How To Brainwash A Nation

How To Brainwash A Nation

This amazing interview was done back in 1985 by G Edward Griffin, author of The Creature From Jekyll Island, with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It's shocking because our nation has been transformed in the exact same way, and followed the exact same steps.

Rand Paul - Consumer Choice

Senator Rand Paul points out the hypocracy of bureaucrats.

This is most excellent.

VIDEO: Coley Testimony - HB3 Constitutional Tender Act

Coverdell Legislative Office Building (CLOB)
18 Capitol Square SW Atlanta, GA 30334

Atlanta, GA

Monday, March 7 · 9:00am - 12:00pm

After presenting testimony, I engaged in a dialog with Representative Bruce Williamson on fractional reserve banking. Bruce Williamson was a gentleman. He opened with a prayer that I would be blessed to hear and concur with any time. The problem we have is that neither Bruce, myself or government are the standard. A good man's character does not make an objectively immoral practice moral or right.

Representative Williamson claimed that Georgia banks don't create money, yet he later said:

I'm not disagreeing with the fact that it expands the money supply, but I don't see that that's inherently unhealthy.

Evidently Representative Williamson doesn't understand that "Expanding the money supply" creates new dollars and is inflation.

When I said that banks create dollars from nothing, Representative Williamson disagreed yet again, stating:

Its not nothing. Its promises to pay that provides the liquidity to shop keepers, to home owners...

And:

All you're doing there is allowing these promises to pay, that when you come to borrow the money to buy the automobile or piece of land or buy new shelving for your hardware store, all the bank's doing is turning around and lending you those dollars... It's not the collateral, its your promise to pay back.

In other words, his view is that the money is not created from nothing, rather it is created because the borrower promises to use his land, labor and capital to produce enough to pay the loan back, plus interest to the banker.  The banker has essentially no skin in the game.

If "its not the collateral", why does the banker take the borrower's collateral if the borrower doesn't pay?

In an honest system, the banker would have to loan out property that actually exists in order to earn interest. In the fractional reserve system, he creates money from thin air and then essentially loans your property to you - and gets paid interest for doing it. The bank brings nothing to the table except the legal privilege to create money.

When you borrow money for a piece of land, the money that you use to pay the seller comes from a ledger entry at the bank which is made because you agree to pay the money back. The only real asset in the transaction is the land. The banker has no equity or asset in the transaction at all. If you default, he gets the land.

Of course that ledger sheet trick works until the bubble pops, particularly when the bubble is combined with Sarbanes-Oxley and federal regulators.

Representative Williamson also stated plainly that leaving the gold standard was a mistake.

It all goes back to fiat inflation. I do not disagree one bit with the fact we should never have gotten off the gold standard. I think Steve Forbes has got it right, but all we are is dealing with the Federal Reserve Notes that our Federal Treasury is [unintelligible] the currency of the nation.

However, the Gold standard simply limited the amount of new money created from nothing by the Federal government. Creating money from nothing is always a problem because the mechanism makes an economy unsustainable. The economy is unsustainable because costless money causes a breakdown in the price mechanism and distorts the allocation of resources.  It also pillages and weakens the producers.  The banks create new money from nothing, much the same as the Federal Reserve. In fact, the banks are able to create nine new dollars for each one new dollar created by the Federal Reserve. Which is bigger? Nine or One?

If costless money is a problem and the banks create more than the Federal Reserve, then the banks are not innocent. They participate in inflating the money supply, or to use Representative Williamson's phrase in "expanding the money supply", which IS inflation. It disproportionately harms the weak and frugal. It enriches those who are granted a special privilege by government (banks) to create new money from nothing - at least from nothing that the banker owns. In the banks view, your property gives them the right to create money that didn't exist in order to charge you interest for using the money.  What a racket.  

There is so much more that can be said and the problems are far reaching and complex, but the bottom line is that fractional and fiat money cause theft and lead to poverty and oppression.

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Bill Greene - HB3 Constitutional Tender Act

Coverdell Legislative Office Building (CLOB)
18 Capitol Square SW Atlanta, GA 30334

Atlanta, GA

Monday, March 7 · 9:00am - 12:00pm

Excellent job making the case by Dr. Bill Greene and Representative Bobby Franklin.

My Testimony - HB3 Constitutional Tender Act

Click here for the video and response from the committee.


Coverdell Legislative Office Building (CLOB)
18 Capitol Square SW Atlanta, GA 30334

Atlanta, GA

Monday, March 7 · 9:00am - 12:00pm

Good morning. My name is Shane Coley.

I have studied history and economics extensively.  I was raised in the cattle business, I can operate or rebuild heavy equipment and I am a professional software architect. I am self-employed. I was recently a candidate for state Senate in the 47th District where I carried my home county.  My positions here today match my positions during the campaign.

The laws of Georgia are created and modified by our state legislature.  The legislature is made up of individuals, like you, who analyze legislation in the context of your personal belief system, which makes your belief system very important to Georgians.

The majority of the banking and finance committee members publicly claim to be Christian. Therefore, I will talk about some of the general constraints or limits of the Christian belief system, and then about secular belief regarding theft or stealing.

In at least nine places the Bible tells us about differing weights and differing measures.  In at least four places the Bible says that differing weights and differing measures are an abomination to God.  A Christian must not ignore this.

Here is an example of differing measure:  Suppose I were in the market buying wheat and I had a basket marked one bushel, but the basket was secretly larger than one bushel.  My oversized basket would enable me to steal part of your wheat. 

Differing weights and differing measures deceptively cause theft, which is a violation of the Eighth Commandment, "You shall not steal".

Since 1971, the only way to create a new US dollar is to record an entry in a ledger of the Federal Reserve System, or in a ledger of your local bank.  Producers have to work years for new Dollars that the bank creates instantly with the stroke of a key.

When new US dollars are created in this way, there is no new wealth created, but the purchasing power of all previously existing dollars is decreased.  This is an example of using differing measures to steal labor and property from producers.

This is clearly, undeniably, objectively a form of theft. To support fiat or fractional money is to support theft. 

Some claim that our money system makes us wealthy. This is false. Wealth is the result of production.

Many of us notice that People depend on Production. People eat food and use things. Food and things must be produced. Government Produces nothing and wastes much. Since people depend on production and government interferes with production, there is no way that government has any solutions for us. We must remember that every promise made by a government official has to be kept by a producer. There is no other way.

It is impossible to confiscate a loss. Only profits or capital from past production can be confiscated. It is logically impossible for the creation of new US Dollars to make us wealthy. If I had time, I would prove that creating costless money will first make us poorer and eventually crush our free society.

The reality is that the creation of costless money can only lead to the destruction of a free society.

For those who are not constrained by the Christian belief system, if you oppose theft then you must oppose creating new US dollars from nothing.

Please listen carefully to the following quote from an old banker.

“The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class. The great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages will bear its burden without complaint.”

To the Christians and those who oppose stealing: I respectfully ask that you vote for the Constitutional Tender Act as a small step toward eliminating differing weights and differing measures and theft from our monetary system.

And finally, let’s recall a bit of what John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1919: “while [creating costless money] impoverishes many, it actually enriches some” and also “[Inflation] engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.”

To those members who hold stock in banks or have otherwise profited from the banking business: Since our loss is your gain, I respectfully ask that you recuse yourself from this vote and from the vote on the final bill.

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There two things I like most about Ron Paul.

Ron Paul loves Liberty.

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Ron Paul is right.

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Coinage Act of 1792

The Coinage Act of 1792, passed while George Washington was President, called for the death penalty for anyone who profited by manipulating our coins in any way.

Penalty on debasing the coins.

Section 19.  And be it further enacted, That if any of the gold or silver coins which shall be struck or coined at the said mint shall be debased or made worse as to the proportion of the fine gold or fine silver therein contained, or shall be of less weight or value than the same out to be pursuant to the directions of this act, through the default or with the connivance of any of the officers or persons who shall be employed at the said mint, for the purpose of profit or gain, or otherwise with a fraudulent intent, and if any of the said officers or persons shall embezzle any of the metals which shall at any time be committed to their charge for the purpose of being coined, or any of the coins which shall be struck or coined at the said mint, every such officer or person who shall commit any or either of the said offenses, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall suffer death.