
the food aids which were given to Catholics for free. The only religious
denomination to be supported was Roman Catholicism.
The Vietnamese McCarthyism turned even more vicious than its American
counterpart. By 1956 Diem promulgated a presidential order which read:
&nbs p; "Individuals considered dangerous to the national defense and
common security may be confined by executive order, to a concentration camp."
Supposedly to fight communism, thousands of Buddhist protesters and monks
were imprisoned in "detention camps." Out of protest dozens of Buddhist teachers -
male and female - and monks poured gasoline over themselves and burned
themselves. (Note that Buddhists burned themselves: in comparison Christians
tend to burn others). Meanwhile some of the prison camps, which in the meantime
were filled with Protestant and even Catholic protesters as well, had turned into nononsense
death camps. It is estimated that during this period of terror
(1955-1960) at least 24,000 were wounded - mostly in street riots - 80,000 people
were executed, 275,000 had been detained or tortured, and about 500,000 were
sent to concentration or detention camps. [MW76-89].
To support this kind of government in the next decade thousands of American
GI's lost their life.
* Christianity kills the cat
On July 1, 1976, Anneliese Michel, a 23-year-old student of a teachers college
in Germany, died: she starved herself to death. For months she had been haunted
by demonic visions and apparitions, and for month’s two Catholic priests - with
explicit approval of the Catholic bishop of Würzburg - additionally pestered and
tormented the wretched girl with their exorcist rituals. After her death in
Klingenberg hospital - her body was littered with wounds - her parents, both of
them fanatical Catholics, were sentenced to six months for not having called for
medical help. None of the priests was punished: on the contrary, Miss Michel's
grave today is a place of pilgrimage and worship for a number of similarly faithful
Catholics (in the seventeenth century Würzburg was notorious for it's extensive
witch burnings).
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This case is only the tip of an iceberg of such evil superstition and has become
known only because of its lethal outcome. [SP80]
* Rwanda Massacres
In 1994 in the small African country of Rwanda in just a few months several
hundred thousand civilians were butchered, apparently a conflict of the Hutu and
Tutsi ethnic groups.
For quite some time I heard only rumors about Catholic clergy actively involved
in the 1994 Rwanda massacres. Odd denials of involvement were printed in
Catholic Church journals, before even anybody had openly accused members of the
church.
Then, 10/10/96, in the newscast of S2 Actual, Germany - a station not at all
critical to Christianity - the following was stated:
&nbs p; "Anglican as well as Catholic priests and nuns are suspect of having
actively participated in murders. Especially the conduct of a certain Catholic priest
has been occupying the public mind in Rwanda's capital Kigali for months. He was
minister of the church of the Holy Family and allegedly murdered Tutsis in the
most brutal manner. He is reported to have accompanied marauding Hutu militia
with a gun in his cowl. In fact there has been a bloody slaughter of Tutsis seeking
shelter in his parish. Even two years after the massacres many Catholics refuse to
set foot on the threshold of their church, because to them the participation of a
certain part of the clergy in the slaughter is well established. There is almost no
church in Rwanda that has not seen refugees - women, children, old - being
brutally butchered facing the crucifix.
&nbs p; According to eyewitnesses clergymen gave away hiding Tutsis and
turned them over to the machetes of the Hutu militia.
&nbs p; In connection with these events again and again two Benedictine
nuns are mentioned, both of who have fled into a Belgian monastery in the
meantime to avoid prosecution. According to survivors one of them called the Hutu
killers and led them to several thousand people who had sought shelter in her
monastery. By force the doomed were driven out of the churchyard and were
murdered in the presence of the nun right in front of the gate. The other one is
also reported to have directly cooperated with the murderers of the Hutu militia. In
her case again witnesses report that she watched the slaughtering of people in cold
blood and without showing response. She is even accused of having procured some
petrol used by the killers to set on fire and burn their victims alive..." [S2]
Following the collapse of communist rule Bosnia like the other five federated States
of Yugoslavia declared independence and was given recognition by the UNO.
However, the Christian Serb community occupied the country with the help of
Yugoslavian Serb army and began three years of slaughter.
Some 200,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed, 50,000 Muslim women raped, and over
two million Muslims were forced to flee to the neighboring countries. Muslims sent
to Serbian concentration camps were subjected to torture worse than the world saw
under Nazi Germany. Muslim women and girls as young as 9-years were gangPage
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raped, and people’s throat slashed and left them bleed to death. The main targets
of Serb and Croats butchers were the religious leaders, the university professors,
doctors, and the political leaders. Roughly, the Serbs and Croats destroyed 179
mosques and 46 churches – 156 mosque Imams were murdered.
The UN on its Own Complicity in the Genocide at Srebrenica
The report admits UN complicity in the genocide at the UN "Safe Area" of
Srebrenica in July 1995, during which between 10,000 and 16,000 Bosnian
civilians, unarmed men and boys, were separated out in front of UN troops and led
away for extermination, and many Bosnian women were brutalized and raped. In
the UN Report on Srebrenica, the following conclusion applies to Srebrenica but
also throughout Bosnia from 1992 to 1995.
The tragedy that took place following the fall of Srebrenica is shocking for two
reasons. It is shocking, first and foremost, for the magnitude of the crimes
committed. Not since the horrors of World War II had Europe witnessed massacres
on this scale. The mortal remains of close to 6,500 men and boys have been found
on the surface, in mass gravesites and in secondary burial sites. Several thousand
more men are still missing, and there is every reason to believe that additional
burial sites, many of which have been probed but not exhumed, will reveal the
bodies of thousands more men and boys. The great majority of those who were
killed were not killed in combat: the exhumed bodies of the victims show large
numbers had their hands bound, or were blindfolded, or were shot in the back or
the back of the head. Numerous eyewitness accounts, now well corroborated by
forensic evidence, attest to scenes of mass slaughter of unarmed victims.
The fall of Srebrenica is also shocking because the enclave inhabitants believed
that the authority of the United Nations Security Council, the presence of
UNPROFOR peacekeepers, and the might of NATO air power, would ensure their
safety. Instead, the Serb forces ignored the Security Council, pushed aside the
UNPROFOR troops, and assessed correctly that air power would not be used to stop
them. They overran the safe area of Srebrenica with ease, and then proceeded to
depopulate the territory within 48 hours. Their leaders then engaged in high-level
negotiations with representatives of the international community while their forces
on the ground executed and buried thousands of men and boys within a matter of
days.
Questions must be answered, and foremost among these are the following: how
can this have been allowed to happen? And how will the United Nations ensure that
no future peacekeeping operation witnesses such a calamity on its watch?
More recently the BBC aired:
&nbs p; Priests get death sentence for Rwandan genocide
&nbs p; BBC NEWS April 19, 1998
&nbs p; A court in Rwanda has sentenced two Roman Catholic priests to
death for their role in the genocide of 1994, in which up to a million Tutsis and
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moderate Hutus were killed. Pope John Paul said the priests must be made to
account for their actions. Different sections of the Rwandan church have been
widely accused of playing an active role in the genocide of 1994...
* As can be seen from these events, to Christianity the Dark Ages never come to
an end.
If today Christians talk to me about morality, this is why they make me sick.
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[DA]
K.Deschner, Abermals krähte der Hahn, Stuttgart 1962.
[DO]
K.Deschner, Opus Diaboli, Reinbek 1987.
[EC]
P.W.Edbury, Crusade and Settlement, Cardiff Univ. Press 1985.
[EJ]
S.Eidelberg, The Jews and the Crusaders, Madison 1977.
[HA]
Hunter, M., Wootton, D., Atheism from the Reformation to the
Enlightenment, Oxford 1992.
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Schröder-Kappus, E., Wagner, W., Michael Sattler. Ein Märtyrer in
Rottenburg, Tübingen, TVT Media 1992.
H.C.Lea, The Inquisition of the Middle Ages, New York 1961.
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M.Margolis, A.Marx, A History of the Jewish People.
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A.Manhattan, The Vatican's Holocaust, Springfield 1986.
See also V.Dedijer, The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican, Buffalo NY,
1992.
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J.T.Noonan, Contraception: A History of its Treatment by the Catholic
Theologians and Canonists, Cambridge/Mass., 1992.
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Newscast of S2 Aktuell, Germany, 10/10/96, 12:00.
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A True Account of the Most Considerable Occurrences that have Hapned
in the Warre Between the English and the Indians in New England,
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I ever read about crusades and includes a full list of original medieval
Christian chroniclers' writings).
[WV]
Estimates on the number of executed witches:
• N.Cohn, Europe's Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by the Great
Witch Hunt, Frogmore 1976, 253.
• R.H.Robbins, The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology, New
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• H.Zwetsloot, Friedrich Spee und die Hexenprozesse, Trier 1954, 5

The following is the actual text of a speech delivered in December, 2005 by Comrade Chi Haotian –the Vice-Chairman of China’s Military Commission to top officers and generals

The following is the actual text of a speech delivered in December, 2005 by Comrade
Chi Haotian –the Vice-Chairman of China’s Military Commission to top officers
and generals. Keep in mind that China has for many years advocated deceitful
and covert warfare against its enemies. This is their Modus Operandi. There
should be little question that a “Bird Flu” Pandemic would deeply excite them.
(Don’t forget how they have poisoned thousands of American pets and knowingly
placed lead paints on toddler’s toys.)
“Comrades, I’m very excited today, because the large-scale online survey sina.com
that was done for us showed that our next generation is quite promising and our
Party’s cause will be carried on. In answering the question, “Will you shoot at
women, children and prisoners of war,” more than 80 per cent of the respondents
answered in the affirmative, exceeding by far our expectations.
Today I’d like to focus on why we asked sina.com to conduct this online survey
among our people. My speech today is a sequel to my speech last time, during
which I started with a discussion of the issue of the three islands [Taiwan, Diaoyu
Islands and the Spratley Islands --- Ott] and mentioned that 20 years of the idyllic
theme of ‘peace and development’ had come to an end, and concluded that
modernization under the saber is the only option for China’s next phase. I also
mentioned we have a vital stake overseas.
The central issue of this survey appears to be whether one should shoot at
women, children and prisoners of war, but its real significance goes far beyond
that. Ostensibly, our intention is mainly to figure out what the Chinese people’s
attitude towards war is: If these future soldiers do not hesitate to kill even noncombatants,
they’ll naturally be doubly ready and ruthless in killing combatants.
Therefore, the responses to the survey questions may reflect the general attitude
people have towards war……..We wanted to know: If China’s global development
will necessitate massive deaths in enemy countries, will our people endorse that
scenario? Will they be for or against it?
The fact is, our ‘development’ refers to the great revitalization of the Chinese
nation, which, of course, is not limited to the land we have now but also includes
the whole world. As everybody knows, according to the views propagated by the
Western scholars, humanity as a whole originated from one single mother in
Africa. Therefore no race can claim racial superiority. However, according to the
research conducted by most Chinese scholars, the Chinese are different from other
races on earth. We did not originate in Africa. Instead, we originated
independently in the land of China. Therefore, we can rightfully assert that we are
the product of cultural roots of more than a million years, civilization and progress
of more than ten thousand years, an ancient nation of five thousand years, and a
single Chinese entity of two thousand years. This is the Chinese nation that calls
itself ‘descendants of Yan and Huang.’
During our long history, our people have disseminated throughout the Americas
and the regions along the Pacific Rim, and they became Indians in the Americas
and the East Asian ethnic groups in the South Pacific. We all know that on
account of our national superiority, during the thriving and prosperous Tang
Dynasty our civilization was at the peak of the world. We were the centre of the
world civilization, and no other civilization in the world was comparable to ours.
Later on, because of our complacency, narrow-mindedness, and the self-enclosure
of our own country, we were surpassed by Western civilization, and the centre of
the world shifted to the West.
In reviewing history, one may ask: Will the centre of the world civilization shift
back to China? Actually, Comrade Liu Huaqing made similar points in early
1980’s Based on an historical analysis, he pointed out that the centre of world
civilization is shifting. It shifted from the East to Western Europe and later to the
United States; now it is shifting back to the East. Therefore, if we refer to the 19th
Century as the British Century and the 20th century as the American Century, then
the 21st Century will be the Chinese Century!! (Wild applause fills the
auditorium.)
Our Chinese people are wiser than the Germans because, fundamentally, our
race is superior to theirs. As a result, we have a longer history, more people, and
larger land area. On this basis, our ancestors left us with the two most essential
heritages, which are atheism and great unity. It was Confucius, the founder of our
Chinese culture, who gave us these heritages. These two heritages determined that
we have a stronger ability to survive than the West. That is why the Chinese race
has been able to prosper for so long. We are destined ‘not to be buried by either
heaven or earth’ no matter how severe the natural, man-made, and national
disasters. This is our advantage. Take response to war as an example. The reason
that the United States remains today is that it has never seen war on its mainland.
Once its enemies aim at the mainland, the enemies would have already reached
Washington before its congress finishes debating and authorizes the president to
declare war. But for us, we don’t waste time on these trivial things.
Maybe you have now come to understand why we recently decided to further
promulgate atheism. If we let theology from the West into China and empty us
from the inside, if we let all Chinese people listen to God and follow God, who will
obediently listen to us and follow us? If the common people don’t believe Comrade
Hu Jintao is a qualified leader, begin to question his authority, and want to
monitor him, if the religious followers in our society question why we are leading
God in churches, can our Party continue to rule China??
The first pressing issue facing us is living space. This is the biggest focus of the
revitalization of the Chinese race. In my last speech, I said that the fight over basic
living resources (including land and ocean) is the source of the vast majority of
wars in history. This may change in the information age, but not fundamentally.
Our per capita resources are much less than those of Germany’s back then. In
addition, economic development in the last twenty-plus years had a negative impact,
and climates are rapidly changing for the worse. Our resources are in very short
supply. The environment is severely polluted, especially that of soil, water, and air.
Not only our ability to sustain and develop our race, but even its survival is gravely
threatened, to a degree much greater than faced Germany back then
Anybody who has been to Western countries knows that their living space is
much better than ours. They have forests alongside the highways, while we hardly
have any trees by our streets. Their sky is often blue with white clouds, while our
sky is covered with a layer of dark haze. Their tap water is clean enough for
drinking, while even our ground water is so polluted that it can’t be drunk without
filtering. They have few people in the streets, and two or three people can occupy a
small residential building; in contrast our streets are always crawling with people,
and several people have to share one room. Many years ago, there was a book
titled Yellow Catastrophes. It said that, due to our following the American style of
consumption, our limited resources would no longer support the population and
society would collapse once our population reaches 1.3 billion. Now our
population has already exceeded this limit, and we are now relying on imports to
sustain our nation. It’s not that we haven’t paid attention to this issue. The
Ministry of Land Resources is specialized in this issue.
But we must understand that the term ‘living space’ (lebenstraum) is too closely
related to Nazi Germany. The reason we don’t want to discuss this too openly is to
avoid the West’s association of us with Nazi Germany, which could in turn
reinforce the view that China is a threat. Therefore, in our emphasis on He Xin’s
new theory, ‘Human Rights are just living rights’ we only talk about ‘living’ but
not ‘space’ so as to avoid using the term ‘living space.’ From the perspective of
history, the reason that China is faced with the issue of living space is because
Western countries have developed ahead of Eastern countries. Western countries
established colonies all around the world, therefore giving themselves an advantage
on the issue of living space. To solve this problem, we must lead the Chinese people
outside of China, so that they can develop outside of China.
Would the United States allow us to go out to gain new living space? First, if
the United States is firm in blocking us, it is hard for us to do anything significant
to Taiwan and some other countries! Second, even if we could snatch some land
from Taiwan, Vietnam, India, or even Japan, how much more living space can we
get? Very trivial! Only countries like the United States, Canada and Australia
have the vast land to serve our need for mass colonization.
Therefore, solving the ‘issue of America’ is the key to solving all other issues.
First, this makes it possible for us to have many people migrate there and even
establish another China under the same leadership of the CCP. America was
originally discovered by the ancestors of the yellow race, but Columbus gave credit
to the White race. We the descendants of the Chinese nation are ENTITLED to the
possession of the land!!! It is historical destiny that China and United States will
come into unavoidable confrontation on a narrow path and fight. In the long run,
the relationship of China and the United States is one of a life-and-death struggle.
Of course, right now it is not the time to openly break up with them yet. Our
reform and opening to the outside world still rely on their capital and technology.
We still need America. Therefore, we must do everything we can to promote our
relationship with America, learn from America in all aspects and use America as
an example to reconstruct our country.
Only by using special means to ‘clean up’ America will we be able to lead the
Chinese people there. Only by using non-destructive weapons that can kill many
people will we be able to reserve America for ourselves. There has been rapid
development of modern biological technology, and new bio weapons have been
invented one after another. Of course we have not been idle; in the past years we
have seized the opportunity to master weapons of this kind. We are capable of
achieving our purpose of ‘cleaning up’ America all of a sudden. When Comrade
Xiaoping was still with us, the Party Central Committee had the perspicacity to
make the right decision not to develop aircraft carrier groups and focused instead
on developing lethal weapons that can eliminate mass populations of the enemy
country.
Biological weapons are unprecedented in their ruthlessness, but if the
Americans do not die then the Chinese have to die. If the Chinese people are
strapped to the present land, a total societal collapse is bound to take place.
According to the computations of the author of Yellow Peril, more than half of the
Chinese will die, and that figure would be more than 800 million people! Just after
the liberation, our yellow land supported nearly 500 million people, while today the
official figure of the population is more than 1.3 billion. This yellow land has
reached the limit of its capacity. One day, who know how soon it will come, the
great collapse will occur any time and more than half of the population will have to
go.
It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans. But that is the
only path that will secure a Chinese century, a century in which the CCP leads the
world. We, as revolutionary humanitarians, do not want deaths, But if history
confronts us with a choice between deaths of Chinese and those of Americans, we’d
have to pick the latter, as, for us, it is more important to safeguard the lives of the
Chinese people and the life of our Party.
The last problem I want to talk about is of firmly seizing the preparations for
military battle. The central committee believes, as long as we resolve the United
States problem at one blow, our domestic problems will all be readily solved.
Therefore, our military battle preparation appears to aim at Taiwan, but in fact is
aimed at the United States, and the preparation is far beyond the scope of attacking
aircraft carriers or satellites. Marxism pointed out that violence is the midwife for
the birth of the new society. Therefore war is the midwife for the birth of China’s
century.”

BECOMING OUR GOVERNMENT, MAKING THE FUTURE OUR OWN

BECOMING OUR GOVERNMENT,
MAKING THE FUTURE OUR OWN
LOCAL MEETINGS ACROSS THE U.S.A
JANUARY 20, 2009
Sometimes a people must defend themselves.
Sometimes the citizens of a republic, the workers of a State, the parents responsible
for children and elderly, the agencies charged with just enforcement of laws and
protection of a nation, and the young men and women who are called to the front
ranks of conflicts, the very Armed Forces of a State, must see that their Government
and its dominant institutions no longer represent their interests.
Such a time is now.
Sometimes a people must take control of their futures and create their own
destinies. Sometimes a people must create their own means of exchange, their own
lines of sustenance, and their own remedies and innovations. Sometimes a people
must declare themselves more vital and important than Corporations, whether the
Corporation be the British East India Company, Banks of Rothschild brothers, or JP
Morgan Chase and the American International Group (A.I.G.)
Sometimes a people must take charge of their money-supply and food-supply.
Such a time is now.
Sometimes a people must turn from unresponsive representation and unfair
taxation. Sometimes a people must act to protect themselves from gross the", un-
Constitutional and otherwise illegal repression, and threats to their livelihoods and
even their existence. Sometimes a people must fight to uphold or preserve the Rights
for which their ancestors battled. Sometimes a people must fight to save their children
from certain miseries.
Such a time is now.
Over the past five years and more, the Federal Government of the United States has
shown itself to be less concerned with its people's health and democratic wishes than
with the preservation of Corporations and institutions that are robbing the people of
this nation of both our present and our future.
Despite strong majorities that oppose these courses of the United States' Federal
Government, violations of the people's democratic will continue.
The occupation and war in Iraq proceed. Schools and roads and hospitals and
vehicles remain unimproved. Subsidies for cartels in the food (agriculture), drug
(pharmaceuticals), weapons-making (defense), and financial (Banks and other bettor/
debtor speculators) businesses have increased over the past five years to gigantic and
assuredly disastrous dimensions.
The country, in short, is being wrecked.
With increasing swiftness and savageness the economic and military capacities of
the United States are being gutted. As if by a coldly calculating plan, a plan that
intends nothing rational except the debilitation and disarmament of hundreds of
millions of people, our ability to resist tyranny under technology is reduced by gross
measures.
And nothing but a scant amount of surviving rhetoric in the incoming
Administration--headed by Barack Obama, the youngest and most articulate
President the United States has seen in almost 50 years, but filled with Cabinet
Secretaries and other executives from the Clinton, Reagan, and two Bush
Administrations--points to anything changing for the better in the broad strokes that
will be delivered by the Federal Government in 2009.
With the blessings and urgings of Barack Obama, Joseph Biden, Hillary Clinton
and John McCain in the U.S. Senate, the "bail-out bill" of $850 billion dollars for bad
debts of Banks and other bettor/debtor Corporations passed on October 3, 2008.
Amounts allocated through the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Treasury for the
bettor/debtor speculating institutions has since grown to an amount over ten times
more than the October 3 " 'bail-out' "--that is, the amount has grown to more than 8.5
trillion dollars--an amount more than half the total value of all goods produced in
this nation in the year 2007, without any review and check by the U.S. Congress,
much less a consultation with the more than 300 million citizens of this nation. More
than 2/3 of us, you may remember, opposed the original "bail-out bill" for more than
10 times less an amount.
We must therefore see, as we enter 2009, the harsh truth that we the people of the
United States are meant to be more made the unheard host of a parasite that's
devouring us.
This parasite of our life and wealth has two heads and bodies that are joined at the
hip and elsewhere. One head and body of this coupled parasite is named Government.
the other half of the coupled parasite we may call Corporations. Government/
Corporations; Corporations/Government--united, indivisible. Corporations through
Government feast on the United States and all the Western world. We've come to live
to feed them.
In a letter of November 21, 1864 President Abraham Lincoln wrote: 'I see in the
near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the
safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high
places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its
reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a
few hands and the republic is destroyed.'
In the year 2005 the United States' Federal Government spent $76 billion for
Education, $26.6 billion for Natural Resources and the Environment, and $69.1
billion on benefits for Armed Forces' veterans--a total of $181.7 billion. In this same
fiscal year of 2005 U.S. tax-payers contributed $927 billion to the Internal Revenue
Service. Of this $927 billion from tax-payers, $352 billion was paid toward interest
on United States' national debt, a debt that's accumulated over the 95 years since a
private cartel of Banks, slyly disguised at creation as the Federal Reserve System, took
control of the U. S. money-supply. That was in the year 1913, one year before
institution of the Internal Revenue Service.
The F.R.S.' lead Bank is the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, for every workingday
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York either expands or contracts the United
States'
money-supply by buying or selling U.S. Treasury bills that the Federal Reserve
System has itself printed and loaned at interest to the United States' Government.
We may pause to be astounded at this obviously unreasonable relationship.
the great United States must borrow for its livelihood from a private cartel of
Banks!--a cartel that likely is controlled by older, ampler, money-lending institutions
based in the current European Union!
And so, as we survey prospects for 2009, we may further pause to understand steps of
the process that has for decades defrauded we the people of the United States of our
wealth, powers and possibilities. This robbery is at the root of our material
predicaments.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Federal Reserve System and indeed
all commercial Banks of the Federal Reserve System accomplish their money-creation
through no more than accounting-entries--through no more labor than several keystrokes
on a computer--and at no more cost to themselves than 4 cents per Federal
Reserve Note, if such bills are even printed. The F.R.S. Banks are then permitted to
loan at interest the amounts of 'money' their accounting has created. They are further
permitted through 'fractional reserve lending' to gain and loan at further interest a
muultiple nine times more than the amounts their accounting has created!
Is it any wonder than commercial Banks occupy the biggest buildings in almost all
cities and towns of the Americas?
In 1997 two Banks, the then Citibank and the then Chase Manhattan Bank, held
between them 52.84% of the 19,752,655 shares of ownership for the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York--again, please remember that the F.R.B. of New York is a private,
money-making institution, though the whole F.R.S. is funded and insured and in fact
wholly sustained by tax-payers of the United States. Remember that in the fiscal year
2005 $352 billion from U.S. tax-payers went to the F.RS. as interest on the debt
that this private cartel has charged the United States Government over 95 years for the
privilege of funding it, the F.R.S., with our wealth, wealth in resources and labor that
should belong to this nation's people, so that these Banks can then lend to us amounts
more than nine times more than our Government has provided them!
In November 2008 Citigroup, the Corporation that was formed by Citibank's
merger with Traveler's Insurance in 2000, received from the Federal Reserve System
and the U.S. Treasury assurance that at least $304 billion would go to it among the
$8.6-trillion-and-mounting that's been given out to fundamentally bankrupt bettor/
debtor Corporations over the past two months.
Let us pause to contemplate this single fact for its meaning and enormity and
inequity. To one Bank, Citigroup, now is to go a bail-out of $304 billion, an amount
more than $122 billion more than all the U.S. Government spent in 2005 on
Education, Natural Resources and the Environment, and benefits for veterans of our
Armed Forces!
We can no longer abide such inequities.
We can no longer stand such thievery.
We can no longer sustain such a sapping of ourselves. As Congressperson Louis T.
McFadden of Pennsylvania, a banker himself, told his colleagues in 1934 about the
Federal Reserve System: 'There was no national emergency here when Franklin D.
Roosevelt took office excepting the bankruptcy of the Fed--a bankruptcy which has
been going on under cover for several years ... ' McFadden went ono to say: 'Under
cover, the predatory International Bankers have been stealthily transferring the
burden of the Fed debts to the people's treasury and to the people themselves. They
took the farms and the homes of the United States to pay for their thievery! ... '
McFadden concluded his 1934 speech by reasonably urging: 'Mr. Chairman, I am in
favor of compelling the Fed to pay their own debts. I see no reason why the general
public should be forced to pay the gambling debts of the International Bankers.'
We hear more echoes to our present. 1934 was one year among many in a
Depression that was itself primarily caused by the Federal Reserve System's
contraction of credit between 1929 and 1933. The Great Depression across the
United States and Britain ended, we may remember, only with the second World War.
We should also pause to remember that the United States entered World War II on
the wave of massive public outrage at Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. We should
especially remember in our post-9/11 era that the Japanese attack was foreknown and
actually made inevitable by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretaries in his
Administration who were also members of that companion in power to the Federal
Reserve System, the Council on Foreign Relations.
Now, with Council on Foreign Relations member Barack Obama everywhere
likened by mass-media to Franklin D. Roosevelt, we may justly suspect that another
such fraudulent attack, another use of false-flag terror such as on 9/11/01 in this
nation, 3/11/04 in Madrid, Spain, and 7/7/05 in London, England, will be used to
conceal true causes of economic catastrophe here, to further repress our rights, and to
launch us into even more disastrous conflicts.
And all of these further depredations of our rights and well-being are sure to come
under elitists' cover of 'the War on Terror', their 21st-ctury cover for their further
efforts to depopulate and enslave working-people.
We must turn from such a future.
We must protect our children from certain miseries.
We must defend ourselves and regain our rights.
Resistance is essential. Resistance is vital. Resistance is sane and healthy.
We must become our own government in the face of a Government that has
failed us. We must turn from a Government that's more imprisoning and robbing and
killing us, a Government whose head and body serves only its criminal partner:
multinational Corporations.
We must pursue positive alternatives and solutions from the local to international
levels. These alternatives and solutions are already present. They arise from the ground
up and reach across continents.
For one solution that's elemental: we can grow our own food.
Here's an illuminating precedent. In 1942, despite objections by the United States'
Department of Agriculture, Eleanor Roosevelt planted this nation's first Victory
Garden in 1942. The wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt used grounds of the White
House for her Garden. Three years later, by end of World War II, the number of
victory Gardens across the U.S. had grown to 20 million. 20 million! These
individual Gardens put out 40% of the country's produce in 1945! We can do the
same--and more--again!
In the United States now 69% of us buy and eat food that's designated as organic.
The Organic Consumers Association now has more than 850,000 members,
subscribers and volunteers nationwide. Since 1994 the number of Farmers' Markets in
the U. S. has grown by more than 200%.
We can use our already existing majority of consumers in the U.S. and our existing
networks to create a food-supply that's independent of supermarkets and genetically
altered seeds and crops.
Last October, I understand from a friend who's on the inside of Corporations,
Safeway, the nation's largest supermarket, was only three weeks' of progressive debts
away from shutting all its stores' doors due to insolvency. So: we would be foolish to
rely on Safeways. We don't need Safeways.
By March of 2008 one Corporation, Monsanto, provided the 'seed technology' for
90% of the world's genetically engineered crops. We would be foolish to rely on

Monsanto and like for our food. We don't need Monsanto and its like.
We can produce our own energy.
We don't need Warren Buffet and T. Boone Pickens for the wind to blow and for us
to use its power. Already the increases in wind power and solar power worldwide
parallel those for organic farmers and consumers. In February 2008 the global Wind
Energy Council confirmed that 'over 20,000 megawatts of wind power was installed
in 2007, led by the US, China and Spain, bringing world-wide installed capacity to
94,123 megawatts,' an increase of 31% compared with the 2006 market.
Recent increases in solar power around the world are even greater in terms of gain by-percentage. According to Worldwatch Institute in May 2008, 'Global production
of photovoltaic (PV) or solar cells--which convert the sun's light directly to
electricity--increased 51 perc in 20 2007, to 3,733 megawatts.' while the in the United
States' solar power was 48%, to 266 megawatts, an annual amount more than five
times less than the 1300 megawatts in Germany (where a 'feed-in tariff requires
utilities to pay customers a guaranteed rate for renewable power that they feed into
the grid'), while Spain's 2007 increase of more than 400 megawatts of installed solar
power represents growth of more than 400%.
Over the past five years, annual global production of photovoltaic cells has increased
nearly sevenfold, and cumulative installations have grown more than fivefold.
We need only to pool our resources so that we ourselves benefit from the
tremendous potentials of wind, water, and solar resources. How much potential
energy is there in waves that crash on the the beaches? How much is potential in
the radiant-energy for eight to nine months of the year in Houston and Phoenix and
Miami, or Costa Mesa and the Yucatan, or Mombassa and Hanoi and Durban?
All is possible if we control our own land. "Get land" should be one of our guiding
objectives. We can buy land, or take over land, and produce for ourselves. Get land
and let it produce for our local communities.
Check out your local Land Trust. Check out the requirements for homesteading in
your current or desired community. Get land and work it for your local communities'
well-being.
We can create our own means of non-exploitative exchange of money and goods.
During the 1930s' Depression more than 1000 community-currencies arose across
the United States. Now more than 1900 such means of exchange serve around the
world--from Tokyo to Minneapolis to Ithaca and Austin.
We do not even need paper to create and maintain means of exchange--we need only
the Internet and the will to make our word our bond.
We do not need commercial Banks such as compromise the Federal Reserve System.
We need, rather, to eliminate such thieving middle-men from our economy. We need,
rather, cooperative Banks, owned by their depositors. We need as a national solution a
Bank of the United States that's free of usury and tricks. We need a national Bank that
issues funds from our Government strictly to meet people's needs. We do not need a
private cartel of Banks that depend on us to sustain their gambling--their "side-bets"
of "derivatives" which now amount to hundreds of trillions of dollars of liabilities--
and their executives' so-called " 'earnings' ".
We need, in fact, to take over this nation's largest commercial Banks: JP Morgan
Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. Already the
tax-payers of the United States have been committed by our Government to
expending amounts on these Banks that far exceed these Banks' assets--more than $5
trillion-and-counting to these F.R.S. bettor/debtors alone.
We've already bought them, in short. Let us do with them as we choose. Let us
dispose of them as best suits a livable future for our children. Let us turn them into a network of cooperatively owned Banks that meet local and national and international needs without usurious interest and speculative gambling. Let us put them to work in helping us to produce from the riches of our land.
We already have tremendous resources. We have businesses and solutions that have
thrived outside the coupled parasite of ruling-for-a-few, hegemonic Government/
Corporations. The assets of co-operatives in the U. S. now exceed $1 trillion. In 2007
Co-op America's 1% in Community Campaign moved 'nearly $1 billion into low income
communities--creating jobs, affordable housing and locally owned businesses.'
We can win, in short. We can win freedom and prosperity for our futures. We have
only to throw off the parasitic institutions that have fed upon us. We have to
further nurture cooperative alternatives that are already thriving.
We have to 'Only connect', as E.M. Forster repeated in Howard's End, for our own
well-being.
It's all a matter of our own will and energy. If we believe in each other, if we love one
another at least to the level of respect, and if we act on such beliefs we can change everything. America can yet be a dream fulfilled, a realization of freedom and prosperity that extends throughout the Western hemisphere, the vision of
harmonious liberation that was shared by Abraham Lincoln and Simon Bolivar,
Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., Simone Weil, Marie e, Lauraaura
Nyro, Huey P. Long, Malcolm X, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, ... and hundreds unto
thousands of millions more.
We together can make happen the real changes that are needed in 2009.
The time is now.
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